Jimu News, on April 22, according to the "China Three Rural Release" news, it is now the busy season for spring ploughing, but growers in Shuangsheng Village, Jianhua Town, Kailu County, Tongliao City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, reported that some town and village cadres prevented them from farming, and said that they would not be allowed to farm without payment.
On the 23rd, local farmers told Jimu News reporters that not only Jianhua Town, but also other towns and villages have the same situation.
Kailu County issued a notice stating that the "supplementary contract fee" collected by village and town cadres is one of the disposal methods adopted by Kailu County's pilot work on the efficient use of new cultivated land, that is, the paid use fee collected by the village collective for the new cultivated land. With regard to the arrogant attitude and rude language of individual grassroots cadres towards the masses, the Kailu County CPC Committee has dismissed the deputy secretary of the town's party committee.
Village and town cadres obstruct spring ploughing (Source: China Three Rural Areas)
The villagers said that they would not be allowed to farm without paying fees
In the news of the "China Three Rural Release", Master Zhang, a farmer in Shuangsheng Village, together with other villagers, has contracted more than 5,000 acres of land, and it is now the sowing season, but some people in the village and town are not allowed to farm.
On April 23, Master Zhang told Jimu News that he contracted the land here in 2004 for a period of 30 years, and the contract fee was paid. The land was originally a sand marsh land, with nothing growing, and the contract price was 4 yuan per acre, but later the farmers improved the land into arable land and began to grow corn and other crops. But this year, the village and town require them to pay a fee of 200 yuan per mu of land, and they will not be allowed to cultivate without paying the fee.
According to Master Zhang, the process of improving land is long, and only one or two hundred acres can be improved every year. To level the land, it is necessary to apply fertilizer, drill wells, connect electricity, and install irrigation equipment, with an investment of nearly 20,000 yuan per mu. The farmers raised 1,000 head of cattle, planted corn and green storage for the cattle to make fodder, and the cow manure produced by the cattle farm was used to fertilize the fields and improve the fields.
In an interview, the village cadres of Shuangsheng Village also admitted that the land was indeed a sand marsh land, but now the grassland is watered and the land has to be paid.
The report of "China's Three Rural Releases" also shows that the village has issued a reminder notice. According to the notice, after the resolution of the villagers' congress, a contract fee of 200 yuan per mu per year will be charged for the new 4,650 mu of cultivated land in the grassland you have contracted, with a term of 3 years (2024 to 2026). "You are limited to pay the contract fee to the village committee before April 10, 2024, and if you do not pay the contract fee within the time limit, the original contract will be terminated, and the land will be recovered by the village committee and issued a new contract. ”
The news of the "release of China's agriculture, agriculture and agriculture" also shows that cadres at the village and town levels not only obstruct peasant households from cultivating land, but also detain peasant households' tractors, and also claim that peasant households are grabbing collective resources and grabbing collective land.
On the morning of the 23rd, Master Zhang told the Jimu News reporter that they had already paid all the contracting fees according to the contract, and they didn't understand what they were charged for the 200 yuan per mu. After media reports, they are now ready to start plowing the land and are currently ploughing. But what worries the farmers is that the re-payment is not only in Shuangsheng Village, Jianhua Township, but also in other townships.
Farmers' ploughing machines were stopped (Source: China Sannong release)
Farmers in other townships and towns have similar reactions
A farmer in Xiaojieji Town, Kailu County, told Jimu News that in 2014, he subcontracted more than 300 acres of marshland, which is currently used to plant corn after improvement, and the contract fee has also been paid at one time. But in April this year, the village had to charge another 200 yuan per mu, and he paid a total of 70,000 yuan.
According to the receipt issued by the village to the farmer, the fee was charged in the name of "grass to farming", with a total amount of 70,000 yuan. In addition, the receipt also reads, "This money is credited to the agricultural economic account".
"If you don't pay the money, someone will watch you, and you won't be allowed to farm. The farmer also said that when he went to the village to farm, the village invited him to improve the land, and the village held a special meeting for the subcontract. But now, the village claims that the fee is due to the conversion of the marshland to cultivated land.
According to the minutes of the 2014 meeting, the teams of the two village committees and representatives of the villagers attended the meeting, and the content of the meeting was "to accelerate the pace of improving and developing the saline-alkali land in the north of our village, invigorate the economy of new rural cooperatives, and introduce capital and technical ......". The minutes of the meeting also showed that the farmer could "rationally use the land within the limits of national laws" and "breed, plant and develop economic forests".
According to the farmer, the improvement was all invested by himself, and the land was originally saline-alkali land, and he brought sand to cover the saline-alkali land, so that it could be cultivated, and it cost a lot to transform the land. He planted corn, and now he must sow it during the rainy season, so he can only pay the fee in order not to miss the farming time, otherwise the loss will be even greater. The village also has to collect money from other farmers, some of whom have paid the money, and some of whom have not.
On the afternoon of 23 July, a Jimu News reporter asked the person in charge of Xiaojieji Town for verification, but the other party politely declined the interview.
In addition to Jianhua Town and Xiaojieji Town, farmers from other local towns also told Jimu News reporters that their villages and towns will also be charged this year. A village party secretary said that there was a basis for the charges, and the higher authorities issued a document.
Regarding the situation reported by farmers in other townships and towns, the staff of the Kailu County Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Bureau told reporters that the relevant departments are currently investigating the situation. On the afternoon of the 23rd, the relevant departments of Tongliao City told the Jimu News reporter that the relevant departments at the city and county levels have gone to the scene to investigate.
Circular of the Information Office of the People's Government of Kailu County
The deputy secretary of the town party committee involved has been dismissed
On the afternoon of April 23, the Information Office of the People's Government of Kailu County reported that the relevant information of the "Strange Supplementary Contracting Fee in Kailu County, Inner Mongolia" reported by the "China Three Rural Release" report, the Kailu County Party Committee and the government attached great importance to it.
1. On the issue of "strange supplementary contracting fees". The background of the problems reflected in the report is that Kailu County, as a pilot unit for the efficient use of new cultivated land determined by the superiors, has carried out pilot work on the efficient use of cultivated land newly increased by the "three land adjustments" compared with the "second land adjustments". The "supplementary contracting fee" mentioned in the report is one of the disposal methods adopted in the pilot work of efficient use of new cultivated land in Kailu County, that is, the paid use fee collected by the village collective on the new cultivated land.
2. On the issue of "blocking and not allowing farming". During the implementation of the pilot project in Shuangsheng Village, Jianhua Town, some large farmers of newly added cultivated land were unwilling to pay fees, which led to the psychology of comparison among farmers who had already paid fees, which led to the behavior of hindering land ploughing. At present, through the coordination and resolution of the county, town and village levels, the people of the village have agreed to take the form of litigation to claim their rights and interests, resolve contradictions, and ensure that there are no more behaviors that hinder land ploughing and land preparation, delay agricultural time, etc.
3. On the issue of the arrogant attitude and rude language of individual grassroots cadres toward the masses. In view of the problems reflected in the report that some grassroots cadres have an arrogant attitude toward the masses, speak rudely, and have seriously improper work methods, the Kailu County Party Committee has dismissed the deputy secretary of the town's party committee from his post and given him an intra-party warning by the county discipline inspection commission and supervision committee; the county discipline inspection commission and supervision committee have given serious intra-party warnings to the secretary of the village's party branch and deputy director of the village committee. Investigations into possible other disciplinary violations are also ongoing.