She turned little peanuts into a big industry for villagers to get rich.

From an ordinary rural woman, to being elected by the villagers as the director of the peanut planting cooperative, and then to the leader of the whole village and even the town, Zhou Yujie, director of the peanut planting cooperative in Hailipan Village, Jiu Miao Town, Fumeng County, it took only more than a decade to turn magnificently and break the cocoon into a butterfly.

Zhou Yujie is a native of the old temple. In 2003, she cobbled together money from relatives to buy her first tricycle, bought miscellaneous grains in the countryside and shipped them to the market to sell. Whether it was the scorching heat of the scorching sun or the bitter winter of the cold wind, she went out early and came back late, worked hard for more than a year, and finally earned the car capital back and paid off all her debts.

By chance, Zhou Yujie found that many people were engaged in the peanut industry at the home of a friend in Yixian County. After careful consideration, Zhou Yujie thinks this is a good business opportunity. But at that time, the villagers dared not grow peanuts on a large scale and worried that if they planted too many peanuts, they would not sell them. When he thought about it, Zhou Yujie, who was bold and careful, first paid homage to his teacher to learn the art, systematically learned the relevant knowledge and matters needing attention in growing peanuts, and then raised funds, introduced improved varieties, and got busy in his own land. The harvest season came, and when the villagers saw that Zhou Yujie's peanuts had a bumper harvest and made considerable profits, they followed her example and planted peanuts one after another. Now Hailipan Village is covered with peanut fields, the area has become large, the output has also gone up, buyers come to buy, and the villagers have tasted the sweetness of growing peanuts.

Under the leadership of Zhou Yujie, peanut cultivation in Hailipan Village has become more and more professional, and the degree of mechanization has become higher and higher, especially with a number of new technologies for increasing production, such as plastic film mulching, formula fertilization, and the wide application of mechanical harvesting and threshing. It not only increases the yield but also saves labor.

"now growing peanuts saves time and makes money." When it comes to peanut planting, villager Yin Xiaosheng's face is brimming with joy. "as long as it rains thoroughly in spring, ordinary four-wheeled tractors ridge, fertilize, prevent insects, and order seeds in one go, and our couple can grow more than 10 mu of land a day. Peanut management is also very easy, after sowing with a mechanical hit of herbicide will not grow grass. It is easier to harvest peanuts in autumn, and it is very convenient for mechanical harvesting. Peanut straw is a good feed for donkeys, cattle and sheep, and the peel is crushed and fed to pigs. Thanks to Zhou Yujie's introduction of advanced technology and high quality varieties, in our hearts, Zhou Yujie is the teacher of peanut planting! "

Zhou Yujie, who is determined to expand and strengthen the peanut planting industry, bought another six-wheeler in 2008, improved transport capacity, hired more than a dozen employees, introduced advanced equipment, and started a peanut sales and processing business. Under the leadership of Zhou Yujie, many farmers in Hailipan Village have become peanut brokers. Zhou Yujie bought peanuts from farmers at a high price and added value through processing. Over the past few years, under Zhou Yujie's painstaking management, the peanut planting cooperative in Hailipan Village has become a large company integrating peanut production, processing, and transportation. More than 1200 tons of peanuts and more than 1000 tons of peanuts are shipped every year. In order to meet the needs of development, Zhou Yujie invested more than 500,000 yuan to build three peanut processing plants, which not only provided dozens of jobs for the villagers, but also brought huge economic benefits to the cooperatives.

The peanut planting scale of Hailipan Village is getting larger and larger, and now it has become an important peanut distribution center in the old temple and surrounding townships. Southern Liaoning and western Liaoning and many other businesses have set up purchase sites in Hailipan Village early every year. Hailipan village peanuts have been sold inside and outside the Great Wall, north and south of the Yangtze River. "it is my greatest wish to lead the people of the whole village on the road to becoming rich." Zhou Yujie said confidently towards the end of the interview.