The "professional farmer" came on the stage to break the curse of not making money from farming.

"at present, most of our rural farmers have seven or eight mu of land, more than a dozen mu of land, and a household grows so little land, and the money earned by this mu of land is about the same as that earned by working in the city for a week." Han Jun, deputy director of the Office of the Central Rural work guidance Group, said that how to make farming an attractive profession and enable people engaged in agricultural production and management to lead a decent life is a big problem to be solved in the policy of agriculture, rural areas and farmers. (November 4, Xinhuanet)

"whether you are well-off or not depends on your fellow villagers. If China wants to be strong, agriculture must be strong; if China wants to be beautiful, the countryside must be beautiful; if China wants to be rich, farmers must be rich. It is necessary to enrich farmers, improve them, and support them, so as to make agricultural operation efficient, make agriculture a promising industry, make farmers a decent profession, and make rural areas a beautiful home to live and work in peace and contentment. " -- from the Central Rural work Conference put forward two years ago to "make farmers become decent jobs," to the "Comprehensive implementation Plan for deepening Rural Reform" clearly pointed out that "training a new type of professional farmers." the professionalization of farmers is undoubtedly a major trend in the context of urbanization.

In the past, under the urban-rural dual system, farmers were subject to household registration barriers and had no choice but to bear the lowest public welfare and public services. But in essence, farmers are supposed to represent only one profession, the only difference is: farmers are farmers, cooks cook, and government officials serve the public. In order for farmers to become decent jobs, we must first make farming profitable; otherwise, "professional farmers" will be more similar to a helpless complaint.

Farmers can become rich only if they leave the land, which is the most real reality in rural areas at present. "the income of farmers planting one mu of land is about the same as that of working in the city for a week." the question of "who will farm in the future" is put on the table. On the one hand, Yuan Longping can enable farmers to have higher rice yields, but not higher incomes; on the other hand, although we have a lot of agricultural subsidies, farming still does not earn money, and it seems that the only way out is to work.

To enable farmers to get rich on land and earn money by growing grain, "developing appropriate scale operation of various forms of agriculture" is a necessary path. "if you farm land, only if you reach one or two hundred mu can you have a decent income, which may be about the same as the income of a part-time worker." This means that professional farmers in the future are actually more like modern "farmers". At the same time, it is certain that modern agriculture will need fewer and fewer practitioners, more people will leave their villages and villages to settle in cities and towns, and "professional farmers" need to be separated from "identity farmers".

At present, when it comes to farmers, it seems that they still refer to a kind of identity, as opposed to workers, intellectuals, and so on. In order to solve the problem of farmers, it is necessary to reclassify farmers as occupations rather than identities. To this end, it is not only necessary to bridge the gap in public welfare and achieve the equalization of public services, but more importantly, to enable land to become the cost of changing the identity of farmers. just like the urban residents who lived in public housing at that time, they all earned a huge income because of their houses. According to Mr. Mao Yushi's calculation, each household was as little as more than one hundred thousand or more than one million. As a matter of fact, if the public housing settled in the name of the family at an ultra-low price has not been sold or demolished, the income will not stop there.

How to have a reasonable relationship between farmers' land in rural areas and the houses they need to settle in cities and towns, how to give farmers more property rights, and how to let farmers really share the land value-added benefits? this may be the key to the exit of "identity farmers" and "professional farmers".