Agricultural products have to go through the "three hurdles" when entering the city.

Tricycles for transporting melons are prohibited from entering the city. After August, they can no longer sell melons in the city. In recent years, it is still difficult to sell agricultural products into the city, which has become a worry for farmers during the harvest season.

Selling into cities is a normal state of agricultural products circulation, but some artificial barriers block this channel, which not only intensifies the sales problem of agricultural products, but also is likely to cause social conflicts and become unstable factors. Therefore, selling agricultural products into cities is not only a major economic problem, but also a realistic livelihood problem, and it is also a long-standing circulation problem that must be solved in the top-level design and grass-roots operation links of agricultural supply-side reform.

In order to let farmers sell agricultural products smoothly into the city, we need to help them cross the "three barriers": the city to transport melons, the time-limited barrier, and the "hitchhiking" sales barrier.

The first hurdle facing the sale of agricultural products into the city is "transporting melons into the city". Even today, many cities still issue regulations: all vehicles carrying fruits and vegetables into or through urban areas must be motor trucks, tractors, tricycles and low-speed trucks are not allowed to pass through urban areas, otherwise they will be fined or detained. However, in reality, many farmers who grow melons and vegetables simply cannot afford to buy such motorized trucks. Although the number of large farmers and farmers 'brokers has increased over the years, there are still quite a number of individual investors or poor farmers who can only transport melons and vegetables by tractors or tricycles due to economic constraints.

Helping farmers get through the first hurdle requires local governments to relax restrictions, register vehicles carrying agricultural products and issue relevant permits. In case of a large number of unsalable agricultural products, vehicles carrying agricultural products should be opened up "green channels" and released in an orderly manner.

The second hurdle encountered in the sale of agricultural products into the city is the "time-limited threshold". "Time-limited barrier" refers to the restriction of sales time of agricultural products, especially fresh fruits and melons, in some cities according to the traditional listing season;"limited barrier" refers to the prohibition of "cross-district sales" in different Urban area of the same city. For example, Chenzhou, Hunan Province, encountered sales difficulties of more than 2000 mu of grapes this year, on the grounds that it had passed the traditional sales peak season and was creating a civilized city, set the temporary sales point for farmers to enter the city for self-production from mid-June to the end of August, and could not set up stalls to sell fruits and vegetables at other times; and due to the territorial management of the local market, farmers in the two districts of Chenzhou city could not sell across districts. Such "limited time" provisions not only ignore the reality of modern agricultural production and marketing at the wrong time, but also squeeze farmers into the city to broaden the market space.

After agricultural products enter the city and start selling, they may also encounter the third hurdle, namely,"hitchhiking sales hurdle." In recent years, although some city management personnel dare not openly ask for money and goods, but secretly disguised charges still exist, such as Henan a county urban management team members in the name of collecting 500 yuan deposit, will rent tents and parasols to the city to sell melon farmers, claiming that as long as the tents and parasols are used up not bad can be fully refunded. In fact, because parasols are exposed to the sun and rain, they are often scratched and damaged, and the deposits paid by farmers are basically non-refundable.

To help agricultural products enter the city to cross the "third hurdle", we need to pay close attention to system management and strengthen style construction. Once we find that we need cards from management service objects, we must severely punish them. From the source, we should make public officials and co-management personnel "dare not be greedy or dare not ask for them", so as to create a good environment for farmers to sell agricultural products in cities.

The problem of selling agricultural products into cities is fundamentally a problem of how to coordinate the relationship between civilized city construction and farmers 'right to survive. Obviously, we cannot restrict farmers' right to sell melons and vegetables into cities for the sake of civilized cities. In fact, on the premise of safeguarding farmers 'right to survive, the goal of civilized city construction can still be achieved through systematic urban management. Compared with all kinds of criticisms suffered by "valuing cities" and "hurting farmers", the urban construction thinking that considers rural development and farmers 'livelihood together can better embody the concept of "people-oriented", which is conducive to better handling the relationship between cities and villages, citizens and farmers, and promoting the harmonious development of society as a whole.