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Agricultural Materials
  • Farm Machinery
  • Possession of power tiller, the most widely spread dan versatile equipment, is lessening after having peaked out in its number in 1998 because farm tractors, which are more convenient to use are replacing them. The total number of farm tractors and power tillers comes to 1,233,000 units as of 2003, which implies that 95 per 100 farm households has the equipment.
  • No. of main farm machinery in possession
    		• (Unit: 1,000 units)
  • No. of main farm machinery in possession
    Year cultivator tractor rice-transplanter combine controller power sprayer water pump
    1970 12 1 0 0 0 45 54
    1980 290 3 11 14 0 331 194
    1990 756 41 138 44 51 680 342
    1995 869 100 248 72 240 683 385
    1997 946 131 303 74 316 660 397
    1999 954 176 336 84 369 598 309
    2000 939 192 342 87 379 600 293
    2001 922 201 342 87 380 612 325
    2003 857 211 335 87 376 610 320
  • Mechanization rate of rice farming as of ,02
    		•  (Unit: %)
  • Mechanization rate of rice farming as of ,02
      Plowing, leveling Rice-planting Harvesting Drying Spraying
    average 98.8 98.4 99.1 48.5 99.6
    suburban 100 95.5 99.9 47.4 100
    Field area 99.7 97.8 100 53.2 99.8
    Quasi mountainous areas 99.0 99.2 98.6 48.1 99.4
    Mountainous areas 95.9 98.4 97.6 38.4 99.6
  • Supply of Fertilizer & agricultural Chemicals
  • Use of chemical fertilizer per ha. increased by 183% from 162kg in 1970 to 458kg in 1990, but decreased by 21% to 350kg in 2003. Nevertheless, the use is still regarded as high and the government continues its hard effort to reduce the use of chemical fertilizer.
    On the other hand, instead of reducing the use of chemical fertilizer, efforts are made to protect the soil by utilizing livestock and poultry waste as compost and by distributing soil conditioner.
  • Production of chemical fertilizer
    		•  (Unit: 1,000M/T)
  • Production of chemical fertilizer
      Total output self-sufficiency
    (%)    		 Nitrogen self-sufficiency(%) Phosophoric acid self-sufficiency
    (%)    		 Pottasium self-sufficiency
    (%)
    1970 590 105 400 112 140 112 50 60
    1980 1,345 162 727 162 493 251 125 68
    1990 1,648 149 867 154 454 177 327 114
    1995 1,778 186 950 201 485 217 343 132
    1997 1,687 191 823 207 450 226 314 132
    1998 1,517 176 823 184 421 225 273 121
    2000 1,546 211 835 197 422 247 289 140
    2001 1,399 195 753 201 385 252 261 138
    2003 1,271 187 618 172 369 258 284 161
  • Consumption of chemical fertilizer
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  • Consumption of chemical fertilizer
      Total output Component Nitrogen Phosophoric acid Pottasium
      1,000M/T kg/ha      
    1970 563 162 356 124 83
    1980 828 285 448 196 184
    1990 1,104 458 562 256 286
    1995 954 434 472 223 259
    1997 882 421 446 199 237
    1998 860 406 447 187 226
    2000 801 382 423 171 207
    2001 717 343 373 153 189
    2003 678 350 359 143 176
  • Seed & Facilities
  • as of august 2002, 849 patents were applied for species protection, and 326 species were registered. Of them, 252 patents or 77.3% applied, or 77.3% are food grain species.
  • Patent applied for species protection & Registration status as of august. 2002
    		• (unit: case)
  • Patent applied for species protection & Registration status as of august. 2002
    Description Total 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002
    patent applied Regis-
    tered    		 patent applied Regis-
    tered    		 patent applied Regis-
    tered    		 patent applied Regis-
    tered    		 patent applied Regis-
    tered
    Total 849 326 224 72 94 233 221 22 238 71
    Food 314 252 178 27 30 203 41 2 38 47
    grains                    
    Vegetables 137 38 17 24 27 3 45 20 24 15
    Fruits 67 26 26 11 9 26 19 - 2 -
    Flowers 240 9 3 9 21 - 46 - 161 9
    Feed crops 4 1 - 1 2 1 1 - - -
    Special 84 - - - 5 - 69 - 23 -
    crops                    
  • all seeds are permitted to be produced, sold and imported after being declared in their original names. Since the enactment of the SeedIndustry act. as of 2002, the number of report of vegetables and horticulture products sales accounts for 78% of the total sales report.
  • Status of report on seed production & import for sale
    		•  (unit: case)
  • Status of report on seed production & import for sale
    Description Total No. of Reports
    Existing species 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002
    Total 21,993 4,492 2.926 11,149 1,469 1,468 489
    Food grain 134 33 18 50 13 19 1
    Vegetalbes 5,290 1,989 581 1,187 617 674 242
    Fruits 1,945 1,032 776 14 88 31 4
    Flowers 11,985 - 1,180 9,573 443 652 137
    Special crops 134 45 26 21 23 7 12
    Feed crops 229 - 70 104 32 12 11
    Mushrooma 2,253 1,393 268 187 253 71 81
    ETC. 23 - 7 13 - 2 1