He Xinde: Ecological Orchard Fulfills the Dream of Prosperity

"Fish is raised in the pond for fishing, trees and fruits are planted on the edge of the pond, chickens and geese are recommended under the forest, pig manure is fed to fish and fertilised fields, three-dimensional cultivation is carried out for sightseeing, and low-lying fields are transformed into picking gardens. Industrial integration and planting fruit trees, and biogas lights up the way to start a business." Recently, the author came to he Xinde, a science and technology demonstration household in Hezhai Village, Youfangdian Township, Zhengyang County, Henan Province, using barren land to build a "peach blossom source" modern agricultural ecological tourism park integrating ecological cultivation, improved variety breeding, demonstration and promotion, field training, entertainment experience, leisure sightseeing, fruit and vegetable picking, etc.

In 2007, with the savings saved by opening a restaurant in the county, he Xinde set his sights on a 2.67-hectare wasteland in his hometown Hezhai village, developed the economy under the forest, and began his dream of "ecological orchard". He hired an excavator to dig out two fish ponds covering an area of 0.87 hectares, and went to scientific research institutions, planting bases, and horticultural markets in Henan Academy of Forestry Sciences and Xinzheng City to carry out investigation and investigation. he also signed up for a training course on the development of ecological agriculture and characteristic forest and fruit cultivation techniques for new professional farmers jointly organized by the Agriculture Bureau, the Forestry Bureau, and other departments.

In order to make effective and comprehensive utilization of resources, he made full use of woodland resources and adopted various three-dimensional ecological planting and breeding models such as "pig-fish-fruit" and "forest-grass-fish-vegetable" to develop circular economy. He planted 0.33 hectares of alfalfa in woodland, raised native chickens and white lotus geese under the forest, built 83 pig houses by the pond, built pig farms, raised 830 white lean pigs, and built a biogas digester in the pig farm. The manure from the pigs goes directly into the biogas digester, and the biogas produced by alcohol is used for cooking and lighting for the ecological garden. He also used biogas dregs, vegetable leaves and forage grasses to feed geese, fish and pigs, sprayed fruit trees and vegetables with biogas liquid, improved soil by using fruit leaves and organic fertilizer fields produced by livestock and poultry, and developed ecological agriculture through the recycling of agriculture, animal husbandry, forestry and fishery. It also protected the ecological environment and implemented the sustainable development of planting and breeding.

In summer, he hung a green insecticidal lamp high above the treetops, one by one whitefly, nocturnal moth and other pests rushed to the light, and was immediately killed by the electrostatic net and fell into the centralized storage bag under the lamp rack. He Xinde said that during the peak period of pest occurrence, an insecticidal lamp can kill 1 kg of insects in one night, which can basically meet the insect needs of native chickens in the forest garden, and can also reduce the pollution of fruits by pesticides. Circular planting and breeding can save him more than 10,000 yuan in planting and breeding costs every year, the comprehensive income of the four industries reaches more than 300,000 yuan, and the annual net income reaches 100000 yuan.

Because of his standardized pollution-free planting and breeding technology, his fruits, white lotus roots, specialties, pigs, native chickens, big white geese and fish have all become pollution-free green ecological food. Consumers admire the name of entering the garden to pick and buy now. His eco-agricultural sightseeing garden has become a "field supermarket" and a "science and technology supermarket", and has also become a modern version of "Peach Blossom Garden". According to reports, since its establishment 10 years ago, the comprehensive income of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishing has reached more than 1 million yuan.

After 10 years of unremitting efforts, he Xinde has turned the ecological orchard into a "gold-lettered signboard" for new professional farmers to develop modern ecological agriculture, and has been named as the "field school" and leisure agricultural eco-tourism park for new professional farmers in the county. Today, relying on ecological orchards, he Xinde has set up Xinyuan Recycling Agriculture Research Center in Zhengyang County, which adopts the form of "ecological agriculture + base + farmers" to lead young farmers to the road of circular agriculture, green development and common prosperity. In 2012, he was elected by the villagers as a deputy to the county people's Congress and became the spokesman of modern ecological agriculture.