Agricultural progress is a major issue to ensure food safety in China. The government is highly concerned about agriculture and issues with "agriculture, farmer and rural area" (Sannong), regarded as of high importance for the country's economic and social development. What is the true status? Agriculture is obvious put in place of a trivial matter with insufficient systematic solutions. According to comprehensive information collected from different sources, China's agriculture issues possibly evolve into severe problems that could not be overcome.
1. Agricultural products have been consistently overstocking, throughout the year, Yunnan's leafy vegetables, Anhui's cabbage (Shanghai Green), Hainan's chilly, Hubei's cabbage, Shandong's green onion. More than that, various online videos have exposed a large quantity of agricultural products in stockpiles. Not only vegetables, but also fruits like Shaanxi's apple, Xinjiang's jujube. It is often reported about fruit-trees cut. With a wave of vigorously boosting agriculture, the planting areas have doubled nationwide. In addition, local governments call for precisely alleviating poverty, while the consequence shows nothing more than raising sheep and growing vegetables. It looks a harvest for agricultural products, and pile up though.
2. Agricultural raw materials have suffered from prices soaring against market. Farmers feel heavy burdens on them. One side is a sluggish market for vegetables; meanwhile seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, and raw materials tolerate the prices continuously climbing. There is always a reason for raising prices. For example, broccoli sold very well in the previous year, and then next year was widely favored by growers. Consequently, the planting areas enlarged greatly, and the demand for seeds also stronger. Normally, broccoli seeds cost only 150 RMB per bag, and went a double to 300-400 RMB last year. To our surprise, farmers have faced a hardship to obtain seeds early this year. Eventually, agricultural overdevelopment have brought the abnormal surge in agricultural resource prices.
3. Once upon a time, China saw a boom of rural e-commerce. so far left a few to make a life. With the official encouragement, agriculture sectors receives popularity in a couple of years. According to incomplete statistics, at least 10,000 companies are engaged in agricultural e-commerce venture and businesses related at the peak time. Capitals, Internet renovating farming, so-called B2B, B2C, O2O, all these have ever poured into China's towns and cities from north to south. Nowadays, most of them have disappeared and few could keep survivals. Cultivation bases, supply chains, urban communities and value-added consumption that remains not to take shape.
4. Agricultural infrastructure expanded in blindness, which have caused many lands in ruin. Against the background of exaggeratedly boasting about agriculture, some regions invested heavily in supporting agriculture and infrastructure, i.e. greenhouse, cold storage, irrigation facilities and trading markets. Nevertheless, we observed the usage very little, and abandoned everywhere not to care for.
5. As lots of rural migrant workers return home, that is difficult for urban areas to recruit labor force. Yet, those people found not easy to make money in countryside. Followed the explosion of agricultural sectors, the market and policies appeal to migrant workers who have had jobs in cities and anxiously turn into farmers to develop agricultural businesses. Finally, they feel less-than-expected opportunities to earn a better livelihood on the farmland.
6. Big capitals with massive investment into agriculture did not see much success, rather, a group of losers. Excessively bragging agriculture also lured large corporations to be envious. Evergrande, Lenovo, NetEase, Ali and JD who would have anticipated to earn more, madly got into agriculture. Until now, someone has quit, some sold off at low prices, and some are still struggling.
Looking back to agriculture research and "Sannong" issues related to "agriculture, farmer and rural area" in the past, the Chinese Elite talked a lot. Sadly, the problems stay there and the situation is deteriorating. The cost of social governance is higher and higher, and nearly around "impossible task". That implied "no major matters" would be in satisfactory. As for the reform of agriculture, it seems not much mentioned. Such circumstances are extremely worrying. Once RMB dramatically devaluates, tough obstacles blocked ahead of grain imports, the issue of "meal" will once again be the top priority for the Chinese, immediately over the significances of semiconductors. In that case, there would be too late to address.
Final Analysis Conclusion:
Soybean cultivation, what was in the past and is at present, typically unneccessary to illustrate more at all. The question is, who knows this, and who really cares about?
