Li Wei, chairman of Zhijiang Wei Power Agricultural Machinery Professional Cooperative, returned to his hometown from Shenzhen in 2014 to start a business, he fought the team, service, and equipment, and spelled out a good prospect to provide agricultural machinery socialization services for 50,000 acres of farmland every year. In 2018, he actively responded to the government's call to fight the battle of clear water and blue sky, led the cooperative to change its development ideas, and began to engage in straw recycling business, which developed into a mechanized operation service for the whole process from land cultivation to straw recycling, recycling nearly one million tons of straw per year, and helping the low-carbon development of the countryside.
The blazing sun can't stop the enthusiasm of cattle farmers from Zhicheng Town to purchase straw feed from Gujiadian Zhenwei Power Agricultural Machinery Professional Cooperative in Zhijiang City.
He Hua, a large cattle farmer, parked his car next to the packaged straw bales, and Li Wei, chairman of the cooperative, drove a forklift to help him load the straw feed, and then He Hua drove to weigh, weigh and settle the bill. Li Wei told reporters that this year's straw feed price is 500 yuan 1 ton, Zhicheng Town and Gujiadian Town are separated by a river, and many surrounding farmers will come to the cooperative to purchase feed.
"After the straw is recovered from the ground, we use a crusher to break it to 3 to 6cm long, mainly for the palatability of cattle and sheep to process, after processing and then into a compressed block or compressed bag, after ammoniation, you can pull to the cattle farm to feed the cattle directly, we now have 30kg, 70kg or 1t weight several specifications."
Don't look at the straw recycling business now, Li Wei has done a prosperous business, and he has also experienced twists and turns at the beginning of his business.
In 2014, Li Wei left Shenzhen, where he had worked for many years, and returned to his hometown to engage in agricultural machinery socialization services with his uncle. At that time, the work was relatively simple, only providing farming and arable land services for farmers. The cooperative's warehouse is small and there are few agricultural machinery, only 6 or 7 tractors. With only one enthusiasm to provide the most basic agricultural socialization services for the villagers, Li Wei soon hit the "south wall".
"In 2018, there was a strong wind on our side, and all the corn we planted was blown down, and agricultural machinery could not be harvested at all, even manual labor."
At a time when Li Wei was at a loss, the Zhijiang Municipal Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and the People's Government of Gujiadian Town extended a helping hand, and under the matchmaking of the higher-level agricultural authorities, the Hubei Provincial Department of Science and Technology set up a science and technology correspondent workstation in Gujiadian Town, and sent a team of experts to provide support and help to Li Wei many times.
"In the second half of 2018, we bought an imported harvester, which specializes in harvesting lodging corn and wheat, which was recommended to us by the science and technology station. In the past, lodging could only be collected manually, otherwise it would not be collected and would be destroyed in the ground. With this machine, our lodging harvesting rate can reach more than 85%, and the weather can reach more than 90%. ”
With strong scientific and technological support, Li Wei led the great power agricultural machinery professional cooperatives to embark on the road of rapid development, he spelled the team, spelled service, spelled equipment, spelled out a good prospect for the cooperative, the cooperative now has more than 60 sets of various types of large-scale agricultural machinery, the installation of Beidou intelligent agricultural machinery monitoring terminal 54 sets, the annual socialized service area of 50,000 acres.
With the expansion of the scale of cooperatives and the purchase of more and more agricultural machinery and equipment, Li Wei found that relying only on a single agricultural socialization service limited the pace of the cooperatives, and the high idle rate of agricultural machinery also led to the failure to increase the income of members. How to improve the utilization efficiency of agricultural machinery and expand the ability of cooperatives to increase income?
"There are more members and members of cooperatives, and the seasonality of unified socialized services is too strong, and there is more idle time for personnel and agricultural machinery. By chance, we visited the dairy farm and found that we needed straw feed to feed the cows, so we started to recycle the straw. ”
In 2018, Li Wei actively responded to the government's call to defend the clear water and blue sky, led the cooperative to change its development ideas, and began to engage in straw recycling business on a large scale. After the purchase, processing and sale of crop straw, the cooperative's idle equipment has been left for an additional 3-4 months per year.
In the farmland of Tongjiyuan village, Chen Zhixiong, a 60-year-old villager, asks the cooperative's agricultural mechanics to clear the straw in the field and pack it for recycling. He told reporters that agricultural machinery operations are much more efficient than manual harvesting, and he also saves a lot of worry.
For Chen, straw that could only be burned in the field is now being collected at home, giving the family more income from selling straw and not having to worry about having to clean up the fields for the next season.
"After we did this industry, we solved the problem of environmental protection, and we basically didn't burn straw here, and straw directly turned into money, turning waste into treasure. So, now farmers are scrambling to bring the straw over. ”
The yard outside the cooperative is already full of straw bales compressed into a cylinder of 1 meter 2 by 1 meter. Li Wei told reporters that at present, the cooperative adopts order-based purchase, and recycles 1 million tons of straw annually, which has helped the low-carbon development of rural areas.
Li Wei told reporters that at present, the cooperative is actively promoting the order model of "company + cooperative + farmer", exploring the "barley-corn-corn" silage planting model of three crops a year, and building a demonstration base for the whole process of silage production.
"To embark on the road of science and technology, with science and technology instead of labor, we will lead farmers, find the right direction to get rich, so that the output in the field can increase production and income, so that farmers can produce the greatest benefits."
Special thanks to the Science and Technology and Talent Division of the Hubei Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs
(Some pictures provided by the People's Government of Gujiadian Town)
Reporter | Fu Yuehao
Correspondents | Mao Xiaona, Guo Yong
Edited | Ma Jing
Editor| Tu Dan
Producer | Yang Bin