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Agricultural Mechanisation in Communist China*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

Leslie T. C. Kuo
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At the beginning of the “Great Leap Forward” campaign of 1958, Mao Tse-tung declared the now much publicised “eight-character constitution of agriculture” for the technical transformation of agriculture. This “constitution” was essentially a condensed and more appealing version of the National Agricultural Development Programme for 1956–67, promulgated in 1956, which contains twelve important measures to improve agricultural production. The eight Chinese characters referred to are: shui, water conservation; fei, fertilisation; t'u, soil conservation; chung, seed selection; mi, dense planting; pao, plant protection; kung, tool improvement; and kuan, field management.

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Research Article
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The China Quarterly , Volume 17 , March 1964 , pp. 134 - 150
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Copyright © The China Quarterly 1964

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