Cultivation of new professional farmers: good policy but difficult implementation

[China Agricultural Machinery Industry News] In recent years, the cultivation of new professional farmers has always been a major strategic issue concerning the development of agriculture, rural areas and farmers. In 2016, the state increased its support for the cultivation of new professional farmers. The central government invested 1.39 billion yuan to ensure the completion of 1 million new professional farmers' cultivation tasks. The scope of the training project was further expanded to 8 provinces and 30 cities across the country. 800 demonstration counties (including 100 modern agricultural demonstration zones).

Cultivation of new professional farmers: good policy but difficult implementation

"The new farmer cultivation project is an important way to cultivate agricultural practical talents in China. The new type of professional farmers is the main force for the development of new agricultural management systems. The new farmers are mainly divided into production and management, professional skills and social services. The training of agricultural machine operators is mainly to cultivate social service talents, which is equivalent to the 'blue collar' in modern agriculture. It is the backbone of large-scale operation in the future." Liu Yunze, director of the Science and Technology Education Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Agricultural Mechanization Management, said .

The "Notice of the General Office of the Ministry of Finance of the Ministry of Agriculture on Doing a Good Job in the Cultivation of New Type of Professional Peasants in 2016" clearly states that, in accordance with the strategic requirements of "promoting agriculture through science and education, empowering farmers, and building new farmers", "Government-led, respecting the wishes of farmers, based on industrial cultivation, highlighting the key principles of cultivation", taking "demand-oriented, innovative management mechanism, and strengthening cultivation" as the goal, "serving the development of modern agricultural industry and promoting the professionalization of agricultural practitioners" "Oriented, focus on cultivating a large number of new professional farmers who have culture, technology and management.

"The national policy is good. Every year, the overall deployment will be done from top to bottom, but it is still difficult to implement it in each county." A staff member of the Shandong Provincial Agricultural Machinery Bureau told the reporter, "Current agricultural hand training There are three main problems: First, insufficient funds. Although the state has increased investment in the cultivation of new farmers, it has been subdivided into various fields of agriculture, especially the training of agricultural machinery. There is no additional funds to update teachers. It is systematically poor. Now, in addition to the regular training organized by local agricultural machinery bureaus, many companies organize training for their own products, and some cooperatives train their own members according to their own operations. However, there is no contact between the farmers. Which should be attended, sometimes the training content will be repeated; third, the training feedback is not rigorous. The training situation will be reported every year, but only the total number of trainees and the number of people who obtained the driver's license are counted. The quality and content of the training are not reflected. Detailed report of the system."

"It is difficult to engage in training now, and the participation of farmers is not high. Most of the agricultural machinery departments are training in agricultural machinery operation and agricultural machinery safety. These written and difficult-to-understand knowledge do not like to listen to farmers. At that time, free training classes can't be reported, and we have to call around to recruit cooperatives. Some farmers simply take a master to bring them, or they can find out on the machine and do not receive training at all. The staff of the Science and Education Department of Anhui Agricultural Machinery Bureau is full of helplessness.

(Original title: Cultivation of new professional farmers: realistic planning is very "full" and there are "pain points")