General Secretary Xi Jinping recently pointed out during his inspection and investigation in Meishan, Sichuan that the promotion of agricultural modernization depends not only on agricultural experts, but also on farmers.
It is necessary to strengthen the promotion and application of modern agricultural science and technology and technical training, organize large grain farmers, and actively develop green agriculture, ecological agriculture, and high-efficiency agriculture.
This important instruction of the General Secretary provides the fundamental guidelines for the whole party and the whole society to accelerate the promotion of agricultural modernization, and will surely inspire the agricultural science and technology workers and farmers to be more energetic and enterprising, and paint a picture of green, ecological and efficient in the land of China. agricultural harvest scene.
Scientific and technological progress and innovation are the first driving force for the development of modern agriculture, which is inseparable from the pioneering and innovation of experts, and also depends on the transformation and application of scientific and technological achievements by the vast number of farmers.
Data show that in 2021, the contribution rate of my country's agricultural science and technology progress will exceed 60%, the comprehensive mechanization rate of crop cultivation and harvesting will exceed 72%, and the main crop varieties will be fully covered.
This shows that the application of new agricultural products and new technologies that are iteratively updated is driving the continuous improvement of agricultural production efficiency in my country.
Behind this achievement, it is inseparable from the dedication of the vast number of agricultural science and technology leading talents, innovative talents, promotion talents and science and technology commissioners for several years or even decades. The experience and hard work of professional households” and new farmers.
Whether they are scientific and technical personnel, or "Tian Xiucai" and "Rural Makers", they are all important supporting forces for innovation and technology to help agricultural modernization.
Agricultural modernization must rely on farmers' own modernization in order to realize the comprehensive modernization of agriculture and rural areas.
The results of the eleventh sample survey of Chinese citizens' scientific literacy showed that the scientific literacy levels of urban and rural residents in my country were 13.75% and 6.45%, respectively, with a gap of 7.3 percentage points.
As the main body of agricultural production, many farmers do not use advanced agricultural technology and equipment, and cannot meet the requirements of modern agricultural production and development.
In Xiayi County, Henan Province, more than 7,000 farmers have been trained in recent years through education and training on new agricultural business entities, and they have become leaders in modern agriculture and rural revitalization.
Therefore, organize and implement a wider range of agricultural science and technology training and demonstrations with greater efforts, cultivate more new-type professional farmers who love agriculture, understand technology, and are good at management, and create a high-quality farmer team that meets the requirements of agricultural and rural modernization. should be the common action of the whole party and the whole society.
The modernization of agricultural production organization is a necessary means to support agricultural modernization. It is necessary to rely on and improve the degree of farmers' organization to realize the modernization of the agricultural production organization governance system and governance capacity.
At present, my country's agricultural and rural development has entered a new era, but large countries and small farmers are still our basic national conditions and agricultural conditions.
According to the data of the third agricultural census, the number of small farmers in the country accounts for more than 98% of the main agricultural operators, the employees of small farmers account for 90% of the employees of agriculture, and the area of cultivated land operated by small farmers accounts for 70% of the total cultivated land.
Due to the low degree of organization, farmers can only passively participate in market competition and are at the bottom of the agricultural value chain, making it difficult to form effective competitiveness and negotiating power.
Therefore, advancing agricultural modernization requires not only the transformation of productivity, but also the adjustment of production relations.
In the process of rural revitalization, efforts should be made to realize the modernization of agricultural production organization, improve the organization of small farmers, cultivate new business entities such as family farms and farmers' cooperatives, strengthen social services for small farmers, develop various forms of large-scale operations, and improve agricultural production efficiency .
(Zhang Qi, special commentator of CCTV, director of China Rural Revitalization and Development Research Center of Beijing Normal University)