清末民初西部农业困顿探析

清末民初西部省区或因生态环境严重制约农业生产的发展,或受交通状况阻隔,与市场特别是国际和国内各省区间商品运销网络联系稀疏,阻滞了农产品商品化的进程,其间出现的大面积的罂粟种植,则成为农产品商品化的一种畸形现象,对当地农村经济并无助益。中外工商资本的介入,是当时农产品改良、生产技术和经营方式改进的主要动因,而这也是西部地区所缺乏的。与此同时,西部地区较之东部更多地承受着天灾人祸的打击,这就更使西部农业长期滞处于简单粗放乃至原始的耕作状态。

An Analysis of the Agricultural Difficulties in West China in the Late Qing Dynasty and the Early Period of the Republic of China

In the late Qing Dynasty and the early period of the Republic of China, west China suffered greatly from an agricultural standstill due to the ecological or transport problems, a poor commodity-market connection with other countries and other provinces, which hindered the process of the commercialization of agricultural products. In this period, the popular growth of opium poppies was an abnormal phenomenon of the commercialization of agricultural products, which had no positive effects on the local agricultural development. The capital investment by the foreign and domestic industry and business was the main motive for the improvement of agricultural products, production technology and ways of operation which west China lacked then. Compared with east China, west China was more vulnerable in term of natural and man-made disasters, which resulted in a crude or primitive farming-style for a long time.