Leisure agriculture: less arable land and more agricultural "flavor"

The development of leisure agriculture should make efforts in the aspects of new, special, strange and excellent.

On the premise of highlighting the dominant position of farmers, explore the establishment of a win-win mechanism of multi-party participation and mutual benefit.

According to local conditions, priority should be given to the development of leisure agriculture types that do not occupy arable land.

There are more than 1.8 million operators of all kinds of leisure agriculture in China, with an operating income of 270 billion yuan, and the number of reception and operating income have maintained an average annual growth rate of more than 15%. The National Conference on Leisure Agriculture held by the Ministry of Agriculture on October 11 revealed that leisure agriculture, which is appetizing, clearing lungs, having fun, nourishing eyes and increasing interest, is entering a golden period.

In 2013, China's urbanization rate reached 53.7%, and the annual per capita net income of urban residents was close to 27000 yuan, providing support for leisure agricultural consumption. With the optimization and adjustment of national statutory holidays and the gradual implementation of the paid vacation system, it will activate the needs of citizens for agricultural leisure and agricultural experience, and become the driving force for the rapid development of leisure agriculture.

As a new industrial form, leisure agriculture inevitably has some problems in the process of rapid development. Yang Shaopin, a member of the party group of the Ministry of Agriculture, said that the outstanding problems are as follows: first, in some places, the development model and service function are single, the management forms are simple and the same, and the phenomenon of homogeneity and isomorphism is obvious; second, the behavior of business entities in some places is not standard enough, ignoring the farmers as the main body, the "taste" of the farmers is insufficient, and there are still problems in some projects that the boss "encloses the land" to build houses and infringes upon the interests of farmers. Third, after some farmers devote themselves to leisure agriculture, the layout is scattered and piecemeal, and the follow-up of supporting facilities such as sewage discharge and garbage disposal is not enough.

Zong Jinyao, director of the Agricultural products processing Bureau of the Ministry of Agriculture, said that the development of leisure agriculture should make efforts in new, special, strange, and excellent aspects, pay attention to the excavation of rural cultural resources, and pay attention to the development of agricultural production, farmers' life, and rural ecology as a whole. strengthen the creative design of agricultural landscape, local culture, and leisure agricultural management places.

The second hurdle in the development of leisure agriculture is to correctly handle the relationship between farmers and bosses. Zong Jinyao said: it is necessary to broaden the ways and ways of social participation and support for the development of leisure agriculture, guide talents, funds, management, land and other elements to flow to leisure agriculture, and promote the upgrading of leisure agriculture. Under the premise of highlighting the dominant position of farmers, actively explore the establishment of multi-party participation, mutually beneficial and win-win mechanism, not only promote the development of leisure agriculture, but also maximize the interests of farmers, must not let "farm music" into a simple "boss music".

"the proportion of the main operation of leisure agriculture farmers in the province is more than 80%. Last year, the number of people employed in leisure agriculture in the province reached 125000, and the per capita income of farmers engaged in leisure agriculture was 50 per cent more than the average income of farmers in the province. " Wang Jianyue, chief agronomist of Zhejiang Agricultural Department, said that although some leisure farms in Zhejiang are dominated by industrial and commercial capital, local governments will organically combine relevant policy support for owners with owners hiring local farmers, which will play a greater role in driving the surrounding farmers.

In the interview, the reporter learned that the development of leisure agriculture needs to improve infrastructure and related supporting facilities, which will more or less occupy some land. This has become the third hurdle for the development of leisure agriculture in many places.

"it is necessary to properly handle the relationship between the improvement of facilities and the protection of cultivated land, and occupy little or no cultivated land as far as possible." Zong Jinyao believes that in choosing the development mode of leisure agriculture, we should not be greedy, but should give priority to the development of leisure agriculture that does not occupy arable land according to local conditions, such as using farmers' own houses and homesteads to set up farm music. In terms of development space, it is necessary to guide leisure agriculture to develop on barren hills, barren slopes, barren beaches and other land. In land use, efforts should be made in saving and intensive efforts to improve the output and efficiency per unit area, and strive to not only promote industrial development, but also save land. In addition, if the rural environment is damaged, leisure agriculture will lose its appeal.