Should we raise the threshold for farmers?

Recently, Shaanxi Province has awarded the second batch of 182 people a “new type of professional peasants” qualification certificate, which has aroused widespread concern in the society. Some praisers believe that this is an effective measure to improve the social status of the peasants; there are also critics who believe that it is not time to set a threshold for the peasants, nor should they use it to engage in the transfer of interests.

It is quite normal to treat a new thing. The problem is that there are still many misunderstandings and misunderstandings in the society's understanding of agriculture and new professional farmers. If we do not get agreement from the understanding, the cultivation environment for the new professional farmers will be difficult to form.

First of all, we must fully understand the irreplaceable significance of cultivating new professional farmers. Old talk, but I can't talk about it. With the shift of rural young and middle-aged labor forces to cities and towns, the trend of aging and empty shells in rural areas has intensified. The outstanding performance of agriculture is the reduction of land reclamation, the reduction of the multiple cropping index, the decline in the contribution rate of farmers' agricultural products, and the imperfections in the promotion of agricultural science and technology. In order to meet the growing demand for agricultural products, plundering high output in some areas, and more areas due to the lack of ability of the elderly and the lack of succession of agricultural laborers led to extensive operations. It is against this background that "who will plant the land in the future?" has become a common concern of the government and society.

The proposal of a new type of professional farmer is a strategic choice to solve the problem of "who will plant the land in the future." Old peasants, traditional peasants and concurrent peasants are hard to act as modern agricultural subjects. In addition, new agricultural technologies, new varieties, new forms of organization, and outstanding agricultural culture will leave the new professional farmers as castles in the air.

Second, talk about agricultural qualification access system. New-type professional farmers bear more social responsibilities than traditional farmers. For example, traditional farmers only need to be responsible for the family. New-type professional farmers are responsible for consumers, responsible for ecology, responsible for land, and responsible for future generations. Today, with extremely strong means of destruction, there is no stable special group responsible for the sustainable construction and protection of cultivated land and the environment. The consequences are inconceivable. We cannot use traditional agricultural thinking to understand today's agriculture and peasants. Consumers need the safety of agricultural products, and society needs to protect the ecological environment. Humans need contemporary people to leave a sustainable land for future generations. These responsibilities cannot be borne by old farmers or short-term industrial and commercial capital, but they are given to new types of professional farmers. New responsibility. It can be said that today's peasants, especially market-oriented peasants who undertake large-scale operations, have more social responsibilities than other groups. Therefore, it is very important to care for them and provide a suitable social environment for their growth, and to identify their social status and the effectiveness of government support. Farmers in the future will not only have certificates and thresholds, but will also be getting higher and higher with the development of science and technology and the expansion of their responsibilities.

No one can be a peasant in a traditional society, and a peasant in a modern society must have conditions. This is determined by the characteristics of today’s society. There is an urgent need to implement the qualification access system for large-scale agriculture, which is what people often say “not everyone can be a peasant”. An important condition for the admission system for agricultural qualifications is to qualify as a new professional farmer. By defining new types of professional farmers, it not only provides qualifications for business entities for land transfer and scale operations, but also provides accurate targets for government support for agriculture. The current use of funds for supporting agriculture is mainly affected by the ambiguous influence of the supporting entities. Some people who do not have the ability and willingness to operate agriculture use various kinds of titles to draw funds for supporting agriculture. Some of the benefits of agricultural projects are often limited because the main body of agricultural operations is unclear. Its benefits come into play.