What is the current situation of farmers' income? Analyze the reasons?

Farmers' income is related to the overall situation of building a harmonious society in an all-round way in China. Without farmers' income, there can be no harmonious society. Exempting agricultural taxes and fees plays an extremely important role in increasing farmers' income and stabilizing farmers' agricultural sentiment, but we can't relax our attention to agriculture and farmers' income.

First, the main characteristics of farmers' income

1. Diversified income sources. This is mainly manifested as follows: (1) The pattern of relying on "small agriculture" as the only source of income has been completely broken, and the income of "big agriculture" has become the main source of farmers' income as a whole. (2) Labor economy has become an indispensable part of farmers' income. There are more than 200,000 migrant workers in our county every year, and labor income has accounted for nearly 40% of farmers' net income. (3) Wage income becomes the main source of farmers' cash income.

2. The income of farmers is unstable. The increase or decrease of farmers' income is influenced by many factors, among which the main factors are: (1) lack of long-term effective income mechanism and stable income source, and the foundation of increasing income is not firm. Climate conditions, weather conditions, natural disasters, ecological environment, economic and social emergencies, etc. Have a great impact on farmers' income. (2) The adjustment of national agricultural policies will have different effects on farmers' income from different levels and ranges. For example, the implementation of agricultural specialty tax in the past actually reduced farmers' income to some extent. (3) Part of farmers' income is accidental, such as subsidy income, which lost its land, and the price factor that drives farmers' income. (4) The actions and omissions of the government have an important influence on the increase and decrease of farmers' income. If a government does something for agriculture, it will definitely increase farmers' income, and vice versa.

3. The income of farmers is unbalanced. This balance is mainly manifested in the imbalance between regions and the imbalance within regions. (1) The income of farmers in the eastern region is generally higher than that in the central and western regions; (2) The income of suburban (town) farmers is generally higher than that of rural farmers; (3) There is also an income imbalance between people and families. Among the rural residents in our county, the annual income of many families has exceeded 1 10,000 yuan, but the per capita annual net income of some farmers living in remote mountainous areas is less than that of 600 yuan.

4. Implementing a series of policies has increased farmers' income. (1) The reform of rural taxes and fees has promoted the increase of farmers' income, and the reduction of rural burden has correspondingly increased farmers' income. (2) The adjustment of agricultural structure has promoted the increase of farmers' income. (3) The development of non-agricultural industries has promoted farmers' income.

Second, the main problems

1, the policy implementation is weak, and the behavior of obeying Yin is outstanding. It is reported that after the tax and fee reform, there are still some places that charge for hitchhiking. Although this phenomenon is not the majority, it is at least a microcosm of disobeying the central government's "burden reduction order" and doing everything possible to increase the burden on farmers.

2. "exaggeration" should not be underestimated. The reasons for the rise, popularity and even flooding of "grandiosity" are mainly reflected in three aspects: first, the fiscal and taxation burden of hierarchical distribution is too heavy to complete the task according to the actual net income of farmers; Second, the need for their own income; Third, political achievements are needed. The best combination of the three is to increase farmers' income, but farmers' income can not be increased overnight in a year or so.

3. Farmers have low income, slow growth and insufficient stamina. This is mainly manifested in: (1) Relevant data show that from 1996 to 2003, the per capita real income of farmers only increased by 4%, which is less than half of the per capita disposable income of urban residents, and far from the average annual growth rate of the national economy of nearly 8%. (2) At present, the increase of farmers' income mainly depends on the increase of labor income and investment income. In fact, this increase is only a part of farmers' income, and the effect of most farmers' income increase is not obvious, and some even have negative growth. (3) The development of rural non-agricultural industries, such as township enterprises and agricultural products processing enterprises, lags behind, which leads to the decrease of the contribution rate of non-agricultural industries to farmers' income growth. (4) The low income of farmers and the lack of government financial resources directly lead to the lack of agricultural input, which includes both human, material and financial inputs, as well as material and other intangible inputs. Due to the lack of sufficient investment, many agricultural infrastructures have fallen into disrepair, agricultural production conditions have deteriorated, and the ability to resist disasters and prevent diseases has gradually declined, which has affected the steady growth of farmers' income.

4. Farmers have a heavy burden. With the reduction and exemption of agricultural tax, the burden of farmers' economic expenditure is relatively reduced, but with the change of situation and policy, the contradictions and problems of farmers' income and expenditure will also change, and the burden of farmers will also appear in new forms. The performance is as follows: First, although the agricultural tax has been abolished, the new charging items and forms of "there are policies at the top and countermeasures at the bottom" are likely to become new burdens for farmers. Second, the prices of agricultural means of production, such as chemical fertilizers, pesticides and seeds, have risen, and farmers' income has "risen in the open and fallen in the dark". Third, the high cost of acquiring knowledge has become a new burden for farmers. On the one hand, although compulsory education in the central and western regions entered the free stage in 2006, the cost of training a high school student, a college student and a graduate student is a heavy burden for farmers; On the other hand, it is an indisputable fact that it is difficult for farmers to see a doctor, buy books, train and receive education. Fourth, the business burden is still heavy. The unfair mentality of some government departments towards farmers and the "official" thinking of some public officials make it difficult for farmers to speak and do things.

Third, suggestions and explorations to increase farmers' income.

Farmers' income is not only an economic issue, but also an important political issue. If the problem of farmers' income is not solved well, it will definitely affect the stability of the national political situation and other relations over time. Therefore, increasing farmers' income should not be just a loud slogan, an eye-catching slogan and a set of statistics on water injection.

1, completely exempting farmers from the burden. With the cancellation of the national agricultural tax, the burden on farmers is relatively reduced, but it is not enough to just "reduce". We must completely exempt farmers from all tax burdens and completely realize zero burden on farmers.

2, the higher government must strengthen supervision, severely investigate and deal with the behavior of increasing the burden on farmers. In the past, an important reason why farmers were overburdened was that some village (township) cadres ignored the policies and regulations of the party and the state in order to seek narrow interests of individuals or departments, and made arbitrary charges under various pretexts, treating farmers as meat on the chopping block. In view of the lessons of the rebound of farmers' burden in the past, the central government must intensify unannounced visits and take severe punishment measures to punish the behavior of collecting any money from farmers.

3, increase government support, not superficial, and effectively increase effective investment in agriculture. (1) Continue to adjust the rural industrial structure and develop non-agricultural industries; (2) helping farmers to expand the market; (3) create conditions to make the labor export organized and large-scale, strengthen and expand the labor economy, and help migrant workers safeguard their rights and interests; (4) Increase investment in infrastructure construction; (5) Free training for farmers to improve their quality and increase the scientific and technological content of agricultural production; (6) Increase direct subsidies to agriculture and make it open, fair and transparent. Governments at all levels should use television, newspapers, Internet and other mass media to announce the specific amount of subsidies to farmers to prevent various subsidies from shrinking in the process of operation.

4. streamline the organization. County and township (town) governments, regardless of size, have complete institutions. Even if it is not a village with a first-level government, there are "three sets of people", with bloated institutions and many people. The operation of the organization, the salary of "parents" and the office expenses are basically supplied by finance. Most of these finances, especially village and township finances, are supported by farmers' money. In order to reduce the financial burden and prevent the deterioration of farmers' burden, it is necessary to greatly streamline institutions and abolish redundant staff. It is necessary to strictly control the scale of political organizations at all levels and limit the positions, staffing and quantity.

5, the state should formulate a series of laws and regulations to protect the legitimate rights and interests of farmers, and use legal means to crack down on acts that increase the burden on farmers.