Chishui, Guizhou: 100000 farmers take off their "poverty alleviation caps" with Dendrobium.

In the mountains of Chishui, there is a kind of Chinese herbal medicine that looks like a hairpin, which is called Dendrobium nobile. It is listed as the first of the "nine immortal herbs" in ancient medical books, and is as famous as Cordyceps sinensis, ginseng, snow lotus and other valuable Chinese herbal medicine. Because parasitic on Danxia stone or tree trunk, like high temperature and high humidity, only places like red water can grow in the wild, so things are rare.

In 2003, Liao Xiaokang formed a bond with Dendrobium nobile in Chishui. What he did not expect was to invest and start a business for 15 years. Until now, he has not become a rich boss.

Liao Xiaokang is a college student who came out of Zhenxian County, Qianbei Dao. he went to sea from a military enterprise in the late 1980s. After more than 10 years of hard work, he has a small amount of savings. However, the poverty of his hometown made him worried. In 2001, he resolutely took his newly married wife back to Daozhen to invest in the traditional Chinese medicine industry, planted Gastrodia elata and introduced Dendrobium candidum in Zhejiang Province. Did not expect that soon after planting Gastrodia elata, the market price of Gastrodia elata plummeted, falling from a high of 300 yuan / kg to 15 yuan / kg, losing more than 10 million yuan on the first investment.

His hard-earned money was wasted, and he realized the great risks of investing in agriculture. To tell the truth, "only then did I know that Huakou was pig iron." he was so desperate that he wanted to go back to Nanjing, the prosperous city that gave him wealth.

If God closes a door for you, he will open a window for you. In the summer of 2003, a leader of agricultural production in Zunyi suggested that he invest money in Dendrobium nobile in Chishui. The mayor of Chishui met him and the two sides hit it off. For Chishui, there is an urgent need for a leading enterprise to introduce Dendrobium nobile into the right track to become bigger and stronger; for Liao Xiaokang, this is an opportunity to make a comeback.

After several inspections, in August of that year, Xintian moved from Daozhen to Chishui and settled in a place called Nichigou in Xinchun Village, Wanglong Town. He transferred 60 mu of land from the villagers and began to breed seedlings of Dendrobium. At that time, the planting area of Dendrobium nobile in Chishui was less than 500 mu, mainly due to the shortage of seedlings. In order to plant Dendrobium in a large area, the bottleneck of seedling breeding must be broken.

Liao Xiaokang first built a domesticated seedling base, spread a bowl-sized Danxia stone in the field, then covered a steel shed and installed an automatic sprinkler irrigation system to simulate the wild environment of Dendrobium. Dendrobium is the most primitive cultivation technique of Dendrobium, the disadvantage is that the seedling yield is low, and the cutting seedling yield is also low.

Is there a third method of seedling breeding? Liao Xiaokang visits more than 10 famous scientific research institutes in China every year. A scientific research unit cooperated with Xintian Company to develop the technology of tissue culture seedlings of Dendrobium. This technology is equivalent to gene propagation. A small section of particles cut from the stem of Dendrobium can give birth to tens of thousands of embryos in the tissue culture room. After care for as long as half a year, they can be transplanted into the domestication greenhouse, and then after a year to simulate field growth, they can be transplanted to the field.

In the spring of 2007, when the first batch of seedlings came out of the tissue culture room, Liao Xiaokang was excited for a night. he, who usually did not drink, made an exception and reveled with his staff at the base all night. At that time, the market price of transplanting seedlings of a clump of 3 plants was 1 yuan, and 8 million seedlings could be sold every year on a base of 60 mu. The hard life is over, he thought to himself.

However, there are unexpected events in the sky. One night in the summer of 2007, when there was thunder and lightning, a heavy rain not seen in 30 years came unexpectedly, and the water in the Niichigou flood discharge channel continued to rise and soon spread into the base, a vast ocean. The flood receded, the seedlings of Dendrobium died one after another because of their rotten roots, and the stone ground was covered with mud. This disaster shattered Liao Xiaokang's dream. Looking at everything in front of him, he and his brother Liao Fanghua, who resigned from Daozhen to help him, were silent, and tears welled up in his heart.

Because of the disaster, his capital chain was broken and the bank dared not lend to him. In the winter of 2007, it was very long for Liao Xiaokang. He pawned his Mercedes-Benz with nearly 2 million yuan because he could not get paid for half a year, leaving only 5 of his 30 employees. In the most difficult time, the base could not open the pot, and my brother brazenly went to the fellow-villager's house to borrow rice to eat.

Just then, her daughter was born, but Liao Xiaokang was not happy: "if my dream is broken, what will they do with their daughter?"

When I got home during the Spring Festival, I saw my mother's hair turned white overnight. "son, you two brothers have nothing left. Why don't you come back and start a small business?" The man did not shed tears easily, and twice failed his investment, which dragged down the whole family. Thinking of this, Liao Xiaokang held back tears in front of his mother: "Mom, I haven't lost yet!"

After the Spring Festival, the enterprise won a loan of 800000 yuan from the credit union, which was the first bank loan for the enterprise. He used the money to reissue wages and pay land transfer rent, and his reputation won the support of the local party committee, government and ordinary people. When autumn came, the base sold the first batch of 500000 commercial seedlings with an income of 500000 yuan, and six years of efforts finally paid off.

In Chishui, Xintian Company is definitely the leading enterprise in Dendrobium industry. It was the first to explore the sawn surface substrate seedling bed, tissue culture seedling technology, overhead nursery bed training and high-yield technology, which solved the problem of large-scale planting of Dendrobium. Also as an enterprise project to declare the national origin protection of Dendrobium nobile, the first to develop Dendrobium medical and health care products, registered Dendrobium product trademarks.

Since 2008, Xintian Company has accumulated 100 million seedlings of Dendrobium, which can be planted to 33000 mu. Today, the original ecological planting base of Dendrobium nobile in Chishui City reaches 79000 mu, covering more than 30, 000 farmers. 100000 farmers rely on Dendrobium industry to get rid of poverty.

Xintian Company began to build its own wild base in 2011. over the past six years, it has built eight bases of 17000 mu in villages and towns, adopting the model of "company + peasant household" and "branch + base + peasant household". The villagers' land is paid a dividend according to 20% of the shares, directly covering more than 10, 000 households.

According to the calculation of 200 to 300kg per mu of Dendrobium and 60 yuan per kilogram, starting from the fourth year of newly planted Dendrobium, farmers can pay a dividend of 3000 yuan per mu for more than 10 years.

Xintian Company has set up a party branch to pair up with the village party branch to promote the development of the masses through the demonstration and development of party members and technical guidance. There are more than 300 bases where farmers manage and protect companies, most of them are poor households over 50 years old, and the monthly salary issued by the financial staff is about 1.3 million yuan.

This year, Xintian Company has invested 100 million yuan in Chishui Economic Development area, and is building a modern intensive processing plant for Dendrobium nobile. The first phase of the project will be completed and put into production in July, and the output value will reach 300 million yuan next year.

'My dream is to turn the Dendrobium nobile industry into a 20 billion-yuan industry, 'Mr. Liao said. Although I have experienced many setbacks, what I am most concerned about is the poverty alleviation of tens of thousands of drug farmers. I will always adhere to the "three noes": do not admit defeat, do not change careers, and do not owe farmers a penny.