Research & reports

尤俊 · 农机科技推广 · China (Wuhan)

In recent years, the agricultural machinery department in Wuhan, Hubei Province, has thoroughly implemented the "Agricultural Mechanization Promotion Law" to serve the development of modern urban agriculture. This initiative focuses on improving the overall level of agricultural machinery, guided by subsidy policies, and utilizing promotion, technical training, and administrative enforcement to strategically adjust agricultural machinery structures and foster the growth of large-scale agricultural machinery operators and service organizations.

Xiangyang Qin · Journal of Library and Information Sciences in Agriculture · China

Examines the science-and-technology-coordinator system first established in Beijing, China, to address a shortage of rural science and technology services. Based on an analysis of questionnaire responses, the authors describe the current situation and problems of the coordinator system and put forward suggestions for improving coordinators' quality. The abstract gives no sample size, response rate or quantified results.

Cheng Cun-ren · Journal of Agricultural Mechanization Research · China

This study introduces the status of machinery equipment for facility agriculture in China and compares it with foreign equipment. It analyzes problems in Chinese facility agriculture, finding that the current machinery equipment faces challenges in achieving high efficiency, quantity, and quality compared to international standards.

Wang Jian-chun · Agriculture Network Information · China

Building on Tianjin's existing agricultural information infrastructure, this article describes an effort to establish a "110" information sharing and service platform for agricultural science and technology in Tianjin, China, aiming to build an information service system responsive to the city's urban agricultural development. It states the platform draws on a phone consultation system, the internet, a short-message platform, farmers' science and technology reading rooms, agricultural information collectors, and agricultural technology training, but reports no data on outcomes or evaluation of implementation.

Zhang Xue-mang · Journal of Beijing University of Agriculture · China

This paper addresses the slow development of agricultural technology in Wuhan City, China. It states that Wuhan needs to import advanced agricultural technologies, research and disseminate techniques for fish and fowl culture, vegetable growth, and agricultural product processing. The paper emphasizes the necessity to improve modern distribution quality and strengthen government service and management in agricultural technological innovation, highlighting a current governance deficiency.

王敬中 · 北京农业 · China (Beijing)

A review discussing "southern fruit grown in the north" (nan guo bei zhong) - cultivating tropical and subtropical fruit trees from southern China in the Beijing area using protective facilities. It states that over the past decade, growth in China's urban agriculture has strengthened technical support and market demand for the practice, and that researcher-led experimentation has produced breakthroughs, without citing specific yield or economic figures.

Ji-Hye Moon · · Korea

This report by Moon, Ji-Hye, published in 2006 by the Food and Fertilizer Technology Center, discusses newly developed technologies and innovations in urban and peri-urban agriculture in Korea.

王鸿涌 · 江苏农机化 · China (Wuxi)

To accelerate the development of modern urban agriculture and agricultural mechanization in Wuxi City, China, the Wuxi Agricultural Machinery Bureau organized a study tour to South Korea. The tour focused on modern agricultural production technology, large-scale agricultural operation methods, agricultural and horticultural machinery, agricultural product processing machinery development, and agricultural management systems. The findings from this inspection were used to discuss issues related to Wuxi City's modern urban agriculture development and agricultural mechanization.

叶荣剑, 陈建强 · 浙江农村机电 · China

The Hangzhou Municipal Party Committee and Government positioned Hangzhou's agriculture as "urban agriculture" in alignment with the spirit of the 16th Party Congress and to coordinate urban-rural economic and social development. In January 2003, the "Hangzhou Urban Agriculture Development Implementation Opinions" notice was issued. Urban agriculture is defined as agriculture in highly industrialized and urbanized cities and their surrounding areas, leveraging urban advantages in capital, information, talent, and technology.

李群生, 刘汉文 · 湖北农机化 · China (Wuhan)

This survey reports on the situation in the suburbs of Wuhan City since July 2003, where agricultural machinery services have contributed to increased agricultural efficiency and farmer income in urban agriculture development, while also addressing high temperatures and drought. Agricultural machinery was utilized for harvesting early rice and corn, tilling paddy fields and vegetable plots, and pumping water for drought relief.