Some people say that farmers feed urban residents. Do you think it is reliable?

Farmers account for the vast majority of China's population of over one billion. Therefore, in rural areas, it is often heard that "farmers farm to feed the city people", and some people have carefully scrutinized this statement, which is not only praising the greatness of farmers, but also unfair. Many friends in the city think that "the city people are beginning to feed the rural people". Let's see what they think.

Netizen Chen Feng's view:

People in our city don't print money. Who will pay for your grandson's tuition?

We workers don't make hoes. Who will make tools for you farmers! Don't you all have to starve?

We workers don't make fertilizer. Whoever irrigates your farmers' crops will starve to death!

Anonymous user:

1. Farmers will not farm for the city people for free. Since it's business, there's nothing to say. The seeds, fertilizers and pesticides you used for farming were not given by the city people, and others didn't say anything. If we city people don't provide it, you farmers can't even plant fields.

2. At present, the main commodity grain supply is those producing areas, many of which are large state-owned enterprises and have little to do with individual farmers. However, if there are no farmers to grow vegetables, people in the city will really feel uncomfortable.

The price of domestic food is higher than that of foreign food. If farmers really stop farming, they don't have to worry about subsidies. Maybe the price of food in the city will come down. As for starvation, it's hard to say, not in the short term, not in the long term.

Netizen Yu's point of view:

As a city resident, I used to think this statement was impeccable. It was not until I read a book written by an economics teacher that I was shocked-the development of industry made the importance of "farmers" decline in agriculture, and today's "farmers" are only a part of agriculture.

Today's agriculture relies heavily on technology. Water conservancy, chemical fertilizer, pesticide, agricultural machinery, cold-resistant technology (such as greenhouse), research and development and cultivation of excellent seeds, research and development and cultivation of excellent varieties, upgrading of feed and so on. The role of "farmers" in grain production is getting smaller and smaller, while the role of "science and technology" in grain production is getting bigger and bigger.

The focus of modern science and technology is still the city. Most modern universities and scientific research institutions were born in cities. Most scientific and technological talents are trained here.

Besides, the food eaten by city dwellers is really planted by farmers, but many things necessary for farmers' lives are really developed and produced by city dwellers. Farmers and urban people are both laborers, and they should be in a relationship of mutual need and cooperation, not a relationship in which one considers himself a benefactor.

In the industrial age, if farmers still think that "if farmers don't farm, who will feed the city people", then farmers exaggerate their importance.

The netizen's point of view of calling the beast:

First of all, it is impossible for farmers not to farm. Don't farmers eat it themselves? Secondly, even assuming that farmers only grow enough food for themselves, where can farmers get income to meet their consumption needs? You're not really naive enough to think that the state will give you a package of medical care and education, are you? Therefore, if farmers in China don't farm, the consequence is that employees in the secondary and tertiary industries can only buy relatively expensive foreign food (rice, potatoes, other miscellaneous grains, etc.). ), the cost of living will also be pushed up. The collateral effect is to force more capable people to emigrate overseas. The farmers in China will be completely reduced to a group of people with the most useless future in the world, and they will never turn over.

The view that rural people feed urban people

Netizen Spellgood point of view:

I hope that one day, the words "city people" and "rural people" will disappear from our language. Farmers contribute the most and earn the least; Suffering is the heaviest and grievances are the deepest. Farmers grow food to feed the whole country, but they have always been regarded as second-class citizens. Farmers are welded to the ground by hukou, and when they enter the city, they become vagrants and suspicious elements. But when the famine came, farmers were the first to starve to death.

Some experts say: it is farmers who farm to feed the city people. That's right, logical thinking is not chaotic at all. Think about it carefully, from the president to the emperor to the beggar, everyone can't live without food. Everyone works hard to get something to eat and maintain the continuation of life!

Of course, many city people say that they are also very hard and under great pressure every day, but how many people are willing to exchange their wages in the city for jobs? I just don't want to, but now the discrimination against farmers in the city has never decreased. In the past, farmers had to pay public grain in order to feed the city people. Although public grain is no longer distributed, food prices have never risen, and farmers have given up their own interests to feed the city people. Otherwise, people in cities will be the biggest victims of rising food prices.

Of course, the country has its own national plan, and only hopes that the country can pay attention to the old-age security of farmers and not let the old people who pay public grain feel chilling. What do you think of this?

Other views:

Viewpoint 1: Why do urban people depend on rural people to feed?

To answer this question, we need to discuss what is feeding? I understand that raising is actually material supply, and living means that people want to live. In addition to breathing, the most basic need is to eat, so that people can live a normal life.

It can be seen that industrial products produced by urban people are not eaten until people are alive, while agricultural products produced by rural people, such as grain, vegetables and fruits, are edible. Usually people say that urban people depend on the countryside to feed, which means the basic needs of the people to eat.

Everything should be treated with materialist dialectics that divides into two. With the current population growth, it is impossible to feed such a fat urban population by relying only on the ancient agricultural production methods and producing two or three hundred kilograms of grain per mu. We can only rely on those urban people who do not rely on agricultural production and those chemical fertilizer agricultural technologies and machinery to increase food production and feed the people.

Therefore, it is concluded that both urban people and rural people are struggling for the survival of the people. At present, urban people can't live without rural people, and rural people can't live without the happy life of urban people. Therefore, please don't separate urban people from rural people because they can't live without each other.

Viewpoint 3:

Every legitimate occupation has its necessity of existence, and so do farmers. Everyone's choice of a career is restricted by various factors such as himself, family and society. However, people must have a * * * when choosing a career: like it as much as possible and earn considerable income. Of course, you can still get high income by doing what you like, and only a few people can do it. For most people, choosing a career has little to do with preferences. Every job has grievances, happiness, and arbitrarily raising or lowering a career, which is not advocated.

Rural areas and cities are not antagonistic. There is a big gap between rural areas in different regions, between the same township, Sichuan and mountainous areas, and between different families in the same village. But overall, urban civilization is superior to farming culture.

In a place where enterprises, rich people and talents cannot be retained, it is not easy for the poor to survive, but even more difficult to survive. If the poor want to get rich, the most basic thing is to find a job, and most of the jobs can be provided by enterprises, the rich and talents. There are few enterprises, few rich people and few talents in rural areas, so there are few jobs. Young people naturally give up their land and go to cities that can provide more jobs and higher salaries.