Ensuring national food security ultimately depends on farmers.

China's grain production achieved "twelve consecutive increases" in 2015, but grain prices continued to decline. Increasing grain production and reducing farmers' incomes constitute a complex landscape of China's agricultural development. In this mixed harvest season, people increasingly realize that the protection of national food security ultimately depends on farmers.

Grain stability is safe in the world, and "grain stability" should be based on stable agricultural production capacity and on the stable enthusiasm of China's 900 million farmers to grow grain. China's rural areas in transition are experiencing the process of hollowing out and aging, the attractiveness of agriculture to young adults is constantly weakening, and the situation of "cheap grain hurting farmers" appears again, and the possible turbulence caused by the primary industry can be imagined. Can one mu of rice hit 1,000 jin or 1,200 jin of dry grain; can a jin of corn be sold for one yuan or one yuan? can a peasant family figure out the seeds, chemical fertilizers, land lease, and farm machinery money for the beginning of next spring after the autumn harvest? these trivial things in the field have written out the four big words "food security" one by one.

We can see that in dealing with the decline in grain prices this year, some major grain provinces, including Heilongjiang, have adopted an attitude of fighting an uphill battle in the acquisition of autumn grain. In terms of the security of funds for collection and storage, the guidance for scientific storage and threshing of grain, and the upgrading of storage hardware measures, a series of measures have been carried out to "compensate" farmers for the losses caused by falling grain prices. However, in order to protect the core interests of farmers and turn farming into a rich, decent and stable career, we must ultimately rely on changing the mode of agricultural development and building modern agriculture.

The intensive production, the professionalization of farmers and the cultivation of new agricultural operators have become the trend of modern agricultural development, and it is also the direction that major grain-producing provinces such as Heilongjiang are actively promoting. In the purchase of autumn grain, we can see that the traditional farming model based on one household is extremely vulnerable to food price fluctuations, almost the biggest losers of grain prices, and has no ability to resist market risks at all. However, large-scale family farms and farmers' cooperatives can better digest market risks and stop losses because of the diversity of planting structure, the diversity of business directions or the production of high-end organic food. Organizing large-scale and cooperative operation with the modern company system is not only the only way to improve agricultural production capacity, but also a long-term way to ensure farmers' production and income.

In addition to the construction of agricultural management system, it is also necessary to extend the industrial chain and value chain of grain production and establish the industrial system of modern agriculture. Relying solely on the sale of raw grain or primary products, the added value of grain is of course very low, and there will certainly be great adhesion between farmers' income and the purchase price of raw grain. Only by forming a chain of grain production, processing, warehousing and sales, introducing modern production factors such as management, technology, and talents, building agricultural products processing enterprises, and cultivating brands of high-quality agricultural products, can the value chain of agriculture extend to the secondary industry and even the tertiary industry, so that peasant families will not be thrown into the bottom of life because of a drop in the price of raw grain.

It is worth noting that intensive and large-scale management needs to deepen the reform of the rural property right system and activate the land management right on the basis of stabilizing farmers' land contract rights. Land is the lifeblood of farmers and the core right of farmers. The transfer of management rights in any place must be carried out strictly in accordance with the law. If we say that the construction of a modern agricultural production and management system is a positive direction that "food security ultimately depends on farmers", then, in the reform of the rural property right system, we should most fully protect the rights of every farmer and respect the wishes of every farmer. is the bottom line drawn by this sentence.