Leisure agriculture is not the main direction of agricultural transformation

[Explanation] Some experts claim that "the best agricultural products can't be eaten in China" and whether the quality of agricultural products is really "beyond the inside and outside" has caused heated discussions. The Voice of Economy comment: The quality of agricultural products must be “a bowl of water is flat”.

According to the Voice of Economy "Yangguang Finance Review," according to media reports today, at a recent forum, industry experts said that China's best agricultural products are exported because the international standards for export foods are higher than domestic standards. Strictly more strict. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations estimates that China’s total grain output this year will be nearly 590 million tons, equivalent to a quarter of the world’s total production. In the global agricultural product market, China's agricultural products are of high quality, low cost, and large quantity, and have been favored by consumers in various countries. What people are puzzled about is that the same is China's agricultural products. Why is the difference between domestic and foreign countries so great? Special commentator on the economy and researcher of the Institute of Agricultural Economics and Development of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences Hu Dingyi came to comment on this topic.

As the old saying goes, fertilizer and water do not flow outside the land, but experts say that the best agricultural products we can produce in our own land cannot be eaten by ourselves. Are there other problems with the quality of agricultural products, both inside and outside?

Hu Dingmao: According to my experience, the past exists, and now there is a little bit of difference. The future will be the same. In the past, our domestic consumption level was relatively low, but now our consumption level is getting higher and higher, the green organic market is getting bigger and bigger, and a lot of products will gradually be transferred from abroad to China. In the future, I think the domestic and foreign countries will be the same.

Why are the best agricultural products in our country exported? Dong Xide, deputy director of the Shanxi Provincial Department of Agriculture, made a comparison: The products we sell to Japan must pass more than 240 tests, but if they are sold domestically, only a few tests are needed. It seems that different quality standards lead to the best agricultural products being sold abroad. However, in supermarkets, the sale of green, pollution-free high-grade agricultural products is booming. In this case, why must high-quality agricultural products be sold abroad?

Hu Dingzhuo: The main reason is that the prices of the products we export are more expensive than domestic products, and good products generally go to more expensive markets. However, with the appreciation of our renminbi, in fact, foreign exports have not made any money, and many things must be returned. When we went to Japan to test 240 items, we tested several items in China. In fact, Japan detected 240 pesticide residues is not just for food safety, it is a technical barrier, it is afraid that our Chinese agricultural products have entered the market, so it raises the demand and makes us Chinese products are difficult to enter. However, we Chinese are very clever, 240 kinds of problems are solved, still export, indicating that we China has great potential. Now I am helping these export companies to enter the domestic market. Our supermarkets are in need of some good products.

High-grade agricultural products can be used as exotic goods, and many agricultural products are unmarketable and are wasted. Ma Yong, a professor at the China Agricultural University, has a survey result. Affected by slow-moving sales are those farmers who are relatively low-educated and unable to obtain market information.

Hu Dingyao: The problem of slow-moving sales is related to knowledge. The main reason is that our country's production of agricultural products is disorderly. Peasants see high prices for production, and large-scale production prices fall and are unmarketable. This is a problem. The main problem is that we do not have a national information system for agricultural products in China. That is to say, we control domestic production based on forecasting future demand. As the EU countries now have some restrictions, how many agricultural lands can be planted in each year? We must be fine if we exceed and exceed. Then some farmers will not allow you to plant, state subsidies will make the farmland idle, and balance across Europe. I think this system will be gradually introduced by our country.

As for food safety, most consumers do not necessarily have the ability to purchase green and organic agricultural products. Its price is five times the price of ordinary agricultural products. There are a lot of agricultural products worth 29 kilos and a pound, and ordinary people can afford to eat. I think it should be an ordinary agricultural product that must meet the safety standards and allow the masses of consumers to enjoy safe agricultural products. I think this is a major focus.

The 2012 China (International) Leisure Development Forum just concluded in Chongqing. At this forum, Shu Huiguo, the vice president of the Chinese Agricultural Society, proposed a development direction that is "leisure agriculture." The so-called leisure agriculture is a multi-functional tourism industry that integrates production, living, ecology, culture, and tourism in rural areas and integrates production, processing, and sales. Will grafting agricultural and leisure products become an important direction for the future transformation and upgrading of agriculture?

Hu Dingyu: I said no. I am doing a lot of research in this area and helping people design leisure agriculture. However, we only have 1.8 billion mu of land and 1.3 billion people. How can we support our 1.3 billion people? Not only eating, but also drinking milk, eating pork, eating chicken, these lands are not enough. If you make casual agriculture, we do not have enough land to support our most basic domestic needs and food needs, so I suggest Under the condition of ensuring 95% of our grain, there are extra, especially those that have been recovered, and it is okay to take it back for leisure. This is not the mainstream direction. In the future, the main direction of agricultural development in our country is mechanization, large-scale, and facilities-based, and a labor-saving approach. The second we have to introduce good technology to allow each piece of land to increase production by a factor of two compared to today's. This will satisfy our needs. It is very important for us now to carry out technological innovation.