TECHNICAL SUPPORT AS A SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

SOLUTION FOR POVERTY ALLEVIATION AMONG CHINESE

FARMERS

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 Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3

The challenges related to Chinese farmer’s poverty........................................................................3

The entrepreneurial solution for poverty alleviation.......................................................................4

Justification and rationale for achieving the sustainable development goal....................................6

Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................7

References........................................................................................................................................8

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Introduction

United Nations has developed 17 different sustainable development goals in the year of 2015.
“No poverty” is the first goal, which focuses on reducing poverty level worldwide. According to
the calculation of the World Bank, about 36% of the world's total population in China are living
in extreme poverty. It has been identified that the agricultural industry all over the world is
facing a certain poverty level including China (Acharya 2015). This country is considered as a
developing country but in the last 38 years, the property level has reduced. As the goal of SDG is
“no poverty”, the focus has to be given on poverty reduction or poverty abbreviation for the
Chinese farmers.
This essay will analyse and evaluate property alleviation challenge for the farmers in China. For
which solutions will be identified, which can contribute to developing entrepreneurial
opportunity and contribute to achieving the goal of sustainable development for no property for
Chinese farmers.

The challenges related to Chinese farmer’s poverty

One of the main problems of China's property is their population. The country has to struggle
with feeding the population. According to the current statistics, the labour force of China in the
agriculture sector is around 35% of the total labour force. The total number of farmers in this
country is 425 million among which 200 million farmers from the household (Barbier and
Burgess 2017). There is a rapid decline identified within one decade in this country. The total
number of farmers a decade ago is 700 million. The extreme poverty level of agriculture farming
profession has reduced the number of farmers. The consequences have already started affecting
the countries food production and also global food production. This condition can only be
reduced by retracting the poverty level in Chinese farmers and inspire them to maintain their
profession of farming and Agriculture.
The use of ingenuity process is useful to identify the possible solution of achieving the
sustainable goal of no property. Farming is considered as the poorest rung in Chinese society.
The World Bank has measured the property of China and identified that it is $1 per day
(Biermann, Kanie and Kim 2017). The number of household farmers is large in this country.

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These farmers are facing problem due to the price drop. The transport price fluctuation of this
country increases the cost of the food but the farmers didn't get any help because of the
increasing price. The cost enhancement in the food is a result of increased transportation costs.
The Government of the country has identified retaining of the poverty within the Chinese
agriculture because of the widening distance between urban and rural area, ongoing trade fair
with America and economic slowdown (Cao et al. 2016).
There are several rich farmers identified in Chinese agriculture, who have a huge number of
property and labourers working as a farmer. But for the household farmers, the lack of
infrastructure is creating difficulty. The other reasons of the farmer’s poverty are the income drop
which is raising expenses as food prices are increasing (Acharya 2015). Even if the farmers are
poor they have to pay the taxes. More than half of the annual income of farmers is spent on
paying taxes. The restrictions of the government of monopoly for grain harvesting are also
preventing the farmers from selling crops in the open market. These are the reasons behind the
increasing poverty of Chinese farmers. Around 200 million of farmers have already left the
occupation because of the low pay (Carter et al. 2018). In fact, an increasing number of farmers
are expected to move in the City by the next few years.
Studies have shown that farming household of China is facing abnormal challenges and are still
struggling to capitalise because of economic development. In addition to that, government
subsidies are minimal and there is hardly any crop insurance to protect farmers against the
disasters like flood (Biermann, Kanie and Kim 2017). As most of the farmers do not own
farming lands, they are struggling to make any profit in this unchangeable condition.
There are some possible solutions, which can help in the property alleviation of Chinese farmers.
Subscription based organic production can be a solution for reducing the property of these
farmers (Dou and Zhao 2019). In fact, vertical hydroponic farming technical support and assured
business can also be some highlighting business opportunities, which will be useful for achieving
the sustainable development goal 'no poverty'.

The entrepreneurial solutions for poverty alleviation

New business venture entrepreneurs always comes with new ideas. The business idea always
creates business opportunity and feasibility depending on the needs of the business results. One
of the entrepreneur business frameworks, which is used for identifying the need of poverty

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alleviation among farmers is the DIFA framework. The business opportunities have been
evaluated by using this framework in terms of demand, innovation, feasibility and attractiveness
(Hák, Janoušková and Moldan 2016).
Demand refers to the target market of the business. Innovation identifies the uniqueness of the
business idea. Feasibility denotes the resources required for the business. Whereas, the
attractiveness of the business idea is the potential benefit or reward that can be gained by
establishing the business. Using this framework, it may assist the entrepreneur to form the
concept of reality whether there are enough opportunities existing in the idea (Carter et al. 2018).
The best solution for poverty reduction among the farmers of China is to provide technical
support in farming. The DIFA framework application for analysing the opportunity of providing
technical support business development for Chinese farmers is the following:
Demand: According to the identified problems, the distance between the urban and rural area of
China identifies the lack of enough technical support for the agricultural farmers of China. Most
of the problems related to the current farming can be reduced with the intervention of the
government towards agricultural development (Halisçelik and Soytas 2019). Providing tech
support will fulfil the meaning of the farmers’ demand in China. The individual capacity can be
increased by providing them with technical support to connect with digitalisation, which can help
them in developing farming. For instance, the farmer will get more information about their
opportunity for a loan application, which can help them to fund themselves in the times of need
(Dou and Zhao 2019).
Innovation: The technical support for the farmers will help them to reduce the cost of loss. It has
been identified that there is no disaster support given by the government in terms of crop
insurance. The technical support will provide the farmers with the accuracy about the climate. In
fact, with the help of weather reports, the work speed can be increased or decreased by the
farmers, especially by the household farmers (Keesstra et al. 2016). For them, growing crops for
a large land will not be problematic anymore. The technical support will be effective for rising
productivity as well. The uniqueness of this idea will not only help them in increasing their
production but also inform them about the upcoming disaster.
Feasibility: The understanding of feasibility refers to the resources needed to be used for
providing technical support to the Chinese farmers for reducing poverty. The use of automatic
machines like tractors, water pump, and automatic irrigation equipment will be the initial start

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for this business opportunity (Meng et al. 2017). With time, the development will be conducted
towards Hi-Tech farming equipment. The most useful technical support will be the introduction
of digital technology to the farmers. It will help them in connecting with banks indirectly and
investors to acquire the capital for their farming (Le Blanc 2015). Besides that, the other
technical support will be application of sophisticated technologies such as aerial images, GPS
technology, and robots temperature and moisture sensor. Studies have shown whether Chinese
farmers are also less educated or illiterate. Managing Hi-Tech Technologies will not be possible
for them, because of the sophistication and technological knowledge requirement. For that, this
entrepreneur business will help them by providing enough staff to educate them about the
technical programs, their uses and train them on behalf of the organisation at a minimal cost.
Attractiveness: The most attractive feature of using technical support is the possible outcome.
Using the sophisticated technologies for poverty reduction of Chinese farmers will allow the
business to be safer, efficient, profitable, productive and also environment-friendly (Lo, Xue and
Wang 2016). However, the most significant effect of this business will be identified among the
Chinese farmers. From a decade, the Chinese government has neglected this largest workforce of
the country. Providing them with the opportunity to use automatic machines and sophisticated
technology, will enhance their confidence towards their ability to farming. The unique value
proposition of this business is to focus on cost-effectiveness and personalized offering for each
farmer. The percentage of cultivation will rise by using the technical equipment, which shall give
them an impressive amount of profit and contribute towards maintaining the sustainable
development goal of 'no poverty' (Meng et al. 2017).

Justification and rationale for achieving the sustainable development goal

United Nation has identified 'no poverty' is their first goal of sustainable development. According
to this goal inclusive economic growth is needed for providing sustainable job and also for
promoting equality. This business idea is to focus on providing sustainable jobs to the farmers of
China, who are struggling to make even one dollar per day. This property level of the farmer is
also creating fragile and conflict-affected areas in China. According to a study conducted by the
United Nations, 55% of the total population in the world doesn't have proper access to social
protection in the year 2018 (Pradhan et al. 2017). For the high-income countries are developed
countries the negligence towards agriculture is not identified.

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The goal of sustainable development identified the first goal as no property. The goal is to focus
on ending poverty in all its forms everywhere. For the development of a better future, as global
citizens, we have to focus on developing a sustainable future. The Global challenges such as
poverty, inequality, peace, justice, climate, environmental degradation need to be overcome for
giving a better future to our next generation (Meng et al. 2017).
The poverty is considered as a lack of resources or income. As a result of poverty, the population
of both the developing and developed countries are deriving their opportunities from social
protection and education. As a result, social discrimination is conducted on them. The lack of
education and illiteracy among this population is separating them from the ability to participate
in the decision-making process (Wang et al. 2016). The most disturbing fact of property is not
related to opportunity or well-being of individuals. Poverty, thus, questions the survival of the
human population which is unacceptable. There are several solutions that may focus on approach
identified among the developed countries to reduce poverty. For instance, in the year of 2015, the
poverty rate of world population became half from the year 1990 (Ward 2016).
United nation has addressed that “no poverty” will be achieved by the year 2030 as the first
sustainable development agenda. Economic growth identified in the world economy and the
international committee has agreed to focus on economic growth for the vulnerable and poor
population by the year 2030. The basic focus has been given on the improvement of basic service
accessibility, providing insurance for social protection and resilience development for any type
of natural disaster, which will damage the population's livelihoods and resources in developing
economies like China (Acharya 2015).
From the current conditions and initiatives, development in different parts of the world can easily
highlight the need for focusing on poverty reduction. There are also other indicators related to
sustainable development which can be fulfilled by focusing on achieving this sustainable
development goal. The poverty alleviation can be possible when both the government and non-
government organisations will start towards the progress of economic development for all levels
of the population. The achievement of this SDG goal will not only help the poor people but
equally going to contribute to the economic development of the countries (Barbier and Burgess
2017).

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Conclusion

In light of the discussion, it can be apprehended that the Chinese farmers are being neglected by
the government, which has increased the poverty level and force them to quit their career as a
farmer. The sustainable development goal of achieving no poverty is not easy but possible with
an appropriate plan of poverty alleviation. The introduction of technical support for the Chinese
farmers will allow them to regain their position and economic development. It is not only related
to reducing sustainable goal development but equally a sustainable and environmentally friendly
process. That is the reason, why attracting investment for this business idea will not be
problematic because there are more than 400 million farmers in China and across the world still
struggling for poverty.

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