Chapter 722: Peasant Choice in the Great Era (1)
The inspection team of the Ministry of Agriculture led by Director Zhang of the Department of Planting Industry came down a little suddenly.
The wave of large-scale agricultural operation in Henan Province has even opened the prelude to a new round of wheat industry upgrading. With such a big movement, it is natural that it will not be invisible from above. In order to understand the most real situation, the inspection team of the Ministry of Agriculture went to Henan without any advance notice.
But no matter how you look at it, the Jiagu cooperative is a role that cannot be ignored.
After arriving at the destination, seeing the sign of Jiagu XX Township Cooperative from a distance, Director Zhang turned his head and said with a smile: "In recent years, our department has tracked and investigated some areas of agricultural production, and we can always see Jiagu cooperatives blooming everywhere, I have to say, it's quite amazing. ”
Qi Zheng smiled slightly, and did not pretend to be modest.
As far as this achievement is concerned, Qi Zheng also thinks that Jiagu is quite remarkable.
Director Zhang sighed with emotion and expectation.
There has never been a better time than today when times have changed.
In those years, the household responsibility system was aimed at the egalitarianism of the people's communes, so the efficiency was greatly improved. But this efficiency continues to this day, and the energy released is almost enough, and there is no more to do if you want the labor force to make a fuss on these few acres of land. The efficiency of this kind of family-style agricultural production has completely failed to meet the needs of marketization.
Especially today's domestic and foreign price differentials - the international economies that export agricultural products are mainly the United States, Canada, Australia, Brazil and other large countries, their agricultural production efficiency is higher than our domestic agricultural production efficiency, so the price of their agricultural products to our port is lower than the purchase price of our own domestic production.
Therefore, as long as the import of one agricultural product is liberalized, it will be very difficult for domestic similar agricultural products to maintain production. The most typical is soybeans.
Thinking of this, Director Zhang couldn't help but glance at Qi Zheng again.
Although the soybean case has been brought up many times, the ministry still enjoys it, because it is really a clear and "inspirational" example.
The large-scale production model of domestic soybeans led by Jiagu is much more advanced and more efficient than the original family-contracted production mode. After the birth of "Jiadou 13", the cost of domestic soybeans can even be lower than that of imported soybeans.
Even so, if the Far East is included, the self-sufficiency rate of domestic soybeans has recovered to 40%, which has made overseas soybean producers feel like a formidable enemy.
It can be said that it is precisely because of this glamorous example that the opinions on large-scale agricultural operation have formed an overwhelming advantage inside and outside the industry.
There is another opinion that has basically reached a consensus - on the road of large-scale agricultural development, there must be industrial and commercial capital to go to the countryside.
Large-scale production can improve productivity and production levels, but such improvement is difficult to achieve without the intervention of industrial and commercial capital. Large-scale planting requires the purchase of powerful machinery and the purchase of a large number of excellent means of production, which require capital investment. Relying on peasant households to get together to set up cooperatives is very low. By concentrating land alone, we cannot achieve so-called advanced productive forces.
Therefore, the Ministry of Agriculture maintains a cautious and optimistic attitude towards the vigorous involvement of industrial and commercial capital in the large-scale operation of wheat in Henan Province.
Nearly 30% of the land in Henan Province has been transferred, which also shows that large-scale land management has become a general trend. Of course, a more in-depth investigation followed.
Director Zhang was very concerned about Qi Zheng's attitude, and when he saw him smiling and silent, he thought he was scrupling about something, so he smiled and said: "To be honest, the company sample that our department has tracked and investigated for the longest time is Jiagu. An important conclusion from our survey is that the wealth created per mu of land created by a few acres of land contracted by households is 30 to 40 percent worse than the tens of thousands of acres cultivated by the Jiagu cooperatives, which is a very staggering statistic......
That is to say, there are more than 1.8 billion mu of cultivated land in China, and if the efficiency can be increased by 30% like the Jiagu cooperatives, 1.8 billion mu of cultivated land will be equivalent to an additional 400 million mu to 500 million mu of land. If I can increase it to 40%, my god ......
"Is it so high?" At first glance, Qi Zheng was stunned for a moment.
He was not surprised that Jiagu had a special file in the Ministry of Agriculture, and he was surprised that Jiagu's file would be "thick" to such an extent.
"Of course. Director Zhang naturally couldn't let Qi Zheng feel that he was patting his head and coming up with it, so he opened his mouth and said: "Take Henan Province as an example, the survey shows that according to the current agricultural production conditions and technical level, the average grain production cost per mu of large grain growers is more than 960 yuan, and the net income is more than 1,190 yuan, while the average grain production cost per mu of ordinary farmers is more than 1,240 yuan, and the net income is more than 1,040 yuan. ”
"On the whole, the average grain production cost per mu of large grain growers is 22.3% lower than that of ordinary households, and the average income per mu is 14.4% higher than that of ordinary households, and the income of large-scale grain production is significantly higher than that of retail households. However, the survey also shows that from the perspective of unit input-output benefits, the average production cost per mu of Jiagu cooperatives is at least 10% lower than that of large grain growers, and the average income per mu is 15%-20% higher than that of large grain growers...... I'm right. ”
Qi Zheng couldn't help but admire: "You have a really good memory." ”
Such a series of data blurted out, even a little poor memory can't do it.
At the same time, Qi Zheng had to admit that the Ministry of Agriculture's follow-up investigation of Jiagu was also detailed to a certain extent. The assessment given by Director Zhang is actually quite close to the internal data of Jiagu.
In other words, even if it is also a large-scale operation, Jiagu has long gone beyond the realm of a large grain grower.
"In this great era, Jiagu is just fortunate to be one step ahead, but I also hope that the overall agricultural production efficiency of the country can reach the level of Jiagu as soon as possible. Qi Zheng said confidently.
He also sincerely hopes that this self-confidence will be transmitted.
"But how do the front-line farmers at the grassroots level think about this process, or can they really accept all this calmly?" the voice came from behind him.
Qi Zheng turned around and saw that it was a young man in the delegation who looked to be in his early thirties.
"Let me introduce you. He Mingzhe, this is the rising star of our Ministry of Agriculture. Director Zhang pointed at the young man and said half-jokingly.
From his expression, it is not difficult to know that He Mingzhe has a background.
Actually, without him saying it, Qi Zheng also thought of it. If you dare to interject in front of the leader, you are either stunned or full of confidence. With the shrewd and capable appearance of this guy, no matter how you look at it, it should belong to the latter.
It's just this young man who doesn't know what background he is, and he looks at Qi Zheng with a little disbelief.
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