The Mao Era in Objects

⧉Image Agricultural Tools: Know-how Of Improving Farming Tools

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Title
The Know-how of Improving Farming Tools (Gailiang nongju de qiaomen 改良农具的窍门), Title page
Date
1958
Creator
Wang Jiankun 王建坤 and Zhang Qinghua 张清华
Publisher
Zhongguo qingnian chubanshe
Rights
Personal Collection. Fair use.
Description

This book focuses on the improvement of farming tools that paves a way to agricultural modernization by reducing the backbreaking toil while raising productivity. This is seen in the primary interest of the farmers. This publication of 1958—appearing shortly before the Great Leap Forward (1958-61)—consists of four parts, entitled 1. How to raise work efficiency?, 2: How save labor power?, 3. How to save materials? 4. How to raise the quality of agricultural products?