CCTV News:Gaotang is a major grain production county in Shandong Province. In this county, the land operated by small farmers over 60 years old accounts for more than 70% of the county’s planting area. These "old handers" who are active in the fields used to manage their own one-acre three-point land with a hoe and a sickle, but today, with the gradual promotion of modern farming methods, they have a different wheat harvest experience. Look at the report that the reporter sent back from the wheat harvest line.
Zhihua Liu, who is 64 years old this year, is a villager in Yingma New Village, Gaotang County. Although all the children go out to work and the family lacks strong labor, he and his wife have planted more than 30 acres of land.
Reporter:Can you two plant it?
Shandong ProvinceZhihua Liu, a villager from Yingma New Village, Liulisi Town, Gaotang County:It’s very easy to plant the land now. You see that the wheat is ripe. We just watch the unloading of the wheat here, and we don’t have to cut it. Nothing happens, so we can worry. It’s not the same as before.
Lao Liu told reporters that there are more than 500 families in Yingma New Village, Gaotang County where he lives. In recent years, as young people go out to work, the main force of growing grain in the village has suddenly become the elderly.
Dong Hejiang, Director of Agricultural Socialization Service Office of Agriculture and Rural Bureau of Gaotang County, Shandong Province:They have more feelings for the land, and they are more at ease in farming the land themselves. They still use traditional experience and old-fashioned farming methods, and the grain output cannot be improved.
This phenomenon, like Yingma New Village, is very common in China. At present, there are about 207 million agricultural households in China, of which more than 98% are small farmers, and the cultivated land area operated by small farmers accounts for 70% of the total cultivated land area. This situation is also a thorny issue that puzzles all localities to further enhance grain production capacity.
The dilemma of Yingma New Village began to turn for the better in 2021. In this year, Gaotang County became the first pilot county in China to carry out agricultural socialization services. Develop agricultural production custody without transferring land management rights, connect scattered small farmers, and provide them with "one-stop" full custody service or "menu-style" half-time custody service.
Dong Hejiang, Director of Agricultural Socialization Service Office of Agriculture and Rural Bureau of Gaotang County, Shandong Province:Let agricultural socialized service organizations participate, organize small farmers, and let agricultural socialized service organizations help them farm.
Feature story: New farmers cultivate land and old farmers increase their income.
Social service organizations came, but the initial docking was not smooth. The reason is that the old people believe more in their down-to-earth farming experience, do not understand the new scientific and technological methods, and are full of worries.
Han Qingfeng, a staff member of Liulisi Town, Gaotang County, Shandong Province:I say who doesn’t believe and who has concerns, and you are allowed to stare at every link. You put forward your rectification opinions on the spot, and we will put them in place in time according to your rectification opinions. At first glance, the people really did what they said, and only then did they push this thing away.
The old people have some trust, and these service organizations have also displayed "eighteen martial arts", from soil testing formula, seed coating, suppression technology to unified defense rule, and a series of new technologies and new varieties are applied and promoted, so that the old people can flexibly "order" according to their own needs.
Modern means of agricultural production brought by socialized service organizations have enabled Zhihua Liu and his wife, two elderly people in their 60s, to easily plant more than 30 mu of land. At present, there are 152 agricultural socialized service organizations in Gaotang County, with a service area of 1.196 million mu, accounting for more than 80% of the total area. This also makes local old people like Lao Liu more flexible and relaxed in farming.
Zhihua Liu, a villager from Yingma New Village, Liulisi Town, Gaotang County, Shandong Province:As long as I have time, ability and physical conditions, I will take care of some of them myself. If I can’t take care of them, I will ask the trusteeship department to take care of them, so I am very free.
With the trust service gradually recognized by small farmers like Lao Liu, the area of trust is also expanding, which also attracts enterprises such as Shandong Seed Industry Group to carry out order agriculture in Gaotang, and small farmers are connected to the big market.
Wang Miaomiao, Mayor of Liulisi Town, Gaotang County, Shandong Province:40% of the land in the town has signed a breeding contract with the seed industry group. According to the calculation of selling a dime per catty and the output of 1,000 jins per mu, the income of 100 yuan can be increased per mu, and the income of 30,000 mu of land in the town can be increased by 3 million yuan.
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