1. Small farmers can't have their own R&D departments like large enterprises because of their small scale, and it is not easy for them to get services and technical support from other scientific research departments and technology extension departments. For example, it is difficult to introduce excellent livestock and poultry breeds, which leads to low production efficiency of small farmers.
2. The operators of small farmers have low cultural quality, poor management ability, and lack the ability to obtain information resources by using advanced technologies such as computers and the Internet, which leads to weak sales ability.
3. Small farmers lack organization and do not have the position to negotiate with processing enterprises, so their ability to enter the big market is weak.
4. High operating costs. The extensive use of pesticides, seeds and fertilizers has increased the cost of agricultural production. In addition, small farmers have always been operating independently, and their costs are relatively high, whether in the purchase of means of production or in the transportation of agricultural products. Therefore, the operating costs of small farmers are increasing every year.
5. Obstacles in agricultural product sales channels. Small farmers are generally self-sufficient and consume less goods. Even if there is, homogenization is more serious. The local demand for agricultural products they sell is small, and most of them are bought by vendors at home and transported to other areas for secondary sales.
As a continuation of traditional agriculture, small farmers know little about sales channels, are accustomed to the form of door-to-door purchase by vendors, and are not familiar with Internet sales channels. It is common for them that agricultural products are unsalable.