#农民为什么不愿种地而选择外出打工, only the elderly over the age of fifty or sixty are left in the village to work in the farm# At present, the young and prime-aged farmers in the village go out to work, and the old farmers in their fifties and sixties are old

#农民为什么不愿种地而选择外出打工, only the elderly over 50 or 60 years old are left in the village to work as farmers#

At present, young and prime-age farmers in the countryside go out to work, and old farmers in their fifties and sixties stay in the village to cultivate land, which has become a norm.

This situation has gradually taken shape since the mainland's reform and opening up in 1978.

The root cause of the fact that most of the peasants go out to work but are uneasy about planting land in the village is to seek greater economic benefits, because the income from farming in the village is small, and the income from outside work is high.

Working outside, farmers can enter factories, such as garment factories, shoe factories, toy factories, monthly wages can generally be 4,000 to 5,000 yuan, you can also do construction work, calculated on a daily basis, daily salary of 300 yuan, obviously, the income from part-time work is much stronger than farming in the village. If you plant 1 mu of land in the village, you will produce 2,000 catties of grain in two quarters of the year, and the market price will be only a few thousand yuan, but the income of working outside for one month is equivalent to the income of a year in the countryside, and the two are simply incomparable. Therefore, in contrast, the vast majority of farmers choose to go out to work and earn a living.

A small number of elderly farmers, because it is difficult to find jobs outside, have a low probability of being hired, so they have to stay in the village with their children and see the house.

Once young farmers settle down in the cities and gain a firm foothold, even capable peasants migrate to the cities to settle down, there are not a few, and so far, hundreds of millions of peasants have moved from the former countryside to the cities, contributing to the process of urbanization on the mainland.

As long as there are better ways to earn a living outside, the phenomenon of migrant workers going out to work will not disappear, and the trend of population mobility will not change.