"Nankeng Township", is this township in a pit?
When our group of people rushed to Nankeng Township by car, almost 20 or 30 meters of driving were about to turn, twisting and turning, dense hills, and layers of mountains. The old village chief who led the way told us that the rocks on both sides of the mountain said that the soil was not soil, and the stone was not stone, so it was common for the mountain to encounter water and landslides.
Walking deeper and deeper, walking for a long time, the deep mountains are quiet and sparsely populated. At this time, the sound of a motor vehicle came from the front, turned a few corners and finally saw that in front of us was an environmental protection car driving over, our car fell back a lot, to make room, the environmental protection car stepped on the accelerator and drove over.
Rural landscape of Nankeng in Xingguo County
In this big mountain, even the birds can't see a few, how can there be environmental protection cars? The old village chief said that since the past few years, cleaning up and sanitation, the villages and villages have not fallen, which is from Nankeng Village. In the past, the small river next to the road was full of all kinds of garbage, but in the past two years, the road has hardened to the household, the sanitation has been carried out, and the village has also been lit up.
After walking for a while, we finally arrived at Zhengfeng Village, Nankeng Township, Xingguo County, Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province, with a total forest land area of 175,700 mu and a total cultivated land area of 9337.47 mu. In such a large mountain, the plots that can be cultivated are only sporadically distributed in the mountain flat land at the root of the mountain, and the number is very small.
Zhengfeng Village once belonged to the deep poverty village, since 2014, the continuous help has made Zhengfeng Village undergo tremendous changes, the village built a new primary school, kindergarten, adobe house reconstruction, grid staff twice a week in the village cleaning and sanitation, in the basic environment, sanitation one by one after the rationalization, from 2018 began to the fixed point help, step by step "industrial assistance" so that Zheng Feng Village to live a different life.
In 2018, Country Garden decided to promote the Guangdong Yingde whole county assistance model to 14 counties (cities and districts) in 9 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government) such as Dongxiang in Gansu, Xingguo in Jiangxi, Pingshan, Luanping, Chongli District, Xinhe, Yucheng in Henan, Shucheng in Anhui, Tiandong in Guangxi, Pingjiang in Hunan, Lantian in Shaanxi, Ningshan, and Yaozhou in Shaanxi, and signed a paired assistance agreement, sending nearly 200 full-time poverty alleviation teams, benefiting 336,000 poor people in 3,747 villages.
Up to now, Country Garden's assistance project has been involved in 57 counties in 16 provinces across the country.
Nankeng Township Zhengfeng Village, is indeed included in the surrounding hills, although the forestry township has 170,000 acres of woodland, but the national public welfare forest can not move, natural protected forest can not be cut, can not change the attributes. In the past ten years, the village has been engaged in kiwifruit cultivation and beef cattle, but the road has not been opened.
Zhang Ruizhen's story
Zhang Ruizhen, who is in her fifties this year, is an authentic farmer in Nankeng Township, Xingguo County, Ganzhou City. When we came to the new house built by Zhang Ruizhen along the steep mountain road, Zhang Ruizhen, who was a little shy, invited us to drink tea.
According to Fang Jun of the Rural Revitalization Project Department of Country Garden Xingguo County, in 2018, when he first came to Nankeng Township, because Zhang Ruizhen's family lived deep in the mountains, the land on the mountain was sandbag land (below the shallow layer of land was sandy land), and water could not be stored, so it was impossible to develop terraces, and could only rely on raising livestock and poultry to sell to maintain its livelihood. But for the expenses of the family, these incomes are simply a drop in the bucket, and the poor life almost crushes him.
Country Garden inspects the bee farm
Fang Jun repeatedly looked around Zhang Ruizhen's home and found that Zhang Ruizhen's family had four or five boxes of bees. With such a dense plant of trees around, the bee article can do.
At the beginning of 2019, the Rural Revitalization Project Department of Country Garden Xingguo County brought twenty beehives to Zhang Ruizhen's family.
Zhang Ruizhen took these twenty beehives as a treasure, he learned carpentry to make beehives, but raising four or five boxes can still cope, more than twenty boxes are a bit busy, being stung by bees is a common thing, and many bees go to collect honey and fly away.
Beekeeping is not an easy task. What's the hardest thing to grasp when asked? Zhang Ruizhen said, "The most difficult thing is to divide the bees. "That is, when a new group of bees is born, one of them is a queen bee, if there is no suitable conditions, this queen bee will lead all the small bees to fly away, in the beginning, because the "bee division" technology is not mastered, Zhang Ruizhen's hive, some queen bees flew away with the bee colony.
The direct result of the loss of the bee colony is that the honey production is not high.
Fang Jun found this problem. Through the coordination of the Rural Revitalization Project Department of Country Garden Xingguo County, beekeeping experts were invited to Zhang Ruizhen's home to guide the training.
Beekeeping experts conducted guidance and training for Zhang Ruizhen
The art industry has a specialty, and experts visit the field to bring practical solutions. Through continuous learning and exploration, Zhang Ruizhen has mastered the techniques of bee recruitment, beekeeping, beekeeping, etc., and the honey production has been greatly improved.
In 2021, Country Garden helped Zhang Ruizhen increase the size of the beehive from twenty to fifty boxes. This year, Zhang Ruizhen has harvested more than 2,000 catties of honey, which is expected to bring about 30,000 yuan of income.
From only relying on casual work and raising geese and chickens a year, earning thousands of yuan a year, to now earning 30,000 yuan a year, Zhang Ruizhen has more and more bottom in her heart, "Now it is fifty boxes, next year can be to a hundred boxes, no problem." ”
Four children were sent to school in the town, and the wife lived in the town to take care of the four children, while he concentrated on keeping bees at home.
Zhang Ruizhen was building a new home, happily talking with us, he pointed to the hardened ground in the yard and the courtyard wall and said, "Before, this was a slope, relying on ourselves to find uneven, the project was too big, and then the Country Garden "Bixiang" team helped to level it, and also built a cement courtyard wall. "The newly built small second floor is bathed in sunlight and looks unique in the mountain pass.
With the successful case of Zhang Ruizhen, the Rural Revitalization Project Department of Country Garden Xingguo County began to plan, can the little bee fly to thousands of households in Nankeng Township?
The secret of the "air industry"
Country Garden Xingguo County Rural Revitalization Project Department immediately launched a survey, according to the survey data, Nankeng can raise 8,000 boxes of bees, the current breeding scale is less than one-eighth, there is still a large space for expansion, which means that more villagers can join the beekeeping industry.
The Rural Revitalization Project Department of Country Garden Xingguo County contacted Yang Liu, former deputy director of the Jiangxi Provincial Beekeeping Research Institute, and invited Director Yang to Nankeng for a week-long investigation. In the process of investigation, after comprehensive investigation from the ecological environment, honey source tree, beekeeping history and other aspects, Yang Liu affirmed the direction of the development of beekeeping industry in Nankeng Township.
Under careful planning, the Rural Revitalization Project Department of Country Garden Xingguo County and the Nankeng Township Government have set up the beekeeping industry as the main industry of Nankeng Township and invested in the construction of a demonstration bee farm, which was awarded the honor of "four-star" demonstration bee farm by the Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of Jiangxi Province this year.
At the beehive site, it can be seen that on the side of the winding mountain road, there are beehives densely lined up, and there are currently 1200 beehives in total. The beekeeping industry became a sweet business. The beekeeping industry is an advantageous industry with unique functions of resource efficiency, ecological balance and species protection, and is an "air agriculture" with rare investment and quick effect, not competing with grain and fruits for farmland and feed with livestock and poultry.
Every month, Country Garden invites Yang Liu to Nankeng Township once a month to train beekeepers and to do research and answer various questions in the field. The village secretary of Zhengfeng Village said that Country Garden has introduced technology and solutions to problems, which is really helpful to the "old man". It is useless to have investment alone, how to turn this thing into something that the "old man" can do and do by himself is the real trick.
After Yang Liu proposed that the honey source trees in Nankeng Township were not rich enough, Country Garden funded the purchase of new varieties of honey source trees to improve the structure of honey source trees.
Maybe one day, when the little bees are collecting honey on the new honey source tree, they will sigh, oh, how can the flowers on this tree taste different?
According to the poverty alleviation cadres of the Nankeng Township Government in Zhengfeng Village, there are 1500 boxes of beekeeping individual households in the township for 77 households, and there are 1200 boxes in Zhengfeng Village collectively, a total of more than 2700 boxes, which will be doubled again in 2022, and it is no problem to 5,000 boxes. The specific cooperation method is to adopt the method of "company + base + farmer", combined with the three business models of enterprise contracting, village collective self-operation and centralized custody of low-income households, Country Garden provides multi-faceted support for the base such as capital, technology, brand publicity and product channels.
Villagers are harvesting honey
In 2021, the total output of beekeeping in Nankeng Township is 50,000 catties, and the output in 2022 is expected to be 100,000 catties.
However, this raises the question, where is the market for honey?
In the past, when peasants went out of the mountains, they had to carry flat burdens, drag scooters, and go to the market to sell under the scorching sun. Now there is e-commerce, but farmers use e-commerce themselves, and they cannot form their own advantages in honey sales - Country Garden uses its own Bixiang mall to extend the beekeeping industry to sales, and assists Nankeng Township to create a "bee dream source" brand.
In the village head of Zhengfeng Village in Nankeng Township, after eating at noon in the village, the villagers came out to chat together, and the villagers said that now more and more people are living in the village, the village was indeed not the same before, and now it is green mountains and rivers, especially after the epidemic, many people have renovated the old houses here. After the opening of the highway, Zhengfeng Village is only half an hour's drive from Xingguo County, which is very convenient.
It can be seen that the villagers of Zhengfeng Village have a good idea of the changes that have taken place in the village. Beekeeping industry, here there is a new term, called "air industry", the village director said, beekeeping does not compete with any other resources, distribution problems, is a pure green industry, according to local conditions, everyone is at ease, the old men are recognized.
The bees in Zhengfeng Village, Nankeng Township, have been famous, and so far Country Garden has donated 1450 swarms of bees and 13 bee farms in 4 villages, producing about 30,000 catties of honey in the first half of 2021.
It is reported that Ganzhou Xingguo County allocated more than 10 million yuan of special funds for the development of the beekeeping industry. Chongxian Township Beisheng Village, Fengbian Township Maoping Village to establish a number of demonstration bee farms, Yijiang Town, Butou Township training points for on-site teaching, Ganzhou Xingguo County Agricultural and Rural Bureau, Country Garden Xingguo County Rural Revitalization Project Department hired expert consultants from the Jiangxi Provincial Beekeeping Research Institute, jointly held Xingguo County bee breeding technology training courses, to the county beekeepers to do technical training, to the bee farm to guide beekeepers scientific standardization of beekeeping.
Just like building a beekeeping base and selling honey in Xingguo, Cases of Country Garden achieving industrial revitalization through the opening up of the consumption chain abound. According to the data, as of now, Country Garden has accumulated 340 million yuan of agricultural products, directly helping more than 118,000 farmers to increase their income.
Jingguan Rural Revitalization Research Group/Article