As for the market price of American corn, the price is basically in the range of 1100-1400 yuan per ton, which is 600-800 yuan per ton lower than in our country!

Science Xingnong, looking across the views of friends on the market price of American corn, quite a few friends believe that the reason the price of American corn is low is that American agricultural subsidies are large and because its corn is genetically modified. Some netizens even believe that banning corn imports from the United States could raise the price of our country's corn, protect farmers' interests, and promote substantial development of our country's agriculture. Science Xingnong wants to say that such a way of thinking clearly fails to recognize the root of the problem, and even if such a solution were implemented, it obviously could not achieve results.

In a previous article, Science Xingnong once offered an interpretation of China's high grain prices. Among them, the most critical point is that the smallholder economy left over from history has caused today's high grain prices. Some friends may not understand this, so let Science Xingnong ramble on about it below.

The introduction of the household contract responsibility system greatly aroused farmers' enthusiasm for planting and also solved the food and clothing problem of our country's people. It allowed our country to move from a state of semi-self-sufficiency in grain to complete self-sufficiency, and it can fully safeguard our country's food security. This is tremendous progress.

When the relations of production adapt to the productive forces, they promote economic development. Under the circumstances at that time, this could be said to be very suitable. However, as the economy has developed to today, the productive forces and the relations of production no longer match so well. This is because the productive forces are constantly developing while the relations of production remain as they were in the past.

For example, in the past, in the era of ox plowing, each farming household could plant only a few mu of land, while today, with mechanized production, one person can cultivate dozens or hundreds of mu! Today, the cost of human labor is the highest, and with the implementation of mechanization, the production cost of the latter is naturally very low.

However, to this day, agricultural planting in the vast rural areas of our country is still a cultivation model of a few mu of land per household. This smallholder economic cultivation model makes mechanized farming very difficult to implement, and in this respect it truly cannot compare with the United States.

Another major problem is that after the land was divided among farming households, the price of renting land from farming households today is very high. In this respect, it is in fact also closely related to our country's large population base. In the United States, for instance, the population is very small to begin with, and land per capita is relatively large. The total farming population in the United States is more than 2.2 million, while our country has 800 million farmers. It can be said that one American family has a farm, while in China, under the current situation, that is obviously really unrealistic.

The high cost of land has also directly caused the current situation of relatively high prices for our country's agricultural products. One cannot help but sigh: with so many people, the people of our country must bear the cost of high prices! Whether you admit it or not, this is the current production reality of our country's agriculture.

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