"The villagers gave me a nickname: the pomegranate fairy on the Taurus Mountain. Even the foreigners stuck out their thumbs and said OK, OK to me! On September 28, Rong Taixiang, an old farmer in XuCun, on Donggaohuang Street in Weidong District, Pingdingshan City, stood in her family's contracted pomegranate garden, her face smiling like a flowering pomegranate.
"Smile, you see, I'm 73 years old, my face is as rosy as a pomegranate, and I can't stop working." My wife and I, Zhao Bao, who is 75 years old, planted more than 60 acres of pomegranates on the Golden Bull Mountain and obtained good harvests year after year. This year is another great harvest, with a lot of fruit and a grin. ”
When it comes to Taurus Mountain, the elderly villagers nearby know that there is nothing but weeds that are bare. Because there is coal underground and there are many small coal kilns, the ecological environment has been seriously damaged. After the small coal kiln was shut down, in order to change the ecological environment and increase the income of farmers, Weidong District implemented a greening project on Jinniu Mountain, and cadres and the masses went up the mountain to plant pomegranate trees for decades, and finally made the barren mountain covered with green clothing.
In the 1980s, Guo Changshun, the old branch secretary of Shangxu Village, led the villagers to the mountain to plant trees in the spring, and planted more than 5,000 acres of pomegranates. The mountains are green, and the pomegranates have blossomed and borne fruit, but the old zhishu is terminally ill and has left the world without caring to taste it.
Later, Li Xinzhu and Guo Zhanguang served as branch secretaries, one after another, and continued to lead the villagers up the mountain to plant pomegranate trees. Nowadays, soft seed pomegranates have developed to more than 10,000 acres, and the mountains are full of fiery red pomegranates, and have been certified as pollution-free fruits by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, and Jinniu Mountain has also been certified as a pollution-free pomegranate fruit production base by the Provincial Department of Agriculture, which is included in the national agricultural ecological tourism line.
"I am stubborn, a man who would rather make a dead cow than stop the car." In the early 90s of last century, the village called on farmers to contract pomegranate orchards, and my nephew grabbed a pomegranate garden, he was afraid of poor management, risk, and loss of money, so he sat in the garden and shed tears. I said, don't cry, let me contract it! Rong Taixiang talked about her experience of contracting a pomegranate garden.
At that time, her husband Zhao Bao strongly objected: Where horses don't rest their feet and birds don't, people don't contract, how can you do it! ”
"My husband can't help me. I set up a shed in the orchard. Our husband and wife got up five times, took the dusk, pulled the grass every day, and strangled the blood on their hands. It can be said that every pomegranate tree is full of our sweat and hard work! ”
In order to master the management technology, Rong Taixiang and his wife often participated in the forest fruit management technology training class held by the Weidong District Science and Technology Bureau in the village, and her husband studied seriously, she carefully memorized, and memorized several books.
"Don't look at me as a junior high school student, I quickly became the backbone of pomegranate management technology in the village." Due to careful management, the pomegranates planted are large, full of seeds and positive taste, and they are quickly sold out, and the income is more than 3,000 yuan that year. ”
In recent years, in order to consolidate the results of greening, the district has introduced preferential policies, provided free high-quality soft pomegranate saplings and technical training, hired provincial forest fruit experts to guide pomegranate pruning and insect control technology on the spot every year, uniformly printed Jinniu Mountain pollution-free pomegranate standard cartons, and helped the masses sell pomegranates through e-commerce. Nevertheless, due to the continuous harvest of pomegranates, there are still difficulties in selling.
In order to solve the sales problem, the year before, Rong Taixiang thought of deep processing of pomegranates to make pomegranate wine. So she purchased winemaking equipment, tried and tested, and finally produced a pure taste of pomegranate wine. In this way, the golden autumn festival sells hot fresh pomegranates, and the late autumn season processes and brews pomegranate wine, which can be sold all year round.
Guo Zhanguang, secretary of the village party committee, said that in the past two years, foreigners with blue eyes often visited Rong Taixiang's pomegranate garden, and they ate the pomegranates grown by Rong Taixiang and drank the pomegranate wine brewed by Rong Taixiang.
In recent years, Rong Taixiang has earned more than 300,000 yuan per year by planting pomegranates. Rong Taixiang said excitedly: "The policy warms people's hearts, and pomegranates turn into gold." I realized that what is called green water and green mountains is the golden mountain and silver mountain. (Cai Changwei, Gu Guofan, He Yang)