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Post-90s high-paid white-collar workers switched to growing citrus
The protagonist of today's story, Chen Mengfei, is a new farmer after the 90s and a daily farmer from Mianyang, Sichuan.
After graduating from university in 2018, he has been engaged in citrus cultivation for only 2 years, and he is a novice in the field of agriculture. However, with the spirit of good learning and willingness to study, he brought the citrus grove back to life in 1 year, preserved the family property, and realized his personal value.
Chen Mengfei graduated from Sichuan Mianyang City College in 2018, because of his good grades in school, with a solid professional level, serious responsibility and efficient work ability, he was favored by many companies. In the end, he chose a design institute in Chengdu to work in design, and the salary was not cheap. If there is no accident, like most young people from rural areas, he will slowly promote, raise salaries, buy houses, and settle down in big cities through his own efforts.
At the same time, Li Linjun, the father-in-law of Chen Mengfei who started a business in Mianyang, was not very satisfied, and he faced huge financial pressure. In 2018, my father-in-law turned to start a business in Mianyang, contracted nearly 500 acres of land to plant citrus, and invested nearly 6 million yuan in citrus orchards by 2020, but he still saw no hope of profitability, but the cost of labor and fertilizer in orchards was still increasing. If this continues, let alone earn money, the old man's life's savings will be built on these citrus trees. Forced by financial and management technology pressure, Li Linjun invited his daughter and son-in-law to go home and start a business together, hoping that young people could reverse the citrus orchard dilemma.
Chen Mengfei's orchard
Chen Mengfei thought about it again and again, the university major in building environment and energy application engineering is to consider how to provide a comfortable environment for people, planting citrus is to consider how to provide a comfortable environment for trees, the principle should be similar. I hope that through hard work, my parents will no longer work hard! Out of filial piety to his parents and his confidence in the agricultural industry, Chen Mengfei resigned and went home to start a business.
Scientific planting, new farmers should be more professional
Everything is difficult at the beginning, Chen Mengfei and his father-in-law are zero experience, one is engaged in HVAC, one is repairing the house, never touched the citrus plantation of The little white, how to get started?
1, from scratch to start, a good teacher is very important
Interlaced like a mountain, Chen Mengfei's father-in-law thought very simply before starting a business, don't you just plant a tree, give some fertilizer, and sit and wait for the harvest! But after planting fruit trees for a year, the agricultural resources merchants said that they had to continue to use fertilizer and pesticides to treat insects, and even 3 times of red spiders were not beaten. Grow citrus, here is too much knowledge!
After Chen Mengfei took over the orchard, he decided to change his mind, and the previous simple and extensive citrus cultivation concept was definitely not feasible.
Chen Mengfei and teacher Huang Wei took a group photo
By chance, Chen knew about the platform of learning to farm every day. After understanding, he realized that Tiantian Xuenong is a company focusing on farmers' vocational education services, and there are hundreds of practical experts teaching online on the platform, covering the planting technology courses of citrus, grapes, strawberries, kiwifruit, passion fruit, mango and other crops, especially in the area of citrus cultivation, there are more authoritative teachers that he usually cannot contact.
At the beginning of 2020, it was the period of the outbreak of the epidemic, and the online teaching method also solved the problem of inconvenient going out during the epidemic period.
Therefore, Chen enrolled in the "Citrus Planting Skills System Training Class" course of Huang Wei, a teacher who learns every day. This course is suitable for beginners in citrus cultivation in 0-3 years, who hopes to fully grasp the theory of citrus cultivation through this system.
Screenshot of CCTV program
Teacher Huang Wei taught Chen Mengfei a vivid lesson with a solid theoretical foundation of citrus, rich practical methods, and vivid and sophisticated language. After a month of systematic study and practice, he is no longer a citrus white that he does not understand.
"After learning Mr. Huang's class, the biggest gain is that I have a basic understanding of the management of citrus trees and have a guiding impact on the practical operations in the fields behind. I now basically understand the growth principle and fertilizer law of citrus, as well as great progress in pest control and identification, unlike before, nothing is clear. ”
After understanding the comprehensive growth characteristics of citrus, Chen Mengfei immediately found out the reason why citrus trees always grow small - the soil fertility is not enough. He began to study how to improve the soil of citrus orchards.
2, refinement, quantitative change produces qualitative change
Immovable soil technology is not to move the soil, the organic fertilizer is applied to the soil, the real province of fertilizer, manpower, cost, the larger the scale of the orchard, the more considerable the cost of saving.
"My family's orchard is relatively large and the fertilizer is large. Now the price of fertilizer is high, the true and false is difficult to distinguish, the effect is not stable, in this regard, we have been very worried. In the daily study of farming, I saw the promotional video of Yu Shuijing's immovable soil course, and I became deeply interested in immovable soil. Based on the situation of my own orchard, I applied for the online workshop of Immovable Soil and became a student of the third phase of Yu Shuijing's teacher Immovable Soil. "
After learning the Immovable Soil course, Chen began to experiment, he successfully fermented 50 tons of dry cake water fertilizer, and began the soil transformation of the orchard.
The following two pictures are the comparison of Chen's orchards in early July and late July. In early July, the tree was weak and dying. Therefore, Chen used Yu Shuijing's immovable soil technique to make organic fertilizer by himself and fertilize the fruit trees to supplement nutrition. After 26 days of careful management, the tree has "come alive" again and is full of vitality.
The same tree makes a before-and-after comparison of the Immovable soil technique
Chen students shared the success of the orchard in the Immovable Soil Learning Group
More than a month of systematic study of the course, combined with the practical operation of the orchard, the actual results are very obvious. Chen Mengfei often shared with teachers and students the current situation of the orchard after using the immovable soil technology in the group of Immovable soil students, and the results were amazing.
Chen Mengfei's plan abandons the use of a large number of chemical fertilizers in the traditional sense, and uses Teacher Yu's dry cake water fertilizer to boil a small amount of large elements and trace elements water-soluble fertilizer. This kind of economical organic fertilizer production not only greatly improves the organic matter of the orchard soil, but also improves the disease resistance and fruit hanging ability of the fruit trees, laying a solid foundation for the future 500 acres of organic citrus production.
Chen Mengfei built a dry cake water fertilizer fermentation tank
In August 2020, Chen Mengfei's orchard became a visit template for the daily offline observation meeting of learning farmers without moving soil technology because of the remarkable improvement effect.
Chen Mengfei introduced the fermentation pond of the orchard
In 2021, Chen Mengfei's orchard harvested millions of profits, and as a model of rural entrepreneurship, at the end of December, he was interviewed by CCTV channel's "Making Money and Having a Way" program.
Screenshot of CCTV program
The answer to each question is the experience of life. This year is the third year of Chen Mengfei's entrepreneurship, although the time is short, the quality is very high, although the road is bumpy, but in the end it has come by step by step, and the hardships and hardships can only be tasted by themselves.
As a grassroots entrepreneur and the largest local orchard grower, Chen Mengfei has provided long-term jobs for more than 20 local people and temporary picking jobs for more than 50 people, driving the development of local agriculture through family farms, improving the planting technology of local fruit people through their own innovation and exploration, and giving new momentum to the full implementation of the rural revitalization strategy and the construction of a modern agricultural province.
"It's hard and hard to do farming! When I first started, there were many difficulties, I could only slowly grope, doing agriculture is doing industry, dare to think, dare to do, think diligently, slowly persist, and survive the past. ”