"A man is not rich when he is rich." the "rose" under the snow-capped mountain is very red.

Most women like flowers, especially the delicate roses. Hold it in the hand, on the table, at home, inadvertently glance, can also indulge in its beauty, it is the darling of the modern city. The greenhouse is a hotbed for roses to grow and bloom, and the fragrance is more beneficial for viewing.

But the rose story told in this article has nothing to do with the flower room and has nothing to do with the fashion dance floor. In the mountain depression of Xiaojin County, Aba Prefecture, Sichuan Province, far from the romantic city, it blooms enthusiastically in the secluded place, and has become an important magic weapon for the local people to shake off poverty and become rich.

Rose planting forced by wild boar

Red Jiajin Mountain, the holy Siguniang Mountain, Bawang Mountain, Mengbi Mountain, the eastern part of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the western part of the Sichuan Basin, the mountains are undulating and towering. Xiaojin County, Aba Prefecture, snuggles up in the arms of the mountains in western Sichuan. Yunshen village, snow field pastoral, Haizi lake, here is the place of serenity.

With the blocking of traffic and the construction of large factories and mines, the grain and miscellaneous grains planted by the local villagers can only make ends meet, and getting rich is only a dream that haunts them all the time.

In 2011, villagers of Maoshui Village in Xiaojin County planted potatoes, corn and other food crops in the mountains as before, waiting for a bumper harvest, when several villagers' crops were destroyed by raging wild boars. Wild animals are protected by the state and cannot be easily hunted and killed. The villagers in Maoshui Village have no choice but to keep looking for the village head Chen Wanghui.

Chen Wanghui is a typical Tibetan woman, simple, honest and upright, and it is not difficult to see her ability in speech and behavior. She is the village director of Shaoshui Village, Dawei Township, and was elected head of the village in 2010.

"the wild boar cannot be beaten and the crops cannot be harvested. What do we ordinary people eat for a living?"

Seeing the neighbor who came to complain red in the face and tears in her eyes, Chen Wanghui ran into the damaged field alone, in front of a mess. Inadvertently, she saw two roses on the ground blooming happily and beautifully. The infinitely lonely Chen Wanghui had a flash in her mind, "is it because roses have thorns that wild boars don't eat?". Can we use it instead of growing crops? " In this way, the idea of developing rose planting was forced out by wild boars.

Is it suitable for rose planting in Maoshui village? Chen Wanghui was also drumming in her heart, and she was determined to go out of the mountain and go to more places for investigation and investigation.

The arduous journey of being alone

In May 2011, after several considerations, Chen Wanghui chose the first stop of the expedition in Lanzhou, Gansu Province, out of her own pocket. When she arrived in Lanzhou by plane, she saw a wilderness. For Chen Wanghui, who had been in the mountains all the year round, she was a little nervous and worried that she would be deceived. Such a person braved her head to go out, and she also went to Yunnan to inspect that year.

In 2012, Chen Wanghui successively visited six provinces, including Henan, Shandong, Shaanxi and Hubei, to learn about rose planting techniques in many aspects. at the same time, she also bought back 10 to 30 rose seedlings from various bases for trial planting.

After the trial rose blossoms, she takes the picked petals to Lanzhou for processing and purifies the rose essential oil. With the product, she found experts to taste it. The quality of roses in Maoshui village has been highly affirmed by experts, with good oil quality, strong fragrance and no pesticide residues.

"with less investment in rose planting, the effect is quick. Once planted, there is no need to replace rose seedlings for many years, and the cost is relatively low. Moreover, the first year of flowering can sell money, and after a few years to the peak period, the output will be greater and the income will increase step by step. People in their seventies and eighties and children in their seventies and eighties can pick roses, and they don't have high physical requirements. " She figured it out in her mind and became more and more aware of the benefits of growing roses.

But are the natural conditions of Maoshui Village and even Xiaojin County suitable for rose growth? Chen Wanghui asked questions to herself and asked agricultural experts for further advice.

After inspection, experts told her that Xiaojin County is one of the few places in the world suitable for the development of Damascus roses. Xiaojin County is located in the south, the altitude is relatively high, the temperature difference varies greatly, the climate is relatively dry, the acidity of the soil is stronger than alkalinity, and there are very excellent rose planting conditions. Especially when the temperature is low in winter, the rose leaves fall off and go into hibernation, and the flowers bloom larger and fork more in the second year, which can increase the yield of roses.

In addition to her delight, she also reported to the local government and received relevant poverty alleviation support. In 2015, with the help of the Meishan Tibet Aid working Group, the cooperative built a greenhouse of more than 1,000 square meters, which can raise more than 200,000 seedlings every year, saving at least 30,000 yuan per hectare of rose land and enabling more farmers to plant roses as soon as possible.

Industrial linkage from point to face

"A man is not rich when he is rich. I want more people to plant roses and get rich."

Before this, the villagers of Maoshui Village also explored to get rich by growing fruits and vegetables, but eventually failed because of blocked information, inconvenient transportation and poor marketing. Chen Wanghui wants to change the tradition of growing food in her neighbors for generations to develop roses, a species that has never been touched before. The villagers can't change their ideas for a while.

"they have planted crops for most of their lives and suddenly planted flowers, which they cannot accept." As a village secretary, Chen Wanghui is well aware of the need for more patience and more reliable cases. only in this way can ordinary people dare to follow the "adventure."

In 2011, Chen Wanghui bought rose seedlings out of her own pocket and sent them to some villagers in Maoshui Village to plant them. When they bloomed, she came to buy fresh roses. Slowly, the villagers felt the sweetness of making money by planting roses without going out, which was never dreamed of for those farmers who are located in high mountains.

While using her own example of planting roses to do the villagers' ideological work, she gradually overcome their fear of difficulties, while taking a variety of measures to promote the planting of edible roses.

In 2012, she took the lead in setting up a professional cooperative for planting Qingduoxiang roses to explore the development path of "company + cooperative + peasant household + base" to solve key problems such as the market. The cooperative also signed a planting agreement with the villagers, which not only agreed on the guaranteed purchase price and the purchase price fluctuated with the market, but also agreed to the villagers that rose planting must ensure the original ecology, no spraying pesticides, no chemical fertilizer, but only farm manure. In this way, it not only relieves the villagers' worries about sales, but also ensures the original ecology of roses.

She also conducted various investigations and explorations and introduced a variety of rose products suitable for different elevations and different environments in Xiaojin County. Today's rose varieties have developed from Damascus to Pingyin, bitter water and other varieties of symbiosis. Through grafting with other varieties, she also cultivated Jinshan Rose, a rose variety belonging to Xiaojin County, and registered it.

"now more and more villagers come to the cooperative to see me, and they also want to plant roses." More and more people have tasted the benefits, and Chen Wanghui's face is also brimming with smile and joy.

From more than 50 mu of roses in Maoshui Village in 2012, after four years, more than 4000 mu of roses planted by 13 villages and 1107 farmers in the county, including 105 poor households and 88 "disabled families", will be expanded to 10000 mu around 2019, forming a rose garden industrial base of 10,000 mu.

In order to achieve local processing, more than 4000 square meters of rose intensive processing plant will be completed and put into production next month, when it will be able to process the output of 10, 000 mu of rose garden. The cooperative will independently process rose buds, produce rose essential oil, rose vinegar drink and rose dew wine, combine basic cultivation with the production and research and development of commercial products, explore sustainable and stable ways to increase income and become rich, and form a relatively complete industrial chain.