Introduce a form of cooperation with farmers as the main body

In today's peasant cooperative organizations, in addition to a few villages such as West China and South Street, which still take the road of collective economy, there is also a form of independent cooperation of farmers, which is still dominated by land contracting, that is, the land is still managed in the hands of individuals, but they are reassembled to improve the efficiency of labor utilization. To some extent, this kind of peasant cooperative organization It is the middle road between farmers working alone and getting rich collectively.

Through Mr. Li Changping, an expert on agriculture, rural areas and farmers, I learned about the form of peasant cooperation in Gushuyu Village, Lian Town, Dongguang County, Hebei Province. The village has 232 households and 1818 mu of arable land. In 2008, the village set up the Old Tree Farmers' Cooperative, and more than half of the farmers in the village handed over their cultivated land to the cooperative for unified cultivation, which not only increased the land area and grain production, but also liberated the rural labor force and broadened the channels to increase farmers' income.

The reporter saw in the wheat fields of the ancient trees in the farmers' cooperative that although the weather was already cold, the wheat fields were still green, and the wheat seedlings were thriving at the last opportunity before freezing. Unlike other wheat fields in other villages, the wheat fields here lack the wide ridges built by the villagers to separate the land next door, just for the convenience of watering the land, and are divided into large and uniform beds, separated by a thin "soil line". It will not cause a waste of arable land at all.

Wang Jiehua, head of the cooperative, told the reporter that this large area of wheat field is the cultivated land of the villagers absorbed by the cooperative, and it is uniformly arranged, cultivated, managed, and harvested by the cooperative. At present, the cooperative has 210 members (households), receiving a total of 980 mu of land transferred and owned by farmers, more than 50% of the land in the village. The cooperative consolidated the land and removed the ridges between the plots, so that the acreage was 90 mu more than before.

In recent years, more and more villagers go out to do business and work, and they can't take care of farming at the same time, and a lot of land is reduced or even abandoned. In December 2007, Wang Huajie and four other villagers launched the "Old trees in Farmers' Cooperative", which was officially put into operation in March 2008. In that year, the cooperative absorbed 120 members and 91000 yuan in mutual aid (shares), bought large tractors and rotary ploughs, and provided agricultural machinery services for members. After making profits, some of them stayed in the cooperative, and the rest were paid dividends to members. Later, in order to make the villagers feel more at ease to go out to work, the cooperative began to absorb the land transferred by the villagers into the cooperative, fixed a transfer fee of 500 yuan per mu of land each year, and paid dividends at the end of the year according to the benefits of the cooperative. At present, cooperatives have received a total of 980 mu of land transferred and owned by villagers, and planted corn, wheat, potatoes, watermelons, cotton and other crops on these cultivated land.

Cooperatives absorb villagers' cultivated land for unified cultivation, liberate some rural labor force from the land, feel at ease to go out to work to earn money, broaden the channels to increase income and increase income. In 2010, the per capita net income of villagers was more than 9000 yuan, double that of 2007.

Farmers who go out to work hand over all their land to the cooperative to manage, so they can work abroad wholeheartedly, and they can also sit and collect transfer fees, thus becoming a 'double-income family'. On the other hand, farmers who stay at home to farm their fields also earn their labor income by farming at home, and the part that increases production can share the fruits of their labor with other members of the cooperative. In this way, cooperatives provide employment opportunities for workers who lack skills and do not want to go out to work. The villager Zhang Xiuliang's family originally had 14 mu of arable land, and he joined the cooperative with all the arable land, while he worked in the cooperative for about eight months a year, with a monthly salary of 900 yuan. His wife also worked as a short-time worker for the cooperative, earning more than 3000 yuan a year. "coupled with the annual land transfer fee of 7000 yuan and year-end dividend, the income is not to mention, and save worry and effort." Ancient tree in the village farmer Zhang Xiuliang said.

More importantly, after collective cultivation of land, not only the area of cultivated land has been increased through consolidation, but also, due to the large-scale operation of land by cooperatives and intensive management in the process of production, the cost of cultivated land has been greatly reduced, saving at least 150 yuan per mu and more than 100,000 yuan per mu.

In order to solve the problem of serious drought in wheat fields, the cooperative invested 160000 yuan to drill a 300m deep well, purchased transformers, submersible pumps and other equipment, and laid 2700 meters of pipelines. Due to timely irrigation and scientific management, the yield of wheat per mu has reached about 500 kg, an increase of more than 20% over the past. In 2009, the cooperative land made an annual profit of more than 600,000 yuan. In 2010, cooperatives adjusted the land planting structure, 200 mu of potatoes, 200 mu of watermelons and 300 mu of cotton reaped a bumper harvest, and the annual profit of cooperative land reached more than 1.1 million yuan.

When the cultivated land was handed over to the cooperative to manage, some farmers who were flexible, bold and economic began to turn to the industrial field for development. At present, 12 carton machinery factories have been built in the village, the products have been sold to Zhejiang and other places, and more than 200 people have been employed. The development of the packaging machinery industry has also provided employment opportunities for more farmers liberated from the land in the village. at present, more than 50 people in the village have been out for years to promote the main products produced by the village-carton machinery. Villager Ren Qiang's original 13 mu of arable land joined the cooperative, and he set up Yunxiang Packaging Machinery Co., Ltd., paying an annual tax of more than 400,000 yuan and placing more than 20 people in employment.