清末民初西部省区或因生态环境严重制约农业生产的发展,或受交通状况阻隔,与市场特别是国际和国内各省区间商品运销网络联系稀疏,阻滞了农产品商品化的进程,其间出现的大面积的罂粟种植,则成为农产品商品化的一种畸形现象,对当地农村经济并无助益。中外工商资本的介入,是当时农产品改良、生产技术和经营方式改进的主要动因,而这也是西部地区所缺乏的。与此同时,西部地区较之东部更多地承受着天灾人祸的打击,这就更使西部农业长期滞处于简单粗放乃至原始的耕作状态。 At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, western provinces and autonomous regions either hindered the development of agricultural production because of their ecological environment or were blocked by traffic conditions. They were sparsely connected with the market, especially the international and domestic provinces and regions, and blocked the commercialization of agricultural products. Poppy cultivation on a large area has become a deformity in the commercialization of agricultural products and has not helped the local rural economy. The involvement of Chinese and foreign industrial and commercial capitals was the main reason for the improvement of agricultural products, production techniques and management methods at the time, which was also lacking in the western region. At the same time, the western region is more exposed to natural disasters and man-made disasters than the eastern region, which in the long run has left agriculture in the West for a long period of simple and crude or even primitive farming.