"Professional managers" of agricultural cooperatives

The middle and last ten days of July is the critical period of "double robbery" of rice in Hunan. Despite the hot weather, Yang Yuming from Xidu Town, Hengyang County, Hunan Province, comes to the rice fields in Duling Village early in the morning to check the early rice harvest and late rice planting.

Yang Yuming, an ordinary farmer in his 50s who used to make a living by farming, is now a middle manager of a professional cooperative for rich farmers and high-quality rice. The person in charge of the cooperative said that the cooperative has a total of 3200 mu of rice paddies, and without Yang Yuming, a "professional manager" who knows both farming and management, it would be difficult to guarantee the progress of this year's "double grab."

As a matter of fact, farming used to be a "small-scale peasant economy", and only a few seasonal workers were hired when the farm was busy, and agricultural production showed a trend of "concurrently". In recent years, with the accelerated circulation of rural land and the improvement of the level of scale, cooperatives, large grain growers, family farms and other new agricultural operators have mostly transferred hundreds or thousands of mu of land, and "professional managers" emerge as the times require.

Yan Weijie, a big grain grower in Hengyang County who once ran a factory in Guangdong for more than 10 years, believes that if we want to regard farmland as a "rice production enterprise," we need modern enterprise management model and professional management personnel.

The reporter learned that the work of "professional managers" mainly includes production material distribution, field management, pest prevention, scattered labor distribution, and so on. Some cooperatives also have special personnel to manage the water, and they are responsible for co-ordinating the irrigation and drainage work during the critical period of rice growth. To apply the title "CEO", you might as well call them "CWO" (Chief Water Management Officer).

In the modern enterprise system, the important duty of professional managers is to maintain and increase the value of enterprise assets. In agricultural cooperatives, "professional managers" shoulder the important task of stabilizing grain production and increasing production. Their salary is generally composed of "basic salary + management fee + commission", and most of them implement the annual salary system.