Ideas on developing agriculture raised by A Review of the Times mainly include:to set up agricultural administrative offices and peasant associations which lead agricultural reform;to found agricultural schools and publish books and periodicals on agronomy so as to spread agricultural knowledge;to apply science and technology to agricultural production so as to increase agricultural production efficiency;to introduce and popularize high-quality seeds so as to increase crop yields as well as its quality.These ideas had direct positive effect on the Chinese agricultural modernization.The newspaper vigorously advocated agricultural improvement,which is essential for the agricultural reform to finally happen in China during the Reform Movement of 1898.
