The original intention of farmers is a profession. The dictionary refers to "laborers who have participated in agricultural labor for a long time" as farmers. In other words, workers who have been engaged in agricultural labor for a short time and live in rural areas but do not engage in agricultural labor cannot become farmers. Farmers in practical sense are an ancient occupation, and one of the ancient occupations in the early human society. Humans need food to survive, and hunting alone cannot meet the needs of survival. In that case, what's the difference between a man and a wolf? The development of mankind is largely determined by the ancient occupation of farmers. Since mankind entered the class society, with the implementation of professional division of labor and hierarchical system, rulers have relegated farmers to the lowest level in order to improve their social status, and some intellectuals have trampled them under their feet in order to show their knowledge. Farmers are rarely valued in the long river of human history! Traditional society is a peasant society, and modernization means the transformation of tradition. According to the past ideological definition, traditional farmers are "self-sufficient small producers", while "modern farmers" are factory-style "socialized large-scale production practitioners". Therefore, the elimination of "small production" by one or two large enterprises can be regarded as the process of "modernization", and "going it alone" is the "traditional restoration" of "anti-modernization"

The difference between traditional farmers and modern farmers in international agronomy has always been a topic of discussion among scholars. E.R. Wolff's point of view: "The main pursuit of farmers is to maintain their livelihood and social identity in a narrow social relationship hierarchy. Therefore, unlike those farmers who specialize in meeting the market, farmers compete in a wide range of social networks. " Farmers must "stick to the traditional arrangement". "On the contrary, farmers completely enter the market, put their land and labor under open competition, make use of all possible choices to maximize their returns, and tend to produce with greater profits on the basis of less risk."