Abstract
Socialized agricultural service system refers to the service network and organizational system formed by government,market and society in providing services to small farmers in order to meet the needs of agricultural production and development. In nature,developing socialized agricultural service system is the basic power to realize agricultural modernization in use of organizational form to solve the problem of agricultural productivity development. The unified and separate management system which is based on family contract management has promoted the development of productivity for a period of time. However,with the deepening of rural reform and intensifying of market competition,the unified function is gradually weakened,while the separate function is continually intensified. Especially under the background of large number of young rural labor migrate to urban areas,to meet the needs of rural labor force structure and agricultural management mode transformation,exploring the methods and paths of improving agricultural socialized service system has great theoretical and practical significance.
This paper is written along two main clues. The first clue is an overall study on “system construction”,namely,on the basis of analyzing status and regional differences of current socialized services system for agriculture and learning from the experiences of developed countries,the former three chapters designs a overall framework and development ideas of modern socialized agricultural service system. The second clue is a detached study on “system structure” starting from the fourth chapter to the sixth chapter,which further explore the role and function of four kinds of providers including government public institutions,market leading enterprises,farmer specialized cooperatives and other social service organizations,research and education unites.
China’s agricultural socialization has great potential and space to develop,but there are also significant differences in regional development. In order to meet development and change of “the three issues concerning to agriculture,farmers and rural area”,this paper preliminary establishes a framework of modern agricultural socialized service system. External resources factors affects this system includes policy support,financial investment,management system,human resources,social support and marketing distribution system. Internal structure mainly consists of four parts including government public institutions,market leading companies,farmer specialized cooperatives and other social service organizations,research and education unites,which sand for the interests of government,market,civil society and public welfare unites. Consequently,they respectively assume the function of providing public services,market services,mutual-aid services,science and education services,and play the role of goal attainment,economic adaptation,social integration,and Latency. Any single organization cannot assume the function of providing comprehensive services because China has so many small farmers. Moreover,with the deepening of market economy and the escalation of social change,there is a great need for multiple organizations in cooperation to meet the living and agricultural needs of farmers. Thus,at the macro level,government public institution and research-education unites should return to public service area,and the government should encourage social organizations to participate in providing services. At the micro level,the government should support the community to become an important carrier within China’s modern socialized agricultural service system.
Keywords:Agricultural Socialized Services;Three Issues Concerning Agriculture;New Agricultural Management Entity;Service System