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"All these years, unconsciously, I've been a bit of 'obsessive-compulsive'." On May 10, just after meeting this reporter, Yang Li, a deputy to the National People's Congress and director of the village committee of Hebotan Village in Fenghuang Township, Quyuan Management District, Yueyang City, laughed at herself.
In fact, Yang Li's so-called "obsessive-compulsive disorder" is not in life, but as the chairman of Yueyang Haitai Gardenia Professional Cooperative, no matter where she goes, as long as she sees the barren mountains, she hopes to plant gardenia trees.
Yang Li, deputy to the National People's Congress and director of the village committee of Hebotan Village, Fenghuang Township, Quyuan Management District, Yueyang City.
"Planting gardenia on barren mountains can not only improve the environment to some extent, but also bring certain economic benefits." No, when I went to my family's house last year to play, I saw a barren mountain next to the house, and Yang Li forced it to plant a gardenia tree.
After nearly a decade of friendship with Gardenia, Yang Li admitted that she has become a spokesperson for Gardenia and a pioneer in the gardenia industry. For this reason, the villagers called her "Gardenia Mother." ”
Gardenia.
Association: Natural pigments can be extracted from yellow gardenia
As a deputy to the National People's Congress for three consecutive terms, Yang Li and Gardenia have formed a relationship with Gardenia, which stems from a performance experience 9 years ago. From April 7 to 13, 2011, Yang Li participated in the food safety law enforcement inspection organized by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress in Shanghai.
However, on April 13, a news article titled "Some Supermarkets in Shanghai Sell 'Dyed Steamed Buns'" shocked the country and made Yang Li in the law enforcement inspection wonder: on the one hand, there was a food safety inspection, but on the other hand, there was a food safety accident with a great impact, what was the reason?
Gardenia essential oil.
The accompanying expert told Yang Li, "It is synthetic pigments that are at work." "The national food safety standards have provisions on additives, can not be added at will or illegally over-add synthetic pigments, but some merchants in order to make their food production "value" higher, feel free to add synthetic pigments.
Experts also told Yang Li that to make food both beautiful and safe, natural colors can be used. While natural pigments can be extracted from plants, gardenia is one of the most ideal raw materials.
Gardenia Town.
"Gardenia happens to be the city flower of our Yueyang, which can be planted on the barren slope and has a revenue time of up to 30 years." Yang Li said that when she returned to her hometown and looked at the gardenia flowers in the village, she had a thought, that is, to lead farmers to plant gardenias to provide raw materials for extracting natural pigments, and also hoped to lead farmers to get rid of poverty and become well-off.
Development: Directly led 219 households to get rid of poverty and become well-off.
After receiving guidance, Yang Li used the many surveys organized by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress to ask for advice everywhere, and her ideas were supported by many experts and, of course, questioned. "Some people say that the cost of natural pigments is 2-3 times higher than that of synthetic pigments, and merchants usually do not choose to use them in order to make a profit."
Despite this, Yang Li, who has a strong spirit in her bones, is still determined to do this matter related to food safety to the end.
laboratory.
After more than a year of research and experience, at the end of 2012, with the support of Professor Qi Liwang, chief expert of genetics of the Chinese Academy of Forestry, Yang Li founded a laboratory integrating introduction, scientific research, seedling breeding, training and display at her own expense - "Haitai Bonong", which is the first high-tech agricultural laboratory founded by farmers in Hunan, built in rural areas and directly serving farmers.
After the laboratory was put into use, out of a precautionary consideration, Yang Li did not rush to hand over the successfully improved seedlings to the farmers for planting, but became a "guinea pig" herself. She transferred more than 1,000 acres of mountainous land as a demonstration base to plant crops such as yellow gardenia and blueberries.
Seedling propagation.
"Kung Fu pays off, and the improved yellow gardenia has good adaptability and can bear fruit in 1 year and produce in 3 years." Yang Li introduced that at the end of 2013, she began to promote yellow gardenia to the villagers.
Because they could not see the benefits and were new things, at first the villagers were worried about losing money and did not dare to plant. In order to dispel the concerns of farmers, Yang Li put forward the "six unification" policy: unified technical training, unified seedling supply, unified soil testing formula, unified production standards, unified supply of agricultural materials, unified recycling products, for poor farmers, Yang Li directly sent fruit seedlings for free, eliminating their worries.
Yang Li discussed the construction of gardenia base with the members of the cooperative.
After years of development, she founded the Haitai Gardenia Professional Cooperative, focusing on the transformation of traditional agriculture into modern agriculture, bringing the villagers on the road to common prosperity. In the province, a total of more than 40,000 mu of gardenia trees were planted, leading 1,086 surrounding farmers to join the cooperative, alleviating 219 households from poverty, and achieving an increase of more than 2,800 yuan per mu.
Yang Li discussed the timing of gardenia transplanting with Zhou Lin, administrator of the gardenia seedling base.
As the manager of the gardenia seedling base, Zhou Lin, who returned to his hometown a few years ago, admitted that thanks to the gardenia industry, he not only achieved employment at the doorstep of his home, but also earned more than 100,000 yuan per year. In recent years, not only have new houses been built, but also cars have been bought.
Yang Li said that gardenia is the fruit of enrichment that drives farmers to increase their income.
Hope: The gardenia industry will be the first in the country
After tasting the sweetness of planting yellow gardenia, the villagers were happy to blossom, but Yang Li did not sit back and relax. In her view, selling yellow gardenia as a raw material is only the "initial stage", and the treasured yellow gardenia should "produce more value".
To this end, in the summer of 2016, Yang Li carried the yellow gardenia to visit an expert from the Hunan Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Experts told Yang Li: "Gardenia fruit contains saffron, anti-cancer, choleretic and other effects, but its content is only about 0.5%, not worth extracting." ”
Back in Yueyang, Yang Li, who was not willing to give up, took the yellow gardenia fruit she planted at home and went to the testing center for testing. The results showed that the gardenia saffron extracted from the "Linhai No. 1" gardenia fruit cultivated by the Haitai Gardenia Cooperative was as high as 2.2%, which was 4 times that of ordinary gardenia fruit.
Yang Li directs work in the gardenia processing workshop.
Carrying the test list, Yang Li found Liu Zhonghua, a plant extraction expert and professor at Hunan Agricultural University. "Haitai Bonong has cooperated with many scientific research units such as the Chinese Academy of Forestry to set up a high-tech tissue culture laboratory, and has formed a technical system for rapid breeding and factory seedling breeding of high-quality seedlings of yellow gardenia..." Infected by Yang Li's enthusiasm, Liu Zhonghua took the funds, technology and scientific research team to establish Jinyan Biotechnology Co., Ltd. with Yang Li, specializing in the production of saffron.
"Eating dry-squeezed net gardenia trees, we produce gardenia saffron, saffron kang, saffron pills, gardenia leaf paste, gardenia glycosides, rosemary pure dew, gardenia fruit oil and other products." Yang Li said that at present, the cooperative is the most complete gardenia whole industry chain in the country.
Gardenia planting base.
Yang Li, who has been deeply engaged in the gardenia industry for nearly ten years, specially named her grandson Zhiyi. "In addition to expressing the first knowledge and the unity of knowledge and action, there is another layer of deep meaning, that is, I hope to make the gardenia industry the first in the country and lead the villagers to live the life they yearn for." Yang Li said.