One by one, the river in the sea to create an ecological oil tea demonstration base
I have known Old Brother Jiang for many years, and I can be regarded as an old iron. During the National Day holiday, a few friends came to his thousand acres of oil tea base, and he said that he was going to hold a camellia oleifera harvest festival this year, so let us help plan it.
One fence three piles, one good man three gangs." Brother Jun is his friend for many years, is a member of the Chinese Photographers Association, these years many times to this mountain, with the lens to record the footprints of his founding of the oil tea base, this harvest festival, Brother Jun specially took out the treasured photographic works, arranged a cultural corridor, and made dozens of plaques, photographic works have landscapes and figures, hung in every room of the base, under the propaganda and encouragement of Brother Jun, to hold the opening ceremony of the Nanyang Photographers Association Creative Base in the Harvest Festival. Brother Tao is his most iron high school classmate, well aware of the hardships of his entrepreneurship, this year retired from Xuchang deputy division-level post back to Tongbai, to help his oil tea career development, see him driving when the phone is more, so he became his full-time driver. My task was to take care of the logistics, the day before the harvest festival, early in the morning to go to the market to buy vegetables, and killed a big black pig, the harvest festival at noon let everyone eat in the mountains to eat a door feast. After buying vegetables into the mountain, the chef class also arrived, is preparing to build a stove near a few oil tea trees, I said to the chef, the hundreds of thousands of oil tea trees on this mountain, are the "little lover" of Lao Jiangge, you must build a stove far away from the tree, otherwise, if the tree is roasted, your salary will not be wanted. The chef asked incomprehensibly, how did this oil tea tree become a "little lover"? I told him that Old Brother Jiang was busy in the oil mill all day, and sometimes when he encountered troubles, he would also frown and face bitterly, but when he arrived on this mountain and saw his oil tea tree, he smiled like he saw a lover. You listen to his entrepreneurial story and understand what a "little lover" is.
After graduating from high school in 1978, Lao Jiang inherited the family business and founded a small oil mill. According to the "Genealogy of the Jiang Clan", the Shenpu branch of the Jiang clan began to create a small oil mill from the fifth generation, with the name "Jiang Taihe", and later changed the name to "Jiang Ji", and he was the tenth generation. In Tongbai County, you ask ordinary people, what is the name of the secretary and county magistrate? He may not be able to answer, but as long as you mention the "Jiang ji" small grinding sesame oil, it can be said that it is a household name, and the century-old brand "Jiang Ji" small grinding incense oil has long been famous in Tongbai and its surroundings, and has won the famous trademark of Henan Province.
He has been operating the edible oil industry for more than 40 years, starting from a small oil mill, to 2002 registering and establishing Jiangji Oil & Fat Co., Ltd., the first batch of industrial agglomeration areas in Tongbai County, the factory covers an area of 30 or 40 acres, and the business is getting bigger and bigger. But what is puzzling is why you should take a huge risk to grow oil tea in Xuzhai Mountain? His answer was that After China's accession to the WTO, especially after the global financial crisis in 2008, the market price of edible oil raw materials and products was extremely unstable, and if it was not done well by relying on a single processing and production, it would lose money. I have been engaged in oil and fat production for decades, and soberly realize that among the four woody oils, camellia oleifera is a unique tree species in China, that is to say, in the international community, china has an absolute right to speak about camellia oil products.
After 2012, his company is committed to secondary entrepreneurship and transformation and upgrading, contracting more than 5,000 mu of forest land in Shiziling, Xuzhai Village, Yuehe Town, and establishing a demonstration base of 1,000 mu of oil tea. Adopt the business model of "company plus base and poor households", implement accurate poverty alleviation, provide poor households with free seedlings, fertilizers, technical training and employment, and lead farmers to develop characteristic planting. It was rated as an advanced enterprise of "100 enterprises helping 100 villages" by the county party committee and the county government. Nanyang Daily, Henan Daily, Dahe Daily, Tencent News and many other media reported on his advanced deeds of leading peasants to get rid of poverty and become rich under the title of "The New "Yugong" on Tongbai Mountain". In September 2018, China's first "Farmers' Harvest Festival", he was awarded the title of "The Most Beautiful Farmer in Nanyang" by the Nanyang Municipal Bureau of Agriculture, and in April 2019, he was awarded the title of "Nanyang Model Worker" by the Cpc Nanyang Municipal Committee and the Nanyang Municipal People's Government.
Camellia oleifera planting is different from other agricultural and forestry crops, is a "predecessor planted trees, posterity cool" of the centennial plan, seedling cultivation after three years of fruit, seven or eight years after entering the fruit stage, this fruit period can reach more than 100 years, camellia oleifera tree life of up to 500 to 1,000 years or so. Therefore, those who are engaged in the cultivation of camellia oleifera must have the spirit of perseverance and perseverance, and they must face all kinds of difficulties and setbacks, and absolutely cannot have the idea of quick success and quick profit and overnight wealth. And engaged in the early investment of camellia oleifera planting, long return on investment cycle, the initial need to control the mountains and land, the purchase of cultivated seedlings and other large amounts of input, and then every year also need irrigation, fertilization, weeding and other continuous investment, if the follow-up funds can not keep up, will also be abandoned halfway, the previous achievements abandoned. In the past ten years, Lao Jiang has tasted all the sour, sweet and bitter spicy, once he used the old oil tank in the factory to transport the top of the mountain as a water tank to water the oil tea seedlings, just when he directed the crane to place the water tank, suddenly the hoisting wire rope broke, the water tank rolled down the mountain like a wild horse that lost its reins, Lao Jiang could not dodge, and fell down in the low depression of the terrace, and when the water tank rolled, it encountered the collision of tree roots, and rolled down the mountain from his hiding place, until now I remembered that there was still some fear, everyone said that the old Jiang Ji people had their own heavenly appearance. Another time, it was snowing heavily in the mountains, and he accidentally slipped into the ravine while walking, and the snow in the ditch was two or three meters deep, and he couldn't get up, and then the workers searched everywhere to rescue him.
"I don't live up to Qingshan, and Qingshan will certainly not fail me", this is a famous saying that Lao Jiang often likes to say. The camellia oleifera tree on the mountain began to hang fruit, he also had to consider how to turn the camellia oleifera fruit into high-end edible oil in the next step, so in view of the traditional oil industry high temperature oil pressing, chemical refining on the oil nutrient content of the larger process status quo, scientific and technological innovation, endure the pain of cutting love, the original value of millions of oil process equipment all eliminated, in 2016 investment of more than 10 million yuan, updated the advanced physical pressing and cold pressing equipment, the implementation of the whole PLC automation control production line, physical pressing under low temperature conditions, Retaining the nutrient content of oils and fats, its core technical equipment is independently developed by the company, obtained 3 patent technical certificates, established the Nanyang Tea Oil Engineering Technology Research Center, and won the Henan Provincial Science and Technology Small and Medium-sized Enterprises.
Nowadays, Laojiang's company is a leading agricultural industrialization enterprise integrating agricultural planting, rural tourism, production and processing, and technology research and development, and strives to promote the integrated development of the first, second, and third industries. It has its own oil tea industrial park of more than 2300 acres, and has passed organic product certification and ecological origin product certificate. The main equipment is unique in terms of mechanization, automation and intelligent application, and its process technology level is in a leading position in Henan Province. The transformation and upgrading of the enterprise has been basically completed, which can meet the processing and transformation capacity of the county's 300,000 mu of oil tea production.
On October 26, the first Jiangji Ecological Oil Tea Harvest Festival in Tongbai County was held as scheduled, and the relevant media and e-commerce platforms in provinces, cities and counties broadcast live and interviewed reports. Professor Ding Xiangyang of Henan Academy of Forestry awarded Laojiang a certificate of ecological origin products; Vice Chairman of Henan Football Association, Director of Henan Photographers Association University Branch, Tongbai Old County Governor Zhai Xingfu, and Chairman of Nanyang Photographers Association Jiang Ningyu unveiled the creation base of Nanyang Photographers Association.
Camellia oleifera is a small tree or shrub plant. It is evergreen all year round and its flowers are white. From flowering to fruit ripening, there are five seasons of "autumn, winter, spring, summer and autumn". Extract natural nutrients, sun and moon essences. When the camellia is full of flowers, it is the day when the tea fruits are picked, the folk call it "baozi pregnant", this year's flowers are pregnant with next year's fruits, this strange phenomenon of "flowers and fruits in the same hall" for many years, is actually the most bizarre landscape in the plant world. After nearly ten years of continuous exploration and research, the excellent varieties of Changlin series of oil tea suitable for the growth of Tongbai Mountain have been selected, with an annual seedling capacity of more than 1 million plants.
"Since ancient times, autumn has been sad and lonely, and I have said that autumn is better than spring dynasty." Every year before and after the frost falls, it is the harvest season of camellia oleifera, and the camellia flowers that bloom all over the mountains are well-deserved flowers of beauty, happiness, and hope, and the green waters and green mountains have become golden mountains and silver mountains.
Text: Chen Tanghuai Photo: Liu Jun