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Journal of Agriculture ›› 2012, Vol. 2 ›› Issue (1): 69-73.

Special Issue: 现代农业发展与乡村振兴

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Problem and Countermeasures on Development of Xi’an Professional Farmers

  

  • Received:2011-08-16 Revised:2011-11-09 Online:2012-01-10 Published:2012-01-10

Abstract:

Nowadays, the earnings rate of agricultural is low and the farmers take the farming as a part-time job. The high-quality farmers who take the farming as full-time job become less and less. In order to figure out the effect and countermeasures of urbanization and industrialization procedure on the farmers, the author investigated and analyzed the situation of commercial farmer and the relating factors which constricted the farmer professionalization by statistic investigation, sample survey and expert evaluation. The results indicated that the total number of professional farmers was comparative small, they were not well educated and with elder average age. The factors which constricted the farmers’ professionalization were as follows: the professional farmers were not well qualified; the education for them was much harder; the finance could not meet the capital needs; the land could not negotiated normally; agricultural cooperative size was small and so on. In order to expand the team of high quality farmers, it was very important to strengthen the cultivation of professional farmers, take measures to develop the farmers’ certification system, strengthen agricultural technology training, support the farmers’ professional cooperative, give special policy and financial support, establish the land user rights transfer system and then alleviate the effect on the agricultural production caused by the number and quality famers decrease.