Northern Warlords Government Agricultural Policy

The Northern Government is period (1912-1928) though each of the warlord was independent, the confused conflict was frequent, the government still played an important role in the agriculture prominent function. This text will study the agriculture policy of the government.The Northern Government built up the agriculture organization of the system which was from central to place. It also established some organizations which belonged to central and the research organizations to promote agriculture development. It also encouraged the development of the civil group farmers' association.The Northern Government measured land, restructured the farm tax and excise tax, encouraged to reclaimed land; It conferred many farm crops select quality the laws, paid attention to the seed improvement, paid attention to the prevention and the plant diseases and insect pests; It established the specialized water conservancy organization to strengthen the water conservancy, established the specialized water conservancy school to develop the talented person, carried all kinds of water tasks and fixed the water conservancy, It encouraged to plant the cotton, improved the tea and praised to make the sugar and improved the silk industry; It established the agriculture financing institutions to promote the agriculture development; It improved the agriculture education, built up from entry-level to the high class agriculture educates the system, paid attention to the agriculture education and the agriculture researches to combining together.The Northern Government agriculture policy brought the aggressive influence. At this time the population increased, the agriculture industrial structure occurred difference, the agriculture product commercializes degree became deeply, the food yield of each person improved, the agriculture capitalism developed. The agriculture had some developments.Because of the wars and the natural disasters and the poor public finance, the Northern Government could not become a powerful government. It did not make sure that many agriculture measures succession and the agriculture organizations went on working. It did not change the system of the land by the root and the annex was serious still. The agriculture farm tax and excise tax was still heavy, aggravating the burden of the farmer consumedly.