Lack of policy support for some professional prevention organizations is difficult to sustain
Improper use of pesticides is an important factor affecting the safety of agricultural ecology and the quality and safety of agricultural products. The current difficulty in ensuring the quality and safety of agricultural products lies in the inability of one family to link up with agricultural production and standardized production. Promoting professional and unified defense is an effective way to solve these problems.
In a recent survey of provinces such as Anhui, Hubei, Jiangxi, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang, the reporter found that the unified prevention and control of diseases and insect pests was welcomed by farmers. However, due to lack of policy support, some localities have been slow to develop, and specialized prevention and control organizations are faced with difficulties.
The peasants have a hope for the professional unified defense
“The most prominent problem in agricultural production now is that the pest prevention and control links are too weak, and there is a lack of specialized prevention and control teams.†At the grassroots interview, the majority of farmers and grassroots plant protection workers told the China Economic Times reporter.
Yan Demin, a national labor model and a large grain producer in Feixi County of Anhui Province, told reporters that in rural areas, as China's industrialization process has accelerated, many rural young and middle-aged laborers have chosen to go out to work. Most of them are engaged in agricultural production at home and abroad. Due to the lack of pest control knowledge, coupled with a large number of pesticides, farmers with low levels of education are often at a loss as to what to do, and it is quite common for farmers to fight drugs indiscriminately.
According to Yan Demin, crop pest control is a professional, technical, and time-sensitive job. Taking rice as an example, the outbreaks of rice planthoppers are generally only 3-5 days in each generation, and rice leaf roller is also only about one week. When it comes to prevention and control, what kind of medicine is used for prevention and control, it is difficult for farmers to accurately grasp, and it is easy to miss the best. The timing of prevention and control. As a result, the disease resistance of pests and diseases has increased, the cost of prevention and control has risen, and the effect of prevention and control has declined. This has also had an adverse effect on the agricultural ecological environment.
At present, the main problems in the prevention and control of pests and diseases, in Yan Demin's view, is that prevention and treatment are not timely, resulting in undue losses. Second, blind drug use is more common, affecting the yield and quality of food and aggravating environmental pollution. Third, some peasant households go out to work after sowing, and the crops at home are left unattended.
“Anhui Province has more than 10 million farmers working outside the country every year, and the problem of preventing and controlling diseases and pests among thousands of households has become increasingly prominent, which has severely restricted agricultural production. The majority of farmers are very much looking forward to the prevention and control of crop pests and diseases by replacing one household with specialized prevention and treatment.†Yan Demin Say.
Agricultural Production Demands Demand for Pest and Disease Specialization
Plant protection is a science. It is unrealistic for every farmer to be able to fully grasp the knowledge of pest control in a timely manner. The official responsible for the plant protection work of the Crop Management Department of the Ministry of Agriculture said in an interview with the China Economic Times.
According to him, professional and unified defense is the transformation of traditional methods of pest prevention and control. The practice of decentralizing the work of each household is centralized by prevention and control organizations and technical personnel with professional skills, and it is adopted through unified organization and unified prevention and control. In particular, the purchase of pesticides, the unified supply, and the unified management, in order to improve the level of prevention and control organization, to achieve a multiplier effect.
He told reporters that at present, pest and disease control is facing a very serious situation. On the one hand, due to changes in nature, climate, and conditions of cultivation, pests and diseases are becoming more and more ecological. For example, infestations such as rice planthoppers and rice leaf roller insects have occurred in recent years. On the other hand, invasive alien organisms cause serious damage to agriculture. Therefore, vigorously advancing professional and unified defense is of great significance in responding to the current severe pest and disease control situation and ensuring food security in China.
With the popularization of agricultural mechanization, grain production and harvesting have become quite widespread. At present, the main factor that affects the food production technically is pest control. According to the above-mentioned officials of the Crop Management Department of the Ministry of Agriculture, the specialization and unified prevention and defense system as an important social service for grain production can alleviate the worries of the old and weak laborers engaged in food production after the peasants enter the cities to a certain extent. In response, the Ministry of Agriculture has advocated active exploration in various regions and vigorously promoted the specialization of unified defense. Practice in all regions has proved that the specialization and prevention of diseases and pests in crops is conducive to promoting the development of social service organizations in rural areas and is conducive to further stabilizing food production and other crops. Product safety production.