河北读者罗义同志读了第8期《谈谈东西方经济关系》一文后问:什么叫集约化?现简介如下:在社会扩大再生产的过程中,有粗放经营(extensive manage-ment)和集约经营(intensive man-meagement)两种经营方式。这两个概念既适用于农业,也适用于工业,但一般是就农业生产而言。在农业生产中广泛采用集约经营方式就叫做农业集约化。所谓“粗放经营”,是指把一定 Comrade Luo Yi, a reader of Hebei Province, read the eighth issue of “Talking about the Economic Relations between the East and the West” Q: What is Intensive? The brief introduction is as follows: In the process of expanding the reproduction of society, there are extensive management-intensive and intensive Management (intensive man-meagement) two modes of operation. These two concepts apply to agriculture as well as to industry, but generally to agricultural production. The widespread adoption of intensive management in agricultural production is called agricultural intensification. The so-called “extensive management” refers to the certain