Vigorously cultivate new professional farmers to solve the problem of "hollowing" in rural areas

[ China Agricultural Machinery Industry News ] With the large transfer of rural labor to the secondary and tertiary industries and the “unfamiliarity” of the new generation of migrant workers on the land, the left-behind agricultural population presents a relatively insufficient total amount, low overall quality, and unreasonable structure. problem. However, the new professional farmers will be engaged in agriculture as a fixed or even life-long occupation, and they are true agricultural heirs. Cultivating new professional farmers not only solves the practical problem of “who will plant the land”, but also solves the deep problem of “how to plant the land”.

Vigorously cultivate new professional farmers to solve the problem of "hollowing" in rural areas

Recently, at the National New Professional Farmers' Cultivation Work Promotion Conference held in Taiyuan, Liao Xiyuan, Director of the Science and Technology Education Department of the Ministry of Agriculture, said that this year, more than 1 million new professional farmers will be cultivated nationwide.

According to reports, since 2012, through the implementation of the new professional peasant cultivation project, the country has cultivated more than 4 million new types of professional peasants, mostly becoming the leaders and backbones of new agricultural business entities such as family farms, farmer cooperatives and agricultural enterprises.

Liao Xiyuan said that at present, the number of new professional peasants in the country exceeds 14 million. A large number of new professional peasants with culture, technology and management will become the leading force in modern agricultural construction. This year, the central government will invest 1.5 billion yuan to implement The modern youth farmer training plan, the new agricultural business subject leader rotation training program, and the rural practical talent leader training program will cultivate more than 1 million new professional farmers throughout the year.

With the rapid advancement of China's industrialization and urbanization, more and more farmers have chosen to work in cities, resulting in a significant reduction in the number of rural laborers, and the phenomenon of “hollowing” in rural areas is very common. "I don't want to plant land after 70, I don't want to plant land after 80, and I don't talk about planting land after 90" has become an extremely realistic problem.

“Who is planting land in the future, how to plant land?” has become an urgent problem to be solved, and accelerating the cultivation of a new type of professional peasant team is a key to solving the problem of “who will plant land”.