What problems have surfaced in the traditional rice-fish farming model due to the impact of modern agriculture?

Taking the rice-fish farming in Long Xian Village, Qingtian County, Zhejiang Province as an example, as one of the first projects of globally important agricultural heritage, due to the impact of modern agricultural technology, some farmers have been gradually detached from the traditional mode, in line with the modernization. Although the traditional mode of rice-field fish farming has been inherited, it still faces many problems, specifically in the following aspects.

1, the lack of traditional technology inheritors.

Long now village existing farmland of about 400 acres, more than 140 ponds. Under the impact of modernization, the opportunity cost of labor is increasing, Long now the village has mastered the core technology of rice paddy fish farmers are not many, especially the cultivation of the core technology of fish fry, it can be said that there are only a few people mastered, the old ancestors inherited the agricultural technology is gradually out of their lives. Because farmers can earn more money by working than by staying in the village to grow rice and fish, this makes some people give up this traditional production method. The area of rice-fish farming is gradually decreasing, and there is even a situation in which only rice is planted without fish farming or only fish are raised without rice farming.

In addition, under the influence of the local custom of going abroad, the young people in the family are willing to choose to go abroad, and the parents all want their children to go abroad, and they feel that it is a loss of face for anyone who doesn't have an overseas Chinese in their family. Most of the village is now filled with old people and children, and only some of the older people still retain the tradition of farming and raising fish. The lack of labor caused by the departure of young adults abroad has put the traditional agricultural technique of rice-field fish farming in danger of being lost.

2, the impact of marketization.

Farmers engaged in traditional agriculture in order to obtain more benefits, changed the original production technology, making the traditional technology by a certain impact. Since being recognized as a "globally important agricultural cultural heritage", Long Xian Village has become famous, with many people coming here to taste the delicacy of field fish and watch the agricultural landscape of rice-fish **** birth.

According to the villagers, because the water is good, the fish scales of the field fish here are soft and can be eaten directly, but not if the field fish are raised elsewhere, and the fish scales become hard. And the left side of the mountain water is not as good as the right side, from both sides of the water to take equal containers, the right side of the left side of the weight of 5%, how good it is not good to say, it is said that the United Nations people came over to visit the time also said that this place is good water. Long now this feature of the field fish, loved by tourists, dried field fish is also quite popular. Dried field fish is one of the important objects to be preserved in the agricultural cultural heritage of the rice-fish***growing system. The dried fish was originally used for self-consumption, mainly for children to eat as snacks and to give to relatives and friends abroad, but after the village came to the tourists, some family conditions are not very good, so they make dried fish for sale, so as to increase some income.

Overall, the problem with traditional agriculture is that it needs to be inherited, developed, and integrated with the modern market economy.