One hired worker for agricultural mechanization of 100 hectares of farmland in Norway

2013/11/13 14:14:00 China Agriculture News Network

content Summary: Norwegian farmer Halvard Berger, 49, graduated with a master's degree in agricultural economics. 110 hectares of land, mainly all kinds of grain, when the year is good, can harvest 400 tons to 500 tons of grain, and these 110 hectares of land are planted by mechanized operation, only one hired worker can complete all the work, the efficiency is extremely high.

It takes less than 30 minutes to drive from the Norwegian capital Oslo to the Berg Farm in Skaizmo. We were accompanied by Nut Sumsett, director of the District Agricultural Office, to the Berger farm. Farmer Halwald Berger, 49, graduated with a master's degree in agricultural economics. He gave up his comfortable office job in 1997 and took over the farm from his uncle.

At first, the farm area was about 60 hectares, and in recent years, Berge has leased another 50 hectares of farmland from neighbors. This 110 hectares of land is mainly planted with various kinds of grain. When the year is good, it can harvest 400 to 500 tons of grain. In addition, the farm also raises beef cattle, the current stock of more than 60. Cows are not killed. Bulls, except those selected to be breeding cattle, are sold at a certain time. One bull can sell for more than 20000 kroner (1 Norwegian kroner is about 1.04 yuan). The price of cattle is higher.

Berger family of five people, the wife works in the city, the children are in school. Everything on the farm was done by him and a hired hand. This employee is a Lithuanian. He works an average of 8 hours a day. He works more when he is busy and less when he is idle. He has been working on the farm for 10 years. According to the law, employees can take five weeks of paid leave a year, and the Lithuanian can take eight weeks. As an employer, Berg also had to cover all kinds of insurance and pay a pension. It is understood that in this region, full-time farm workers earn no less than NOK 25000 per month.

In recent years, more summer rain. The wheat can't be harvested and the loss is great. "I didn't make any money in 2012. If you count your own labor, you actually lose money." Berge said that no matter whether the year is good or bad, the land rent will not be reduced and will be paid in full; workers' wages, seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, diesel and other money cannot be spent less, and mechanical maintenance and agricultural technical services will also cost a lot of money. The purchase price of grain is not high, only 2.7 Norwegian kroner per kilogram of wheat. Although the Norwegian government's agricultural subsidies to farmers are very high, the agricultural business situation is still not optimistic. In 2012, various government agricultural subsidies added up to NOK 450000, Berger said. All pad in, just don't lose don't earn. If you don't make money, why don't you give up? Berger said that agriculture is like this, sometimes good, sometimes bad. "I made a lot of money in the good times in the past. Things are not so good now. I hope it will get better in the future, so I can make money." Nutt Sumsett, who accompanied the interview, was very appreciative of Berger's calmness in his "long-term thinking.

Norway implements private land ownership, land can be inherited, can also be rented or sold. The lease term is not less than 10 years. If it is sold, the government should intervene to control the price to prevent the price from being too high. According to Berge, 7 to 8 percent of farmers give up farm operations each year to work in the city and lease their land to others to cultivate. More than 50 per cent of Norwegian farms have been leased to others.

Berger said that in Norway, farmers are very motivated to participate in cooperatives. Cooperatives adopt a democratic management model, and the members' congress is the highest authority of cooperatives. Norway's 15 major agricultural cooperatives are owned by more than 50000 family farmers with an annual output value of NOK 69 billion. He participates in a number of agricultural cooperatives, which are obliged to purchase all the agricultural products of farmers. However, farmers are free to choose whether to sell to cooperatives or other acquirers. Because the cooperative's purchase price is not low, but also can participate in the year-end settlement dividend, so Berger generally sells the product to the cooperative.

Buy agricultural machinery, agricultural materials, etc., Berger is also a comparison of goods, who is cheaper to buy who. Members of cooperatives are not obliged to purchase these materials from the cooperatives of which they are members. However, usually the cooperative society gives members a variety of concessions, members buy more, the cooperative business is good, the members will receive more dividends. In addition, the cooperative also provides some free agricultural technical guidance, and provides members with preferential insurance products and telecommunications services from insurance companies and telecommunications companies.

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