Deciphering the truth behind "nobody farming"

[China Agricultural Machinery Industry News] Recently, the agricultural labor force has highlighted the topic of dying. Then, worry too much about the land, and accuse the young people in rural areas of solving problems without farming? What is the real thought behind the unmanned land? Find the right symptoms to get the right medicine.

Demystifying the truth behind the secret "nobody farming"

“National wheat looks at Henan, Henan wheat looks at Xinxiang, Xinxiang wheat looks at Yanjin”, and Yanjin is famous for wheat. Pingling Village, Sizhai Township, 550 households, 4,900 acres of land, but "under 55 years old, almost invisible in the field." Xiaohongsheng of the village party secretary said frankly, "after 70" is not willing to plant land, "post-80" is not Will plant the land, "post-90s" do not mention the land, the village's land has not been transferred to scale, mostly old people, women at home.

Every once in a while, it seems that the news of no land in the countryside will be turned over once. The problem is that farming is not a responsibility that young people in rural areas must shoulder. The key to no one to plant land is that the income from farming is too low.

As reported by the media, when an acre of land is good, it can beat 1000 kilograms of wheat. According to the calculation of 1 kilogram of 1.1 yuan, it can earn 1100 yuan, but the seed, fertilizer, manpower, machinery and other input costs are basically flattened, sometimes Still paying compensation. In the city, many young people can reach a monthly income of 3,000 yuan. In contrast, a year in the countryside is not as good as working outside the country for one year. Under such circumstances, it is not realistic to let young people go back to farming.

The lack of young people in the countryside is the trend of social development. Nowadays, the progress of human society lies in the arrival of industrial society and the liberation of productive forces. This requires a large population transfer, allowing more rural people to enter the city. This is precisely the law derived from the development of the world economy. In developed countries, “professional farmers” who occupy a single digit of the total population can “support” the entire country. In the United States, for example, since the 1950s, American agriculture has shown a trend of specialization and scale. Before and after 1980, there were 2.5 million farms in the United States, which was halved from 1950. In 2012, the number of farms decreased by 300,000 compared with 1980. From this, it can be inferred that the number of farmers in China will still decline in the future.

There is no need to worry too much about the land, and it should not be accused of not cultivating rural young people. What should really be worrying is how to make the land modernized and improve the benefits of large-scale operation.

(Original title: The real problem behind "nobody farming")