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Training on the Newly Revised Seed Law Held in Jiujiang City
In order to do a good job of connecting the old law with the new law, ensure stable order in the seed market, further strengthen the city's seed market supervision work, improve the professional quality of seed law enforcement personnel, and meet the needs of the new situation in seed management work, on January 11, the Jiujiang City Seed Management
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A bumper summer grain harvest is expected again, gaining the initiative for stabilizing grain and increasing income this year
Report from this website: At present, more than 80 percent of the summer grain in the Southwest region has been harvested, and the Huang-Huai-Hai winter wheat area has begun large-scale harvesting. According to the Ministry of Agriculture's agricultural situation monitoring and experts' on-site investigations and analysis, if no large-scale disasters such as dry hot winds or lodging occur later, this year's summer grain is expected to again achieve a bumper harvest.
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Construction of the rural property rights trading market is proceeding in an orderly manner
The property rights system is a fundamental economic system. In the new stage of China's transition from traditional agriculture to modern agriculture, advancing the construction of the rural property rights trading market and accelerating the establishment of an important platform for allocating rural factor resources is an inevitable trend in modern agricultural development, and also
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The chaos of agricultural insurance premium rebates urgently needs to be addressed
In order to attract farmers to insure, some insurance companies have resorted to the tactic of premium rebates, promising insured farmers a rebate of 1 times or even 2 times the premium. If a disaster occurs, the "rebate" can be "honored" in the form of disaster loss compensation or even ex-gratia payment; if no disaster occurs, then
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China's First Agricultural Technology E-commerce Industrial Park Officially Launched
In order to better serve the vast rural areas, farmers, and agricultural product enterprises, and to promote and market the rich agricultural, forestry, and local specialty products of various regions, after more than a year of planning by Changsha Qinkun Bulk Agricultural Products Spot Electronic Trading Market Co., Ltd., China's first agricultural technology e-
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Why do organic vegetables remain so expensive?
For higher food production standards, are you willing to buy organic vegetables that cost three to five times more than ordinary vegetables? Because food safety problems keep appearing, all kinds of "organic vegetables," "pollution-free vegetables" and "green vegetables" have emerged. As soon as these vegetables "come
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Ministry of Agriculture Announcement: 41 Crop Varieties Ordered to Cease Production, Longping High-Tech Responds to Questions
According to a report by China National Radio's "News Horizon," last year, a large-scale reduction in grain yields occurred in Bengbu, Anhui, with some fields suffering total crop failure, drawing attention from the media and all sectors of society. Affected farmers accused Longping High-Tech of inconsistent resistance labeling on its rice seeds, alleging false advertising. A reporter conducted an on-site investigation.
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How to Ensure Orderly Transfer of Rural Land Contracted Management Rights
Along with the continuous advancement of industrialization, urbanization and agricultural modernization, the transfer of management rights of rural household contracted land in Qingcheng District has notably accelerated, and developing appropriately scaled operations has become an inevitable trend. Practice has proven that land transfer and appropriately scaled operations are the path
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What Happens to Farmers After Land Transfer? Orderly Transfer of Farmland Faces Practical Difficulties
At the end of 2014, the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council issued the "Opinions on Guiding the Orderly Transfer of Rural Land Management Rights and Developing Moderately Scaled Agricultural Operations" (hereinafter referred to as the "Opinions"), which, on the premise of upholding the household contract responsibility system without wavering, proposed guiding rural land
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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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