Cultivate a large number of "full-time farmers and workers" to solve the problem of "follow-up farming"

Author: bi Xiaozhe

"there are almost no young people in the village at ordinary times." Chen Maosheng, a professional grain farmer in Pingxiang City, Jiangxi Province, said with concern that he is already 55 years old, and farming for the middle-aged and elderly has become a common phenomenon. At least there are still races in the fields, and in another decade or so, when we are old and unable to plant, who will farm the fields will really become a problem. (economic Information Daily, November 5)

According to a media survey, the phenomenon of "no one following farming" faced by the vast number of rural villagers' contractors is related to such factors as non-standard land circulation, weak infrastructure, difficulties in loans, imperfect insurance system, and so on. In fact, it is also related to the huge "absorption" of the rural population in the process of rapid urban development. The vast majority of young people prefer to live in cities with developed conditions and superior lives, and to "suffer" in the countryside is psychologically "resisted" by some young people, so it is inevitable that there is no follow-up confusion in farming that "the post-70s generation is unwilling, the post-80s generation will not, and the post-90s generation will not talk about it." To solve this problem and crux, from common sense and common sense, as long as there are enough "agricultural migrant workers", even if they do not belong to rural hukou, as long as there are a part of mobile "full-time"agricultural migrant workers" who serve the vast number of contractors.

This model has been "budding" and practiced in some places for many years. Some parts of Fujian Province belong to the famous tea-producing areas in China, where farmers contract tea gardens of more than 100 mu and more than 1000 mu. Families alone cannot afford the heavy maintenance and picking work. So, every year, workers from neighboring provinces come to Fujian to help tea farmers complete their tasks. After earning a certain amount of income, they move to the next "contracted land". Taking the Xinjiang Autonomous region, which is rich in cotton flowers, as an example, every year during the cotton harvest season, a large number of farmers and workers from Gansu, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Chongqing, Henan, Shandong, Jiangsu and other places flood in, with more than 1 million people, becoming the most typical group of "flower pickers" from other places. The phenomenon of "recruiting" non-local agricultural workers during the busy agricultural season in some localities and provinces shows that in the new era and the new background of agricultural production, it is no longer realistic to rely on the strength of each household and place to solve the problem of "large-scale agricultural production". What is needed is "trans-provincial" and trans-regional help for migrant workers. At this time, the development of the times is inevitable, and it is also needed by the rural contracting market.

There is a "labor shortage" in a certain field, and in such a country with relatively abundant labor resources, the "labor shortage" can only be relative. If we can meet the needs of the market and make the market attractive enough, there is no shortage of people. Hundreds of millions of migrant workers have emerged in the process of rapid urban development in China, which is rooted in the rapid development of urban construction, the prosperity of urban infrastructure and urban real estate, which has brought this huge demand for market employment. Under the development of the benign market, it is also most likely to meet the needs of migrant workers, such as "income problem", personal value reality and so on. The vast rural areas of our country also have a huge market power in the demand for agricultural migrant workers in the future, the key is that the current market vitality has not been fully stimulated, and the "professional and professional" agricultural migrant workers serving this huge market are still far from enough. The relatively professional types of "tea pickers" and "flower pickers" such as Fujian and Xinjiang are still limited to some parts of the country and part of the agricultural labor areas. If we open our eyes, provinces all over the country can have such a group and thousands of "professional and full-time" agricultural personnel who support modern agriculture and modern intensive agricultural production. Will there still be such a "shortage" of agricultural planting personnel in the future?

To solve the "bottleneck" of the scarcity of agricultural development workers in China in the future, on the one hand, it depends on the "market". The vast number of contractors should be psychologically prepared to accept the challenges of the market, truly increase profits and reduce costs from large-scale, scientific and technological, and intensive management, reduce the proportion of possible "labor costs", and attract people with generous wages. This is the road that rural agriculture must take in the future; on the other hand, it depends on the "mayor." The government should take the lead. In the new development period, when agriculture has not yet become bigger and stronger, the government should make great efforts to help and support, not only in terms of policies to provide conditions for the cultivation of future modern farmers, but also in financial and financial support. In particular, we should take the training of a mobile and professional agricultural migrant workers as a plan and goal as soon as possible, in view of these floating population who already exist and have begun to engage in this "occupation". In giving them "cross-provincial" cross-regional transportation convenience, we should find ways to provide them with the convenience of going out for food, accommodation and transportation, and establish a scientific wage income guarantee mechanism. Make them "happy to pursue this profession".

At the same time, as heads of local administration, "mayors and county magistrates" should vigorously implement and implement the policy on the circulation of contracted land in rural areas, increase investment in rural infrastructure, and "increase revenue and reduce expenditure" for rural contractors. let them have more capital to improve and cultivate "professional agricultural workers." It is also necessary to provide more social security for agricultural workers so that they can live a better life and live with the same "dignity" as citizens. Recently, the Central Committee examined and adopted the opinions on guiding the orderly transfer of Rural Land Management Rights to develop appropriate scale Management of Agriculture, which is a programmatic document for our country to deepen the reform of rural land system at the present stage, and is of great significance for solving the problems of agriculture, rural areas and farmers and walking out a road of agricultural modernization with Chinese characteristics. It is also really "reducing the burden" for rural land and rural migrant workers from the level of central policy. The "spring" of rural land production and management will certainly come, making the vast number of rural villages a "base" for young people to realize their dreams, a platform for stimulating social vitality and creating great social value, training hundreds of millions of professional "harvesters" and "tea pickers" and other outbound farmers throughout the country, and fundamentally solving the labor shortage in rural agricultural production. (bi Xiaozhe)