After getting rid of poverty, Laozhai has a new life

Xinhua News Agency, Changsha, March 28 Title: After getting rid of poverty, Laozhai has a new life

Xinhua News Agency reporters Zhang Yujie, Zhang Dan and Ding Chunyu

In March, in Laozhai Village, Guzhang County, Hunan Province's Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, a series of characteristic houses are hidden in green trees, and a cluster of rosemary seedlings grows happily, and the fence-covered Quemo Trail runs through it.

On this day, Wu Yuming, a 51-year-old villager, came to the rosemary planting base early in the morning to check on it, and not long ago, he had just demolished the insulation shed covering the rosemary seedlings. "The newly cultivated seedlings were ordered by customers last year." Wu Yuming said that according to the number of customer bookings, seedlings will not worry about sales.

Located in the middle of the Wuling Mountains and with a population of less than 150,000, Guzhang County used to integrate "old, young, border, poor, mountain, and library". Laozhai Village was once one of the 11 deeply impoverished villages in Guzhang County, where the mountains are steep, the fields under the alpine karst landform are scattered and barren, and the village has 315 households and 1378 people, more than half of which are poor households. People of Wu Yuming's age are basically migrant workers.

The days of poverty made Wu Yuming want to get out of the mountains, and he went to Beijing and Shanghai to work. But not long after, the reality that the two daughters and the old man needed to be taken care of in the family dragged him back to Laozhai Village. In 2014, Wu Yuming returned to his hometown and was rated as a poor household with a record of lika that year.

In March 2018, after the poverty alleviation task force dispatched by the Hunan Provincial Public Security Department entered the village, it invited well-known experts and entrepreneur teams to the village to investigate, find out the characteristic industrial projects such as rosemary, forest chicken, and layer chicken that are suitable for Laozhai Village, and select several "industrial prosperity leaders".

Wu Yuming is one of them. Under the guidance of the poverty alleviation task force, wu Yuming, who is industrious and hard-working, was the first to set up a rosemary planting cooperative in the village, and planted 218 acres of rosemary that year.

Poverty alleviation teams often organize well-informed and motivated farmers to go out to study. During this time, Wu Yuming learned the cultivation and cultivation techniques of rosemary first-hand. In addition to selling plants, the cooperative led by Wu Yuming also cooperates with food and pharmaceutical companies to produce and sell rosemary deep-processed products, and rosemary trees are sold at a higher price.

Driven by Wu Yuming, more villagers joined the Rosemary Cooperative, and the scale of cultivation became larger and larger. Now, many villagers in Laozhai do not have to go out to work, and planting rosemary in front of their homes not only takes care of their families but also increases their income. It is expected that from this year, the maximum output value of rosemary per mu can reach 6,000 yuan, which can benefit for 7 consecutive years.

Seeing that the development of rosemary tends to be stable, Wu Yuming thought of developing oil tea cultivation, making rosemary bonsai and breeding chickens and ducks. The poverty alleviation team also invited technical experts to guide the villagers and turn ideas into reality.

At present, the once barren mountains of Laozhai have been draped in red and green, and industrious villagers have walked through the mountains to inspect the booming industries, and the laozhai has a new atmosphere after the whole village has been lifted out of poverty. "The old village is not old, and life is renewed." Wu Yuming said. (End)