The third National Agricultural Census Leading Group Office and the National Bureau of statistics released in December 15th Third National Agricultural Census Data Bulletin No. second. The bulletin shows that the end of 2016, the number of harvesters reached 1 million 140 thousand units, an increase of 105.3% more than ten years ago; irrigation machinery 14 million 310 thousand sets, an increase of 6.1% compared to ten years ago.

Senior National Bureau of Statistics Division Huang Bingxin said, in the past ten years, the country for the mechanization and scale of development to support agricultural production, has introduced such as the purchase of agricultural subsidies and other agricultural support policies, the number of harvesters and other large machinery and agricultural machinery increased sharply, continuously improve the equipment level of our country.

Due to the extensive use of agricultural machinery, the mechanization level of the continuous improvement of main crops. Survey results show that in 2016, the three major staple food crops, wheat farming mechanization received the highest degree, the proportion of ploughing, planting and harvesting respectively reach 94.5%, 82% and 92.2%.

The third national agricultural census is the two national agricultural census in 1996 and 2006, China once again to find out the real situation of the national agriculture census. The standard time for the December 31, 2016 census of agriculture, during the annual data for 2016.