The hope of a farmer's document No. 1

"the quality of 'people' is the key to agricultural modernization. Is there any way to attract young adults back? With them, it is easy to modernize! " Some farmers told reporters.

In Changping Village, Hetu Township, Nanchuan District, Chongqing, Wang Wei, chairman of the Panyuan kiwifruit joint stock cooperative, pulled out two "fresh things" to the reporter: one was a stock warrant for farmers' land shares, and the other was a sphygmomanometer.

"the farmer is so old that I have to take a sphygmomanometer with me." Wang Wei said that although cooperatives allow farmers to buy shares with the right to contracted management of land, they still fail to retain the hearts of young people. The whole society has transferred more than 800 mu of land, employing farmers with an average age of over 65, the oldest being 81, and at least seven or eight people suffering from high blood pressure. "take your blood pressure before you go to the ground in case something happens to them."

The reporter saw that dozens of white-haired old people were stooping their backs, fertilizing and weeding kiwifruit. Wang Wei said that it is not bad to find old people to work. "the community is willing to pay three or four times the salary to hire strong workers in their thirties and forties, but no one is willing to come."

In Henan, Yu Guilin is also worried about this. "it costs 100 yuan a day to hire short-term workers, all over 55 years old, and those who are 70 years old are becoming more and more unable to work."

"the farmers are too old to popularize new technologies and equipment. The weak ability of the elderly to accept new things and their low enthusiasm for learning has become a major problem. " Said Zhang Cunbin, director of the village committee of Kaizhu Village, Zhaojia Street, Kaixian County, Chongqing.

The elderly farmers have also gradually replaced the traditional "intensive farming" in some places by "lazy agriculture". Sun Changwu, a big grain grower in Linjiang Town, Kaixian County, Chongqing, employs more than 30 people when farming is busy. He said: "in the past, when farmers planted rice, they had to plough two or three times after the autumn harvest to conserve soil moisture and water for spring ploughing in the coming year. But now it is simply unaffordable, and the labor intensity is too heavy for the elderly to bear, so this measure of increasing production can only be given up. "