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Agricultural insurance premiums must not be paid in vain; do not let farmers' interests suffer
Recently, reports have emerged that over ten thousand mu of corn in Dachangchang Town, Zhongning County, Ningxia suffered drought-induced yield reduction, with crops nearly failing completely. However, the corn planting insurance that farmers had previously purchased could not obtain compensation from the insurance company. In response, the insurance company explained that there was a lack of corresponding drought weather
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Experts Assess the Promotion and Application of Integrated Water and Fertilizer Management: Staying Close to the Market Is Key
China ranks first in the world in the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, but their utilization rate is 15% to 20% lower than that of developed countries. At the beginning of the year, the Ministry of Agriculture proposed that by 2020 China's agriculture should achieve "one control, two reductions, three basics" and zero growth in chemical fertilizer use. In the fertilizer industry, accelerating transformation and upgrading
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2 billion mu of newly subsoiled land must be completed with high quality and efficiency
On October 10, the Ministry of Agriculture held a national on-site meeting on comprehensive crop straw utilization and agricultural machinery subsoiling and land preparation operations in Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province. Zhang Taolin, Vice Minister of Agriculture, emphasized that carrying out agricultural machinery subsoiling and land preparation is an important measure to improve arable land quality, raise the comprehensive grain production capacity, and promote
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How can the promotion and application of water-fertilizer integration stay close to the market? Experts weigh in
China ranks first in the world in the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, but their utilization rate is 15% to 20% lower than that of developed countries. At the beginning of the year, the Ministry of Agriculture proposed that by 2020 China's agriculture should achieve "one control, two reductions and three basics" and zero growth in chemical fertilizer use. In the fertilizer industry, accelerating transformation and upgrading
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Why must agricultural product e-commerce start over from scratch?
Recently, several pieces of information about e-commerce have intertwined, prompting me to rethink agricultural product e-commerce. The first piece of information: recently many media outlets have been reprinting stories about how great American fresh food e-commerce is. After taking a look, it turns out that American e-commerce is strong in its supply chain, not only
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Why must straw be burned no matter what? See how Chinese farmers deal with it
Every year at this time of year, city dwellers, as the PM2.5 index rises, focus their attention on the corn stalks in the crop fields, firmly believing that the change in air quality is caused by farmers burning straw, and this gives rise to endless verbal battles. We have to admit, as
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The citizenization of farmers must be advanced steadily; never try to help the seedlings grow by pulling them up.
To advance the building of a new type of urbanization, the central government proposed further advancing reform of the household registration system and advancing in an orderly manner the citizenization of the agricultural population that has moved to cities. However, in recent years the author found in Xiangyang City in northwestern Hubei that although farmers yearn for urban life, most of them do not have a strong willingness to completely "leave farming," and many hover in an amphibious state of "both city and countryside, both worker and farmer." All localities should take account of actual conditions, carefully analyze the obstacles to farmer citizenization, respect farmers' wishes, avoid pulling up seedlings to help them grow, and refrain from forcibly pushing it forward by administrative means. The reason "agricultural to non-agricultural" conversion is difficult to make attractive to many farmers lies in the following: <p><P> To advance the building of a new type of urbanization, the central government proposed further advancing reform of the household registration system and advancing in an orderly manner the citizenization of the agricultural population that has moved to cities. However, in recent years the author found in Xiangyang City in northwestern Hubei that although farmers yearn for urban life, most of them do not have a strong willingness to completely "leave farming," and many hover in an amphibious state of "both city and countryside, both worker and farmer." All localities should take account of actual conditions, carefully analyze the obstacles to farmer citizenization, respect farmers' wishes, avoid pulling up seedlings to help them grow, and refrain from forcibly pushing it forward by administrative means. The reason "agricultural to non-agricultural" conversion is difficult to make attractive to many farmers lies in the following:</P><P> First, there are many worries about the future: the elasticity of urban-rural amphibiousness is great. The vast majority of migrant workers who enter cities lack technology and skills, cannot compete for good jobs, earn little throughout the year, feel uncertain about life in the city, and fear that after being laid off they will return to the countryside with no land to farm. Farmers worry most that after "agricultural to non-agricultural" conversion they will lose contracted land and homestead land. Many young and middle-aged people choose urban-rural amphibiousness, retreating to the countryside when going out is difficult and going out to seek opportunities whenever possible. Farmers say that although farming does not bring much income, at least there is food to eat and a house to live in, which is at least a form of security. The city may be good, but without a job one cannot live there.</P><P> Second, real pressure is great: the threshold for settling down in the city is high. In 2014, the average monthly income of migrant workers in the cities and counties of Xiangyang was about 2,000 yuan, and those with monthly wage income exceeding 3,000 yuan accounted for about 15 percent, while in the same period the average sales price of commercial housing in the cities and counties was 3,800 yuan per sq m. Commercial housing prices continued to rise, urban village redevelopment led to a reduction in rental housing supply, and rental housing rents also rose by 20% to 30%. Migrant workers find it difficult to rely on wage income to support a family in the city, pay for their children's schooling, let alone buy a house. A 26-year-old young man surnamed Huang from Wuzhen in Nanzhang County knows how to install water and electricity, so finding work is not difficult, but he can save only 20,000 to 30,000 yuan a year. At this income level, even if he neither ate nor drank, buying an apartment would take one or two decades. Among the several young migrant workers the author surveyed, when buying a house in the city was mentioned, their first reaction was "I wouldn't even dare to think about it." But they have eager expectations about buying a house; in their view, without a house they cannot put down roots in the city. Most of the new generation of migrant workers have a certain amount of education and skills. Unlike their parents' generation, they have a stronger willingness to stay in the city and more employment choices, but buying a house is often a high threshold they cannot cross.</P><P> Third, the imprint of previous experience is deep: "washing one's feet" and entering the city is full of setbacks. From the mid-1980s to the early 1990s, the policy of "selling household registration" was implemented successively in the cities and counties of Xiangyang. A farmer could convert from agricultural to non-agricultural status by spending 5,000 to 10,000 yuan, and those of working age could even be recruited into factories, which led many people to empty their family savings or even borrow money everywhere to "buy household registration." But within a few years, many people were laid off and unemployed before they had earned back the money they spent on buying household registration, and had no choice but to take a "non-agricultural household registration" paper back to the countryside to farm or go out to work. This situation is still fresh in many farmers' memories. Many farmers say, we have contracted land and self-built houses, and can also enjoy the new rural cooperative medical care and the new social security. Now rural water and electricity supply is normal, transportation conditions have improved, housing standards have risen, the living environment is good, and with more and more national beneficial policies for farmers, rural household registration is also very "precious."</P><P> Farmer citizenization involves too many issues and cannot be achieved overnight. Its implementation requires a fairly long process; haste makes waste. Before farmers can obtain a higher level of employment and social security, the process of farmer citizenization cannot be fast. This requires the government to do careful and meticulous work in theoretical argumentation, planning guidance, institutional improvement, and public opinion guidance, and even more requires the government to gradually eliminate farmers' distant worries and immediate anxieties in the process of farmer citizenization, so that farmer citizenization comes about naturally, and it must never transcend reality by using administrative force to pull up seedlings to help them grow.</P></p>
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Targeted poverty alleviation must root out the causes of poverty in governance
As the second National "Poverty Relief Day" approaches, "inaccurate" poverty alleviation has become a hot topic of recent discussion. A notice from the National Audit Office shows that in Mashan County, Guangxi, 3,119 people did not meet the criteria for poverty registration, of whom 343 were financially supported by the government, and 2,454 had also purchased
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Grain harvests have been abundant for years, but strategic resolve must still be maintained
As China's grain harvests have been abundant for many consecutive years, major changes have taken place in the pattern of grain production and marketing, with phenomena such as high grain output, high procurement volumes and high stockpiles becoming prominent, and problems such as difficulties in operating grain enterprises and difficulties for farmers in selling grain emerging in some places. Domestic grain security is facing new
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New food security goals can only be achieved with the rule of law safeguarding the security of the grain basket
Dialogue motivation October 16, 2015 is the 35th World Food Day, and the week it falls in is the 25th National Grain Love and Grain Saving Publicity Week. Food security has always been an overall major strategic issue concerning our country's national economic development, social harmony and stability, and national security and self-reliance. Our country
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