Agricultural production structure

The production structure of Chinese agriculture includes planting, forestry, animal husbandry, fisheries and sideline industries; however, planting has been the mainstay for thousands of years. Due to the large population and relatively small area of arable land, grain production is especially dominant. In traditional concepts, planting grains is almost synonymous with agricultural production.

The plantation industry is agriculture in the narrow sense. after the 1950s, forestry, animal husbandry, fisheries and secondary industries have increased on the original basis, but their proportion in the composition of the total value of agricultural output, the overall change is not significant.

After 1979, due to the reform of the economic system in rural areas, and to determine the "never relax food production, and actively develop a variety of business" policy, the rural economy from a single operation to a variety of business transformation of the commodity economy forestry, animal husbandry, fisheries and by-product industries have grown on the basis of the original, the situation Only then did striking changes begin to appear.

That is, agriculture in the narrow sense. Including the production of food crops, cash crops, fodder crops and green manure. Cultivation of five grains, its specific projects, usually with "twelve words" that is, grain, cotton, oil, hemp, silk (mulberry), tea, sugar, vegetables, tobacco, fruit, medicine, miscellaneous to represent. Grain production is particularly dominant.

The share of plantation industry in the total agricultural output value was more than 80% in the 1950s; more than 75% in the 1960s; about 75% in the early 1970s and about 66% in the late 1970s due to the high population; and it has dropped to about 60% in the mid-1980s.

In the total area sown by crops, the proportion of the area sown by grain crops, from the 50s to the 70s has always been as high as about 80%, of which there are nine years more than 85%; after 1979, the appropriate adjustment of the crop layout. Accordingly, the sown area of grain crops was reduced from 1.8 billion mu in 1978 to 1.66 billion mu in 1986, with the proportion falling to 76.9%.

But due to the increase in mu yield, the total output in turn increased from 304.75 million tons to 391.512 million tons.