While you are still talking about expanding the scale of agriculture, we have already begun to practice the continuous deepening of the division of labor in agriculture!"

This is another change that Professor Ma has quietly promoted by Jiagu Group during his investigation of Jiagu Agricultural Cooperatives in Nankai City.

As far as the business of agriculture before and after production is concerned, most scholars classify it into the agricultural socialized service system. International experience shows that the development of agricultural production is an important means to solve the problem of non-agricultural and aging of agricultural labor.

Taking the United States as an example, the agricultural labor force in the United States accounts for only about 2 percent of the total labor force, but the number of people who provide agricultural services, such as agricultural machinery operations, product processing, transportation, supply and marketing, warehousing, capital lending, insurance, market information, and other services, accounts for more than 10 percent of the entire labor force, greatly exceeding the population directly engaged in agriculture.

China, huh...... Let's look at the data: domestic agricultural employment accounts for about 36% of total employment, but the proportion of total agricultural output value in GDP is only about 17%, and the proportion of total output value of agriculture-related service industries in GDP is only 0.6%.

In comparison, it is 100 people living together, our country needs 36 people to cultivate and breed output, and more than 60 people rely on building houses and tools in exchange for food.

However, through the improvement of agricultural efficiency, the United States only needs 2 people to engage in farming, and the other 98 people need to meet the overall non-food needs of 100 people through construction, manufacturing, and service output.

The question is, how can agricultural efficiency be improved?

Technology is key, of course, but the agri-service industry is also a top priority.

——Agricultural production, popularly understood, is to provide services for the agricultural production chain, so that farmers can save more money, worry and effort.

Professor Ma particularly noticed a statistic that almost half of the farmers who joined the Jiagu Agricultural Cooperative transferred to agricultural production.

This is another point of great research value!

As a national expert in rural economic research, Professor Ma has a clear understanding that agricultural scale and agricultural service industry are inseparable - agricultural service is a large-scale product, without which the power of agricultural service cannot be exerted at all. After the introduction of the new land policy, it can be said that it has provided fertile soil for the development of agricultural services.

So he's now one research, two studies!

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"That's right, the agricultural service industry is the key exploration direction of our group!" Qi Zheng said lightly in the face of Professor Ma, who seemed to have picked up a treasure.

Professor Ma resisted the urge to roll his eyes, are you still exploring?

What is the level of agricultural service enterprises on the market now?Harvesting services, agricultural machinery leasing, chemical fertilizers and pesticides and other agricultural materials supply...... Then, there is no then.

The development of some major and key agricultural socialization services, such as pest control, centralized rice seedling raising, soil testing and formula fertilization, and the development of emerging service organizations are still in their infancy, with a low degree of specialization, and their own development is facing bottlenecks, which cannot effectively drive farmers.

In comparison, Jiagu Agricultural Cooperative is simply a "behemoth", and the agricultural service industry system that has developed in support of it, you actually say that it is an exploration?

"It's not difficult for Jiagu's agricultural service business to make a profit, right?" asked Professor Ma.

This is one of the difficulties in the agricultural service industry. Since agriculture is an inefficient industry and farmers' incomes are not high, it is difficult to increase profits by raising service charges. Especially in recent years, the cost of agricultural production such as fuel, pesticides, and labor has risen sharply, and agriculture has entered an era of high costs, making the original agricultural production industry with meager profits lower income, and some are even unprofitable or loss-making.

But Qi Zheng thought about it and replied honestly: "It's not difficult!"

First of all, the agricultural projects promoted by Jiagu are generally more profitable than ordinary crops; and agricultural materials such as organic fertilizers and pesticides are either self-produced or purchased in bulk, and the cost is controllable; Jiagu's agricultural service business does not dare to say how profitable it is, but it is indeed not difficult to make a profit.

Professor Ma asked again: "It's not difficult to employ people in Jiagu's agricultural service business, right?"

This is another difficulty. In recent years, the shortage of labor in rural areas has begun to appear, and in addition, the labor time in agricultural production is superficially long, but the actual effective operation time is not long, resulting in the income of employees is not high, and it is not attractive to stabilize the labor force. In addition, it is difficult to bring in high-level professional and technical personnel.

But Qi Zheng shook his head: "It's not difficult!"

First of all, the scale of Jiagu's agricultural services is large and stable enough, and the income of employees is more guaranteed. At the same time, Jiagu's training system is being strengthened year by year, and professional and technical personnel can basically achieve "self-production and self-sales".

Professor Ma asked again: "It's not difficult to control the risk of Jiagu's agricultural service business, right?"

Qi Zheng still shook his head: "Well, it's not difficult!"

This risk refers to the natural risk, which no one can control (someone hehe), and the other is that farmers deliberately make things difficult for agricultural service enterprises for their own interests, and even unilaterally break the contract, refuse to pay or default on agricultural service fees.

However, Jiagu's agricultural service business is backed by the agricultural cooperatives established by itself, and controls the entire agricultural product supply chain, so naturally no one dares to make things difficult.

Professor Ma stretched out his hands helplessly and said: "The pain points commonly faced by the agricultural service industry are not a problem for Jiagu, so you still feel dissatisfied?"

"Of course, Jiagu's agricultural service industry is still relying on and serving the Jiagu system, but it's not weak, right?"

Qi Zheng suddenly realized.

——After years of exploration and development, Jiagu has a considerable scale in terms of technical strength, facilities and equipment, and service subjects for agricultural production!

As the main company of Jiagu providing agricultural service business, Jiagu Agricultural Materials has 15,000 professional and technical personnel engaged in agricultural science and technology extension services, has a relatively complete range of agricultural power machinery, supporting equipment and warehousing, logistics, processing and other facilities and equipment, and has cultivated more than 1,000 agricultural cooperatives......

It can be said that there are still seven years before the national policy to build agricultural production into a strategic industry, whether from the perspective of scale or actual effect, Jiagu agricultural materials have become the leader of the domestic agricultural service industry.

To tell the truth, because Jiagu agricultural materials are not a productive enterprise, not to mention in the outside world, even in the Jiagu system, it is low-key - it is not as famous as Jiagu grain and oil, Jiagu Dairy, Qingyuan beer, and the products are sold all over the country; it is not like Jiagu agriculture and Jiagu agriculture and animal husbandry, and it is not like Jiagu International, which is a huge global merger and acquisition......

In other words, "invisible" in the Jiagu system is often a neglected role.

But if you look closely, it turns out that I'm already so strong?

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