How to use the Internet to train a new type of professional farmers in rural areas

Today, there are two potential crises in China's rural areas, and the problems are gradually spreading. Is the Internet a golden key to solve China's rural problems?

If farmers want to cultivate land, they must study agricultural problems, and if farmers live in rural areas, they must study rural areas. Today, there are two potential crises in China's rural areas, and the problems are gradually spreading. Is the Internet a golden key to solve China's rural problems?

The countryside is facing the crisis of disappearing.

One of the potential crises facing rural areas is that rural areas are gradually declining or even disappearing. According to statistics, the rate of disappearance of rural areas in the past ten years is 80 per day.

Some of this kind of disappearance disappeared naturally, the young people did not want to stay in the countryside, so they left, the old people followed, and the village disappeared when there was no one in the village. And some of the disappearance is the disappearance of man-made promotion, the most typical is the withdrawal of villages and towns, the countryside has become an empty shell village, fewer and fewer people, so these villages need to be demolished.

This round of destruction to the countryside may have been uprooted, directly leading to the decline and even disappearance of the village. Some people say that the crisis may hurt the bones and bones and damage Chinese tradition and culture. Because, before that, everyone has reached a consensus that the root of Chinese culture lies in the countryside, and if the countryside is destroyed, the culture will disappear.

Another potential crisis is that young people are unwilling to farm. When I conducted a survey in 10 provinces and cities in 2010, the average age of the farmers was 57. We were looking for someone under the age of 30, but we couldn't find it. The local secretary said that all the people under the age of 30 had gone out to work.

In order to solve these two problems, the state has issued two important strategic decisions. The first is to build a beautiful village, proposing that the construction of a beautiful village should have a variety of trees and fewer houses to demolish, so that farmers can further enjoy modern civilization on the basis of the original village.

However, the implementation of this policy in modern society is not satisfactory, some villages are a beautiful shell, some are in order to build the countryside to eliminate the livelihood of farmers, the whole village people live on the minimum living standard. The main reason for this is that there is no industry, no one wants to stay in the countryside, and those who go out do not come back.

Another decision is to vigorously cultivate a new type of professional farmers. Farmers must be farming in the future, so what kind of farmers are needed to farm? It should be a new type of professional farmer. Today, this has become a task of the central strategy.

In the training of new professional farmers, we are more of a mere formality, because we can not find the carrier of new professional farmers. It is not realistic for him to become a new type of professional farmer after graduating from junior high school. First, he does not want to be a farmer. Second, he does not have the conditions to be a farmer. Moreover, without large-scale land, can he support a professional farmer?.

Therefore, when the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Education discussed the age of newly employed farmers, they proposed that they should be under the age of 35. I said they should be under the age of 65, and no one could be found under the age of 35. Some people say that if the farmers are basically around the age of 65, it is time to retire, but the reality is that no farmers retire. At present, it is obvious that there are few successors in agricultural ecology, so who wants to farm the land?

Take advantage of the Internet to solve the difficult problems in the countryside

The emergence of the Internet provides an important condition for the growth of new professional farmers. According to the status and function of Taobao Village in China, it can be directly observed that there are three aspects that can promote the growth of new professional farmers.

The first is to directly attract young people to return home to start their own businesses. People in their 70s can also do e-commerce, but they are by no means the main body of e-commerce. The younger people are, the more they can contribute to the e-commerce industry.

Some young people in their 30s are already very proficient in e-commerce, and the Internet attracts them to come back from the city to work. As the Internet is the carrier of the new type of professional farmers, it will also gradually lead these people to become new farmers rather than pure businessmen.

The second is the real realization of industrial integration. In the past, the slogans of the integration of primary, secondary and tertiary industries were shouted, but the point of integration could not be found. The purpose of integration is to enable producers, especially those in the primary industry, to gain more benefits, rather than separate the development of primary, secondary and tertiary industries. This is not called integration.

The third is to contribute to the formation of new business entities. The new types of operators include large industrial households, cooperatives and engineering enterprises, but the new situation in Taobao Village is far more than these. A Taobao store and the company, logistics, packaging and other related industries that provide services for this Taobao store have formed different business entities.

The functions of these three aspects provide conditions for attracting young people to engage in agricultural work in rural areas, so this is an important carrier and breakthrough for the formation of emerging agriculture.

How will the Internet extend to the rural areas in the future? The safety of agricultural products is a major problem troubling every consumer, which has not been solved so far. Some methods can also ensure the safety of agricultural products bought, such as fines by regulators to ensure the safety of agricultural products, but this is not in line with reality. The crisis in rural areas is that there is wasteland everywhere, and young people are almost unwilling to farm the land. It is a problem who will farm the land. Where can we start with fines?

In view of this phenomenon, it is necessary to create a mechanism for ordinary people to voluntarily produce safe agricultural products. The best way is for ordinary people to sell their own products. One of the forms of production that I most admire is the family farm, where some people who stay in the countryside can farm, and the products of the family farm can be sold through the Internet, but they have to be responsible to consumers, otherwise no one will come to the store to buy enough products. It is also the role of the Internet to ensure the quality and safety of agricultural products in an institutional way.

I have full hope for the role of the Internet in agriculture and rural areas. In the future, rural areas can sell not only agricultural products, but also handicrafts, and the revitalization of handicrafts plays an important role in rural development, beautiful rural construction, rural governance, rural cultural inheritance and so on. I hope that the Internet will play a more and more important role in the development of agriculture in the future. I also hope that the Internet can comply with the scale of agricultural development and the law of rural development, rather than change it and violate it.