Agricultural automation requires the support of the economic structure and an industrial foundation. It is produced along with large-scale agricultural planting and is closely related to our country’s food structure. Developed industry allows us to manufacture large-scale farming equipment for automated production; the vast enough cultivated land allows the large-scale machinery we manufacture to drive into farmland and operate; and for crops such as wheat and corn that can be cultivated on large areas on the plains Only when there are conditions for automation, it is difficult to automate production of rice, which is mainly grown on terraces.
As we all know, the small-scale peasant economic system formed in our country since ancient times is deeply rooted. Even after many land reforms, we can still find that most of the fields in the vast rural areas, especially in North China and rice-growing areas, are still planted by households. Although the ownership of the land belongs to the collective, the use rights are distributed to each farmer. Even though they want to be able to use machinery to harvest and farm on a large scale, farmers and growers are unwilling to join other people's land to create scale.
Moreover, our country's terrain is complex. Looking at a province like Shandong with relatively developed agriculture, about 35% of the hilly areas are difficult to carry out large-scale automated agricultural production. In the area where rice is widely grown in southern my country, the rice planting method around the mountain terraces has been formed. It is impossible to carry out fully automated production, and the rice transplanting work still requires manual operation. However, our country's population mainly depends on rice to feed itself, so we can only place our hope on the improvement of rice varieties.
Our country already has the strength to produce various agricultural equipment, and a complete industrial chain provides the basis for agricultural take-off. But at present, except for grain production bases such as the Northeast Plains that have basically completed large-scale automation, grain production in the vast rural areas is still carried out by each household.