The development of agricultural intensification has become an irresistible trend

Establishing a new model of agricultural production means using market-based means to build intensive agricultural production cooperative organizations on a voluntary basis, so that agricultural production embarks on a path of quasi-industrialization and technologization.

The large-scale development of urbanization and townization has led to hollowing out and aging in some rural areas. Especially after large numbers of young and middle-aged rural people went to cities to work and even settle down, farmland in some areas has been left uncultivated, and who will farm the land has become a prominent problem.

In fact, behind this problem lies an unavoidable issue: the income from agricultural production remains low. Therefore, to answer this question, it is necessary to greatly raise the level of labor productivity in agricultural production and make agriculture an attractive industry. The biggest problem in China's agricultural production is that the level of farming technology is not high and its production efficiency is very low. To solve this problem, it is necessary to reform the current forms of agricultural organization, and agriculture must embark on the path of intensive development, thereby liberating farmers and raising agricultural labor productivity.

At present, China's rural areas generally implement the household-based land contract system, which effectively raised labor productivity in the early period of reform and opening up. However, the fact that land in some areas is now left uncultivated is precisely caused by land contractors no longer being willing to farm after going to cities or engaging in other industries, and by institutional constraints that make land transfer difficult. To solve this problem, it is necessary to establish a new model of agricultural production, which uses market-based means to build intensive agricultural production cooperative organizations on a voluntary basis, so that agricultural production embarks on a path of quasi-industrialization and technologization.

Recently, the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council issued the Opinions on Improving the Measures for Separating the Ownership Right, Contract Right and Management Right of Rural Land. This is another major institutional innovation in agricultural reform after the household contract responsibility system, and it provides institutional guarantees for intensive agricultural operation. According to the opinions of the two offices, after the reform of "separation of three rights" is implemented, a model in which "farmland is owned by farmers and farmland is used for agriculture" will be established. Farmers who go to cities or engage in other industries can rent out or transfer their contracted land to others, thereby invigorating land management rights and enabling the optimal allocation of land resources. Through this intensive model, agricultural science and technology and agricultural mechanization can be widely applied, and agricultural labor productivity can be greatly raised, thus making agricultural production and operation an industry attractive to both employees and entrepreneurs.

In developed countries and regions such as Europe and the United States, the intensive development of agriculture has long been achieved on a large scale. In these countries, farmers have become agricultural workers, and China's agricultural development must also take this path. Through such reform, the question of who will farm the land will have a reassuring answer. In the future, Chinese farmers will no longer have the traditional image of facing the yellow earth with their backs to the sky, covered in mud and sweat; instead, they will be modern agricultural entrepreneurs who are knowledgeable, skilled, capable of management and market-savvy.