The Political Economy Of Collective Farms by Peter Nolan

Author:Peter Nolan [Nolan, Peter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780367294885
Google: OJtWygEACAAJ
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2019-09-27T03:47:48+00:00

Table 5.6 Sales of agricultural means of production, 1957—1986 (billion yuan)

Given that by the late 1970s China had already established an extremely high level of irrigation (the leading 'input' in the Asian 'Green Revolution'), the most important single agricultural input for increasing farm output was chemical fertilizer. Far from stagnating, the consumption of chemical fertilizer more than doubled from 1978 to 1986 (see table 5.7). Moreover, the quality of chemical fertilizers improved due to (1) a reduction in the proportion supplied by low quality small plants, (2) improvement in quality in large plants, and (3) more sophisticated fertilizer handling and application (Stone, 1985, 118).

Table 5.7 Changes in supply of farm inputs, 1978—1986

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