"Local Expert" Jiang Xiaolong's Wealth Sutra

"there is a lot of income from the 10 mu of sweet potatoes I planted last year. If the sweet potatoes with a yield of more than 3000 kilograms per mu are processed into vermicelli, I can earn 6000 yuan, and the total income of 10 mu of land is 60, 000 yuan. Thanks to Jiang Xiaolong, an 'native expert' in my village, he found me a way to get rich. " On May 19, Feng Hesheng, a villager of Zhaozhuang Village, Rengu Town, Tangyin County, said, "not only my family, but most of the farmers in the village got rich by growing sweet potatoes under the leadership and guidance of Jiang Xiaolong."

Jiang Xiaolong said by Feng Hesheng is an ordinary farmer in Zhaozhuang village. In 2006, Jiang Xiaolong responded positively to the call of the town government to adjust the planting structure. Considering that the soil in the village was mostly sandy and suitable for the growth of sweet potatoes, he tried to plant 6 mu of sweet potatoes in his land, of which half were sweet potato varieties suitable for barbecue and the other half were sweet potato varieties that could process starch. "traditional labor depends on experience. As the saying goes, we don't have to learn about crop work, but we don't have to do what we do. But it's actually not that easy. Farming is a technical job. " Jiang Xiaolong said that in order to introduce improved varieties and learn techniques, he went to Shandong, Shanxi, and other places to worship big sweet potato growers as teachers, and according to the planting techniques in the journal, he planted sweet potato seedlings and covered them with plastic film, and adopted chemical control technology to prevent sweet potato seedlings from growing. Where there's a will, there's a way. He succeeded in the first year, with two sweet potato fields producing 2500 kilograms and 3000 kilograms respectively. There was a shortage of sweet potatoes in the market that year, and the net income of his 6 mu sweet potatoes was 70,000 yuan, more than 7 times higher than that of growing grain. High income makes Jiang Xiaolong set his sights on the sweet potato planting industry.

In order to develop the sweet potato planting industry on a large scale and drive people around to increase their income and become rich, in 2008, Jiang Xiaolong introduced his experience of growing sweet potatoes to the "two committees" of Zhaozhuang village, which mobilized the whole village to adjust the planting structure and change the planting of sweet potatoes. Jiang Xiaolong unreservedly passed on the planting technology to the growers in the whole village. Driven by Jiang Xiaolong, in the second year, more than 300 villagers changed to grow sweet potatoes, with a planting area of more than 100 mu and an income of more than 5000 yuan per mu. Among them, there is no lack of technology growers. Uncle Lu, 65, of the village, interplanted 2 mu of sweet potatoes in his watermelon field, with an annual income of more than 30,000 yuan. Uncle Lu, who tasted the sweetness, boasted to everyone: "Jiang Xiaolong has a way of growing sweet potatoes!" There is no mistake between watermelons and sweet potatoes, and gold is born both on the ground and underground. "

Seeing the villagers' growing enthusiasm for growing sweet potatoes, Jiang Xiaolong had a new plan. Sweet potato starch has a wide range of uses, and sweet potato noodles are the top grade of noodles, which led him to invest in the deep processing industry of sweet potatoes. From sweet potato cleaning to grinding, precipitation, and finally making vermicelli, there are a total of six processes, all of which are guarded layer by layer. After producing sweet potato vermicelli, it was well received by the market, and the vermicelli processed by him became popular and attracted many foreign buyers. Every time vermicelli comes out, buyers queue up in front of Jiang Xiaolong's house, and demand exceeds supply. At the same time, Jiang Xiaolong also asked more than 20 villagers around to help increase the income of the villagers.

Today, the pattern of planting, processing and sales of sweet potatoes in Zhaozhuang Village has been formed. Because the vermicelli made by Jiang Xiaolong tastes good and looks good, it is very popular with consumers. Every December, "powder collectors" from Beijing, Shandong and other places come to order vermicelli, and there is no need to worry about the market at all.

"No, sweet potatoes were only planted this year. Beijing called and ordered 5000 kilograms of vermicelli. As long as you grow good sweet potatoes, you can't worry about selling sweet potato noodles. " Jiang Xiaolong said that he is a native and out-and-out farmer, and his biggest dream is to grow sweet potatoes and lead the villagers to become rich together.