A new prescription should be prescribed for the radical cure of cheap grain and injuring farmers.

Recently, corn prices have fallen sharply in some places, thus reducing the income of some farmers from selling grain. "cheap grain hurts farmers" has once again become the focus of social attention. To cure the "old problems" such as cheap grain and hurt farmers, we should apply the perspective of marketization and internationalization to prescribe new prescriptions.

In order to protect farmers' income from growing grain, policy grain purchase prices such as the temporary storage price of corn and the minimum purchase price of rice and wheat have increased steadily in recent years, which has also led to a rise in grain market prices year by year, resulting in an increase in farmers' grain income. However, "expensive grain" has also caused a series of problems. For example, the price of grain is rising, the market demand is not prosperous, and a large amount of grain enters the national storage, resulting in an increase in the pressure on grain stocks and an increase in state financial subsidies; the cost of grain processing enterprises increases, their benefits decline, and even fall into industry losses; grain prices at home and abroad are upside down, and the international competitiveness of China's grain processing industry and food processing industry is declining.

The No. 1 document of the Central Committee this year pointed out that at present, China's economic development has entered a new normal and is changing from high-speed growth to medium-to-high-speed growth. How to continue to strengthen the basic position of agriculture and promote the sustained increase of farmers' income in the context of slowing economic growth? it is a major issue that must be solved by all localities.

In order to prevent cheap grain from harming farmers, we should expand the pilot scope of target price policy reform to ensure that while grain prices fall, farmers' income from growing grain will not be affected. We can learn from the experience of cotton and soybean target price reform in Xinjiang and Northeast China, gradually implement the target price system of corn and rice, and scientifically set the target price of agricultural products to ensure the reasonable income of farmers. When the market price is lower than the target price, the price difference will be subsidized by the state finance so that "cheap grain will not hurt farmers".

In order to prevent cheap grain from harming farmers, we should also develop the income space of agricultural secondary and tertiary industries and promote the integrated development of primary, secondary and tertiary industries in rural areas. Extend the agricultural industrial chain, improve the added value of agriculture, develop a variety of functions of agriculture, and fully tap the value of rural ecological leisure and folk culture.

To prevent cheap grain from harming farmers, we can also increase farmers' operating income and broaden the channels to increase farmers' income. We should speed up the reform of rural property rights and increase farmers' property income; encourage migrant workers to increase farmers' wage income; increase state support in pension, medical care, education and other aspects to increase farmers' transfer income.

To prevent cheap grain from harming farmers, we should also promote mass entrepreneurship and innovation to agriculture, rural areas and farmers, and guide capable and experienced migrant workers to return home to start their own businesses. We will optimize the environment for rural development, reduce entrepreneurial costs, and let agriculture, rural areas and farmers become a new stage and a new main body for mass entrepreneurship and innovation.