Agricultural sector: WTO entry will force 20 million farmers to lose their jobs

Introduction: China's agricultural sector issued a serious warning on the 27th that China's accession to the WTO will impact agriculture, forcing the rural areas to lose 20 million jobs, and the problem of rural unemployment is imminent According to overseas media reports, China's release of unemployment data generally excludes rural areas, which are now officially recognized as a "major problem" China's Ministry of agriculture admitted in a report that there are currently 100 million rural surplus workers According to the statistics of the Ministry of labor and social security, the current unemployment population in China's rural areas is up to 160 million, and almost 20% of the mainland's farmers are idle The official estimates that entering the WTO will make the rural areas face a new crisis According to the report, what is the impact of China's accession to the WTO on farmers? Up to now, there is no accurate data, but one thing can be sure that the current situation in rural areas is the most serious period since the reform and opening up Contradictions in all aspects of society emerge one by one The external pressure of China's accession to the WTO adds to the plight of rural areas, which can be said to be worse How to make farmers face the challenge of entering WTO? Some experts said that the problem is not whether to protect agriculture and farmers Because there are too many 900 million farmers, no country can protect them The key is that the government should give equal treatment to farmers, change the restrictions of urban-rural dualization, and the employment of farmers is restricted for a long time Even if the loan interest rate in rural areas is higher than in urban areas, how can this kind of discrimination against rural areas make farmers develop Some economists also say that WTO brings challenges to farmers, but also opportunities, that is, national treatment Some scholars pointed out that the basic way to solve the current agricultural problems is to give farmers national treatment He said that what farmers lack most is not capital and technology, but equal rights and free market access If we give farmers freedom, they will create new miracles like the energy released by the reform and opening up in the late 1970s.