Actively Coping with the New Normal of Agriculture with "Three Adjustments"

As the economic development has entered a new stage, new characteristics and trends have emerged in China's agricultural development, forming a new normal of agriculture. This puts forward new requirements for the concept, policy and working methods of agricultural development. We must comprehensively understand and grasp the characteristics and laws of the new normal of agriculture, and actively deal with the new normal of agriculture with the "three adjustments".

Grasp the characteristics and laws of the new normal of agriculture

The mode of agricultural supply has changed from relying mainly on domestic market and domestic resources to relying on both international and domestic markets and two kinds of resources. Under the premise of ensuring the absolute safety of food rations, appropriately expanding the import of domestic scarce agricultural products and moderately speeding up the pace of agriculture going out has become the basic mode of agricultural product supply at present and for quite a long time in the future.

The structure of agricultural demand has changed from preference for low added value and emphasis on quantitative food and clothing to preference for high added value and attention to quality and safety. The upgrading trend of residents' consumption demand structure shows signs of acceleration, and personalized and diversified consumption of agricultural products has become the mainstream.

The mode of agricultural operation has changed from decentralized operation and short industrial chain to moderate scale operation and the whole industry chain. On the one hand, the commercialization, scale, intensification, specialization, organization, and socialization of agricultural production are constantly improving; on the other hand, agriculture is no longer the link of pure agricultural production in the past. it also includes a series of closely coordinated links before, during and after production, and the circulation of agricultural products is organically integrated with "Internet +" with unlimited potential for development.

The function of agricultural resources has changed from the supply function of agricultural products to the compound functions such as ecological protection, sightseeing and leisure, cultural inheritance and so on.

The behavior of agricultural regulation and control has changed from relying solely on government support to emphasizing the decisive role of the market in the allocation of resources.

Adjust the concept of agricultural development to cope with the new normal

To deal with the new normal of agriculture, ideas must go first. In recent years, profound changes have taken place in the internal conditions and external environment of China's agricultural and rural economic development, the cost of production factors is rising, and consumers pay more attention to nutrition, quality and safety of agricultural products. It is necessary to deal with the objective fact that agriculture is in urgent need of transformation with a normal mind, get rid of anxiety, adjust the concept of agricultural development, and deal with the new normal of agriculture with the concept of "four persistence".

Adhere to the concept of modern development to lead agriculture. In line with the concept of comparative advantage, overall planning, large-scale operation, and highlighting characteristics, we should cultivate leading agricultural enterprises and take the road of agricultural industrialization management in which the market guides enterprises, enterprises drive bases, and bases connect farmers. Adhere to the idea of modern industry to build agriculture. In order to fundamentally solve the contradiction between decentralized small-scale production and socialized large market, we must learn from the concept of modern industry, promote agricultural specialized production, industrialized management and socialized service, and change agricultural development from relying on "capable people" to relying on both "capable people" and "legal persons". Persist in promoting agriculture in the way of modern management. It is necessary to change the decentralized operation of thousands of households into professional cooperation and group development, strengthen the construction of facilities and information systems for the processing, storage and sale of agricultural products, promote agricultural super docking, agricultural school docking, agricultural enterprise docking, and agricultural cooperative docking, reduce circulation costs, and improve circulation efficiency. Change from relying on industrial "single nipple" to relying on industrial and commercial "double nipple" to nurture agricultural development. Persist in using advanced science and technology to improve agriculture. Although the contribution rate of China's agricultural scientific and technological progress reached 56% in 2014, compared with 70% of developed countries, there is still a lot of room for improvement. In the final analysis, the potential for agricultural growth under the new normal still depends on agricultural science and technology.

Adjust the agricultural support policy to cope with the new normal

To cope with the new normal of agriculture, supporting policies must be transformed. Agriculture is a typical weak industry, and the government's policy support is very important for the development of agriculture and rural areas. However, in the new normal stage, the macro-economic growth has slowed down, and the agricultural economic structure and contradictions that were not so prominent in the past have become more prominent, especially the imbalance between supply and demand of agricultural products, the backward mode of agricultural management, agricultural ecological protection and other problems. Some new contradictions and problems may also arise. In this case, the agricultural support means commonly used in the past may no longer be fully applicable, so it is necessary to study and put forward policies and measures to adapt to the new normal of agriculture and strengthen policy innovation at the three levels of individual, organization and environment.

At the individual level, we can improve the human capital level of farmers, especially the new professional farmers, by improving the "knowledge empowerment mechanism". The development of agriculture under the new normal is inseparable from the new type of professional farmers who are educated, skilled in technology, good at management, able to manage, and with high quality.It is necessary to gradually improve the knowledge level of farmers by means of education, training, and scientific and technological popularization. cultivate agricultural subjects that can really stay and have a future. At the organizational level, by improving the "relational empowerment mechanism", we can coordinate the interests of farmers and the supply and demand of agricultural products market. It is necessary to let farmers form a community of interests with cooperatives and leading enterprises and protect their rights and interests. At the environmental level, through the improvement of the "institutional empowerment mechanism", the government macro-support policy system is transformed into operational practice.

Adjust agricultural working methods to cope with the new normal

To cope with the new normal of agriculture, the working methods must be innovated. In view of the new situation, new changes and new characteristics of the new normal of agriculture, if the traditional working methods are used to analyze the problems and obstacles in the new normal of agriculture, many economic phenomena will be difficult to explain clearly. we must innovate and improve the ideas and methods of agricultural work, analyze and pulse the agricultural and rural economy with a new perspective, and do a good job of agricultural and rural work with the new thinking of "four essentials".

We should be good at dealing with farmers, learn from them, stimulate their drive and internal enthusiasm in farming, and learn to deal with agricultural entrepreneurs from the outside, so as to better promote agriculture and become rich farmers with the help of market forces. It is necessary to change running fields and stations into wharves and grasping leaders, and vigorously cultivate leading enterprises in agricultural industrialization, through the models of "company + peasant household", "company + base + peasant household" and "company + standard + peasant household". We will promote the transformation and upgrading of traditional agriculture to modern agriculture. In order to change the focus on links and speed up progress into policy guidance and information services, and to run a good demonstration model of modern agriculture, relying solely on "management" and "promotion" is far from enough, or even counterproductive, it is better to rely more on "guidance" and "assistance." let farmers realise the sincerity and urgency of the government to do a good job of agriculture and make farmers rich, and make concerted efforts to do a good job in agriculture. It is necessary to wait, rely on, rush, fight, and rob, and strive to do a good job in the construction of agriculture-related projects and attracting investment.