Li Zongxi, a native of Wangtong Village, Rice Field Town, Luchuan County, was a famous pig farmer in the village more than 10 years ago. More than 300 pigs are raised all year round, and the family's life is booming. However, in 2019, an unexpected swine fever caused him to lose more than 1 million yuan. The family was drained, and it also owed hundreds of thousands of yuan in foreign debt.
Five-fingered peach acquired by Li Zongxi.
At that time, Li Zongxi was more than 50 years old, facing such a difficult dilemma, he was not tall and thin, he did not collapse, but actively looked for a new way out, and finally joined forces with his family to open a Chinese herbal medicine five-finger peach processing factory, and became the leader of the village to get rich.
The pig farm was transformed into a five-fingered peach processing plant
Li Zongxi's medicinal material processing plant is located at the mouth of the village of Wangtong. This is actually his original pig farm, with an area of about 3,000 square meters. The original pig house and the warehouse where the feed was stored were all converted into processing workshops by him.
Recently, he just bought a batch of five-fingered peach roots from Guilin. This batch of medicinal herbs was stacked at the entrance of the factory, yellow and clear, shining in the sunlight, glowing with a faint yellow light.
"Since there are not many five-fingered peaches grown locally in Yulin, we are basically buying them in Guilin, Qinzhou, Fangchenggang and other places now." Li Zongxi said that although the medicinal material processing plant only started in 2019, the scope of his purchase of medicinal materials has spread to many counties and cities in Guangxi. Every month, the processed medicinal materials are stored in about 25 tons. At present, most of the five-fingered peaches sold in Yulin Chinese Medicine Port are supplied by him. His products are also exported to Henan, Guangdong, Hunan and other provinces.
The reporter saw at the scene that these five-fingered peach roots that Li Zongxi had just recovered had developed and were relatively large. He said that these are all good quality varieties, and the growth period is all more than one and a half years. Following him inside the factory, dozens of villagers were cleaning, segmenting, sorting, drying, and disinfecting the rhizomes of the five-fingered peach.
Li Zongxi
In the segment workshop, more than 40 villagers are wielding knives to cut sections and cut sections. Li Zongxi introduced that cutting sections is the type of work that requires the most labor. Due to the different sizes of the five-fingered peach roots, in order to ensure the quality, they do not use machinery for processing, but use workers to segment and cut.
"The processing of five-fingered peaches is basically manual, so after we established this processing plant, we recruited more than 60 villagers to work." Li Zongxi said that the age of these workers is basically between 45 and 60 years old, and the monthly wage is basically about 2500 yuan in the month of more goods.
"This processing plant is forced out"
"This processing plant was forced out." Li Zongxi said that before opening a medicinal material processing factory, he had never been in contact with the medicinal materials industry, and he had never even heard of the five-fingered peach. When he watched the last pig in the farm die unexpectedly, his heart sank into the ice cellar. Just at this time, the eldest son Li Yanwu, a friend who made medicinal materials, brought a message, "At present, the supply of five-fingered peach in the Chinese herbal medicine market is relatively scarce, and it can be processed with five-finger peach."
At that time, Li Zongxi was in the shadow of entrepreneurial failure, and he was very hesitant about this industry that he had never been exposed to. He feared that if anything went wrong, it would be falling from one pit to another.
"Dry!" After thinking about it for two days, Li Zongxi still decided to fight. After the closure of the pig farm, there is a ready-made factory building. Besides, this medicinal herb is processed and the return is fast. After processing, you can sell it to get the money back. My son's friend is a Chinese herbalist, and he has a free consultant without spending money, so let it go.
Soon, Li Zongxi bought the first batch of five-fingered peaches from Yulin locally, and after a while, he recruited more than 10 workers from the village and started to work. "The first batch of goods was not much, only more than 1,000 kilograms." Li Zongxi was cautious at the beginning, not rushing to become bigger, but choosing to start small.
"I didn't expect things to go very well, the first batch of goods has not really dried, there are merchants to come to the door." Sales do not have to find their own, less of this worries, Li Zongxi began to expand the acquisition of five-finger peach.
After expanding the scale of processing, Li Zongxi also made a division of labor and cooperation, and his two sons Li Yanwu and Li Lusheng were responsible for acquisition and one was responsible for sales. He and his wife, Liu Damei, are responsible for processing. In this way, Li Zongxi commanded his family to go all out and started a "turnaround battle".
"After expanding production, we also received strong support from Fu Sheng, the first secretary of the village." Li Zongxi said that Fu Sheng helped them contact wholesalers and herbal medicine buyers in Yulin and Guangdong, Hunan, Henan and other places through the Internet, helping them expand sales channels, and also guiding them to carry out e-commerce sales and publicity and promotion. At the same time, he also introduced the villagers to their factories for employment, which solved his employment problems and the villagers' employment problems with one stone.
Lead more villagers on the road to riches
"At present, the five-fingered peach on the market is very out of stock, and the supply is in short supply." In May this year, Li Zongxi cooperated with some large growers of Chinese medicinal materials to rent more than 67 hectares of barren mountains in the village, all planted with five-fingered peaches, which are expected to be harvested in June next year.
"Five-fingered peach is the largest selling Chinese medicinal material in the southern soup, and its dry material is in demand of about 5,000 tons a year, which is especially popular in Guangdong, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and the planting prospects are very broad." Fu Sheng introduced that Li Zongxi's medicinal material processing factory has gradually become a processing enterprise integrating planting, processing and sales. At present, he plans to rely on Li Zongxi's medicinal material processing plant and adopt the business model of "company + base + cooperative + farmer", drive more farmers in Wangtong Village to plant five-fingered peaches, and lead more villagers to step onto the road to prosperity.
"The field management of five-fingered peach is very simple, and it is more suitable for villagers without technology to plant." Coupled with the fact that there are more barren mountains in Wangtong Village, it can be used just right. Fu Sheng said that in the next step, he intends to publicize and mobilize villagers to follow Li Zongxi to plant five-fingered peaches and build Wangtong Village into a "five-fingered peach village".
Original title: After raising pigs lost a million yuan, he did not stagnate, but went all out with his family to fight a "turnaround battle" and become the leader of the village's prosperity Villager Li Zongxi Processing five-finger peaches counterattacked the road of entrepreneurship