Agricultural cooperatives want to pierce the "three ceilings"

Qin Jianfeng, chairman of the Guanshan Jianfeng Chicken raising Professional Cooperative in Ningxiang County: for example, this cooperative can have interest-free loans and this policy, but it is very difficult to implement it.

By the end of 2013, there were 18259 farmers' specialized cooperatives in Hunan, with 1.807 million farmers joining them. The quantity is quite a lot, but I have to say that rapid development is by no means equal to good development. I'm short of money. Li Xufang, a national grain grower in Heshan District of Yiyang, is a case in point. 4500 mu of arable land has just passed the "late spring cold", but also faces an one-million gap in spring ploughing agricultural materials.

Li Xufang, director of the Yiyang Yimin Agricultural Professional Cooperative, a major national grain grower: nine friends and relatives have taken out a loan of NT $300000, and private funds of NT $300,000 to NT $400,000, plus all my previous money has been invested. We want to ask the Agricultural Bank of China to really think for the sake of the farmers, whether the loan amount can be a little larger, 3 million is fine, but it is not used for our agriculture, they are engaged in real estate.

Indeed, there is no collateral on hand, coupled with the high natural risks, the financial sector often "shuns" the co-operatives that come to ask for loans. If there is no money for cooking, the co-operative will either close its doors or turn around. Lack of people, understand technology, understand the market is very few; lack of facilities, such as dryers, drying grain ping, and so on. Even the slightly better co-operatives are no exception. For example, the cooperative in Lianyuan Qiaotouhe Town, Loudi, provides more than 60% of the vegetables in the urban area, and it is advanced at the municipal and provincial level, but the cooperative still only works as a "babysitter", providing seeds, fertilizers, organizing planting, and it is difficult to be a "housekeeper".

Wang Jianliang, manager of planting professional cooperative in Qiaotouhe Town, Lianyuan: it is relatively difficult for our base to accurately grasp market information on our own. What kind of food we should grow is still relatively vague. After planting it, we can only rely on luck.

If you don't have a solid foundation, you can't build a building. To tell you the truth, most of the agricultural cooperatives in Hunan are still "millet plus rifles". If we need to face the construction of large-scale infrastructure and market information platform, cooperatives must be "unbearable pain". Compared with Japan, farmers' associations can get 50% of the government's support for investment in plants and equipment. As the saying goes, "if you are dissatisfied with fuel, the car will not go far."

Wang Wenqiang, director of the Rural Research Institute of the Hunan Academy of Social Sciences: the cooperative is actually a springboard for building fine agriculture. However, the cooperation of farmers' professional cooperatives as vulnerable groups in vulnerable industries is inseparable from the guidance and support of the government in the initial stage of growth. If the government service is absent, or if it is not hot enough, the red line of co-operatives will become a "broken line".

I suggest that at this stage, we should take a serious approach to the design of the government's system of supporting agriculture. Borrow a chicken to lay eggs. The government regards cooperatives as an important carrier of financial support for agriculture, increases financial subsidies and tax concessions, and supports cooperatives to "borrow chickens to lay eggs" by means of discounted interest on loans and credit guarantees.

Practice your internal skills. Help cooperatives to train managers and support rural capable people and university student village officials to participate in the establishment of cooperatives.

In Taiwan, more than 90% of farmers have joined grass-roots peasant associations commissioned by the government, and the credit department of the peasant associations can fully meet the loan needs of farmers for production and living. The peasant association has set up a transportation and marketing department, which can help farmers achieve direct sales of their products, reduce intermediate links, and maximize profits.

Wang Wenqiang, director of the Rural Research Institute of the Hunan Academy of Social Sciences: cooperatives do not have as high profits and taxes as industry, but agriculture is always the foundation. I suggest that governments at all levels should show their enthusiasm for industry to engage in agriculture, be good "nannies" of co-operatives and give them a ride.