Focus on the needs of farmers

We should keep a close eye on the needs of farmers with innovative thinking, pragmatic spirit and vision of development, and provide them with higher-level and more diversified training.

It is more effective to meet the needs of farmers than incentive funds. As far as the government is concerned, the amount of money spent is similar, but the effect is very different. Not long ago, a certain place in Zhejiang changed its previous method of rewarding funds for supporting new agricultural operators to reward the opportunity to go to Taiwan for training. When the family farmers heard this, they were overjoyed and repeatedly said that the government was considerate of them. The annual incentive fund was NT $30,000 to NT $50,000. Although subsidizing production played some role, it was more useful to study in Taiwan. You can observe and learn the advanced technology and management ideas of Taiwan's farms up close. When you come back, you can show your skills.

To ensure food security and realize agricultural modernization, the key is to improve the quality of farmers and let more new professional farmers who "have knowledge, know technology, be good at management and know how to operate" to operate agriculture. The No. 1 document of the CPC Central Committee clearly points out that it is necessary to actively develop agricultural vocational education and vigorously train a new type of professional farmers.

How to put the training of farmers into practice and make them feel effective and useful requires relevant departments and local governments to use their brains and keep a close eye on the needs of farmers with innovative thinking, pragmatic spirit, and vision of development. provide them with higher-level and more diversified training.

To meet the needs of farmers, it is necessary to study the needs of farmers in detail.

The content of farmers' training needs to be expanded. It is certainly not enough to teach the technology of planting and breeding, and the new operators urgently need training and guidance on the sales, management and branding of agricultural products. According to the questionnaire survey of more than 1200 professional farmers conducted by the Chongqing Municipal Committee of Agriculture, their needs are mainly concentrated in three aspects: agricultural vocational skills, production management ability and market development knowledge.

The form of farmer training needs to be improved. It is not good to just sit in the classroom and learn knowledge in classroom. many farmers report that they are more willing to visit and learn from the experience of large non-local households to see how other people operate large areas of planting, how to maintain new agricultural machinery, and how to solve warehousing problems. how to manage farms and cooperatives, and so on. With the combination of on-the-spot investigation and theoretical knowledge, the harvest is greater.

The level of farmers' training needs to be improved. The new type of professional farmers need new business type to adapt to the development of agriculture. For example, the application of information technology is changing with each passing day. E-commerce of agricultural products, Internet of things, intelligent tractors and drones are all widely used in reality. The corresponding curriculum system should also be redesigned.

All these need us to consider carefully. The training of new professional farmers is not a trivial matter, but an important institutional arrangement related to the development of modern agriculture. It is necessary to do a good job in the top-level design from the national level and improve the training, identification and support system of new professional farmers and practical talents in rural areas.

The guidance and support role of the government is essential to promote the integration of education and training resources, expand the coverage of rural vocational education, and establish a stable long-term guarantee mechanism. At the same time, we will reform the training model and carry out agricultural skills and management ability training around the leading industries and the needs of farmers. We should also give full play to the role of the market, such as leading enterprises in agricultural industrialization, social service organizations, professional training institutions, and so on.

It is necessary to actively guide, effectively supervise and innovate ways to realize the diversification of farmers' training. As long as you use your head, innovation is everywhere and anything is possible.