晚期维新派科技兴农思想论要

晚期维新派的科技兴农思想主要有：创设农业机构，兴办农会，以主持农业改良；办农业教育、出版农学书刊，以传播农学知识；应用科学技术和新式农具、从事农业生产，以提高农业生产效率；采用新式机器、加工农产品，以改进土货质量；引进、推广良种，以提高农产品的数量和质量。上述思想对近代中国农业的发展产生了积极的影响：催生了上海农学会的诞生和《农学报》的刊行；推动了中国农业教育的勃兴和农学知识的传播；使一批外来物种得以在中国引进；促使中国农具开始向机械化、半机械化方向发展；推动了中国农业由经验农学向实验农学的转型。

Review of Late Reformists' Thoughts of Promoting Agriculture by Applying Scientific and Technological Advances

The late Reformists＇thougths of developing agriculture by applying scientific and technological advances mainly include： to sot up agricultural administrative offices and peasant associations which lead agricultural reform; to found agricultural schools and publish books and periodicals on agronomy so as to spread agricultural knowledge; to apply science and technology and modem farm tools to agricultural production so as to increase agricultural production efficiency; to process farm production with modem machinery so as to improve national farm productivity; to introduce and popul .ayize high - quality seeds so as to increase crop yields as well as its quality. These thoughts has had positive influences on modem Chinese agricultural evolvement, such as： （ 1 ） The Chinese modem agricultural education was promoted and agricultural knowledge was widely spread; （2） some foreign species were introduced into China; （3） Chinese farm tools began to develop towards mechanization and semi -mechanization; （4） Chinese agriculture progressed from the stage empirical agriculture to that of experimental agronomy.