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One family, two systems of agricultural products reflects the failure of supervision.

Published: 2024-11-05 Author: mysheen
Last Updated: 2024/11/05, Some media have exposed that farmers in some areas of Weifang, Shandong Province, use the highly toxic pesticide "Shennongdan" to grow ginger, and ginger farmers "do not eat or export crops that abuse pesticides, and all of them are only for domestic use." In fact, the phenomenon of "one family, two systems" in the supply of agricultural products is not alone.

Some media have exposed that farmers in some areas of Weifang, Shandong Province, use the highly toxic pesticide "Shennongdan" to grow ginger, and ginger farmers "do not eat or export crops that abuse pesticides, and all of them are only for domestic use." In fact, this phenomenon of "one family, two systems" in the supply of agricultural products is not alone, and it is becoming more and more widespread, which widely exists in all aspects of the production and processing of agricultural products. Why is there such a mess, and how can it be eliminated?

The phenomenon of "one family, two systems" in the supply of agricultural products is caused by a series of reasons, and there are loopholes in every link from the field to the table.

From the production level, blindly apply more chemical fertilizer to pursue yield, falling into the strange circle of American chemical agriculture. From the perspective of planting habits, if a certain kind of crop is planted in the same plot for a long time, after planting a few crops, it is easy to lead to the spread of diseases and insect pests, which is actually the general law of the growth and decline of the natural population. In order to increase the yield, farmers apply too much chemical fertilizer blindly, which leads to soil acidification, and the acidified environment makes the incidence of root nematode disease high, which has a great impact on the yield, and even leads to no yield in serious cases. There are two solutions: one is the American model of chemical agriculture, which is solved by the application of pesticides, but diseases and insect pests will gradually develop drug resistance in the process of evolution, which leads to the use of a larger number of pesticides, and farmers fall into the strange circle of "chemical agriculture." the second is the traditional rotation or fallow, which has been used in China for thousands of years, unfortunately, these habits have been gradually abandoned in recent years for the one-sided pursuit of yield and economic interests.

From the perspective of product pricing mechanism, atomized and dispersed small farmers lack bargaining power and can only rely on quantity to win. At present, a single small farmer has almost no bargaining power in the face of a large market. Even if a single scattered farmer produces agricultural products without pesticides, it is still difficult to sell at a good price, because the quantity they produce is small and lack of organization, and the price of their products can only follow the market in front of the strong market. in the end, we can only rely on the simple pursuit of quantity to sell more money. The supply chain of agricultural products in our country is too long. Farmers generally wait for the intermediary to come and buy the agricultural products. The intermediary takes the purchased agricultural products to the wholesale market of the place of origin for sale, and then transports the merchants of the wholesale market of the place of origin to the wholesale market of land sales, and then the farmers' market vendors of land sales go to the wholesale market of land sales to purchase. Such a long link, the quality problem is very difficult to be effectively monitored. Agricultural products also have a unique blind spot attribute, that is, only from the appearance, it is difficult to distinguish whether to hit or not hit highly toxic pesticides, sometimes the agricultural products without pesticides have a long difference and can not sell at a good price.

From the perspective of market access mechanism, the domestic market is huge and numerous, and many market spot checks are a mere formality and are easy to pass. According to media reports, in the poisonous ginger incident, ginger farmers claimed that as long as they found a few jin of qualified ginger to test, they could get a qualified test report on pesticide residues. If the entrance of the market is strictly guarded, in fact, farmers can produce safe agricultural products without or with less pesticide, such as ginger for export. The main reason is that the export control is very strict, once the residue exceeds the standard, the loss will be great.

The underground highly toxic pesticide market has been banned repeatedly, which also makes it easier for farmers to buy illegal drugs. Although the competent authorities have repeatedly claimed that there is no problem with the control of highly toxic pesticides, in fact, it is relatively easy for farmers to buy all kinds of highly toxic pesticides in the market. The underground market of highly toxic pesticides has not been effectively managed. This is not only related to the fact that the rural areas of our country are acquaintances and sparsely populated, but also related to lax punishment and fines, and the crime costs are very low but the benefits are very large.

Eliminating the phenomenon of "one family, two systems" also requires real action by local governments in various marketing areas. on the one hand, through cooperatives, farmers can really organize and eliminate the current unreasonable pricing mechanism. The land sales policy should also implement a strict sampling policy to give a red light to those producing areas where there are repeated problems, so as to force the local government to take real action to exercise its regulatory responsibility.

 
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