A new term has emerged called “Agricultural Management”.
The so-called “Agricultural Management” is short for “Agricultural Comprehensive Law Enforcement Brigade”, which is integrated from the personnel of multiple departments in the original agricultural departments, such as seeds, pesticides, veterinary medicine, fisheries, and agricultural machinery. It is said that they need to wear uniform clothing like urban management and tax departments.
Some people say that the responsibilities of “Agricultural Management” can be roughly divided into:
1. Investigate and try agricultural violations, supervise reports and handle complaints, etc.
2. Be responsible for implementing the legal content of agricultural management and punishing and managing violations in agriculture, animal husbandry, fisheries and other industries.
3. Inspect seeds, fertilizers, pesticides and other items used in agriculture, and punish illegal cases.
4. Be responsible for implementing the policies of the county government and the local agricultural bureau at the grassroots level.
This seems normal.
But in actual operation, it is often not the case.
They are not here to “serve”, but to “manage”.
For example, in Jiangsu, individuals are required not to hang quilts on ropes in the yard or on trees they planted themselves. The homeowner said that if the quilts and clothes are dried, they will be forcibly taken away and destroyed.
In some places, “Agricultural Management” was just established, and they began to investigate farmers. How many chickens, ducks, geese, and dogs each family raised – in order to improve the appearance of the village, a certain place sent people to catch the chickens and ducks raised by the villagers. The person in charge said: “The effect is significant, but the impact is not good”.
A netizen from Heilongjiang said that his brother had contracted several acres of fish ponds many years ago, but this year is different. The law enforcement officers went three times in a row and told his brother one thing: corn and beans cannot be planted around the fish pond.
As for why, there is only one reason, which is unsightly.
His brother was very strange, saying that I plant things around my own fish pond, what do you want to control? Moreover, the agricultural department allows crops to be planted in farmers’ vegetable gardens and other places.
But the law enforcement officers said that this is two different things, and if you are not allowed to plant, you are not allowed to plant.
What a great show of power.
Compared with the cutting of capitalist tails back then, how is it?
More bizarrely, some places have begun to require farmers to “hold a certificate to work”.
There is a short video. In Changzhou, Jiangsu, a farmer is harvesting rice with a combine harvester, and two people in uniform came to the field to enforce the law on the spot. In the end, it was determined that the farmer did not have the qualifications to operate agricultural machinery and did not have a certificate to work, and was punished on the spot.
Some netizens have released pictures of local farmers taking the exam, and the exam site is set up in the farmland, mainly for spraying medicine, plowing the land, and mowing the grass. It is said that they need to go to a special institution for training, and if they fail the exam, they can pay to retake it.
It seems that charging is the focus. As someone on the Internet said –
One day they will teach fish to swim, conduct a professional examination and review of the fish, and then pay the registration fee and the cost of the certificate, and give the fish a swimming qualification certificate, otherwise they will not be allowed to go into the water, and those who violate it will be fined.
Some netizens also revealed that some places have begun to collect property fees from villagers, calculated by the day, 5 cents per person per day, and 18 yuan per person per year. The head count is calculated according to the household registration book, regardless of whether you are working outside. For example, an ordinary family of 4 people will have to pay 72 yuan a year.
72 yuan doesn’t seem expensive, but people are worried that this year they will collect 18 yuan per person, will it be 36 yuan next year, and 72 yuan the year after? This is entirely possible. You see, the price of the new rural cooperative medical scheme increased, it was only 10 yuan in 2006, and it increased to 320 yuan in 2021, a 32-fold increase.
Of course, charging is only a manifestation.
What is really worrying is that behind this is the unlimited expansion of power and the extreme compression of personal rights – when what you plant in your vegetable garden depends on the preferences of others, when you need others to “guide” and hold a certificate to do farm work, when someone can prohibit farmers from raising poultry just because they think it is not good-looking… Think about it, where else can you retreat? How many things in life can you decide for yourself?
If this continues, will there be a day when you cannot decide what clothes you can wear to go out, cannot decide your hairstyle… I dare not imagine it anymore.
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