Agriculture in my mind

In my mind, agriculture frequently appears in a very traditional form. The picture shows the ploughing method in China which could be traced back to 2000 years ago. Yet nowadays many of the villages in south China still use this method. Since I visit my grandma who lives in a village every year, I could see the farming there changes so little although the agricultural technique is claimed experiencing a dramatic development by the government. Even though I know the large scale and high tech agriculture indeed exist in China, when seeing the word agriculture, underdeveloped and traditional still are what I first connected it with. Except the time I spend in the village visiting my grandma, agriculture to me is an invisible foundation for my everyday life. I could not see it (unless in the TV news), but almost everything around me not only food are based on it. Since agriculture is so important and the fact that it counts so much to China (the rural population accounts 70% of the Chinese population), the impression that agriculture is underdeveloped and be developed in a slow progress sometimes bring me a worry mood.