Cultivate a new type of professional farmers to promote the development of modern agriculture

At the end of 2013, the Central Rural work Conference made overall arrangements for the cultivation of new professional farmers, and the cultivation of new professional farmers ushered in a breakthrough year in 2014. In the face of widespread concern from all walks of life about "who will farm and how to plant land" in rural areas in the future, farmers' education and training work has taken the initiative to move forward, with professional households, family farmers, backbone of farmers' cooperatives and agricultural successors as the main service objectives. we will vigorously cultivate a new type of professional farmers and explore the establishment of a new type of professional peasant training system with the trinity of education and training, identification and management, and policy support.

First, we will launch and implement a new type of professional farmer training project. With the support of the Ministry of Finance, the central government has allocated a subsidy fund of 1.1 billion yuan to start the project of cultivating new-type professional farmers. Two whole provinces, 14 cities and 300 demonstration counties have been selected to carry out key demonstration and cultivation, and a sound training system has been established and improved. Demonstration drives the national training work. The second is to vigorously train farmers with secondary or above vocational education qualifications. To meet the needs of modern agricultural production and operation, the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Education have issued the "implementation of the training Program for New Vocational Farmers in Secondary Vocational Schools" to make institutional arrangements for farmers to receive vocational education at or above the secondary level. to protect farmers' right to receive agriculture-related vocational education. The third is to explore and innovate the model of farmers' education and training mechanism. The selection and cultivation object revolves around the development of leading and characteristic advantageous industries, focuses on the new main body of agricultural production and operation, mainly professional farmers of production and operation type, pays more attention to the application of information means, and uses cloud computing and big data technology to realize online training, mobile Internet services, online technical consultation and follow-up management evaluation for cultivating farmers. The fourth is to strengthen the ability building of farmers' education and training conditions. We will speed up the construction of a multi-level and wide-coverage education and training system for new professional farmers, promote the integrated construction of air classes, field classes, mobile classes and cloud platforms for intelligent farmers, and implement the construction project of "Ministry of Agriculture's new mobile classes for professional farmers". We will continue to strengthen the supporting capacity of education and training.

At the same time, various localities have also strengthened guidance, increased investment, expanded the coverage of pilot demonstrations, explored innovative working systems and mechanisms, and the relevant policies for strengthening farmers and benefiting farmers and rich farmers have been tilted towards a new type of professional farmers. a new type of professional farmers with culture, technology, and management is rapidly forming. In 2014, the number of professional farmers cultivated in Shaanxi and Shanxi alone exceeded 100000. According to preliminary statistics, at present, the national training of various types of new professional farmers is expected to exceed 1 million, and more and more new professional farmers are propping up the blue sky of modern agriculture.