Should the threshold of farmers be raised?

Recently, Shaanxi Province issued the "new senior professional farmer" certification certificate to the second batch of 182 people, which has aroused widespread concern in the society. Some people think that this is an effective measure to improve the social status of farmers, while others think that we should not set a threshold for farmers, let alone take advantage of this to transfer benefits.

The author believes that it is normal to have disputes about a new thing, but the problem is that there are still many deviations and misunderstandings in the society's understanding of agriculture and the new type of professional farmers. if we do not agree on the understanding, it is difficult to form the training environment of the new type of professional farmers. The question of who will farm the land in the future will be difficult to implement.

First of all, we should fully realize the irreplaceable significance of cultivating a new type of professional farmers. It's an old topic, but we have to talk about it. With the transfer of rural young and middle-aged labor force to cities and towns, the trend of aging and empty shell in rural areas is intensified. The outstanding performance of the impact on agriculture is abandonment, the reduction of multiple cropping index, the decline of farmers' market contribution rate of agricultural products, and the obstacles of insufficient demand for agricultural science and technology popularization. In order to meet the growing demand for agricultural products, predatory high output is pursued in some areas, while in more areas, extensive management is caused by the inability of the elderly and the lack of successors in agricultural labor. It is against this background that "who will farm the land in the future?" It has become a common concern of the government and society.

The proposal of a new type of professional farmers is a strategic choice to solve the problem of "who will farm in the future". There are many advantages of the new type of professional farmers, and there are several points that we all agree on: for example, the new type of professional farmers are the basic units and cells for cultivating all kinds of new business entities, whether they are cooperatives, agricultural enterprises, or family farms or large contractors, we should take the new type of professional farmers as the main body. The new type of professional farmers are also the main force to change the mode of agricultural development. the traditional mode of agricultural production and the agricultural mode of industrial thinking are difficult to meet the requirements of sustainable agriculture. The current environmental pollution and worries about the quality of agricultural products should be solved through the cultivation of new professional farmers. It is difficult for old farmers, traditional farmers and part-time farmers to act as the main body of modern agriculture. In addition, new agricultural technology, new varieties, new organizational forms and excellent agricultural culture will become castles in the air without the new type of professional farmers.

Secondly, talk about the agricultural qualification access system. There is a view that farmers have been farming for generations, but now they are no longer qualified to be farmers. Do you need a threshold to be a farmer? Some of these questions come from the misunderstanding of the new concept of professional farmers, while others come from the lack of understanding of the state of agricultural production. The cultivation of new professional farmers is the foundation of modern agriculture, which does not exclude or ignore the existence of traditional farmers. However, we must see that the new professional farmers bear more social responsibilities than the traditional farmers. for example, the traditional farmers only need to be responsible to their families, while the new professional farmers are responsible to consumers, ecology and land. Responsible for future generations. Today, with extremely strong means of destruction, there is not a stable special group responsible for the sustainable construction and protection of cultivated land and the environment, and the consequences are unimaginable. We cannot understand today's agriculture and farmers with traditional agricultural thinking. Consumers need the safety of agricultural products, society needs to protect the ecology, and human beings need contemporary people to leave a piece of land for sustainable use for future generations. these responsibilities cannot be borne by the industrial and commercial capital of old farmers or short-term behavior. it's a new responsibility given to new professional farmers. It can be said that today's farmers, especially the market-oriented farmers who are responsible for large-scale operation, have more social responsibilities than other groups. Therefore, it is very important to care for them, to provide a suitable social environment for their growth, and to improve their social status and the effectiveness of government support. Future farmers should not only have certificates and thresholds, but also become higher and higher with the development of science and technology and the expansion of responsibilities.

In traditional society, anyone can be a farmer, but in modern society, there must be conditions, which is determined by the characteristics of today's society. The current trend of land transfer and scale agriculture is particularly urgent for the implementation of agricultural access systems. As long as we pay attention to agriculture, we will find that most of the people who contract farmers' land for large-scale operation in reality do not have the qualification for agricultural industry. they are different in agriculture, lack the basic concept of sustainable development, plunder the land power, pollute the environment, engage in non-grain and non-agriculturalization, and change the use of agricultural land without authorization. Some places adhere to the behavior principle of "milk is mother". The combination of power and capital creates a large number of large-scale wasteland, which poses a great threat to the national agricultural security. Therefore, there is an urgent need to implement the qualification access system of scale agriculture, that is, people often say that "not everyone can be a farmer." An important condition of the agricultural qualification access system is to have the qualification of a new type of professional farmers. By defining the new type of professional farmers, it not only provides the qualification of management subject for land circulation and scale operation, but also provides accurate objectives for the government to support agriculture. At present, the effect of the use of funds for supporting agriculture is mainly affected by the vagueness of the supporting subjects. some people who do not have the ability and will to operate agriculture take funds to support agriculture under various names, and some beneficial agricultural projects are often unclear because the main body of agricultural management is not clear. and limit its benefits.