Study On Role Of Progress In Agricultural Science And Technology In Jiangsu Province

The decisive role technological progress plays in promoting economic growth has been proved by history of economic increases, and it is a key factor in determining modern economic growth in a nation, region or department, so it becomes a common sense for local government to promote technological progress of every industry. The current studies analyze technological progress of economic system at a level of total amount, but such analytical result has certain systematical error for the estimate of capital stock and agricultural surplus. The paper, from the angle of single agricultural product, ascertain situation of progress in agricultural technology and science and direction it takes and provides countering policies and suggestions on the basis of choosing five varieties of agricultural products in planting industry and computing progress rate of five products and analyzing growth of labor productivity. On the above analysis, we get the following concluding remarks,1: Progress in science and technology plays a decisive role in promoting agricultural economic growth in Jiangsu.2: Growth in land productivity and labor productivity in Jiangsu results from progress in science and technology.3: Model of scientific and technological progress, namely improving land productivity and labor productivity simultaneously and labor-productivity-biased growth model, is adopted in developing agriculture in Jiangsu.The paper is organized into five parts, namely introduction; growth in agricultural economy and progress in science and technology; change in input & output of agricultural products in Jiangsu; positive analysis of role played by progress in agricultural science and technology in Jiangsu; conclusions and countering suggestions.