There are fewer and fewer farmers who farm the land, what if there is no one to farm?

In the past, land was the lifeblood of farmers, and there was not enough land contracted by their own families to plant, and many people even reclaimed wasteland to plant. But now, more and more fields are barren, and some people are worried that there are fewer and fewer farmers who farm the land, and what will happen if there is no one to farm in the future?

Actually, this worry is completely unnecessary! There are three reasons for this:

If there is really no one to farm, the price of food will skyrocket

An important reason why there are fewer and fewer farmers farming now is that there is less money to be made from farming. If in the end, there is really no one to grow food, and there is a shortage of food, then the price of food will definitely be **, driven by interests, there will definitely be many people rushing to grow food. So, don't worry that no one grows food, the market will regulate.

Modern agriculture is not the agriculture of the past

In the past, farming relied on manual labor, and everyone was facing the loess with their backs to the sky, getting up early and busy with farm work. But today's agriculture is not the agriculture of the past, many things no longer need to be done manually, now there are cultivators for cultivated land, sprayers for spraying, and harvest......ers for crop harvestingMachinery can completely replace part of the labor force, so it is not needed as much labor as before. From this point of view, it is normal for the agricultural population to decrease and the number of people who farm the land to become fewer and fewer.

The State has taken corresponding measures

Although it is normal to say that the agricultural population is declining, the key to agricultural modernization lies in science and technology and qualified personnel. To develop modern agriculture, China needs new farmers who are educated, understand technology, and know how to operate. According to the development goals proposed in the "13th Five-Year Plan" National Plan for the Cultivation and Development of New Professional Farmers, the total number of new professional farmers in the country will exceed 20 million by 2020.

Modern agriculture is not the agriculture of the past, modern agriculture is a high-tech agriculture, not facing the loess with its back to the sky, it is mechanized, electrified, and intelligent agriculture" Recently, the 2020 Chinese Farmers' Harvest Festival Golden Autumn Consumption Season was launched in Beijing, and Academician Yuan Longping affectionately called on more "post-90s" young people to devote themselves to agriculture.

The state is also carrying out training for new-type professional farmers in various localities, and it is believed that in the future, more professional young farmers with knowledge, education, management, and management ability will go to the rural areas. We will also find that more and more people around us are now engaged in agricultural development and rooted in rural areas.

Tuliu Classroom: What is a "New Professional Farmer?" How are they different from the farmers of the past?

According to the definition of the Ministry of Agriculture, a new type of professional farmer is a modern agricultural practitioner who takes agriculture as his profession, has corresponding professional skills, and whose income mainly comes from agricultural production and operation and has reached a considerable level.

In the traditional impression, farmers usually have low education, dress modestly, and work hard in the fields, but these "farmers" are different, they are not passive farmers, but actively choose the "profession" of farmers. They not only have the steadfastness and diligence of traditional farmers, but also have the ability to operate, and at the same time master advanced agricultural technology. Successful new farmers can not only make money themselves, but also bring people in their hometowns to make money together.

In the past, farmers farmed because of the problem of food and clothing, but now the grain for farming is low and low, and the cost of fertilizers, pesticides, seeds, and agricultural machinery is too high, resulting in young and strong people who hate to work too tired, so they simply pour into the city. Therefore, it is necessary to adapt measures to local conditions, select high-level talents, and help rural areas to farm scientifically according to local ecological conditions, production conditions, and economic conditions.

If no one farms the land, the relevant departments will make adjustments and actively guide farmers to carry out scientific planting and vigorously develop scientific planting.

Mechanized harvesting is now an irreversible trend, and not only that, but this method of sowing is more efficient.

Isn't it good for others to farm the land and we engage in industry?

If there is no one in the rural areas in the future, the first can restore the natural environment, the second is conducive to the development of biodiversity, and the third is to reduce the incidence of poverty. And then what? There is such a casual atmosphere in the countryside, but what about the people who live in the cities?

Let's start with why people are going to the city now. When people go to high places, water flows to the bottom, which is an ancient precept and nature, and it is also the survival instinct of human nature. Everyone loves a nice, cozy, soft, bright environment.

It can only be said that the proportion of young people in rural areas will decrease, and the aging population will increase, resulting in an uncoordinated proportion of rural population, resulting in a lot of rural land barrenness, but "existence is reasonable", many enterprises or national policies have also seen that many young and middle-aged people in rural areas have chosen to go out to work because they have no income from farming, and even do not come back for many years, which leads to a lot of abandoned land in rural areas. In response to this phenomenon, the first policy was introduced to set up agricultural cooperatives in rural areas, and the agricultural products were too low and there was no profit. Of all the industries, I think only agriculture has the lowest input-output ratio. And agriculture faces more risks than other industries, it is not only exposed to market risks, but also to natural risks, etc.

In another ten years, there will still be people farming in the countryside, but at that time, they have all been mechanized, and they do not rely on manual labor as before, and even if it is another 20 years, the fields in the countryside will not be wasted. Nowadays, peasants can not only receive grain subsidies for growing grain.

Large-scale planting of fields is imperative, and in the future, perhaps only one person will need to contract the cultivation of all the fields in a village or even several villages. Because the scale is easy to manage, it is also convenient to plant all kinds of cash crops, which is conducive to improving economic benefits and increasing income.

It is impossible for such a problem to arise, if one day there is really no one to plough the land, then the state will also solve it, as long as the peasants are given corresponding benefits, there will definitely be people to plough the land.

There should be no such situation, because many farmers simply can't leave their hometowns, and they don't have too good skills, so they can only farm.

In the future, all this cultivated land will be collected and distributed to one person, and the efficiency will be faster.

It's okay to start a business because there is a shortage of talent in many industries right now. So there are still very big business opportunities.

These are not things that need to be considered, because the state has already thought of them, so it will strengthen various preferential treatment for rural areas and stimulate people's desire to farm.

There may still be some people who will contract these lands and carry out some mechanized operations, and there will still be a lot of food.

Hello and welcome to this issue. In rural areas, in previous years, most farmers would rely on farming to make a living. Nowadays, the speed of rural development is getting faster and faster, so more and more farmers have given up farming and choose to go out to work or start a business at home.

For today's farmers, no matter what occupation they change, they don't want to farm at home. As for the reason, I believe everyone knows that the cost of farming is getting higher and higher, but the quality of grain has been declining. Now the profit of one acre of land is only a few hundred yuan, which has led to many farmers who have worked hard for a year to farm land, but in the end they cannot make any money.

Although it is right for people to want to improve their quality of life, so they will give up farming. But now that there are fewer and fewer people farming in the countryside, what will the farmers do if there is a famine?

First of all, in addition to the low yield of farming, there are now more and more young farmers to replace the older generation of farmers. And those young farmers are more avant-garde than the older generation of farmers, whether it is the Internet or other emerging industries, these young farmers also know about it. So these young farmers know that farming is not the only way out for farmers.

Even if the harvest is not low, these young farmers want to try some new industries for themselves instead of following the path of the older generation.

In addition, there is a big gap between the current ecological environment and that of previous years, which leads to the fact that the harvest of farmers cannot be guaranteed. In some areas, there is no rain all year round and there is a very dry situation, which makes the harvest of many crops very unsatisfactory. In addition, there have been drought accidents, and there are many natural disasters, so it is not an exaggeration to say that farmers are "relying on the sky for food" when farming.

Then the above three problems are the reasons that prompt more and more farmers to give up farming. Although the abandonment of farming by farmers can bring some improvement to their lives, there are fewer and fewer people who farm, will we usher in famine? In fact, everyone can rest assured on this issue.

As early as a few years ago, the state has put forward the idea of transferring rural areas to urbanization, and these idle lands that are not planted will be transferred or contracted to other large planters in various ways. And these large planters will be able to achieve the work of planting hundreds or even thousands of acres of land by one person, so farmers do not have to worry about the problem of insufficient food. That's the end of this issue.

Because most of the young people in the countryside have moved to the cities. The old people in the countryside have no strength. Moreover, the current policy is to return farmland to forests.

Because the current situation has changed, the scale of farming is a trend, and the disadvantages of individual farming have begun to become prominent, so there are fewer and fewer people farming in rural areas.

Today's farmers don't want to farm, mainly because young people have gone out to work, and the older ones can't do it or don't have time to do it, and farming is risky.

I am a child of a farmer who has caught the tail of the post-80s, and from elementary school to high school, I am all too familiar with farm work such as planting fields, harvesting rice, removing rice, drying rice, and harvesting scarecrows. In a word, it's too tiring to do farm work.

Reason 1: Young adults don't want to farm

For example, in our village, when I was still in high school, there were still quite a lot of young people coming in and out of the village. However, every time I go back to my hometown now, I see old people and children, and there are not many strong men. Like us, those who have education stay in the city to work, and those who don't have much education go out to work, not to mention others, I myself feel very tired from doing farm work, and I have no money.

For example, we earn only 1 to 2,000 yuan a year from working on one-third of an acre of land to grow crops, which is not enough to cover the 1,000 yuan a month of work. Therefore, as long as there are young adults who want to make money and save money, they don't want to do farm work, but choose to work.

Reason 2: Older farmers can't do it anymore

There are two meanings here. The first aspect means that you are really old, and you have more than enough heart and not enough strength. My village is in his sixties like my father, and I see that they are very lazy in farm work, because they are no longer in the prime of life.

Therefore, the years do not spare people, who does the sky forgive. The second aspect is that you need to make time to help take care of your grandchildren, and you don't have time to do farm work. Once when I went back to the village, I saw my neighbor's aunt nursing green onions on the balcony, and I asked her, isn't there a piece of land not far from your house, isn't it better to plant it there?

She said that because she had to help watch the children, she couldn't go further to plant seeds, so she had to work at home. Today's children are more precious, and parents of our generation have higher requirements for their children's education and care, so the elderly have to spend more time taking care of their children.

Reason 3: Farming is risky

My family's farmland has been contracted to the bosses of other villages. In recent years, every time I go to the countryside, I see that the farmland in many villages is intensively planted, and people who can afford to contract or transfer the farmers' land to grow fruits, sugarcane, and bananas on a large scale. But this is sometimes good and sometimes bad, depending on the sky to eat.

If you encounter good weather and ** good, you can do it, but if you encounter a bad situation, you will lose a lot of money. I've seen sugarcane frozen to death in several places, and I've seen growers who would rather rot their bananas in the ground than sell them because they're too low. Therefore, farming also has risks, and it may be hit without motivation and confidence.

In short, there are very few people willing to farm in the countryside, and the main reason is that they cannot make a fortune by farming. In the current environment, the cost of living and education is much higher, and it is naturally impossible to maintain a family's normal life by farming, even if they are now exempt from taxes or have agricultural subsidies.

Because most of the farmers now invest a lot of time, energy and other costs in farming, but the final income is very small, and even there will be a loss of money, so many farmers would rather choose to work than farm.

The fact that there are fewer and fewer peasants not only reflects the development of China's economy, but also reflects that China's agriculture is gradually moving toward mechanization, scale, and concretization. Like the developed countries in the West, they have very few farmers. Therefore, I personally feel that the fact that fewer and fewer peasants will not cause a decrease in China's total grain output, but will be a manifestation of China's social progress.

I think it is a good thing for the rural areas with a relatively high level of mechanization, mechanization instead of traditional intensive farming, but will make the planting effect better. Because this is more convenient, scientific and technological agricultural planting.