Kiwifruit, native to China, but famous in the Pacific island nation of New Zealand. Located at the southern tip of the Pacific Ocean, New Zealand covers an area of 270,000 square kilometers and has a population of less than 4.5 million per year. But New Zealand has a warm climate, fertile soil, abundant sunshine and excellent ecology, which is particularly suitable for kiwifruit growth. I don't know when, where and where kiwifruit arrived in New Zealand and became one of the national treasures of the island nation. To this end, the people of the island nation gave it a beautiful name kiwi fruit.
More importantly, the people of New Zealand have taken conservation and ecological comparative advantages to the extreme. They have strictly protected kiwifruit through variety patents and other means, and have achieved good results by establishing a worldwide brand to transform the ecological comparative advantages of kiwifruit into economic benefits.
Objectively speaking, before the Wenchuan earthquake, the center of Sichuan kiwifruit was in Cangxi County, a small county in northern Sichuan Province. Cangxi County, located in the middle reaches of the Jialing River, an important tributary of the Yangtze River, is an old revolutionary area, originally belonging to the Nanchong Special District of Sichuan Province, and later assigned to Guangyuan City. As the name suggests, Cangxi has excellent ecology, beautiful environment, simple folk customs and beautiful natural scenery.
Around 2000, Cangxi seized the opportunity of the state's call for the development of agricultural industrialization, based on local characteristics of agriculture, guided by the situation and adapted to local conditions, through leading enterprises, cooperative organizations, etc., to drive the majority of farmers to vigorously develop kiwifruit planting, and gradually formed the industrialization of agriculture such as seed, storage and marketing. This has brought good social and economic benefits to the local rural economic development and farmers' income, and many bosses who have gone to the sea to do business have also dug up the "first bucket of gold" and become people who rely on kiwifruit to get rich first.
Although Cangxi Kiwi has achieved remarkable results, the good times have not lasted long. Fast forward to 2008: a year destined to go down in history. That year, the 5.12 Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan, which was very intense and intense, had a great impact on Sichuan's social economy and caused the loss of more than 100,000 lives.
As one of the hardest hit areas, Chengdu seized the opportunity of post-earthquake reconstruction and attracted the bosses who had developed relatively well in Cangxi County to Chengdu by paying money, policies, land and hukou (at that time, Chengdu hukou was still relatively attractive). The world is bustling, all for profit; the world is bustling, all are for profit. Since they are all making money, and Chengdu's policy is obviously more favorable, why not enjoy it? As a result, the layout, production and sales of kiwifruit in Sichuan Province were transferred from Cangxi, a small county in northern Sichuan, to Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province.
Chengdu, because of the Dujiangyan water conservancy project built by Li Bing during the Warring States period, was later known as the country of Tianfu since ancient times. The land here is flat, the soil is fertile, the air is fresh, the rain is abundant, and like Cangxi, it is also a fertile soil for kiwifruit growth.
Driven by interests, Chengdu Dujiangyan, Pujiang and Chongzhou have successively supported kiwifruit as a leading local industry, with a scale ranging from 100,000 mu to 500,000 mu to 1 million mu.
Not only Chengdu species, Ya'an, Meishan, Guangyuan, Liangshan and even Ganzi and Aba are also large and special kiwifruit. Kiwifruit has become a fragrant feast for the development of rural economies everywhere.
But as everyone knows, on the one hand, "things are scarce and precious, and affection is more kind because of old age", more, it is not worth much. To make matters worse, due to exhaustive development and utilization, the "canker disease" known as kiwifruit cancer has occurred in local areas, and investors have no harvest and chicken feathers. The price of kiwi fruit also fell from the highest 20 or 30 yuan a catty to the tragic situation of "no one asks for it".
The lesson of the development of the Kiwifruit industry in Sichuan is extremely profound, and I hope that we can find and remember some lessons from it, so as not to repeat the mistakes, and other industries should also learn from the lessons and not make the same mistakes.
First of all, the market and the government are indispensable and irreplaceable in the process of agricultural industry development. However, the two should perform their respective duties and complement each other, and they can neither be absent nor overstepping.
Secondly, the government should set rules for industrial development in the whole industrial chain of industrial origin protection, market access, production process and brand building, and restrain the barbaric growth of the market through standardization.
Finally, a legal system for the protection of property rights in agricultural product varieties should be established to prevent the low-cost expansion of agricultural product varieties through patent barriers.