What is the difference between modern agriculture and traditional agriculture?

1, traditional agricultural production technology is backward, production efficiency is low, farmers' ability to resist natural disasters is very limited, agricultural production is greatly affected by the natural environment, and the phenomenon of "relying on the weather to eat" is more common. In order to prevent natural disasters from threatening people's survival, farmers try their best to produce and store more grain for emergencies, that is, to maximize production as the production goal, and the main means to increase production is to increase labor input.

2. The management goal of modern agriculture is to pursue the maximization of profit, that is, to get the maximum profit with a certain input. Because modern agriculture is the same as modern enterprises, employers have to pay their employees. Only when the marginal income of labor is greater than wages can employers make profits and increase labor input.

3. In order to transition from traditional agriculture to modern agriculture, the goal of agricultural production must be changed from maximizing the output of self-sufficient consumption to maximizing the profit of commodity production. The first condition to complete this transformation is the decline of the proportion of agricultural labor force and the relief of the pressure of agricultural population. Under the huge pressure of agricultural population, it is impossible to realize the transformation of agricultural production objectives from tradition to modernization.

Second, the technical content is different.

1. The technological progress in agriculture is realized through the continuous input of modern agricultural elements that condense advanced technologies. Traditional elements are obtained from within the agricultural sector and nature, with low technical content and long-term stagnation. The state invests less in agriculture, and agricultural production needs more labor. In this state where the contradiction between man and land is very prominent, the use of agricultural machinery will further aggravate this contradiction. Therefore, in the traditional agricultural society, the application and promotion of agricultural machinery are often inhibited.

2. Modern agriculture is agriculture armed with modern science and technology, and its elements are mostly provided by modern industrial departments and service departments other than agricultural departments. The increase of modern agricultural factor input and the improvement of modern agricultural science and technology content mean the decrease of agricultural department's labor ability. Therefore, agricultural modernization cannot be separated from industrialization and the strategic transfer of agricultural population.

Third, the scale of operation is different.

1. Modern agriculture is an agriculture in which operators pursue profit maximization. This goal cannot be achieved on the basis of small-scale or ultra-small-scale traditional agriculture aimed at satisfying self-sufficient consumption, and can only be achieved on the basis of large-scale operation in which farmers get rid of the pressure of producers' survival and pursue profit maximization.

2. Modern agriculture is high-income agriculture. Throughout the developed countries in the world, farmers are relatively wealthy with higher incomes, which must be based on large-scale agricultural management.

3. Modern agriculture is an agriculture with high commodity rate of agricultural products. To measure the development level of a country's agriculture, the key is to look at the commodity rate of its agricultural products, which is bound to be related to the larger scale of agricultural management.

4. Modern agriculture is high-tech agriculture. Traditional agriculture mainly uses manpower and animal power, while modern agriculture is armed with modern mechanical technology, modern biochemical technology and modern management technology. In particular, the application of large-scale agricultural machinery must have large-scale working space, so it also needs large farm scale.

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