Chongqing strives to achieve a comprehensive mechanization rate of 64% for crop cultivation this year.

On March 27, it was learned from the 2026 city-wide training conference on grain and oil crop production and agricultural mechanization that Chongqing is accelerating the transformation of agricultural mechanization from "difficult to use" to "easy to use", striving to achieve a comprehensive mechanization rate of 64% for crop cultivation this year, with the mechanization level of rice planting reaching 45%. As of now, the city has over 20,000 large and medium-sized machines such as tractors and combine harvesters, more than 4800 agricultural machinery operation service organizations, and the basic establishment of a agricultural machinery research and development innovation system, and the gradual formation of an agricultural machinery equipment industry cluster. In 2025, the comprehensive mechanization rate of crop cultivation in Chongqing was 61%, ranking among the top in southwestern provinces.