What are the advantages and disadvantages of small-scale peasant economy?

Advantages of small-scale peasant economy:

1, farmers operate independently and are responsible for their own profits and losses, which can arouse their enthusiasm and creativity.

2. Because most farmers can work hard, they can ensure the necessary food supply for the country.

Disadvantages of small-scale peasant economy:

1, farmers have small scale of operation, poor production conditions and lack of necessary accumulation and reserve capacity, so it is difficult to popularize agricultural mechanization.

2. Self-sufficiency, outdated production and operation methods, and difficulty in technological innovation.

3. The ability to resist natural and man-made disasters is weak.

Extended data

Under the small-scale peasant economy, farmers have mastered the means of production and tools, and their enthusiasm for production has increased. Farmers operate on a small scale. Farmers have made great efforts to improve farming techniques on limited land, which has made important contributions to the intensive management of agriculture in China. However, under the heavy oppression and exploitation of the feudal landlord class, farmers suffered heavy labor, and the small-scale peasant economy was very fragile. Every time there is famine and plague, most peasant families will fall into poverty, lose their land or go bankrupt and go into exile.

Features:

1, with the family as the basic unit of production and life, intensive cultivation.

2. The combination of agriculture and cottage industry.

3. The products produced are used for self-consumption or tax payment, which is a self-sufficient natural economy.

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