If the income from farming is high, why not worry about the "occupation" of farmers?

The proposal of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on the formulation of the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" mentioned a word called "new professional farmers". Although it is not a newly created word, it can also see the direction of the future development of farmers and agriculture. There are many agriculture-related majors in my school, such as Chinese herbal medicine planting, and the training objects are also for farmers. Perhaps at some levels, through the professional technical guidance of educational institutions, the overall arrangement and policy support of local governments, especially the grass-roots governments at the township level, and the introduction of enterprise or cooperative management models, the farmers in the core have become skilled and professional farmers engaged in planting work.

In fact, the cultivation of herbal medicine as a cash crop reflects the plight of farmers facing agricultural production alone. For some time, due to the lack of scientific planting knowledge and skills of farmers, lack or lag of market information, serious variety degradation of some traditional Chinese medicinal materials, excessive pesticide residues and other problems, farmers often face the dilemma of sharp drop in income or overspending. At the root of it, the small-scale operation of one household leads to the low ability of farmers to cope with market risks. Therefore, drug farmers, like other farmers, often need to work in cities to supplement their families and are in a state of half-working and half-farming. From a professional point of view, these people are no longer professional farmers.

Therefore, the problems faced by pharmaceutical farmers are similar to those faced by ginger farmers and garlic farmers. In addition to planting crops, they also need to consider many factors such as market risks, that is to say, they have worries. In my opinion, if farmers want to become professional farmers, the most important thing to ensure is that workers who concentrate on agricultural production can obtain relatively stable and predictable returns. Only with this material guarantee can the peasants break away from their status as half workers and half peasants. In this way, the quality and yield of crops will also be guaranteed, bringing stability to the lives of urban residents and other industries that use agricultural products as raw materials. Just like the industrialization of traditional Chinese medicine, it requires a stable supply of Chinese herbal medicine.

Therefore, the biggest problem now is whether all parties can form a joint force to create a good working environment for farmers and help them relieve their worries. In this process, the lack of technical, financial and policy support is indispensable, which involves the cooperation of scientific research institutions that master technology, enterprises or financing platforms that master funds and local governments. The school where the author works has long provided guidance on Chinese herbal medicine planting technology for Mashan Town, Changqing District, Jinan City. The traditional Chinese medicine cultural industrial park here is led by the local government. Many traditional Chinese medicine research institutions are responsible for the overall planning, and enterprises in health industry are introduced to invest and construct it. Through land circulation, farmer labor and income sharing, the surrounding farmers are driven to plant 18000 mu of traditional Chinese medicinal materials, forming an industrial chain, and the income per mu of pharmaceutical farmers is generally increased by three to five times. In fact, this is the effect of large-scale agriculture. Farmers, like workers in production vehicles, can maintain relatively stable returns as long as they are responsible for planting high-quality crops.

Of course, this is only an ideal state. Most of the areas that can form this model at present are already in a relatively advantageous position in agricultural production before the introduction of large-scale production. For example, Mashan Town is the traditional origin of Chinese herbal medicine. Then, whether this large-scale production of "unified planting, unified service, unified standard, unified acquisition, unified sales" can be expanded to other places, or whether there are certain factors in other places, whether it can attract technology, funds and policies to form a joint force, all bring uncontrollable factors to the cultivation of new professional farmers. Even if there is such a characteristic product or characteristic industry, the formation of integrated industrial chain may encounter resistance in many aspects such as land circulation. Otherwise, people will not always see all kinds of help information on the Internet: a certain characteristic product harvest, but rotten in the field can not be sold.

In the final analysis, no matter which method is adopted, no matter how many forces are involved, the most important thing is to let farmers really benefit from it, and only those models that benefit farmers can be popularized. Many times, farmers 'resistance to large-scale management is precisely because they are worried about their own interests being damaged, just like when my school first provided free technical guidance to drug farmers, someone asked,"What are you looking for?" Indeed, behind the training of farmers by schools are academic project tasks and corresponding scientific research funds. The capital investment of enterprises cannot be simply charity. It can also be seen from this that all the forces participating in the large-scale and industrialization of agriculture have their own interests, so they need a kind of strength to find the common ground of interests of all parties. Here, the provision of scientific research funds and the support of business policies play the role of the government. To fill the short board of farmers, agriculture and rural areas, the ultimate test is still the government's attitude towards farmers 'interests. (The author is a teacher of Shandong Medical Technician College)