Agricultural Aging: who do we depend on in the future?

Not long ago, at the scene of the southern seed industry exchange meeting, the participants were basically farmers over 50 years old. In front of the China seed Industry Network Fair booth, many farmers do not know how to scan the Wechat QR code. Nowadays, in the era of increasing development of science and technology, the impact of agricultural aging is increasing. Under the background of the increasingly prominent contradiction of agricultural aging, "who will farm, how to farm" is becoming a common dilemma.

On the one hand, the seriously aging farmers can only support the self-sufficient model of small farmers, which inevitably leads to the increasing phenomenon of extensive management and even abandonment of cultivated land in many areas, which has become an important factor affecting the security of agricultural products and food supply.

On the other hand, when urban industrial and commercial capital enters the countryside, the process of large-scale land transfer often goes hand in hand with the trend of "non-agriculture" and "non-grain". The larger the scale of land transfer, the faster the development of "non-agriculture" and "non-grain". To a certain extent, "non-agriculture" will endanger the supply security of agricultural products in our country, and "non-grain" will inevitably aggravate the pressure of food security. Under the actual situation of our country, the promotion of land circulation should not only significantly improve the level of scale operation, but also achieve the basic goal of ensuring the security of agricultural products and food supply.

Seriously, the aging of agriculture hinders the application of new agricultural technologies. In many rural areas, it is still the traditional farming mode. Now, online trading is the trend of future development, but many agricultural people do not understand and do not believe it. The combination of traditional marketing mode and e-commerce marketing mode will inject new vitality into agriculture. However, due to the aging of agriculture, it will hinder the development of rural e-commerce.

Therefore, the trend of agricultural decline and the intensification of food security contradictions brought about by land transfer must not be allowed to continue to develop, and enough attention must be paid to the problems of "non-agriculturalization" and "non-grain" in the process of land circulation and moderate scale management. we must also pay attention to the application of new agricultural technologies.