More and more young people with university education and qualified skills have been engaged in agricultural and rural businesses, according to the primary data bulletin on the third National Agricultural Census released recently by the Statistics Bureau of Suzhou.
Tractors of nearly three meters tall flexibly shuttled on the arable land under Zhu Yunde's manipulation. This young man from Suzhou, who was born in 1990, graduated from the university five years ago and has mastered the operation of various types of large-scale machinery.
In Suzhou Yuting Modern Agricultural Industrial Park, located in Xiangcheng District, the greater presence of young workers and the mechanization of production methods have enabled the efficiency of agricultural production to be greatly improved.
ZhuYunde's father, Zhu Weiqi, is a well-known grain farmer running a large scale farm. At his father’s suggestion, Zhu Yunde chose soil and fertilizer as his field of study at university. Out of the original intention of sharing the responsibility with his father, Zhu Yunde returned to his hometown after graduation.
Right now, during the rice planting period, Zhu Yunde has given full play to his own professional advantages to improve the traditional seedling fertilizer and develop a nutrient soil that is more suitable for local seedlings.
Zhu is in good company. Suzhou is now registered with 12307 new types of professional farmers. 13.6% and 14.5% of the agricultural operators and managers in the farming business hold senior high school diplomas and associate degrees and above. One in seven of them hold university certificates.
（Source: Jiangsu International Channel)
