Fluctuations influence factors analysis of growth of agricultural machinery total power

Abstract: As the main indicator to measure the development level of agricultural mechanization, total power of agricultural machinery provides an important reference basis to formulate the development policy for related department of agricultural mechanization. The growth of agricultural machinery total power has important significance to accelerate the development of agricultural mechanization, realize agricultural modernization, construct the comprehensive socialism new countryside, and guarantee food production and food security. Therefore, it is significant to research the main influence factors of growth fluctuations of agricultural machinery total power, and maintain its steady growth. The growth of China's agricultural machinery total power is affected by many factors, and its data series have the characteristics of complexity and nonlinearity. Using the empirical mode decomposition (EMD) method, the growth of agricultural machinery total power and its influence factors from 1986 to 2013 were decomposed in multi levels and multi scales, and fluctuation components of intrinsic mode function (IMF) affecting the growth of agricultural machinery total power were obtained. Based on this, set pair analysis (SPA) theory was used to analyze the correlations between each IMF component of the growth of agricultural machinery total power and the corresponding influencing factors, and then the comprehensive influence rate of each factor to the fluctuations of the growth of agricultural machinery total power was calculated. The comprehensive influence rates of government finance investment, planting area per capita, fuel price index, grain yield per unit area, development of non-agricultural industries and number of the first industry professionals were as follows: 23.89%, 23.73%, 23.67%, 7.13%, 7.41% and 14.17% respectively. It showed that the main factors influencing the fluctuations of the growth of agricultural machinery total power were government finance investment, planting area per capita and fuel price index; number of the first industry practitioners followed; and the minimal influence factors were grain yield per unit area and development of non-agricultural industries. There were 4 influence factors which only affected the growth trend of agricultural machinery total power and had no impact on its fluctuation, which were rural net income per capita, agricultural output value per capita, price index of mechanized farm tool and proportion of rural labor with cultural level above junior middle school. Therefore, in order to stabilize the growth of agricultural machinery total power and reduce its fluctuation, government finance investment should be stabilized, and the scale of subsidy fund for agricultural machinery purchase, the subsidy scope and subsidy standard for agricultural machinery product should be determined scientifically and maintained to be relatively stable, so that the subsidy policy of agricultural machinery can better play the role of macroeconomic regulation and control. At the same time, stabilize fuel price and increase grain yield per unit area, so that the enthusiasm of farmers to purchase agricultural machinery can be maintained; speed up the rural labor force transfer policy and land circulation policy, increase the planting area per capita, and develop agriculture moderate scale management so as to realize the sustainable development of agricultural mechanization; accelerate the development of non-agricultural industries so as to improve the farmers' life quality and create more employment opportunities, which can reduce the influence of its short-term fluctuations on the growth of agricultural machinery total power. Research results can provide scientific basis for the adjustment and decision-making of development policy of agricultural mechanization, and promote the healthy and rapid development of agricultural mechanization.