Why should we vigorously cultivate new professional farmers?

The new professional farmers are modern agricultural practitioners who take agriculture as their occupation, have corresponding professional skills, and their income mainly comes from agricultural production and management and reach a considerable level. The new professional farmers are modern agricultural practitioners who take agriculture as their occupation, have corresponding professional skills, and their income mainly comes from agricultural production and management and reach a considerable level. ? The difference between the new farmers and the traditional farmers is that the former is an active choice of "occupation" and the latter is a passive branded "identity". ? New professional farmers can be divided into three types: production and operation, professional skills and social service.

The reason why we should vigorously cultivate new professional farmers is because the quality of workers engaged in agricultural production and management directly affects the process of transforming traditional agriculture into modern agriculture. New-type professional farmers are an important subject to revitalize the countryside and develop modern agriculture. Cultivating new professional farmers is of great significance for accelerating agricultural modernization and promoting rural economic and social development.

Compared with traditional farmers, new professional farmers are "new" in the following aspects. First, master advanced agricultural production technology and be good at managing agricultural products. New professional farmers are superior to traditional farmers in scientific and technological knowledge, labor skills, management quality and management experience. They are modern agricultural producers and operators, with high cultural literacy and agricultural professional and technical ability. Second, it has certain openness and liquidity. Traditional farmers are rooted in the land, but they are often confined to the land, which is difficult to flow and has a certain degree of closure. The new professional farmers can be local farmers or foreign farmers. As a profession, they can flow freely and have corresponding openness. Third, career choice depends on the dual factors of self-choice and market choice. Different from the intergenerational transmission of traditional farmers, new professional farmers have a certain preference for agricultural production and management and are good at coping with market changes. Their agricultural production and management is the result of self-choice and market choice.