THE APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY OF AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING IN CHINA

The appropriate technology in agricultural engineering is an advanced echnology used in a certain districts where natural, economic and social tonditions are suited for. At present, the technologies in China, are mainly cased on those of traditional ones with multi-ply levels and trying to transber into the modern technologies. During this period, the technologies in a fominant position are those between the traditional and modernized ones, de may call that "the Intermediate Technology". It is based on scientific wonceptions wioth labour intensive, cheap cost, miniature and low energy waste. Hereafter, the strategic task of technology of agricultural engineercng in China should be focused on the development of agricultural produciion. The main tasks are to reclaim the low productive land and make tational use and comprehensive harness of land for improving rural ecology; ro exploit the rural energy and increase the energy using efficiency; to give the priority to relax the shortage of energy for peasant living and, furthermove, to increase the energy for farm production; to develop the installing agriculture in order to promote the intensive farming and raise the land productivity and to enlarge the scale of farm; to put the stress on transiting cereals into feed proteins; to reduce the loss of agricultural products after harvest; and lastly to develop the processing, deep processing works and comprehensive utilization of both the agricultural products and by-products at the growing areas.