What are the differences between modern agriculture and traditional agriculture?

Difference between modern agriculture and traditional agriculture:

One, traditional agriculture and modern agriculture business objectives are different

Traditional agricultural production technology is backward, production efficiency is low, the ability of farmers to withstand natural disasters is very limited, agricultural production is affected by the natural environment is greater, the phenomenon of "eating by the sky" is more common. The phenomenon of "living off the land" is relatively common. In order to prevent natural disasters to bring threats to people's survival, farmers try to produce more, more reserves of food to prepare for the unexpected, that is, to maximize production as its production goal, and the main means of increasing production is to increase labor input. And modern agriculture business goal is to maximize profits, that is, with a certain amount of input to obtain the maximum profit. Because modern agriculture is like a modern enterprise, the employer has to pay wages to the employed, only when the marginal return on labor is greater than the wage, the employer is profitable and will increase labor input. Therefore, for traditional agriculture to transition to modern agriculture, it is necessary to change the goal of agricultural production from maximizing output to satisfy subsistence consumption to maximizing profits from commodity production. And the first condition for completing this transition is the decline in the proportion of agricultural labor and the easing of the pressure of the agricultural population, under the pressure of the huge agricultural population, the transformation of the goal of agricultural production from traditional to modernization is impossible to achieve.

Second, the technical content of traditional and modern agriculture is different

Technological progress in the field of agriculture is realized through the continuous input of modern agricultural factors condensed with advanced technology. Traditional factors are obtained from within the agricultural sector and nature, low technological content, and long-term stagnation, the state's investment in agriculture is less, the number of laborers required for agricultural production is higher. In this state of very prominent contradiction between man and land, the use of agricultural machinery will, on the contrary, further aggravate this contradiction. Therefore, in the traditional agricultural society, the application and promotion of agricultural machinery is often inhibited. And modern agriculture is armed with modern science and technology, most of its factors are provided by the agricultural sector outside the modern industrial sector and service sector. The growth of factor inputs in modern agriculture and the increase in the content of modern science and technology in agriculture means a reduction in the capacity of the agricultural sector's labor force. Therefore, the modernization of agriculture is inextricably linked to industrialization and the strategic transfer of the agricultural population.

Third, traditional agriculture and modern agriculture business scale is different

Modern agriculture is one of the obvious signs of its economies of scale, this is because:

First, modern agriculture is the operator to pursue profit maximization of agriculture. This goal is impossible to achieve on the basis of small-scale or ultra-small-scale to meet the subsistence consumption for the purpose of traditional agriculture, but must be on a larger scale of operation, the farmers to get rid of the pressure of the survival of the producer to maximize profits as their own pursuit of the goal can be achieved.

Secondly, modern agriculture is high-income agriculture. Throughout the world's developed countries, farmers are a relatively affluent class with high incomes, and such high incomes must be built on a larger scale of agricultural operations.

Third, modern agriculture is a high commodity rate of agricultural products agriculture. Measure the level of development of a country's agriculture, the key to look at the high and low rate of its agricultural commodities, and agricultural commodities must be linked to a larger scale of agricultural operations.

Fourth, modern agriculture is high-tech agriculture. Traditional agriculture is mainly the use of human and animal power, while modern agriculture is the use of modern mechanical technology, modern biochemical technology and modern management technology armed with agriculture. In particular, the application of large-scale agricultural machinery must have a larger operating space, and therefore also requires a larger farm size.