Why the state should pay so much attention to rural professional cooperatives

Vigorously developing rural professional cooperatives is not only an important means of upgrading the level of agricultural industry development under the conditions of market economy, promoting the promotion of advanced agricultural science and technology, enhancing the ability of farmers to compete in the market, fostering the farmers' sense of democracy and cooperation, improving the degree of farmers' organization, and increasing the farmers' incomes, but also an effective carrier to promote the construction of a new socialist countryside to achieve the goals of "production development, affluent, clean villages, civilized countryside and democratic management". It is also an effective carrier to promote the construction of the new socialist countryside and achieve the goal of "productive development, affluent life, clean village, civilized countryside, democratic management", and it is the entry point and an important hand to solve the problem of the "Three Rural Issues", to promote the construction of the new countryside, and to build a harmonious society in the countryside.

First of all, the farmers' professional cooperatives is to improve the level of organization of farmers, promote the development of production, farmers to increase income and wealth of an important way to build a new socialist countryside is the most critical to the development of rural productive forces, increase farmers' income. This is the material basis for farmers to improve their living standards and quality of life, improve the appearance of villages and promote the civilization of the countryside. However, under the conditions of market economy, the farmers' single-family small-scale decentralized operation, small planting area, low yield, high cost of agricultural production, it is difficult to form the advantages of scale, coupled with the lack of information, low scientific and technological content, weak economic strength, the economic benefits of agriculture is not obvious. Agriculture as a vulnerable industry, farmers as a vulnerable group of people's position is more prominent. Farmers' professional cooperatives, as a kind of farmers' mutual assistance and cooperation nature of the economic organization, through joint production, large-scale operation, can effectively organize the scattered capital, labor, land and market, to solve the market "small farmers" and "big market" docking and adaptation problems, at a lower cost. and adapt to the problem, with lower transaction costs into the market, reduce transaction costs, improve the added value of agricultural and sideline products, to achieve the purpose of farmers continue to increase income, living rich; also conducive to solving the stabilization of family contract responsibility management and expand the scale of operation of the contradiction between the farmers and leading enterprises, to promote the industrialization of agricultural management, enhance the market competitiveness of the farmers and agriculture, and gradually increase the negotiating position in the market competition. negotiating position in the market competition.

Secondly, farmers' professional cooperatives are an important channel for promoting agricultural science and technology, cultivating new types of farmers, and improving the quality of farmers Farmers are the masters of the countryside, and are the main force in the construction of the new socialist countryside. The construction of new countryside, should pay attention to the development and utilization of rural human resources, strengthen the rural labor force of science and technology and vocational skills training, improve the quality of science and technology and culture of farmers, to train and create a number of cultured, know how to do business, a new type of farmers. And improve agricultural science and technology training, improve the scientific and technological and cultural skills of members of farmers' professional cooperatives, is one of the main functions of farmers' professional cooperatives to provide services for their members. Farmers' professional cooperatives training, often combined with the cooperative business projects, according to the actual production needs and the characteristics of the farm time, through indoor lectures, scientific demonstrations and on-site guidance, dissemination of new technologies, new information, new results, to solve the real problems in production and management, has a strong relevance and timeliness, easy to arouse the farmers' strong interest in learning, not only to effectively improve the production skills of the farmers and the overall quality, but also to promote the new agricultural science and technology, and to improve the quality of farmers. It can effectively improve farmers' production skills and comprehensive quality, and also promote the popularization, popularization and application of new achievements in agricultural science and technology. At the same time, farmers' professional cooperatives also provide a platform for the majority of farmers to learn business management, marketing, law and other aspects of knowledge, which can enable farmers to promote science and technology, division of labor, organization and management, marketing, external contacts and other aspects of the exercise, and is conducive to enhancing the scientific and technological awareness of farmers and the spirit of cooperation, and to improve the ability to adapt to the market economy, the acceptance of new things.

Thirdly, farmers' professional cooperatives are the effective place to implement democratic management, democratic supervision, and cultivate farmers' sense of democracy and cooperation. Farmers' professional cooperatives are on the basis of rural family contracting, the producers and operators of the same kind of agricultural products or the same kind of agricultural production and operation services providers, users, voluntary joint, democratic management of mutual assistance in the economic organization, and its most important characteristics are Its most important feature is that it is "run by the people, managed by the people, and benefited by the people", and it is voluntarily joined and democratically managed. Each specialized cooperative requires the formulation of cooperative statutes, the duties of the board of directors and supervisory board, the duties of the members' representative assembly, and systems for training, financial management, distribution, etc., which play a positive role in regulating the behavior of members and implementing democratic collective management. In particular, farmers' professional cooperatives are closely related to the economic interests of cooperative members, and every farmer has the subjective desire and intrinsic enthusiasm to participate in democratic decision-making and democratic supervision according to their own economic interests and requirements, which makes the majority of members of cooperatives directly participate in the production, operation, management and supervision of the cooperative economic organization, and get the exercise of democratic management, and gradually enhance the sense of participation, democratic consciousness and supervision. Awareness of participation, democracy and supervision. It can be said that the farmers' cooperative is the farmers' self-education, strengthen the democratic management, the implementation of democratic self-government school, is the fundamental way to improve the quality of farmers.

Fourth, the development of farmers' professional cooperatives is also conducive to the promotion of comprehensive reform of rural areas, and a better solution to the agricultural input mechanism, land scale management, collective economic management, rural grassroots organization construction and many other issues In the implementation of the Farmers' Professional Cooperatives Law and the implementation of the State's relevant policies and measures to promote the development of farmers' professional cooperatives, localities should take full advantage of the local traditional advantages, resource advantages, around the local traditional and professional cooperatives, to make full use of local conditions and to promote the development of farmers' professional cooperatives.