Why is rural land abandonment becoming more and more serious now? If farmers no longer farm, will there be a shortage of food?

Introduction:

Migrant workers from all over the country have returned to their hometowns with the wave of returning home. After all, no matter how busy they are, they must gather with their wives, children and children during the Chinese New Year. , have a meal together and chat about what happened in the past year.

But this period of time is short-lived for migrant workers after all. A few days after returning home, migrant workers will return to the city one after another and continue to move bricks on the construction site or deliver food or express delivery. .

In the past few years, many migrant workers who have returned to their hometowns have gradually discovered a phenomenon, that is, there are more and more fields in the village that have been abandoned for a long time and are overgrown with weeds.

In other words, there are fewer and fewer people farming and opening fields.

But it is obvious that agriculture is constantly being modernized and mechanized, making it much easier than before. Why do people no longer want to farm? Will we not have enough food to eat in the future?

1. Why are rural people increasingly reluctant to farm? Will there not be enough food in the future?

I still remember that in 1980 and 1990, there was no land waste in the country. On the contrary, there was not enough land to divide it.

The land distribution that had just started at that time assigned many families their own fields. The common people could farm their own land and eat their own food. They no longer had to work for the landlords and had enough to eat.

The farmers during that time were very active. After all, this was the free life they had been away from for a long time. When the land was not enough, they often opened mountains and opened fields.

But later, with the development of the times, there was a craze for migrant workers to work in cities, and even travel thousands of miles to work in southern cities.

The fields that were once cultivated gradually became uncared for and eventually turned into wasteland, and now is the most serious stage of wasteland.

Why is there such a craze?

1. The cost-effectiveness of farmers' farming is getting lower and lower

At first, the country allocated all the fields to farmers, and the people could eat the food they grew. But now It only satisfied the common people's food and clothing, but judging from the conditions at the time, it was already a great achievement to prevent the common people from going hungry.

But now the whole country is developing rapidly, and living standards are also improving rapidly. Among them, prices are rising faster than living standards.

Everything is very expensive nowadays, except food.

Farmers now need seeds, pesticides, fertilizers and some machinery for farming. The prices of these things are constantly rising, but the price of food has always been stable.

Farmers' profits are getting smaller and smaller, and they can no longer rely on farming to meet their daily needs. The cost-effectiveness of farming is currently too low, so they can only choose other ways to make ends meet.

2. Those who went to cities to work had good results.

In fact, during the period when fields were distributed to households, a small number of farmers had already entered the city to work hard.

That group of workers was also the first to leave agricultural production. At that time, the country's industry was in a period of development, and various construction sites were in great need of manpower.

So the migration of these farmers to cities also played an important role in the development of the country.

It is precisely because of this that these workers earned a lot of money during that period.

After returning to the village, the villagers saw it and were very envious, so soon there was a wave of people going to the city to work.

At present, it seems that whether it was then or now, the salary of working in the city is much higher than that of farming in the village. Everyone is trying to make a living, so there is nothing wrong with giving up farming and working in the city.

2. If farmland is so severely abandoned, will we not have enough food to eat in the future?

As a result, many people are beginning to worry that so many farmers are now moving to cities to work.

And if the land is so badly abandoned, will we have no food to eat in the future, or food production will be greatly reduced, food prices will start to rise, etc.

In fact, the population loss in rural areas is indeed serious now, with nearly half of the population in the East Village.

They have all moved to cities, and most of the remaining population are elderly people and children, so there is a very shortage of labor in rural areas.

But in fact, such worries are unnecessary, because although the abandonment of cultivated land in our country is very serious, there is also a lot of reuse of cultivated land.

Due to the fluctuations, the amount of cultivated land in our country has not changed significantly from beginning to end.

And if you think about it carefully, you can actually find that in the past two or three years, our country has been affected by the epidemic, and all walks of life have been hit to a certain extent.

But there has never been a shortage of food.

In other words, our country's current food production is sufficient, and our country also has a national treasury.

Even if our country's food production is greatly reduced for some reasons, our country will not be short of food within one or two years just relying on the national treasury.

Summary: The reason why farmers in our country are becoming more and more reluctant to farm is mainly because farming is becoming less and less profitable, and cities are developing faster and faster.

For ordinary people, instead of farming in the countryside and waiting for opportunities, it is better to seek development in the city.

But no matter what, our country will not be short of food, because our country has sufficient strength and reserves, so don't worry.