Source: People's Daily - Guizhou Channel Original draft
In the hot summer of July, Huali Town in Kaiyang County sent away the crisp and sweet bee sugar plum and ushered in the chicken blood plum. Chicken blood plum because of its internal appearance of red, similar to the color of chicken blood and named, with aromatic smell, fruit shape, sweet and sour and delicious characteristics, is a rich in iron fruit, rich in nutrients.
On the top of the hill in the Dafentian Group of Gaoping Village, Huali Town, you can always see a nearly 50-year-old fruit farmer who has been tanned by the sun, carefully picking fruit. Looking around, the branches are full of red and tender chicken blood plums on the outside and "hot" on the inside, which makes people salivate.
The fruit grower who is harvesting is Deng Yi, a veteran who retired from the army in 1992. After retiring from the army, he has been working as a farmer at home, and also served as the leader of the villager group of Dafentian Group, although he wanted to lead the villagers in this group to become rich, but he suffered from the difficulty of finding projects and lacking corresponding technology, and has not been able to improve. Until 2014, he accidentally found that chicken blood plum sold well in other provinces and made considerable profits, so he decided to introduce chicken blood plum saplings into Huali Town, Kaiyang County for planting, while introducing new products, he could also make full use of the advantages of Kaiyang selenium-rich land. However, in the face of problems such as shortage of funds and poor production conditions, many villagers in the group did not agree. After thinking about it again, he decided to raise money and contribute to his own efforts, first to do the chicken blood and plum industry, so that the people can see the benefits, and then take the people to work together. Therefore, he carried out a major renovation of the 48 acres of land transferred from the hands of the people, and also used the more than 70,000 savings he had saved from doing small work and farming to repair bridges, dig roads, and improve production conditions. For four years, villagers often saw Deng Yi and workers carrying cement on their shoulders, pushing sand trucks to dig trenches and build roads. When people asked: "Why do people who are almost 50 years old still work so hard to start a business", he just smiled and replied: "When you are old, you must dare to try, you are a soldier who came back, what is this bitterness, soldiers are not afraid of suffering and tired, when I do a good job, everyone sees hope, and naturally they will catch up with them." ”
After Deng Yi's chicken blood plum planting was completed, the first plums finally matured in 2020. However, the sky is not beautiful, the continuous heavy rain and several hailstorms in the summer of 2020 caused Deng Yi to plant chicken blood plums suffered a large area of damage, more than 5,000 pounds of chicken blood plums finally only more than 1,000 pounds listed, not only can not recover the cost, but also lost a lot of money, many villagers in the group have advised him to give up. However, Deng Yi, who was born as a soldier, was not discouraged, he said: "I planted a new product, it is normal to fail, and if I come back next year, I can always succeed." Just like when you are a soldier fighting a war, if you don't complete the task, you can give up. ”
Deng Yi, who does not give up lightly, after learning the lessons of losses in previous years, continued to plant more than 40 mu of chicken blood plum this year, after several years of tempering, he is more skilled in planting chicken blood plum, and the more than 40 mu of chicken blood plum planted this year not only reached a high yield of more than 40,000 jin but also had a good product quality. This made Deng Yi full of confidence in the cultivation of chicken blood plums. "At present, I am facing the problem of sales channels, but I am confident that the chicken blood and plum I planted have a good taste, and with the help of the village-based task force and the two committees of the village branch, the difficulties will definitely pass!" The words are simple and unpretentious, but they are full of his determination to fight hard.
Deng Yi, a man who has a history of being a soldier in his life, has been a glorious veteran all his life. Discharge does not fade. When talking about the future development, his eyes are full of hope and persistence, he firmly believes that his chicken blood plum can definitely achieve results, he believes that he will be able to do the industry, can get rich with the villagers, and live a life as "hot" as chicken blood plum! (Photo/ Wen Xiao Xuebo)