We should not only cultivate more fields, but also earn more money.

Modern agricultural machinery cooperative in Changsheng Township, Kedong County, Heilongjiang Province has more than 32000 mu of arable land. "the yield on growing grain reached 30 per cent in 2012 and fell to 19 per cent in 2014." He Yongdong, head of the cooperative, said, "the rise in land rent is one of the important factors driving up the cost of growing grain. The rent per mu of land rose from 200 yuan to 250 yuan per mu in 2012 to more than 400 yuan in 2014." If there is limited room for grain prices to rise, the income from growing grain will naturally decline. "

At present, with the rapid development of large-scale land management in China, a large number of family farms, large growers and farmers' cooperatives have emerged. However, in recent years, the cost of growing grain has continued to rise, and some new agricultural operators have fallen into the situation of large scale and low efficiency. How can the new agricultural operators make more money while producing a variety of grain?

Drive down planting costs

Promoting the moderate scale operation of land is not simply the expansion of the scale of land management of the main body of the new agricultural operation, but can be realized in a variety of forms.

Wu Changjin, chairman of Changqian Agricultural Machinery Cooperative, Fuli Town, Yunmaiqiao District, Suzhou City, Anhui Province, rented more than 500 mu of land to grow wheat and corn. Because it is located in the suburbs, the rent per mu of land reached 1000 yuan to 1200 yuan, and the net income from growing grain last year was only more than 50, 000 yuan. Zhou Yanwu, the farmer of the Dalan family in Haraha Village, Zhuchengzi Town, Dehui City, Jilin Province, rented more than 4400 mu of land, with a net income of more than 600,000 yuan last year. Local land rents have risen rapidly in recent years, from more than 500 yuan per mu in 2013 to more than 700 yuan this year. In order to reduce the risk, Zhou Yanwu decided to reduce the planting area by more than 2000 mu this year.

So, how can the new agricultural operators crack the business pressure brought about by the rise in land rents? As a new professional farmer who knows how to manage and understand technology, Lu Jianping, a big grain grower in Shizhuang Township, Chongren County, Jiangxi Province, told reporters that he will continue to improve grain production and management capacity, optimize agricultural machinery and equipment, and reduce labor input and save costs with the help of high-performance machinery and equipment. "through continuous consultation with farmers and inviting farmers to buy shares in the field, it has not only realized large-scale management, but also ensured the interests of farmers, and found a stable and long-cycle way of land transfer."

The rise of land rent helps to improve the income of farmers' land and property, but it also brings considerable operational risks to the new agricultural operators. In fact, promoting the appropriate scale operation of land is not simply the expansion of the land management scale of the new type of agricultural operators. In some places, moderate scale operation of land has been realized by means of land share cooperation and land trusteeship; in some places, the effect of scale operation has also been achieved through order cooperation between leading enterprises and farmers or cooperatives.

Expand the scope of services

The new type of agricultural operators make use of their own resource advantages to actively provide socialized services for surrounding farmers, thus broadening the space for improving economic benefits.

It is understood that at present, some large grain growers are not only the main body of large-scale operation, but also the main body of socialized services such as agricultural machinery operation.They make use of their own advantages in resources and sales channels to provide farmers with social services such as agricultural machinery operation, production management, and product sales.

Although Zhou Yanwu greatly reduced the planting area this year, he used his agricultural machinery to provide agricultural machinery services to surrounding farmers, with an operating area of more than 7500 mu, effectively making up for the losses caused by the reduction in the scale of land management. Liang Jiaxiang, chairman of the Xiangfa Agricultural Machinery Service Professional Cooperative in Sanhe Town, Hongze County, Jiangsu Province, told the reporter that the cooperative now transfers more than 15000 mu of land and also reproduces more than 5000 mu for farmers. Last year, the cooperative made a net profit of more than 6 million yuan. Yuan Dongsheng, a major grain grower in Qianshang Village, Xiangshan Town, Chongren County, Jiangxi Province, has planted more than 500 mu of rice this year. As chairman of Fengxiang Agricultural Machinery Cooperative, he has also effectively integrated local agricultural machinery and idle agricultural machinery and tools to provide services to surrounding farmers.

However, in recent years, the efficiency of agricultural machinery operation is gradually decreasing, which requires new agricultural operators to optimize the structure of agricultural machinery equipment, and provide services from a single field of farming to prenatal, mid-production and post-natal links. At present, farmers have a strong demand for agricultural machinery services such as land subsoiling, straw returning, field plant protection, grain drying and so on, which should become an important focus for new agricultural operators to improve income.

Lengthen the industrial chain

For the new type of agricultural operators, extending the industrial chain will help to control the initiative in all aspects of grain production and maximize the income of grain production.

Lei Xiuchun, chairman of Spring Rain Cooperative in Fuli Town, Hanqiao District, Suzhou City, Anhui Province, is a local grain grower who rents more than 1000 mu of land. In 2013, according to the needs of development, Lei Xiuchun set up an agricultural machinery cooperative and purchased more than 70 sets of agricultural machinery to provide social services for agricultural machinery. In order to obtain better economic benefits, he bought farmers' corn stalks to make feed, and raised 500 fattening sheep before the Spring Festival this year. At the same time, Lei Xiuchun adjusted the planting structure of corn, planted white waxy corn, cooked white waxy corn and sold it after vacuum packaging, which was very popular in the market. It is understood that they have registered the trademark "Huichun Yuan" and plan to expand the planting scale of white waxy corn this year.

Today, Xue Yaohui, chairman of Wanxin Agricultural Machinery Professional Cooperative in Gongzhuling City, Jilin Province, is also trying to build a circular agricultural industry chain. Taking advantage of sufficient corn resources, the Wanxin cooperative has developed the cattle industry, raising more than 200 cows this year, and the net profit of each cow is estimated to be about 8000 yuan. Cooperatives ferment cow manure into organic manure and apply it back to farmland to develop organic agriculture. In order to solve the difficult problem of local corn sales, they also cooperated with CP to set up a joint-stock company to build a corn production and marketing industry chain.

For the new type of agricultural operators, extending the industrial chain will help to control the initiative in all aspects of grain production and maximize the income of grain production. However, the new agricultural operators are best at grain production, and it is relatively easy to engage in socialized services of agricultural machinery and aquaculture, while it is more difficult to develop the secondary industry. Modern agricultural machinery cooperatives in Kedong County, Heilongjiang Province are trying to develop flour processing industry. They are faced with two problems that need to be solved urgently: one is that they need a lot of money to buy processing equipment, and the other is that they need to establish their own marketing channels. It is difficult to solve these two difficult problems by relying solely on the strength of the co-operatives. If cooperatives can cooperate with some grain processing enterprises with strong capital strength and make use of the capital advantages and channel advantages of large enterprises to achieve common development, it is also a very good choice.