Cover journalists Li Maojia and Luo Weiwei
Shuangliu Village, Wujia Town, Rongchang District, Chongqing in September, is in a calm state after a bumper harvest. The clear river flows by the side of the village, and it is clear to the bottom; The Metasequoia trees planted next to the village road are straight and upright, which is where Yang Mei worked for ten years after she was admitted to the university student village official.
Beautiful Shuangliu village.
On the right side of the Metasequoia tree, only a few white greenhouses are very conspicuous, "This is the core area of the vegetable base in Shuangliu Village, which is built according to the standards of the modern vegetable agricultural tourism science popularization park." In the past, this piece was a fish pond, and later all the more than 40 acres of land in the fish pond were backfilled, and now this land is all planted with lotus white and cauliflower, which has become a collective economy, and some modern agricultural facilities such as greenhouses and sprinkler irrigation have been used. The income of the village collective has been greatly improved, and the villagers' lives have become more and more prosperous. Yang Mei squatted down while checking the growth of vegetables in the greenhouse, and introduced.
Greenhouse vegetables.
Yang Mei, a 35-year-old graduate of Sichuan Agricultural University, became a university student village official in 2011 and worked in Shuangliu Village for ten years. In the past ten years, she has led more than 100 villagers to build more than 600 acres of vegetable greenhouses through demonstration, and set up professional cooperatives to achieve the development of vegetables in groups, increasing the income of more than 330 villagers.
Yang Mei's college graduation photo.
Under the leadership of Yang Mei, the annual per capita income of Shuangliu Village has increased from more than 8,000 yuan in 2012 to more than 22,000 yuan in 2022.
Chasing the original dream
Applying to agricultural universities despite their parents' objections
Born in the mountains of Tongliang District, Chongqing, Yang Mei grew up watching her parents come out early and return late every day, working hard, but her income was always not high, she often thought: "What can be planted to sell more money?" What do you do to live a good life? At that time, a seed was quietly "planted" in her heart, "hoping that when she grows up, she can learn agricultural knowledge and technology and go back to change the face of poverty in her hometown." ”
Yang Mei was interviewed by the cover news.
With such an ideal, in 2005, Yang Mei concealed her parents and volunteered to fill in the Sichuan Agricultural University for the college entrance examination. After learning that their daughter was admitted to college, the parents were extremely relieved, but when they saw the admission letter of Sichuan Agricultural University, they were instantly angry, "No need to study, go back to re-study for a year and retake the exam!" "Father scolded with a flushed face." You want to learn to grow crops and come back to study with me, why should you go to agricultural university? The mother asked incomprehensibly.
Who knows that Yang Mei is also a fierce temper, and at her insistence, her parents finally respected her choice. After entering Sichuan Agricultural University, Yang Mei cherished the opportunity to learn and put the knowledge she learned into practice. Every year during the winter and summer vacations, when other classmates went out to travel, she chose to return to her hometown to work in the fields with her parents.
Near graduation, his father again suggested that Yang Mei should be a civil servant or a public institution and have an "iron rice bowl", but Yang Mei, who has studied agricultural knowledge for four years, is bent on practicing whether the knowledge she has learned is useful. "At least for the sake of my initial idea of going back to change the face of my hometown and do something for the countryside, I also have to put it into practice." If you give up on this, you are very sorry and you are not convinced. Yang Mei recalled.
Adhering to this original intention, Yang Mei began to look for a suitable agricultural company in the recruitment market, and two months later, she successfully entered the Chongqing Tongnan vegetable planting base.
At the beginning, the spirited Yang Mei asked to "get off the base", but she had no practical experience just graduated, and the company only let her be a salesperson of the base. However, Yang Mei was not discouraged, but used her spare time to run to the greenhouse to learn about vegetable cultivation. "Very fortunately, next to the vegetable base, there are one or two hundred acres of experimental bases in the Chongqing Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and I take the initiative to help those experts and professors every day and learn a lot of relevant agricultural technologies."
Half a year later, Yang Mei became the technical manager of the vegetable base with strength. Although you can get a good income every month, but every day in the field wind and sun, so that Yang Mei became dark and thin, once the father came to visit her, seeing the appearance of his daughter, can't help but be distressed, "At that time, my father couldn't eat food, bought me some fruit and milk and left, after he went back, my mother called me and asked me to quit my job." ”
Encounter "Shuangliu Village"
The choice to stay was questioned by the villagers
In order to fulfill her parents' wishes, Yang Mei finally agreed to apply for the college student village official and was successfully admitted. She inspected more than a dozen villages, and when she came to Shuangliu Village in Wujia Town, Rongchang, she was attracted by this beautiful land: flat terrain, abundant water, fertile soil, and 10,000 acres of vegetable parks.
"It is precisely because of Shuangliu Village that I have strengthened my confidence in being a 'village official.'" Yang Mei frankly said that the conditions in Shuangliu Village are very similar to the Tongnan vegetable base where she works.
After officially working in Shuangliu Village, Yang Mei found that although the vegetable base has a history of more than 30 years, it has aging varieties, backward technology, extensive planting, low vegetable yield, low income from farmers, and many villagers give up planting and go out to work.
Yang Mei talked to the villagers.
At that time, the town was promoting greenhouse vegetable cultivation, but farmers were considering large investment and did not see the benefits, and no one was willing to build greenhouses. Yang Mei went door to door to do work, but the people did not trust her at all, "There are even ordinary people who joke: I have been planting crops for decades, my experience of growing vegetables may be older than your age, where do you need to teach?" ”
"Just say don't practice the fake handle, then make it for them to see!" Yang Mei decided to transfer the land, build vegetable greenhouses, and do demonstration planting. She also took out 130,000 yuan to prepare for marriage and renovation of a new house, and built 8 standardized vegetable greenhouses.
In order to facilitate labor, Yang Mei built a small shed next to the greenhouse, put a bed and a pot in it, and ate and lived inside.
After some hard work, the greenhouse vegetables began to show results, "for example, the cucumbers I planted in March have been listed, and the people's cucumbers have been planted, and the wholesale price can be sold for about 3 yuan a catty." After the villagers really saw the benefits of modern agriculture growing greenhouse vegetables, they went from distrusting Yang Mei at the beginning to rushing to find her to learn modern agricultural planting techniques.
Yang Mei taught the villagers modern agricultural planting techniques.
Under the leadership of Yang Mei, Shuangliu Village has an annual greenhouse income of more than 20,000 yuan, which is two to three times that of open-field planting, and more than 100 villagers have built more than 600 mu of vegetable greenhouses and established professional cooperatives, and the villagers' income has increased greatly.
Soon after, Yang Mei found that the agricultural varieties in Shuangliu Village were messy, and the yield of extensive planting was very low. Therefore, Yang Mei decided to help the villagers adjust the structure of the planting industry.
Wujia crisp lotus white is one of the results of the screening, before this local vegetable crop was not optimistic, the planting area in the village is only three or four hundred acres of land, "now five thousand acres of land are all planted Wujia crisp lotus white, has become a local characteristic industry." Yang Mei introduced that the large-scale planting of Wujia crisp lotus white has increased the income of villagers a lot, and one mu of land can produce five or six thousand pounds of crisp lotus white, which is more than a thousand yuan more than before.
Nowadays, Yang Mei is also the director of the agricultural service center of Wujia Town in Rongchang District and the first secretary of Shuangliu Village, and the responsibility is heavier, "Now to take into account the industrial development of Wujia Town, I want to promote some vegetable planting experience and management measures in Shuangliu Village to other villages, which can drive the industrial development of other villages, promote the industrial development of the whole town, and realize the characteristics of 'one village, one product' or 'multiple villages and one product'." Yang Mei said.
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