商部的设立与清末农业的振兴

The Establishment of Business Department and the Vigorous Development of Agriculture in the Late Qing Dynasty

清末时期,面对传统农业的困境和西方对中国农业的冲击,商部(农工商部)作为新设的专门管理全国实业的中央机构,采取了调查农情,重视垦荒种植,改良棉业,提倡蚕桑,振兴茶业,讲求农学,劝设农事试验场,劝办农会等一系列政策措施,促进了清末农业的发展,推动了中国农业现代化进程。

Confronted with the difficult position of the traditional agriculture and the impact of the West on Chinese agriculture in the late Qing Dynasty, the Department of Business, which included agriculture, industry and commerce, carried out all kinds of measures to promote the development of agriculture, such as agriculture conditions investigation, stress of attention on reclamation and cultivation, cotton improvement, mulberry and silkworm advocating, tea business revitalization, agriculture science education, agriculture proving grounds working, establishing peasant associations. The measures promoted the agriculture modernization course in China.