It's warm, peach blossoms bloom. A lot of old shanghaiers are looking forward to the first bite of the first summerNande peachesGot it. However, recent media reports that “may not be able to eat southern-seasoned peaches in another five years” have kept a lot of people in mind。
As a result of the fact that the average age of the southern-swirling peach growers is currently over 70 years of age, the scale of cultivation is, according to practitioners, threatening to decrease significantly over the next five years。
Why are the southern-swirling peaches, the first agricultural product in shanghai to be protected by the country's area of origin, which is red, fragrance and priced and marketed at a high level of recognition, still facing the problem of poor cultivation? This is due to a number of factors, such as the low willingness of young people to participate in agriculture, the dispersion and inefficiency of the areas under cultivation, but the gap between the current cost of land transfer and the income from farming should grow on a larger scale ..
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In recent years, shanghai has made great efforts to develop equipment agriculture, seed-based agriculture and to improve the level of modernization and technological content of agriculture. Shanghai, 2023Modernization of agricultureThe overall level continues to be the highest in the country, with 80. 13 per cent of the contribution to the advancement of agricultural science and technology. However, the question of how to make agricultural development more accessible to farmers and how to integrate the development of one or two products into one or three products, as well as to increase the number of urban dwellers sharing the results, remains an issue to be studied。
In the peri-urban shanghai, where land is rented, labour costs are high, shanghai has a huge consumer market, an easy and efficient electrical platform and logistics system, as well as advanced agricultural technologies and ideas, and is in a position to become a testing ground for new agricultural models。
Run a farm with a heart, integrate deep into the surrounding community of 30 or 40 km, choose the type of plant to be planted, and feed consumers directly after harvest - – in recent years, some agricultural entrepreneurs have begun this small and beautiful agricultural business model in the peri-urban area of shanghai。
Such models have a foreign term: community support for agriculture, but in shanghai and the peri-urban areas of some of the country's major cities, community-based eco-agriculture with indigenous characteristics has developed。
Compared to green organic foods “high cold” on supermarket shelves, such community eco-farmers play a “visibility and touch”. A number of eco-farms have set up “children's farm” “kop farm”, which attracts neighbouring citizens to come over weekends to experience such activities as harvesting, farming, etc. During the exchange, consumers can see for themselves that the fields are filled with organic fertilizers such as goat dung and mushroom dregs; that vegetables are grown more thinly and are better ventilated; that crops are accompanied by spices such as mints and rosemary, which act as natural exorcists against pests; and that, in some cases, small animals such as scavengers and weaves are rarely seen in cities. In the field experience, growers and consumers have increased their trust in each other and farms have gained a stable source of customers。
However, it is also known that the prevalence of such models is low and that there are fewer cases of profitable and benign operation. This relates to various factors such as production costs, marketing promotion, market education, distribution and distribution. Some operators would like to see some hard support from government departments to help community-based eco-agriculture. For example, special funds have been set up to support ecological agriculture projects, attract more social capital and improve the corresponding green organic certification systems。
“soft” treatment of land is matched by natural gifts. Building international citiesRural revitalizationThe process of the “real picture” is an effort to make the farmers and urban dwellers who live in it more aware, happy and secure。
