How to break the bottleneck of land circulation in the "destruction of land retreat"?

[China Agricultural Machinery Industry News] Food prices have fallen, farmers have lost money, and large grain farmers have withdrawn their rents and rents. This has had an impact on the ongoing land transfer and agricultural scale operations. Recently, netizens have paid more and more attention to the loss and lease of large grain growers. Some netizens believe that the state is advocating the orderly circulation of land and developing moderate scale operations. The signs of “returning rents and reducing rents” cannot be underestimated.

How to break the bottleneck of land circulation in the "destruction of land retreat"?

Rural land transfer is the act of separating the land use right from the contractual management right and transferring it to other farmers or operators under the premise of the rural land ownership and the use of agricultural land. The essence of this is the rural land use right. The flow. Rural land transfer is a reasonable and effective process of reconfiguring a certain range of land resources in a certain way and in accordance with the requirements of the socialist market economic system and relevant laws and regulations. It is an effective way to optimize resource allocation under market economy conditions, and is also the basis for modern agricultural development and the support of large-scale agricultural operations.

It is undeniable that the implementation of the household contract responsibility system for more than 30 years, the collective ownership of rural land and the contractual management rights of farmers have been divided into two groups, giving farmers long-term and guaranteed land contractual management rights, mobilizing the enthusiasm of farmers, but also for China. The long-term advancement of agriculture provides institutional guarantees. However, with the further advancement of China's new industrialization and urbanization, more and more farmers have entered the city to engage in secondary and tertiary industries. The rural labor structure has undergone major changes. The young and strong laborers engaged in agricultural labor have entered the city in large numbers, and some areas have emerged. The situation of idle farmland, China's agricultural and rural work has also entered a new stage of development. By the end of 2015, 33.3% of the country's household contracted farmland had been transferred, and 66 million of the 230 million contracted households had more or less transferred land.

However, in the context of difficult food prices and significant reductions in planting income, land circulation has encountered bottlenecks. In the major grain-producing areas such as Heilongjiang, Jiangsu, and Henan, due to multiple factors such as falling food prices, natural disasters, and high turnover costs, some new business entities such as family farms, large grain growers, and cooperatives are facing losses, and the enthusiasm for growing grain is frustrated. "Destroy the land and retreat" took turns. This has an impact on the ongoing land transfer and agricultural scale operation, and also brings hidden dangers to national food security, and may lead to land transfer disputes and intensify the contradiction between operators and contractors.

At present, many new business entities such as family farms, large grain growers, and cooperatives are in a state of entanglement and confusion. The farmers around the land transfer price and the large grain farmers are playing a game. The reason for this is that most of the land transfer contracts are for 1-3 years or 3-5 years (including verbal agreements), because short-term contractors are difficult to carry out long-term breeding programs. Many large grain households are reluctant to purchase large-scale agricultural machinery and carry out renovation of agricultural infrastructure. The large-scale agricultural machinery purchase in grain production, the transformation of agricultural infrastructure, and the improvement of farmland soil structure require long-term investment, which affects the agricultural Continue to develop. On the other hand, agricultural subsidies such as direct subsidies for grain production, subsidies for improved varieties, and comprehensive subsidies for agricultural materials are directly distributed to farmers, while new types of agricultural enterprises such as large grain farmers are basically unable to obtain them. On the contrary, they must pay land transfer costs and bear all the costs. Risk, which is extremely unfavorable for the growth of large grain growers.

In the long run, rural land transfer is the only way to achieve agricultural modernization and an inevitable choice for realizing a well-off society in rural areas. By doing a good job of rural land transfer, the rural areas will achieve greater development, and farmers will have more opportunities to make a lot of money. In this sense, in the face of the difficulties of large grain farmers, the relevant functional departments obviously cannot sit still and cannot It is regarded as a "private matter" for large grain growers, but it must actively seek countermeasures to find a way for large grain growers. First, the government should strengthen the service of land transfer, build a land transfer trading platform, and actively and effectively carry out policy propaganda. Secondly, relevant functional departments should conduct in-depth research on the problems existing in the current rural land transfer process, improve the relevant legal system of land transfer, and regulate land. Circulation procedures and behaviors; afterwards, we must innovate the subsidy mechanism, and supplement the government's grain subsidies to grain production in accordance with the principle of “who grows grain and who benefits”, and at the same time set up special subsidies for large grain farmers to encourage a variety of foods and breeds. grain. At the same time, in the process of rural land transfer, we must pay attention to protecting the interests of farmers. In response to farmers’ initiative to lease or transfer land, the government should provide corresponding financial subsidies to protect farmers’ basic livelihood issues and solve them. The basic survival of the worries.

There is food in the hands, and I don’t panic in my heart. Safeguarding food security is an eternal issue for China and cannot be relaxed at any time. The Chinese people’s rice bowls should be firmly in their hands at all times. Only solve the worries of the large grain farmers, and implement the various preferential policies for the party and the state, and concentrate on doing a good job of land transfer. It is profitable to be able to crack the bottleneck of “money is hard to earn” for large grain growers.

(Original title: Ding Hengqing: Large grain farmers are "hard to earn money", land flow turns into bottlenecks)