Low prices of agricultural products and rising prices of agricultural materials

Agricultural cultivation?

In the throes of agricultural reform,

New farmers will reshape agricultural planting ecology

"bumper harvest agriculture" will become one of the ways out of agriculture in the future.

And we agricultural people will no longer be just agricultural people

The role of agricultural personnel should be changed to agricultural service personnel!

"it is expected that the price of agricultural products will still run at a low level in 2017..." minister of agriculture han changfu predicted this at the recent central rural work conference.

"in 2017, the price of agricultural materials will rise sharply. Do you want to store them in winter?..." "the heavy blow of environmental protection, the price of raw materials, the price of transportation, and the rising production cost of agricultural materials will definitely drive the price of agricultural materials to rise in 2017!"

This is the current voice. Under the low price of agricultural products, the reduction of farmers' enthusiasm for planting and the rise of the production cost of agricultural materials have formed a "contradictory contradiction".

That is to say, in addition to large-scale planting can improve efficiency, the cost of agricultural production materials is rising, and the structural surplus of agricultural products will inevitably lead to the continued downturn in food prices. For example, due to the extremely high inventory of corn and soybeans in the staple food this year, they have become children without mothers, and the prices of bulk agricultural products such as apples and grapes in the fruit tree area are not very ideal.

Then, where is the way out for agricultural cultivation?

Reform: old farmers withdraw, new farmers reshaping agricultural planting ecology

In the general direction: planting scale, planting structure adjustment and optimization, planting mechanization and standardization are the way out for agriculture.

This can optimize the structure of agricultural products and improve production efficiency, and relatively reduce the cost of agricultural planting and production. However, these three ways out are not short-term things, but long-term things that need to be promoted.

, especially in the past two years, the land transfer has been continuously promoted, but it has also been greatly hindered. It is normal for a large number of large growers and family farms to "not make money" and are in trouble, so there are not a few people who break their contracts and abandon their land.

, take the adjustment of planting structure as an example. The main crops in datian district are wheat, corn, rice, soybeans, etc. if you don't plant these crops, the average age of farmers is about 50-65 years old. those who can go out to work will not specialize in farming at home. It is a difficult problem to change to other cash crops. First of all, cash crops need certain planting technology, while women and the elderly lack technology; secondly, market sales are a big problem, and if regional centralized planting is not formed, there will be sales problems; third, the input cost of cash crops is high, the risk is high, and the general growers are unwilling to try, so in the farming season, they still go to grow corn.

In terms of agricultural mechanization, it is closely related to the scale of planting. Fertilizers and spraying machines related to agricultural materials are constantly improving and upgrading technology, such as plant protection drones, which may become a solution to the shortage of rural labor and improve planting efficiency. One of the ways.

, the large-scale planting under the transfer of land and the structural adjustment of planting under the downturn of grain prices are all phenomena in china's large-scale agricultural reform, and the pains in this process are inevitable, and farmers do not have to scold the country for ignoring the lives of farmers. They are all exploring and changing. Reform is bound to be accompanied by labor pains. The result of the pain is that this generation of old farmers will eventually be launched, and new farmers will eventually reshape the agricultural planting ecology.

's redefinition of "bumper harvest agriculture" has become the current way out for agriculture.

In the past, harvest agriculture was often mentioned, but now we need to redefine harvest agriculture. Harvest agriculture is not just a good harvest and high yield, but agricultural products must have the quality demanded by the market and consumers, and can be sold at the corresponding price, so that farmers can get more income. This is a new harvest agriculture.

"bumper harvest agriculture" will be the current direction of agricultural service personnel (agricultural personnel).

For a long time, both farmers and agricultural service providers have equated "harvest agriculture" almost as "agricultural production increase". As the phenomenon of unsalable sales has become more and more serious in recent years, the prices of agricultural products have fallen, and the prices of a few high-quality agricultural products have risen. It is realized that agricultural planting has passed the stage of "pursuing increased production", and market sales and the quality of agricultural products will replace increased production and become.

, the effect of many agricultural products was focused on increasing production (it seems that many products can increase production by 10%-50%, and finally you find that the yield is about the same). In fact, it has always been misleading. Some people pointed out that the most important thing for increasing production is seeds. The role of pesticides is to prevent and control production. The role of fertilizers is to ensure their yield under a reasonable growth environment, both pesticides and fertilizers should not focus on increasing production. (moreover, some people do demonstration and observation effects of pesticide and fertilizer products, which are carried out among different crop varieties. This is misleading. What is the comparability?)

The above is a little further. I mean, china is not short of food at present. What it lacks is high-quality, healthy ecological agricultural products and a more rational planting structure. The perspective of farmers and agricultural service providers must shift from the focus of output to the focus of quality and market. Because the attributes of farmers growing grain have changed, they were raising their families earlier and now they are making money. To make money from farming, a new concept of "harvest agriculture" is needed, which is the new guiding concept of agricultural development.

Agricultural material people: agricultural service providers

Gratifying is that in the market in 2016, the price of grain produced by standardized processes is strong and gratifying. Consumers are willing to pay for high-quality fruits. People are paying more and more attention to the quality of agricultural products. The perspective of farmers has been shifting to quality and market sales, but it is not enough.

We see that many agricultural materials platforms are helping farmers to build agricultural products brands, doing comprehensive agricultural services, integrating agricultural industry chain resources, and changing roles.

May not have succeeded, it is a kind of exploration and attempt. This is the way out for agricultural development at present and in the future, which requires a process of development.

All say that the price of agricultural materials is going to soar, and when you are considering whether to make money in business and whether to store it in winter, one more consideration and focus is: how to help growers out of their current predicament? Even if the price of agricultural materials rises sharply, we can't solve the problem of farmers and can't let them "harvest", then are we still struggling?

In fact, agricultural means people should not only define themselves as agricultural means people, but should be defined as we are agricultural service providers. We should not blindly recommend all kinds of agricultural products to farmers. What farmers need, we will provide what? What farmers need is to sell their agricultural products, what they need is to make money, what they need is a bumper harvest, what can our agricultural service providers do for them, and where is our entry point?

Throughout the past two years, why is it difficult to operate agricultural materials? In addition to overcapacity, the most important thing is that farmers are difficult. As long as farmers are in trouble, then agricultural service providers will definitely be in trouble.

Agriculture is also an opportunity, a reshuffle and integration of the market.

The future, we are not agricultural personnel, we are agricultural service providers.

The sale of agricultural products is a kind of service, agricultural technical guidance is also a kind of service, agricultural operation is also a kind of service, and the realization of production and marketing docking is also a kind of service. What we have to do is these things. Of course, there are specialties in the technical industry. It is impossible for us to do all the things. It is enough to be able to do a good job in one or several rings. The premise is that our role: it must be the demand of agricultural cultivation, it must be the demand of farmers.