New agricultural business model: CSA

"Community support agricultural CSA model (community support agricultural)" originated in the United States, which means farmers work according to customer requirements-people only need to reserve a certain number of products and varieties each year, you can eat all the food and vegetables you want at any time. It shortens the distance between products from production to consumption, emphasizes the concept of "the more local, the more fresh and more trustworthy", and advocates that the community residents prepay a certain amount of fees first, changes the annual consumption of vegetables into a direct investment behavior (period food), and freely entrusts and supervises the production of farmers. You can even join forces to create your own leisure villa and private club-the second home of life. You can use the holidays to personally participate in the labor experience and gather friends and family ......

This is a food movement that can meet our physical and mental health needs to a greater extent and has broad social significance. It allows consumers and agricultural product producers to share risks and benefits, farmers no longer suffer from the inability to find the way out of agricultural products, and agricultural products will no longer be faced with unsafe and environmentally-friendly responsibilities ......

Here, I would like to say today that it is not because foreigners are better at anything than us. In fact, China has a production model earlier and has a deeper background. Many people over 40 years old may remember China's age of a planned economy. At that time, the production model of professional vegetable farms or the so-called "community-supported agricultural CSA model" originated from the United States ".

I was born in an ancient town on the edge of the Yangtze River. The purchase HABITS OF GRAIN passes, oil passes, cloth passes, water passes, and so on all rely on the planned supply made me better remember.

My family lives on the side of a group-made vegetable farm. This farm is designed to meet the living needs of eight thousand of the town's residents. All the staff of the farm belong to the class of commercial grain (urban hukou ). They have a clear division of labor, and the cultivation of various types of economic crops (such as cattle, sheep, chicken, duck, and pig) (vegetables, melons, grain, cotton, and oil) there are dedicated personnel in charge. At the same time, it also includes plant protection, machine cultivation, and supply outlets. It is responsible for meeting the survival needs of urban residents.

In retrospect, isn't this a typical "community support agriculture model? If you think about it carefully, isn't it the best way to "support agriculture in communities" for the "agricultural cultivation" (managed by ecological agriculture projects) that some colleagues are currently engaged in? Currently, "youtian" is not looking for people with the ability to pursue a high-quality life, but also to strengthen the social responsibility of "ecological conservation". Through some financial assistance measures, do orders entrust farmers to perform the same production? It seems that a new type of agricultural movement, the Food Safety movement, has been quietly gaining popularity ......

The aging of farmers and the broken chain of future successors, in the future, do we need to start from organizing competent groups to promoting the whole community and even the whole society to carry out this "agriculture and support" campaign? It cannot be questioned that this model will soon become a trend and trend, not to mention that the current "food safety problems" and "environmental pollution problems" have already become unbearable for many urban residents, only the "agriculture, rural areas, and rural issues" in the current society are enough for us to wake up as soon as possible and take the initiative to undertake such a great change of great value and significance to society, the environment, and the individual!