Beware of "land brokers" misleading agricultural land transfer

"Land brokers" do not make money by providing land transfer information, but make use of capital advantages and information asymmetry to lease land and then sublease it to other organizations or individuals with real agricultural needs. this behavior disturbs the order of the rural land circulation market, raises the land rent, increases the cost risk of land circulation, and harms the long-term development of land circulation. It must be rectified and stopped.

Recently, the media have revealed several strange appearances of "land brokers" in the circulation of agricultural land: some "have the money to take the land, but do not intend to cultivate the land" and eventually destroy the contract and abandon the land; some seize the good land and raise the rent, so that the real land growers bear high rents or even no land to grow; and some horse racing enclosures are intended to attract off-site funds, and once there is no hope of attracting investment, it will lead to the abandonment of agricultural land and miss the time of farming. Although these strange phenomena account for a small proportion in the current rural land transfer, they distort the correct direction of land circulation, and it is easy to mislead and misjudge people in terms of land transfer use, transfer target and circulation income, which must be corrected and stopped in time.

"Land brokers" are not the usual trading intermediaries, they do not make money by providing land transfer information, but take advantage of financial advantages and information asymmetry to lease the land first, and then sublease it to other organizations or individuals with real agricultural needs. This kind of brokerage behavior increases the risk of non-agricultural land conversion. They do not aim at farming and farming, and many of them do not have the conditions and ability to do farming. they only use hoarding as a means to sublease them to individuals or companies through the so-called mode of operation in which exotic goods are available for sale and waiting for sale. In the two-pass and even three-pass sublease subcontracts of "land brokers", it has been difficult for farmers or village committees to give full play to their right to supervise land use, and even supervision will encounter great legal trouble. it objectively increases the space and opportunities for non-grain and non-agricultural conversion of agricultural land. Moreover, when the "land broker" is unable to sublet the land in time, it often results in the desolation of agricultural land.

The "land broker" disrupts the order of the rural land transfer market, so that the land that should be transferred mainly between the "new farmers" is divided by members with different motivations. it squeezes new business entities such as growing and potential family farms, professional households and farmers' professional cooperatives. As most of the "land brokers" are professional "bag" businessmen, they are often able to preempt and occupy good land. If some large freshmen want to take the land, they can only sublet it from their hands, which increases the cost of farming, increases the pressure on operation, and restricts the space and speed of growth and growth. even some of the transferred land of existing large households are forced to abandon their contracts because of the intervention of "land brokers".

The "land broker" also raises the land rent, increases the cost risk of land transfer, and harms the long-term development of land transfer. The purpose of "land brokers" is to increase land rent income. Not only do "new farmers" have to pay higher rents for taking land from them, but also some "land brokers" raise prices to each other, making land rents even higher than the actual income. On the surface, the increase in land rent enables the original rural contractors to get better circulation income, but the output income of agricultural land is relatively fixed. After the increase in land rent, large households or companies are unprofitable, or the benefits are seriously squeezed, except for the withdrawal of rent and running away. We can only plant less food, not grow food, and plant other cash crops with better benefits, which will eventually bring harm to food security, agricultural land use and farmland circulation.

Land is not only the lifeblood of farmers, but also the lifeblood of food security and the security of agricultural products, and cannot be harmed or destroyed. Under the background of the acceleration of rural land transfer, it is necessary to rectify and stop the behavior of "land brokers" in time in order to ensure the right direction of ensuring food security, ensuring the bottom line of cultivated land and not harming the interests of farmers. At present, it is important to strengthen the recognition of the qualification of land leasing, to recognize and supervise the operating capacity and use of the leased land, and to strictly prevent "land brokers" who do not fish in troubled waters for the purpose of farming and mislead the circulation of land.