By Taosheng Yijiu

Russia opens up land leases, hoping to get Chinese farmers to grow crops. Farmers: You still want us to take a loss?

Land leasing is a good measure for developing agriculture. As for Russia, this country has a large amount of abandoned land, and the land is very fertile, yet there has always been no one to grow crops on it. This is actually related to a certain extent to Russia's population distribution.

In September 2018, Russia issued an announcement, or more precisely, a measure that had already been implemented: the Russian government would consolidate and divide agricultural land in the Far East region, and then lease out the land, which in fact meant leasing it to Chinese farmers. This could develop agriculture and promote local economic development, and at the same time allow Chinese farmers to profit, so it could be called a win-win measure.

However, what is surprising is that Chinese farmers are not that interested in this, because many large-scale farming households said that they had already been burned once, so who would still believe their words? What exactly happened that made Chinese farmers completely uninterested in this?

It turns out that before this opening up of the Far East region, Russia's Amur River region had already been opened up once. At that time, many Chinese farmers, seeing the large amount of fertile land and the very cheap prices, threw themselves into this land one after another. For a time, a large number of Chinese farmers appeared in this region. In this area, the crops grown most were vegetables and soybeans, and soon, relying on the diligence and wisdom of the Chinese farmers, the local farmers' output was surpassed.

A set of data from 2010 showed that the output of vegetables and grain grown by farmers from our country had reached about 90% of the total output of the Far East region. This result was very eye-catching, but it was also very glaring, which made the local Russians find it hard to accept. Their explanation was that the various pesticides and chemical fertilizers used by Chinese farmers had seriously polluted the land, and this was something that was not allowed to happen. The local government's measure was also very distinctive: directly forced demolition, which made many Chinese farmers lose a lot of money.

This time of being burned made Chinese farmers vigilant. The story of "the wolf is coming" only needs to happen once; we will not believe it a second time. Don't you agree?

This article comes from the internet. If there is any infringement, please contact us for deletion.