世情研究所｜“农管”来了：不让种就是不让种

A new term has emerged called «Agricultural Management».

The so-called «Agricultural Management» is short for «Comprehensive Agricultural Law Enforcement Brigade», which is integrated from personnel from multiple departments of the original agricultural departments, such as seeds, pesticides, veterinary medicine, fisheries, and agricultural machinery. It is said that they need to be uniformly dressed like urban management and tax departments.

Some people say that the duties 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 punish and manage 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 plant themselves. The homeowner said that if the quilts and clothes are dried, they will be directly taken away and destroyed.

In some places, «Agricultural Management» has just been established, and they have begun to investigate farmers. How many chickens, ducks, geese, and dogs does each household raise? — 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 remarkable, 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, it 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 farm vegetable gardens and other places.

But the law enforcement officers said that this is two different things, and they are not allowed to plant.

What a great prestige.

Compared with the cutting of capitalist tails back then, how is it?

More bizarrely, some places have begun to require farmers to «hold certificates to work».

There is a short video. Farmers in Changzhou, Jiangsu are 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. The examination room 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 key. As someone on the Internet said—

One day they will teach fish to swim, and they will conduct a professional examination and review of the fish, and then pay the registration fee and the cost of the certificate, etc., 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 based on 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, you know, 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 individual 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 your life can you decide for yourself?

If this continues, will there be a day when you cannot decide what clothes you can wear when you go out, and cannot decide your hairstyle… I dare not imagine it anymore.