Fewer Anxieties for Farmers During the "Three Summer" Season

Went to the countryside over the weekend and struck up a conversation with the villagers about the“three summers”. They talked about how the wheat was growing, discussed production costs, and calculated the income they were about to receive, but what they talked about most was still their hopes and expectations for the“three summers”.

First, they hope agricultural machinery services will be timely. Nowadays, agricultural machinery, especially combine harvesters, plays a pivotal role in the“three summers”, but in past years there have often been situations where harvest was urgently needed yet no machinery could be found, and it was even more worrying when the weather was bad. So they hope relevant departments will coordinate all kinds of harvesting machinery well; hope agricultural machinery parts will be sent to the countryside, so that when machinery in operation breaks down, parts cannot be bought; and also hope to rectify“three summers” order, crack down on illegal acts such as extorting and blackmailing out-of-town machinery operators and driving up wheat harvest prices.

Second, they hope agricultural input services and agricultural technology extension can keep up in a timely manner. They hope agricultural input departments will increase the intensity of purchasing and selling agricultural inputs such as chemical fertilizers, seeds, and pesticides to meet farmers' needs; hope to increase the intensity of investigating and handling fake and inferior agricultural inputs; especially hope departments such as industry and commerce and quality supervision will go to the countryside to help farmers identify genuine and fake agricultural inputs; and also hope relevant departments, while promoting the planting of improved varieties, actively promote new types of agricultural machinery and do a good job in training on agricultural technology knowledge.

Regarding services, first, they hope to set up assistance teams to help some elderly, weak, sick, and disabled households lacking labor because young people have gone out to work rush to harvest and rush to plant; second, they hope to provide timely weather conditions, telling them to arrange farm work according to weather conditions, so as to avoid unnecessary losses caused by weather changes.

After returning from the village, I could not help but fall into deep thought. These“hopes” of farmers first reflect from one side their trust in the Party and the government and in cadres at all levels. The core of farmers'“hopes” is to hope cadres will be heart-to-heart with them, to hope cadres' services to them will not be interrupted; to hope grassroots cadres and scientific and technical personnel will go more deeply into the fields and into the hearts of the masses, take service as their purpose, help them offer ideas, think of ways, send technology, send information, help solve the actual problems encountered in“three summers” production, and serve as their guides and backing in developing the economy, becoming wealthy through labor, and striving for a moderately prosperous life.

In addition, these“hopes” of farmers precisely reflect the new requirements of the farmer masses for cadres at all levels, reflect that among the farmer masses there are still some urgent and difficult matters that need to be solved, some heartfelt words that need to be poured out, and some places where cadres need to send the care and warmth of the Party and the government. To put it bluntly, some of these“hopes” of farmers are new problems that have appeared in recent years, but some also belong to“long-held hopes” and“old hopes”, and may even in individual places once have been“empty hopes”. One can imagine, if all cadres could put themselves in farmers' shoes and sympathize with their difficulties, promptly formulate and implement practical and feasible measures, and help farmers solve the problems they face, would they still have“long-held hopes”,“old hopes”, and“empty hopes”?

Through effort, farmers should be made to“hope” a little less; and even more, it is hoped that through effort, farmers will no longer have“hopes”.