Since 1997, increase of peasant's per capita net income of our country
has already dropped for 4 years in succession. Peasant's income increased
about 2%ly in 2000. So increasing peasant's income by every possible
means is an important task during the State's Tenth Five-Year Plan
period. It is impossible to increase peasants¨ income through general
price rising of agricultural product as before, because the price
of the agricultural product of our country is higher than that of
international market at present. So, the only solution is to adjust
agriculture and rural economic structure. In terms of structural adjustment
of agricultural product, developing fine-products agriculture should
be an important action while steadying production of a large amount
of agricultural products and protecting agricultural production capacity.
The concept of
fine-products agriculture is defined from its final products, which
are the fine products and top-grade products, which are different
from general agricultural products. Fine-products agriculture does
not equate with the "three high agriculture" totally, namely
high quality, Hi-Tech, high additional value, besides which, it has
these characteristics of high market competence, high price and high
income that is its market characteristic, is the very vitality. Fine-products
agriculture is in a favorable status and has relatively strong competitiveness
because of the quality of its products. Its products are the treasures
or scarce products in the market.
At present, a
large amount of agricultural products¨ price tends towards stability,
and the peasants¨ yield increases but their income not. While the
price of some fine agricultural products is so high to make people
startling. Such as, 100 yuan for an apple, 40 yuan for a fresh peach,
8 yuan for a big cherry, etc. The holding capacity in the market is
really incredible. Such high price can be accepted by the market because
of the changes of the structure of consumption market of agricultural
products. Though for a midium or long term, the supply situation of
the grain of our country will be tight, with the constant improvement
of agricultural integrated production capacity, the supply of the
agricultural product has already turned from overall shortage into
a basic balance of total amount. Meanwhile, the demands for the agricultural
products show the trend of diversification and high quality. Urban
family is in the upgrading stage of new consumption structure, and
they put forward the new demands about variety, quality, and grade
of agricultural product, which offers market space for the development
of fine-products agriculture.
Agricultural
production is not merely the economic reproducing, but also the natural
reproduction, which has irreversibility in production. In terms of
fine-products agriculture, there are many variable factors in production
and operating activities, which can be adapted to only through assigning
the policy-making power of production and management to production
operators and the family. Fine-products agriculture should be developed
on the base of household management and of the stability of household
contract responsibility system.
Fine-products
agriculture does not equate with "three high agriculture"
totally. The former can adopt modern Hi-Tech as well as traditional
technology. It is clear that the function of Hi-Tech in developing
fine-products agriculture is equally very important. The fine-products
agriculture should be the modern agriculture with "plow plus
mouse". The cultivation of fine variety, the promotion of the
production operation level and improvement of the production facility
can not do without Hi-Tech. The fine products can be sold at profitable
price with the aid of the modern information network system.
The agricultural products demand more in terms of storage, transportation
and selling, without which the products are unable to be the treasures
in market finally, and small production unit, such as family, has
difficulty in solving these problems. If the peasants from their own
family go to the market to sell their products with a basket, it is
difficult to make profit, let alone monopolization and getting the
superprofit. So while stabilizing the household contract responsibility
system, the role of managing in collective must be given fully play
to. It is also important to help the peasant household in solving
these problems of processing, storage, transportation and selling,
etc. Fine-products agriculture has heavy investment and risk as well
as profit. The implementation of double-layer management system, which
combines the centralization with decentralization of family and collective,
is able to resist the risk better and offer the steady income and
essential social security to peasant.
Our country is
vast in territory, and the species resources are abundant. It is a
country where the agriculture develops relatively early, and it has
the tradition of intensive cultivation. All these offer the advantage
for developing fine-products agriculture. Especially with the WTO
entry of China, in the case of a large amount of agricultural products
meeting more obstruction, it can strengthen export capacity of agricultural
product to develop fine-products agriculture, thus the peasants will
make more incomes in the international market. |
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