Skillful Resolution of Agricultural Disputes

This article is reprinted from: Hohhot Daily

Qingshuihe County People’s Court:

Skillfully Resolve Agricultural Disputes

Our newspaper report (Reporter Miao Xin): Recently, the Qingshuihe County People’s Court quickly mediated 26 land lease contract disputes. This helped 26 villagers from Dahuashigou Village, Jiucaizhuang Township, recover more than 16,000 yuan in land lease fees that had been overdue for a long time.

It is understood that in 2019, 12 villagers including the plaintiffs Xia and Xia Er and Li signed land lease contracts with the defendant Ren. It was agreed that Ren would pay each plaintiff land lease fees at a rate of 20 yuan per mu every year. Later, Ren terminated the contracts with the plaintiffs, but still had not paid the plaintiffs the lease fees for two years. Ren believed that the unpaid lease fees for the two years should not be paid by him, but should be paid by the actual land renter, Tang. The plaintiffs believed that the contract was signed with Ren, so the land lease fees should be paid by Ren. And Tang refused to pay the land lease fees. The farmers fell into a predicament where they could not collect the rent and could not sort out who the defendant was.

After the Qingshuihe County People’s Court filed the case, taking into account that besides these 12 cases under this lawsuit, there were also 14 other villagers with similar situations, involving a large number of villagers, it worked together with the judicial office and, based on the similarities among the cases and the differences among individual cases, organized mediation with the villagers, Ren, and Tang. Through patient explanations of the law and reasoning, all three parties ultimately voluntarily reached a mediation agreement, and it was fully carried out; thus, the conflicts and disputes were properly resolved.

Mediating and closing this batch of cases is an important practice for the Qingshuihe County People’s Court in advancing the diversion of simple and complex cases and resolving disputes through diversified approaches, thereby optimizing judicial resources. On the one hand, it effectively alleviated the workload pressure on the trial business departments. On the other hand, it conveniently, efficiently, lawfully, and reasonably protected the lawful rights and interests of the parties involved, achieving good legal and social effects.