Cheap imports of Western agricultural products may overwhelm Chinese agriculture

The impact of cheap agricultural imports on China's agriculture is obvious, and the phenomena of abandonment, pouring milk and killing cattle that occurred in the era of capitalist economic crisis have also been repeated in China.

Recently, the author learned that in addition to importing soybeans, corn, rapeseed and alfalfa from the United States and other countries, we also have to sign milk free trade agreements with New Zealand, Australia and other countries.

If the above agreement takes effect, China's dairy industry will face a serious crisis of development.

China is not only a large country with a population of 1.3 billion, but also a large agricultural country. Grain has always been the guarantee of the long-term stability and happiness of the people. However, in recent years, China's food problem has become more and more prominent. At the third China International Agro-Business Summit Forum held in May last year, Zhang Hongyu, director of the Rural Economic system and Management Department of the Ministry of Agriculture, already said that China's grain self-sufficiency rate has dropped to 87%. The self-sufficiency rate of all agricultural products is about 70%, and about 30% needs to be adjusted through the international market. These figures are shocking. As a large agricultural country, our own grain output cannot even be supplied by our own people, and we still need to rely on imports to supplement it. in the long run, we will certainly be controlled by others.

As we all know, due to lack of precautions, China's soybean industry has been basically defeated, and more than 80% of the soybeans on the market come from genetically modified soybeans in western markets; the price of domestic rapeseed is also higher than that of imports, and it will also be occupied if improper measures are taken; the sugar industry is also occupied by the serious situation in which imported materials are lower than domestic materials; and 90% of the vegetable seed industry is also monopolized. From this point of view, if we allow imports and continue to hit Asian agriculture, Chinese people will be reduced to watching other people's faces if they eat meat, oil, sugar, tofu, milk and vegetables. In addition, if no emergency measures are taken, China will still face serious social, political and military crises due to the impact of international markets.

In 2014, China imported 71.4 million tons of soybeans alone, breaking the 70 million-ton mark. From the perspective of import price, the average cost of imported soybeans is less than 3400 yuan per ton, or 1.70 yuan per jin, while the purchase price of non-GM soybeans produced in Northeast China is 2.01 yuan per jin, and that of soybeans in Shandong agricultural areas is less than 3 yuan per person. This is the phenomenon that "the price of the floor is higher than the price of the ceiling board". The yield of soybean is low, the planting season is long, and it is difficult to compete with the international market. Farmers often plant corn, and the source of plant protein for 1.3 billion people in China is surrendered to foreign capital.

Why is foreign food so cheap? This is the result of unfair competition. In fact, behind the grain, there are ecological environment, biodiversity, social, political and military costs. These costs are not calculated. Let's analyze them:.

First, China's small farmers are competing with foreign capital, and they are on a different starting line. The author has conducted a field survey of family farms in the United States and found that their farms are all between 1000 and 10000 acres and are still in the process of merger. What else is there to show off when Americans use a hundred times or even a thousand times more land to defeat small farmers in China? Their economies of scale are obviously incomparable to Chinese farmers.

What about small farmers in China? The subsidy of less than a few hundred yuan per household is not even liked by poor Chinese farmers, who can earn it in a day's work in the city. So where do Americans get the money to subsidize American farmers? What we spend is Chinese money, we are reluctant to spend money, and we are spent by Americans, and the amount is not small. Is it more cost-effective for Americans to spend Chinese money to defeat Chinese agriculture than war?

Third, the cost of ecological environment and health is not calculated. Large farms in the United States no longer have the ability to adopt sustainable agricultural methods, can not do without a large number of chemical fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides, but also need to use transgenic technology to fight pests and weeds internally and externally. This damage to the ecological environment is obvious, and it is potentially harmful to human health. Despite the ecological damage caused by this agricultural practice to the United States, China imports cheap soybeans, corn and alfalfa, in which glyphosate residues and GM residues have not been paid attention to. Imported cheap food is not suitable for human consumption. Strictly speaking, there are problems in feeding animals. French scientists have proved that genetically modified corn has a high chance of inducing tumors in experimental animals. It is thoughtless for us to import supplementary human food rations to extract oil and further enter the human food chain as animal feed. In view of the scientific problems, it is necessary to seriously study them. The destruction of the ecological environment by large-scale modern agriculture has also led to the release of a large amount of greenhouse gases. 1/3 of the world's greenhouse gases come from large-scale agricultural reclamation.

Fourth, the cost of biodiversity is not calculated. Large-scale agriculture is bound to lead to the decline of cultivation diversity and the increase of diseases, insect pests and weeds. There is no need to talk about good practices such as intercropping, reasonable close planting, combination of planting and breeding, and so on. Cultivated species that have been preserved for thousands of years have been lost, and the application of transgenic technology has accelerated the rate of loss of natural species diversity. In large-scale agricultural planting areas, even the calls of birds are difficult to hear, bees are affected, butterflies are affected, and frogs are hard to see, which ultimately have a potential impact on the survival of human beings.

Fifth, political and military costs are not calculated. The biggest business in the world is the revolution, which pushes the government back to life. Therefore, none of the successive governments dared to take the regime lightly, and the biggest machine for consolidating the regime was the army, which needed intimidating weapons, and a large part of the annual defense expenditure was spent on weapons research and development. However, while we attach importance to nuclear weapons, laser weapons, and space weapons, we forget that food is a bigger weapon, and that genetically modified biological weapons are far more lethal than nuclear weapons, because they can be as deadly as they are. Even ordinary food weapons can easily kill people, only you dare not farm for a year. If we import food from former enemy countries, we should guard against some possible food attacks. Is it normal to import grain at such a low price? If people give you grain for nothing, do we dare to take it? People can promise to give us grain for a year or two and tempt Chinese peasants to stop farming. As long as you dare to do so, I am afraid the country will not be defeated by that time, and the cost of such a war is too low.

The impact of cheap agricultural imports on China's agriculture is obvious, and the phenomena of abandonment, pouring milk and killing cattle that occurred in the era of capitalist economic crisis have also been repeated in China. It is difficult to make up for the waste of resources and the blow to farmers' enthusiasm for farming with money. if we appropriately subsidize the money from imported grain, the money from ecological management, and the money invested in health security to Chinese farmers, encourage them to engage in environment-friendly ecological agriculture and spend money on Chinese farmers, it will enhance the competitive advantage of China's agriculture.

What is the competitive advantage of Chinese agriculture? Obviously, it lies in quality agriculture, that is, for different eco-agricultural areas, such as mountains, hills, grasslands, deserts and wetlands, we can develop intensive farming, stop or use less chemical input, ban genetically modified foods for human consumption, improve the quality of agricultural products, promote the consumption of people above the middle class in cities, protect the ecological environment, increase food supply, and stabilize the agricultural employment team. Strengthen the national health, in this way, we won an agricultural war. Modern agriculture in the West is vulnerable to China's quality agriculture. Due to urbanization, good labor costs and other reasons, it is difficult for western countries to achieve intensive cultivation.

Therefore, we can not compete with them for the quantity of land and agricultural products, but for quality, release the purchasing potential of urban people for high-quality agricultural products, feed agriculture and strengthen the protection of the ecological environment, so that people can stay away from hospitals. Imagine that China stops importing grain from Western countries, and the lethality of this huge grain weapon returning to its producing country is huge enough to give us more time to develop our economy peacefully. Instead of being beaten passively, it is better to take the initiative to fight.