Farmers'"no successors" is a kind of hypocrisy.

"There are basically no young people in the village at ordinary times." Chen Maosheng, a professional grain farmer in Pingxiang City, Jiangxi Province, said worriedly that he was 55 years old. He said that farming has become a common phenomenon for middle-aged and elderly people at present. At least there are still people planting farmland now. In another ten years or so, when we are old and unable to plant, who will farm will really become a problem. (Economic Information Daily, November 5)

The fall of the countryside is a worry for many people, which is also mixed with a subtle nostalgia. Especially at present, many rural areas have been empty, the land is deserted, and the countryside has completely become a "nursing home". Faced with the current situation that most of the middle-aged and elderly people in rural areas are unwilling to farm land after 80s and 90s, many people have shown anxiety.

On the topic of farmers "no successor", an existing good example is Wu Xiubo starring in the TV series "Ma Xiangyang to the countryside". In Da Huaishu Village, where Ma Xiangyang is the first secretary, it is also faced with the situation that the countryside is full of middle-aged and elderly people, women and children, and young people work outside. Why is that? The reason is very simple. In many places, the net income of grain per mu is only several hundred yuan, and the crops in two seasons are only about one thousand yuan per mu. The 2013 Migrant Workers Monitoring Survey Report was released some time ago, showing that the total number of migrant workers in China is 268.94 million, and the monthly income of migrant workers is 2609 yuan. The income of migrant workers working outside for one month is equivalent to the harvest of one mu of land cultivated for two years. In rural areas where the per capita arable land is small, people are naturally reluctant to farm.

In Ma Xiangyang's Story of Going to the Countryside, Ma Xiangyang attracted funds to build roads, attracted tourism projects, started pancake companies, and introduced high-end greenhouses with high selenium content in the soil. Finally, the village became rich, and the migrant workers came back one after another. It has to be said that this exception does not solve most of China's rural problems. Most of our rural land is not special, not every village can engage in tourism. In other words, it is almost impossible to attract rural teenagers back.

According to statistics, China's urbanization rate reached 46.6% in 2010, but from the perspective of household registration, China's urban household registration accounted for 33% of the total population at that time, that is to say, 13.6% of the people were still agricultural although they were in cities and towns. In 1910, 32 percent of the U.S. population worked in agriculture; by 1994, that number had fallen to 2 percent. Therefore, the fundamental problem in China's rural areas is to improve farmers 'living standards and improve agricultural production efficiency.

Japan's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries released a 2013 agricultural white paper showing that 74% of rice growers, Japan's main crop, are over 65 years old. In 2012, the average age of South African farmers was 62 years. The serious aging of farmers is a worldwide problem. If we want to solve it, we can only rely on improving the circulation efficiency of rural land and speeding up the modern management of agricultural production. When farmers 'income rises, they naturally do not worry about the lack of people in the fields.

Rural population reduction is a development trend, China's current most important issue is to change "China's cities like Europe and America, China's rural areas like Africa" situation. Increase investment in rural infrastructure, narrow the gap between urban and rural areas, and carry out relevant reforms to enable rural cities to realize free flow. On this basis, it is realistic to talk about farmers '"no successor", otherwise it can only be a kind of hypocritical and taken for granted.