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Agricultural Cooperation (1953 to 1957)
 Poverty was
the one of the major problems in rural China in 1950s. To help the farmers shed
off poverty completely, the Chinese government then started the socialist
transformation of agriculture to guide the farmers onto the road of
cooperation.
The movement of agricultural cooperation in China launched
in 1953 has undergone several stages, including the agricultural production
mutual-aid teams, elementary agricultural producers' cooperatives and advanced
agricultural producers' cooperatives.
 Meanwhile the
state monopolized the purchasing and marketing of farm produce like grain,
cotton and oilseeds and established supply and marketing cooperatives and credit
cooperative across the country.
From 1953 to 1957, China's agricultural
production grew very fast with total agricultural output value increasing
annually by 4.5%, grain out put by 19% and farmers' income by 5.4%.
Edited by CECAT
2002/10/14 |
