[Bright Times Review]
On September 7, the 2020 Chinese Farmers Harvest Festival Golden Autumn Consumption Season kicked off in Beijing.
During the event, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs will jointly organize 5 large-scale online and offline live broadcast events with China Central Radio and Television and Pinduoduo.
In the first live broadcast, 90-year-old Academician Yuan Longping, the father of hybrid rice, deeply appealed to more young people born in the 1990s to join agriculture.
Yuan Longping said that young farmers are the hope of the country, and modern agricultural research needs more knowledgeable youth.
Why are young people unwilling to engage in agriculture?
Why appeal to young people to engage in agriculture?
This became Yuan Longping’s question and Yuan Longping’s wish.
As an older generation of scientists who have worked with agriculture for a lifetime and made outstanding contributions to Chinese agriculture, Academician Yuan Longping’s affectionate appeal has high expectations for the younger generation, and more about the current situation and development trends of China’s agriculture. A deep insight.
If you don’t understand agriculture, you may still have stereotypes about agriculture.
But in fact, as Yuan Longping said: "Modern agriculture is not past agriculture. Modern agriculture is high-tech agriculture. It is not facing the loess and back to the sky. It is all mechanized, electrified, and intelligent agriculture." From manual labor to intelligent technology Evolve, the industrial form upgrade from traditional agriculture to modern agriculture, agriculture provides a large number of high-tech jobs, and requires more outstanding talents and young educated youths to join in and show their talents in this vast world.
Agriculture is an old industry and also a young industry.
It is ancient because the people relied on food and agriculture is the foundation of a country. The more developed a country, the higher the level of agricultural production.
Young, because with the wide application of the latest technological achievements such as 5G, artificial intelligence, and big data in various fields, the entire industry model has undergone earth-shaking changes.
Smart technology has empowered traditional agriculture, and at the same time many energetic "super new farmers" have emerged.
Why appeal to young people to engage in agriculture?
Modern agriculture has broken through industry barriers, and the industrial structure and industry ecology have undergone tremendous changes.
Therefore, a conceptual innovation is needed to gradually change the single traditional production and management model in the past, and to introduce a large number of comprehensive young talents to adapt to this change, so that agricultural production and the agricultural economy can be rejuvenated.
Wang Xiumei, the leader of the "Duo Duo Nong Garden" in Pinli County, Shaanxi Province, participated in the live broadcast. Through the live broadcast of the goods, the farmers' products were sold to the top of the list of good health tea categories.
There are many young entrepreneurs like Wang Xiumei. While realizing the value of life, they have also blazed a new path for the rural areas to get rid of poverty and become rich.
In the live broadcast of @央视新闻, Wang Xiumei said that it was under the influence of Yuan Longping that she returned to her hometown to start a business after graduating from university and used e-commerce to help fellow villagers get out of poverty by selling tea.
Why appeal to young people to engage in agriculture?
It is also because young people are thinking, motivated, and daring to try. They have a stronger ability to absorb knowledge and are easier to accept new things and convert them into productivity.
According to media reports, Zhou Qingqing of Jining, Shandong is also a young man born in the 90s.
She was originally an urban white-collar worker working in Beijing, but in order to realize her father's mushroom dream, she returned to her hometown and became the "second generation of bacteria".
In the process of starting a business, she experienced the dilemma of unsalable products, and also suffered a setback of losing 6 million yuan a year, but young people can afford to lose and have more confidence and courage.
She adjusted her strategy in time, focused on the creation of a rare edible fungus gene bank project, and finally got out of the predicament and developed the country's first high-yield cultivation technology to double the output. Mushroom farmers all over the country learned from her.
These vivid cases all clearly answered Yuan Longping's question of "why should young people be encouraged to engage in agriculture".
Agriculture needs young people to inject vitality and innovation, and young people also need to expand their career options to create value on the increasingly splendid stage of agriculture and rural areas, and let their youth dreams fly.
(Author: Wu Longgui, Department of Media commentator)