Right now, it's the season of alpine corn harvest. Early in the morning, in the corn field of Shangdong Village, Kengdi Township, Chen Qiusheng, a "new farmer" who returned to his hometown, and the villagers were busy harvesting ripe corn, preparing to bag it and sell it to the farmers' markets in Cangnan and Fu'an.
As a native of the countryside, Chen Qiusheng has always believed that his roots are in the countryside, although he has worked outside for many years.
In 2020, Chen Qiusheng decided to return to his hometown to start a business. After repeated exploration, he found that the young and middle-aged people in the village chose to go out to work, and many barren mountains and barren fields were left unmanaged, and the agricultural planting scale was small and scattered, and the varieties were single. The Upper East Village is more than 1,000 meters above sea level, with warm and little cold throughout the year, a large temperature difference between day and night, abundant rainfall, high soil selenium and zinc content, and unique advantages in planting agricultural products, so there is great potential for the development of alpine agriculture. "I was born and raised in this village, and I hope that my hometown will be prosperous and my fellow villagers will live happily. It is a great sense of accomplishment to be able to do a career in my hometown, lead the villagers to start a business together, get rich, and live a happy life! Chen Qiusheng said happily. In August 2020, with the help of the Party Committee and Government of Kengdi Township, Chen Qiusheng took the lead in establishing the Shouning County Fujian Vegetable Planting Professional Cooperative, developing and cultivating alpine agricultural planting bases with the business model of "Party Branch + Cooperative + Party Member + Farmer". Under his leadership, the cooperative has successfully solved the problem of land management scale by reclaiming 120 acres of abandoned farmland and circulating more than 480 acres of land, and its members have grown from the initial 5 to more than 50 now.
In order to improve agricultural planting management technology and promote the development of agricultural industry, Chen Qiusheng went to his predecessors with planting experience to learn planting management technology on the spot whenever he had time; Actively participate in the training courses held by various departments, and successively go to Longquan, Zhejiang, Shanghai, Zhangzhou, Fujian and other places to learn agricultural planting technology and management mode. In just a few years, Chen Qiusheng has changed from a "layman" in the agricultural field to an "expert".
"Alpine agricultural products are of good quality, pollution-free, and high nutritional value, and are well received by the market. After the expansion of the agricultural planting scale in the village, the output is stable, and every harvest season, our agricultural products are sold in many farmers' markets, and the supply exceeds the demand. Chen Qiusheng said happily.
In recent years, Chen Qiusheng led the members of the cooperative to deepen the new mode of land planting, and actively explore the "one land for multiple purposes", in the promotion of corn planting on the land, the corresponding interplanting of cauliflower, rice and other categories, and constantly improve the land utilization rate, increase land efficiency, drive the villagers to develop more than 1,000 acres of alpine agriculture, the annual production of hundreds of thousands of catties of cauliflower, corn, small peppers, beibei pumpkin and other agricultural products sell well in Wenzhou, Shanghai, Xiamen, Fu'an and many places. In 2023, the cooperative will achieve an operating income of 240,000 yuan, which will effectively boost the collective economic income of the village of 551,500 yuan and the per capita income of farmers of 22,321 yuan.
Hard work, eventually success. In the past four years, Chen Qiusheng has been committed to cultivating and expanding the alpine agricultural planting base in Shangdong Village, promoting the agglomeration and diversified development of the agricultural industry, and alpine agriculture has become a new engine for the industrial income of Shangdong Village and the prosperity of the masses.
Source: Mindong Daily · Xinningde client
Editor: Lin Na Zhou Yiming
Proofreader: Zheng Yonghua
Review: Li Tinghua
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