Farmers remain poor for several reasons. First, land resources are scarce, leading to low average incomes in rural areas. Second, there is excess industrial labor but low income and unemployment in agriculture. The government has focused funding on industry in cities, leaving farmers without resources to reinvest or repay debts. However, as urbanization and industrialization increase average incomes, consumption patterns are changing in ways that could provide opportunities for agricultural product development. Comprehensive long-term measures are needed to stabilize and improve farm incomes.

1. The income from agriculture becomes less than the other fields. Therefore the farmers give
up their work and they switch to the other sectors.
“ Farmers are still poor. Why ? “
The main reason is the deficit and unbalance of production.
First, land resources are absolutely rare and lean so that the average income is very low in
almost rural areas. Secondly, industrial labor relatively excesses in the removed areas.
Therefore this leads to the low income and unemployment in agriculture. However, the
influence of urbanization and industrialization, the trend of mobility people who are from
countryside to urban areas is happening. As a result, there is a labor surplus in farm-sector.
According to the funds, the government has concentrated on industry in big cities so almost
farmers are lack of budget in reinvest and they are not able to repay debt nowadays.
However, as the rate of urbanization and industrialization, the average income per person is
increasing. Hence, the structure of work is changed and the component of the meal of people
is improved so that people have more multiple dishes. For instance, the consumption of rice
decreases as well as the consumption of meat, fish, vegetables increases. This change will be
an opportunity for the development of agriculture products and food-stuff.
Stable solutions and improving the income for farm need more integrated measure for a long
run.
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