In agricultural production, do not forget to settle accounts after autumn and do a good job of summarizing the autumn harvest

When visiting rural areas, whenever farmers are asked how much income they earned in a year, whether it was an increase or a poor harvest, what caused the increase, and what was the root cause of the poor harvest, most of them cannot give a clear explanation.

In the eyes of most farmers, a year of production has already come to an end, the overall situation is settled, and whether or not to calculate the economic accounts or make a production summary will not change what has already been gained or lost, so why bother doing something superfluous? In fact, this view is one-sided, because without keeping accounts, calculating accounts, investing blindly, and lacking cost awareness, by the end of the year they themselves cannot even clearly explain how much was invested in seeds, pesticides, chemical fertilizers, agricultural materials, and so on, how much the land earned, and what the economic benefits were. Because they do not make a production summary, when it comes to production inputs, they have no clear idea of which inputs were relatively reasonable and which were too high or too low, or how large the contribution rate of science and technology was in the production process, or which crops increased per-unit yield and total output by relying on science and technology. Yet these factors are precisely the important factors affecting the efficiency of agricultural production.

"Settling accounts after autumn" in agricultural production means reviewing and summarizing all aspects of agricultural production over the past year. Through careful analysis, one can truly grasp the patterns of increased production and increased income, find the reasons for increased production without increased income, and understand the root causes of reduced output and poor harvests, thereby further adjusting the next year's planting and breeding structure and business approach, and laying a solid foundation for achieving increased agricultural production and income in the new year.