In the rural areas, why do some old peasants in their seventies and eighties still work in the field

Friends who are familiar with rural areas should know that in fact, the permanent population in rural areas in recent years is far from so much, only about 400 million people, and most of them are "3861" troops, that is, most of them are old, young, women and children.

Then, the remaining total is about 300 million, and almost all of the rural population is young and middle-aged laborers, who are in a state of going out to work all year round!

Why don't these farmers farm at home? What is the reason for this? Today we will talk about it in detail!

Grain ** has not risen for a long time, and even falls, wheat, rice, corn and soybeans without exception!

The cost of planting is getting higher and higher, and the cost of gasoline, land rent, and labor is the same every year. The yield per mu can not be guaranteed, the yield is good and bad, and the plot that can produce 1,000 catties last year may only be 500 catties this year.

In this case, it is very normal for farmers to weaken their enthusiasm for planting, and more and more rural laborers are willing to go to the city to work, not because they don't want to work in their hometowns, but because it is too difficult to farm at home.

Corn in many areas of North China and Northeast China can be sold for two cents per catty, but now a few years have passed, and this year's corn is only about nine cents per catty, a drop of one-third. For example, soybeans in Northeast China, wheat in Henan, and rice in Hunan are almost the same, and the market is not rising but falling.

On the other hand, due to the overall increase in social prices, the cost of planting, mainly gasoline fuel, land transfer rent, and human resource input, is increasing. It only costs 50 yuan a day to hire a helper during the busy farming season, and in the past two years, if it is less than 150 yuan a day, there is no need to talk about ......The peasants' enthusiasm for growing grain is not very strong, and this situation will become more serious in the future.

The reason behind it is actually very simple, that is, it is too hard, it is not profitable, and "the income is not proportional to the investment". With the same time cost investment, if you go to the city to work, you can get two or three thousand yuan a month.

It is better to work outside for a month or two after working hard at home for a year.

It has become an embarrassment faced by the majority of young and middle-aged laborers in rural areas. If it were me, my first choice would probably be to leave my hometown and work in the city to make a lot of money! Although this will inevitably cause the elderly, lovers and children at home to become "left-behind people", but under economic pressure, who doesn't want to earn more money to support them.

Because they have been planting the land all their lives, they can't be idle for two years, and they always want to find something to do, so they are still planting, but most of them don't plant much, and most of them just want to eat for themselves.

Personally, I think it's because these elderly people don't have pensions and social security, so at this age, they still need to work in the fields to make ends meet.

Because they are used to working, they will be very uncomfortable if they don't work, and they also need to make ends meet in this way.

Because the elderly have become accustomed to farming and regard it as exercise, they will still work when they are old.

People in their sixties and seventies in rural areas do not choose to work in the fields because they have no money. It's because the elderly at this age want to exercise their bodies in this way.

We will find that there are many people in their sixties and seventies in the countryside, who do not seem to be in particularly good physical condition. However, they still choose to do farm work in the fields, which can make us feel uncomfortable inside. It may even be thought that this kind of old man chooses to work in the field because he has no money.

And not because there is no money.

But in fact, these rural elders are not because they have no money. Because after the elderly in rural areas reach the age of sixty or seventy, they will not only have relative pension insurance. And they will also have their own children, and the children will also choose to support themselves by paying child support.

Therefore, in rural areas, in addition to their own savings, the elderly in their sixties and seventies generally have economic **. So there is no such thing as a lack of money. <>

Exercise your body this way.

It is because these rural elderly people generally belong to the state of retirement after reaching the age of sixty or seventy. Therefore, when there is no work to be busy, it will make these rural elderly feel particularly bored. They even want to change their living conditions in some ways, so these rural elderly people generally choose to do farm work in the fields.

Make your life more fulfilling, and you can also feel happier in the process of doing farm work. <>

Sixty or seventy-year-old people have a certain affection for the land.

Although for young people, choosing to farm does not allow them to earn a better income. But for the elderly in their sixties and seventies, when they are young, it is through the land that they can have a state of food and clothing. Therefore, when I am young in my sixties and seventies, I still have a deep affection for the land.

I even feel that when I am busy on the land, I will have a more down-to-earth feeling.

Of course not. It is also a way for them to seek self-fulfillment. Although he is not young, he can still take care of himself and be self-reliant.

It's because there is no money. Because the elderly in their sixties and seventies in rural areas do not have a retirement salary, they will not be able to secure their livelihood if they do not go to the fields to do farm work.

Yes, there are also some people who have developed the habit of working, so they will continue to work.

Many people in their sixties and seventies in rural areas still choose to work in the fields, in fact, lack of money is only one of the reasons, for these farmers, most of them do not have a pension, so even at such an age, they still have to work in the fields, in order to earn some money to subsidize their lives. Of course, it is not all because of this reason, in addition to the lack of money, there are mainly the following reasons. <>

As rural elders in their sixties and seventies, even if they want to go to the city to work, no one will want them. First of all, one reason is that because their age is too big, and they have already reached the age of retirement, some units or enterprises in the city will not recruit these elderly people to work at all. Secondly, these old people don't have many skills, and they can't do anything other than farming, so they can only go back to the countryside to farm.

I have to say that the pressure on young people's lives is indeed very great, and many young people in rural areas will choose to buy houses in the city, and even many of them take out loans to buy houses, so the pressure to repay the loan is very great. In this case, these old people in the countryside naturally want to help their children relieve the pressure of life through their own efforts, so even if they are very old, they will still choose to work in the field, so that they can at least earn some money, even if there is no extra money for the children, but at least there is no need to care about the children's living expenses. <>

As we have said above, many young people in rural areas will go out to work, if these old people do not work in the fields, then these land in the countryside will definitely be wasted, and as a lifetime of rural people who rely on the land to eat, they naturally do not want to see this phenomenon, so they will still insist on working in the fields.

No, it's because of the old people in their sixties and seventies, who don't have anything else to do, and most of them are farmers, and they don't have a pension, and they can use it to supplement their livelihood if they farm.

Not! Because in rural areas, every household has a field, and many elderly people who are still strong will choose to grow some vegetables and fruits, which can be eaten by themselves or sold in the market, which can not only pass the time but also subsidize the family.

I don't think so, it's because the old people are reluctant to let the ground go blind, they can't be idle, they are used to working.

What do you think about the fact that people in their sixties and seventies in rural areas still work in the fields? Talking about my personal opinion, people in their sixties and seventies are in the countryside, in good health, and there are indeed people who work in the fields, but there are not many of them. The analysis of the situation is approximately:

people who can't be idle; complement family life; People who make a living from farming.

Elderly people in rural areas who can't stay idle. People in their sixties and seventies in rural areas, who are healthy, do not mean that they are old, and some of them really cannot be called old, and there are even older parents! These peasants in their sixties and seventies have become accustomed to working all their lives, so they cannot be idle, and they are only willing to touch something and feel energetic.

It's not that his children ask him not to do it. Brother Zhang in the neighborhood is such an old man, with children and grandchildren, and there is no need for old people to work in the field, but he does not listen to persuasion, and always carries an iron shovel or iron melon seeds to find work in the field. Find a piece of grass or this seal or add a boundary or repair a ditch or something.

Let him go! > there is not so much work to do in the actual field, and the degree of mechanized operation is high, watering the ground and weeding, this work is not done every day. Today's farming activities are different from those of the past, and handmade furniture, hoes, and rakes are basically gone. What are you doing in the fields?

Partly due to family conditions, the elderly also went to work in the fields, and finally made some additions to the family. Now there is a matter of land circulation and part-time work. Some farmers in their sixties and seventies are more conservative in their thinking, and they feel that it is not cost-effective to transfer the land, and they can still do it themselves.

These peasants, who are reluctant to transfer their land, the young people have gone out to work and do other things, and the old people are running their own land. It's not necessarily that life is unbearable, mainly because the elderly are willing to farm. It is indeed more affordable than circulating it and harvesting it.

There is no choice, agriculture is the mainstay, and farming is the only or main livelihood. This group of people is mainly the elderly who have no children and no daughters in rural areas, and the elderly who are single. If the people in the city retire at the age of sixty, there is nothing to do.

Rural people do not have the concept of retirement, and those who are in good health at the age of sixty or seventy still have to work until they can no longer work.

Some people have said that since the implementation of the "Social Pension Insurance for Urban and Rural Residents" policy around 2010, the elderly over 60 years old in rural areas have also had a "basic pension subsidy". Yes, but that was only 55 yuan per month at that time, and later with the increase in the pension of urban workers, the annual range was about 5% 6%, because the base of the basic pension of farmers was low, and it could not rise a few dollars a year.

On our side, it only reached 108 yuan per month last year. The 108 yuan, in the current living and consumption environment, can be imagined, it is not possible at all. Therefore, these old people in their sixties and seventies, or even older, as long as they are able to move, must continue to "fight"!

After all, what you cultivate yourself is slightly more than the income you earn from it. However, the elderly, who are too old or unable to cultivate due to physical reasons, have to hand over their land to the village collective, or transfer it to the contractor. Recommended by the village committee to live in township and county nursing homes.

These are the reasons why I know why people in their sixties and seventies are still working in the fields. If the analysis is incomplete, welcome friends to communicate!

This is a very normal thing in the countryside and a commonplace thing. This is because for the elderly in their sixties and seventies in rural areas, they have no retirement to speak of, they are living to old age, and as long as they can work and work, they are unwilling to stop.

is particularly pitiful, which shows that children are not angry in life, which will make their parents so tired. When you are 60 or 70 years old, you should enjoy yourself at home.

I think farmers are the most pitiful, they have worked very hard all their lives, but when they are old, they are still old and have nothing to rely on, because they have no retirement salary, so they need to work.

This makes me feel very cold. At this age, you should take your parents into your home and enjoy them, and don't let them suffer anymore. It's hard to think about.

Seventy or eighty-year-olds do this because they simply can't be idle and enjoy the satisfaction of their labor. Although they can receive a pension every month and their children will give some money, the elderly always want to earn some money by their own labor, such as farming and vegetables, and going to the street to exchange money. Such an old man is very admirable, very good, and can bring a good influence to his children and the third generation.

The elderly in the countryside have been doing farm work all their lives, so their bodies are relatively tough, and they will not suffer from major diseases at all. And they will not plant a lot of fields or land, but only one acre of fields or a few acres of vegetable fields, so that the harvest of grain is enough for their own food, and there will be some surplus. After that, they will go to the street to sell something, and they will be able to get some remuneration, even if it is only a few yuan or a dozen yuan, it will make the old man very happy.

Therefore, this money is earned by oneself, not by the state, nor by the children, but by one's own efforts. Presumably, many young people know that earning money is a very happy thing, especially when they use their own money to buy things for their parents. And the elderly think the same way, and will buy some snacks for their children or let their grandchildren eat after earning money.

In addition to the above reason, there is actually another reason that is very cruel, that is, the children of the elderly do not care about the elderly at all. And the monthly pension is relatively small, and it may be that only one or two hundred yuan is not enough to maintain life. The old couple will support each other to do some odd jobs, and will also cook some sweets and vegetables, in exchange for some pocket money.

After all, the old couple doesn't want to have trouble with their children, and they want to rely on their children when they are sick. The old couple must also think that the pressure on their children is heavier, and they have to raise their children, so they don't have time to take care of the two of them.

I also hope that all children can spend more time with their parents, don't let their parents do heavy work anymore, take more rest, and enjoy old age.