Why do farmers end up planting herbs?

In recent years, Handan County, Hebei Province, starting with updating the concept, jumping out of the shackles of traditional agriculture, supporting and guiding villages and towns to develop characteristic industries such as traditional Chinese medicine planting, through strong characteristics, strong leaders, and creating brands, to find a new way to increase farmers' income.

It was found that the income of one mu of medicinal materials reached 6000 yuan.

In the early years, farmers in Nanwenzhuang Village, Hesha Town, Handan County, in addition to planting field crops, mainly depended on planting fruit trees, but with the decline of fruit market competitiveness, fruit tree cultivation gradually lost its advantages, and the road for farmers to increase their income became narrower and narrower.

By chance, villager Zhang Yunran got a message that the benefit of planting traditional Chinese medicine was very good. He bought seeds from Shanxi and planted 3.5 mu of raw land, earning more than 20,000 yuan that year. He calculated an account for the reporter: "when planting wheat and corn, one mu of land earns more than 2000 yuan a year, not counting the cost, while the yield of raw land is as high as 3000 kilograms per mu, 2 yuan per kilogram, and the income per mu reaches 6000 yuan, which is three times that of growing wheat and corn." In 2014, he contracted several more plots of land, and the planting area of raw land was expanded to 23 mu, making him a famous characteristic grower in Nanwenzhuang village and its surrounding villages.

Groping-- from wait-and-see to creating "one village, one product"

According to Zhang Santao, secretary of the party branch of Nanwenzhuang Village, most of the cultivated land in the village is Huangsha land, which is very suitable for planting raw land. Nanwenzhuang Village had a history of planting raw land in the 1980s, but it has not been developed because of its small scale, immature technology and other reasons. Zhang Yunran's success has changed the villagers from wait-and-see to the main force of the planting land.

In the face of more and more scattered growers, the county takes advantage of the situation to implement "one village, one product", seeking development with characteristics, creating market by brand, and supporting by service, so as to continuously improve the quality, standardization and market competitiveness of native planting. Cultivate your own brand of traditional Chinese medicine.

With Nanwenzhuang's land planting industry striding towards modern agriculture, the lives of the villagers have also undergone earth-shaking changes. Since the beginning of this year, the number of farmers in the village has increased to more than 60, with a planting area of nearly 200 mu, and farmers' income has increased by more than 1.3 million yuan.

Looking at the patches of traditional Chinese medicine bases, Zhang Santao said: "at present, there are more than 4000 mu of arable land in the village. through several years of efforts, we will expand the planting scale, create our own brand, and turn our village into a 'raw land professional village'. And drive the villagers of the surrounding villages to join the ranks of planting, so that our medicinal materials are sold all over the country."

Promotion-large investors with retail investors achieve large-scale industry

"the price of raw land has been very good in recent years, and we are all waiting for door-to-door acquisitions. What is planted is medicine, but what is dug up is wealth. " Farmer Zhang Zhaoshan said.

Zhang Zhaoshan, a big local farmer, has led local farmers to grow land since 2012. He planted a total of 20 mu, excluding seed, fertilization, irrigation and other costs, the annual net income can reach more than 80,000 yuan. There are more than a dozen big growers like Zhang Zhaoshan in Nanwenzhuang Village. They not only get rich by planting their own families, but also drive the villagers to plant collectively and increase the income of the masses.

Zhang Jiming, a 60-year-old villager, saw Zhang Zhaoshan, Zhang Yunran and others on the road to prosperity. He went to the land every day to visit and study, asking for advice on planting and management methods.

With the gradual increase of farmers planting raw land, the disadvantages of scattered planting, such as small scale, low technical content and low degree of marketization, have become increasingly prominent. To this end, the local government should take advantage of the situation, increase policy and financial support, take the large growers as the guide, adopt operation modes such as capable person-driven, retail cooperation, market guidance and base support, and strengthen the construction of the plantation base. gradually lead the masses from sporadic planting to centralized planting, from individual planting to large-scale, from extensive field operation to standardized and fine management.