Analysis: Four obstacles that hinder the reform of the supply side of agriculture

[ China Agricultural Machinery Industry News ] The reporter went deep into interviews with several major agricultural provinces to learn about the quality of the agricultural supply system from the reform of the corn storage system and the reform of the rural land system to digesting inventories, filling short-boards and reducing costs. And the efficiency is constantly improving, and it is generally affirmed and welcomed at the grassroots level. However, there are also some agricultural cadres and new business entities that reflect the “four hurdles” of ideas, ideas, support and linkages, which are still hindering the further advancement of some agricultural supply-side reforms.

Analysis: Four obstacles that hinder the reform of the supply side of agriculture

Thoughts: understanding, lack of attention, lack of motivation

A party secretary of the town at the grassroots level told the reporter that he had talked to the reporter for half a month. He repeatedly suggested to the county that he would specialize in the training of the agricultural supply side reform knowledge. “I found that many cadres in the county did not know much about the reform of the agricultural supply side. It was an old idea to hold a speech or a new bottle of old wine.”

Many large grain-growing households reported that although the national level of the three-and-a-half application to accelerate the reform of the agricultural supply side, some local counties and townships did not pay enough attention. In addition to the routine meetings, no specific actions were taken, and no related funds and projects were set up. It is because some local officials do not have enough reform motivation - reform can neither increase taxes nor make it difficult to make political achievements in the short term.

Some agricultural cadres told the reporters half a month privately. Because they are afraid of grasping bad policies and fearing mistakes, some cadres only seek peace of mind to do Taiping officials and not to explore new things.

For example, a cotton producing county needs to adjust its varieties in the reform of the agricultural supply side. The local government can use this opportunity to guide cotton farmers to actively connect the market and optimize the planting structure. However, in order to save trouble, the local government has encouraged cotton farmers to switch to rice. “Because rice still has a state-owned market to buy a guarantee, local governments have turned the cotton farmers' transformation problem into the country.” Some experts have evaluated the motives of local governments.

Ideas: simple addition and subtraction, or a swarm of bees

The semi-monthly reporter survey found that the reform of the agricultural supply side in some counties and cities is not clear, and many are still simply doing "addition and subtraction", taking the increase and decrease of different crop areas as the focus of agricultural supply side reform, rather than considering it in depth. How to adjust development ideas, change development methods, and cultivate new industries and new formats.

The reform of the agricultural supply side requires strengthening the cultivation of new-type professional farmers and improving the production skills of farmers. However, some trainings are still not grounded. They either organize farmers to go to computer training schools, or ask local vocational school teachers to give lectures. “This kind of training is very inefficient, far from the production line and away from the local reality.” A large grain grower commented.

Some training is very popular. For example, some agricultural machinery cooperatives in Heshan District, Yiyang City, Hunan Province, have established field training schools with the support of special financial funds, from long-term “farming experts” to Datianli to teach pest control, or on-site mechanical operation demonstration by agricultural machinery. . Li Xufang, a local grain grower, said: "This kind of on-site teaching is particularly good. Farmers are watching and operating on the spot and they learn quickly."

Some local governments have been cultivating new industries and new formats, and there is still a problem of blind development. In recent years, the development of rural tourism in China has also promoted the integration of the first, second and third industries. However, the homogenization of tourism agriculture and rural tourism products is serious, which wastes resources, destroys the environment, and brings low-level vicious competition.

"Local governments to promote the reform of the supply side of agriculture, to foster new industries and new formats, must have an overall plan, must have an industrial base, otherwise it will be difficult to sustain." Zhu Qizhen, director of the Institute of Farmers Studies at China Agricultural University, said.

Supporting kan: insufficient technical support and lack of healthy market environment

Liuyang, a large grain producer in Yiyang City, Hunan Province, has been insisting on green production for many years. Through the application of organic fertilizers and biological pesticides, it has produced far-known green rice, and the network price has reached 16.8 yuan per catty. However, when many foreign customers came to talk about cooperation, he did not dare to sign the contract. Because of the constraints of agricultural science and technology, there was no way to expand the planting area and the output could not be guaranteed.

"Our rice variety is easy to fall, it must be carefully managed, and the technology is guaranteed, but the grassroots scientific and technological personnel are seriously lacking, and our development is constrained." Liu entrepreneurs told reporters about half a month.

The cadres of the Agricultural Bureau of Heshan District of Yiyang City complained that agricultural science and technology is one of the major bottlenecks facing the reform of the agricultural supply side, which seriously restricts industrial restructuring and industrial upgrading. They said that the township-level agricultural technicians have multiple jobs, and it is difficult to concentrate on the promotion of agricultural technology. Together with the aging of the team, the average age is over 45 years old, and the ability to learn new knowledge and new technologies is weak.

Creating a healthy market environment is also an important part of the reform of the agricultural supply side that the new subject expects. Many large vegetable growers in Hunan and Shandong told reporters about half a month that agricultural brands are hard to do, but they generally face two problems: First, due to weak market supervision, people are fraudulently using brands, shoddy, and reducing brand credibility. Second, the vicious competition of the goods on the road, disrupting the market, eventually leading to "bad money to drive out good money." They believe that it is necessary to further strengthen market supervision and protect advanced productivity.

Linkage: Insufficient integration and coordination

First of all, the problem of insufficient integration of the three industries and the lack of linkage development still exists. Wu Junyi, a lecturer at the China Western Economic Research Center of Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, believes that to further strengthen the supply-side structural reform, it is necessary to emphasize the intervention of marketization and the extension of cooperation in the industrial chain to improve production efficiency and organizational efficiency. It is necessary to break through the old pattern of “urban industry and agriculture”, so that farmers and rural areas can share the huge benefits of industrialization and urbanization.

Second, we must achieve regional coordination linkage. Cui Baoyu, secretary general of the China Three Agricultural Issues Research Center of Anhui University, believes that to strengthen the structural reform of the supply side of agriculture, it is necessary to shorten the regional gap, break the economic division, break the "local standard" thinking and logic of some local governments, and develop from the overall development of the regional economy. Complementing and coordinating, formulating a development policy with a broader global vision, rationally guiding the layout of the agricultural industry, avoiding assimilation of industrial structure, assimilation of features, assimilation of functions, and then cultivating and establishing cluster brands with regional characteristics to create agricultural industrial clusters.

Again, multiple entities need to interact. Experts believe that in the process of structural reform of the agricultural supply side, each participating entity should form a community of interests. From the industrial point of view, it is necessary to emphasize that the participating entities of the three industries form a community of interests and explore a multi-subject and multi-model agricultural development path; from the urban-rural perspective, it is necessary to form a community of interests of citizens and farmers, such as CSA (community Supporting agricultural) models, etc., jointly eliminate food safety problems caused by information asymmetry, and share agricultural production risks and market risks; from a regional perspective, it is to break administrative barriers and form a situation of local government linkage development.