A Study On The Level Of Development Of Modern Agriculture In Gansu Province

As the No.1 document of Communist Party of China's Central Committee pointed out definitely in 2007: strengthening our work on agriculture, rural areas and fanners, and promoting the construction of new socialist countryside effectively, both of which are important tasks to accelerate socialist modernization. How to measure scientifically and evaluate reasonably the development of modern agriculture and relevant trend have become the focus to be guided of modern agriculture construction, therefore, the leading group in charge of the second national agricultural census of Gansu provincial government sponsored the project "the study on the development of modern agriculture in Gansu" to research on the development of modern agriculture in Gansu province. This paper is the main achievements of this project. Moreover, because of undeveloped rural economy, in Gansu, agricultural development still impacts on farmers' living and revenue. Actively, to seek for factors hindering modern agriculture development, a study on modern agriculture in Gansu has practical significance in improving the agricultural income, increasing peasants' income, as well as providing theoretical basis for policy-making of functional departments' and related institutions' in Gansu Province.Based on the basic theory of modern agricultural development, this paper, which referred to a large number of literature, employed multiple index analysis and clustering analysis, consulted statistical data and survey data of many years in Gansu Province, vertically and horizontally, assessed modern agriculture development in Gansu, the main conclusion of which is as followed:1. The evaluation index system of modern agriculture development in Gansu has been established. By analyzing modern agriculture development in Gansu for years, combining with practical situation, and making full use of existing statistical data, a comprehensive, clear, data-obtainable evaluation index system of modern agriculture development in Gansu has been set up, constituted by 4 first indicators and 17 second ones, furthermore, of which the weights of each indicator was calculated by AHP.2. The development of agricultural modernization is a long process of history, to reflect the extent of this process. The level of development of modern agriculture in Gansu was evaluated vertically with multi-index analysis, which showed that the index was less than 20, in the light of the modern agricultural development division, that is preparing stage. It also indicated that the modern agriculture in Gansu developed constantly, which can be classified into 3 stages: The first phase, from 1990 to 1996; the second phase, from 1997 to 2002; the third stage, from 2003 to 2007.3. As the regional ecological environment is different in GanSu, to reflect modern agriculture development in Gansu in more aspects, clustering analysis was applied to appraise modern agriculture development in sub-regions of Gansu horizontally, which suggested that there were great developing differences among all regions of Gansu. Roughly, they can be labeled as 5 categories: Jiayuguan City, for the first category, which evaluation of estimate is 28.61; The second category is the Jinchang City, Zhangye, Jiuquan, Wuwei City, which evaluation of estimate is range 16.7 to 25.13; the third category for the Lanzhou City, which evaluation of estimate is 12.91; fourth category for the Pingliang City, Qingyang City, Dingxi City, Baiyin City, which evaluation of estimate is range 8.55 to 10.7; fifth category for the Tianshui City, Longnan City, Gannan, Linxia state, which evaluation of estimate is range 8.17 to 9.09.4. Based upon the comprehensive evaluation, speeding up modern agriculture development was proposed.