A Theoretic Research And Empiric Analysis On Agricultural Technological Innovation

China is a country with a large land area for agriculture production and primarily has an agriculture-based economy. The smooth and rapid .development of agriculture is of vital importance to the elevation of the comprehensive national capacity. The agricultural technological innovation is the unceasing source and motivation to the development of agriculture. The progress in agricultural technology has significantly promoted the two fundamental changes in agriculture from the extensive farming to the intensive farming and from the traditional agriculture to the modern agriculture. The utilization of agricultural technological innovation and the input of the connected factors to increase the agricultural productivity has become an important source to the agriculture development. In order to realize the great objectives of building a well-ff society in an all round way, we must accelerate the steps of the development of agricultural technological innovation and increase the content of science and technology in agriculture. The traditional motivational mechanism of the agricultural technology innovation (MMATI) born out off the planned economic system has no longer adapted to the development under the market economic system. It is characterized as the lack of vitality to the agricultural technology innovation, the insufficiency between the effective supply and the effective demand of agricultural technology, the low transfer rate of the scientific and technological achievements, the difficulties in the new technology diffusion, the backwardness of the information network development in agriculture, and the slow speed of the agricultural technology progress. These factors mentioned above have seriously prevented agriculture from rapid development. So there is both theoretical and applicable significance to have a thorough and systematic study on the MMATI and on the new technology diffusion.The following parts are the main contents in the dissertation.Firstly, the theoretical basis was put forward to the agricultural technology innovation in this part. A comprehensive analysis was made on some of the theoretical issues of agricultural technology innovation. There are some characteristics of agricultural technology innovation (ATI): the location adaptability, the instability in effect, the high degree diffusion in the application of achievements, the high degree of difficulty for innovation, the long circle for innovation, and the plurality of the main bodies and the motive forces of innovation.Secondly, the model of agricultural technology innovation was studied in this part. After making a comparative analysis of six motive force patterns of the technology innovation and a positive perspective on development and evolution of the motive force patterns of China's ATI, the author reveals the characters of motive force patterns of ATI under different social and economiccircumstances. In addition, an analytical approach is established which is characterized by combination of market supply and demand and policy environment. In the approach, the driving forces of the MMATI are divided into three aspects, the micro main bodies' forces, the processional forces, and the environmental forces.Thirdly, the economic analysis was made to the supply and the demand of agricultural technology. By applying the analytical approach in economics, the author makes an analysis on the factors affecting on ATI from two aspects - the supply and the demand of agricultural technology, and on the reasons of having the insufficient demand of technology and the shortage of supply of technology. The principal reasons of inadequate supply are the deviation of thoughts and the wrong administrative deeds on carrying out the reformation of the agricultural technology mechanism, the inadequate demand of agricultural technology, the shortcomings of the innovation motive force mechanism, the weakened condition of the investment mechanism in scientific research, and the disconnected relationship between the scientific education and econo...