Gong Shirong: let the small grape become "rich fruit"

"now our grapes can be sold for up to 120 yuan per jin, with an average price of 4 yuan per grape." Speaking of his own grapes, Gong Shirong, 27, a typical representative of a new professional farmer in Luanchuan County, Henan Province, is full of self-confidence.

In 2013, Gong Shirong, who graduated from horticulture, gave up his stable job in Dalian and returned to Yantai Village, Heyu Town, Luanchuan County, Luoyang City, Henan Province, where he registered to produce and operate high-end table grapes. Luanchuan Yuluan characteristic Vineyard is a wholly-owned enterprise that develops modern sightseeing agriculture tourism industry.

In order to facilitate transportation, Gong Shirong chose the vineyard in the north of Yantai Village in Luanchuan and more than 30 mu of land near National Highway 311. How to persuade more than 50 farmers to transfer their land has become the first difficult problem in front of him. "my father and I went door to door talking about planning, drawing ideals, and drawing blueprints, hoping to win the trust of the villagers with practical actions." Gong Shirong's sincerity finally moved farmers, and even many farmers were willing to work in his park.

After the land problem was solved, Gong Shirong encountered a more thorny problem-grape seedlings could not blossom and bear fruit after being introduced into Luanchuan. In order to explore the reasons, he recorded the growth of grapes day and night, sorted out and analyzed the changes of temperature, light, moisture and other climatic conditions over the years in Luanchuan County, and summed up the management plans, including improving cultivation patterns, changing cultivation shelves and soil improvement. another problem is easily solved.

Trimming the border, planting seedlings, pruning and interrupting, bending nearly 10,000 times a day, and more than 10 hours of field work. Gong Shirong's hands grind out blood blisters, which break and grind out cocoons.

Hard-working people live up to heaven. Today, Luanchuan Yuluan characteristic grape manor has become the most beautiful and connotative rural eco-tourism manor along Yantai Village 311 National Highway.

In April 2014, Heyu Town selected advanced individuals, and Gong Shirong was awarded as a "technical pacesetter"; in August, Luanchuan Yuluan characteristic vineyard was awarded as "National Agricultural Technology Popularization Science and Technology demonstration Household". Also in this year, Gong Shirong's 4 mu vineyard, with a total income of more than 70,000 yuan, broke the profit base per unit area of the traditional grape industry.

"after standing still, we have to think about how to make the industry bigger and stronger." Gong Shirong said.

In 2016, at the first Youth Agriculture-related Entrepreneurship Competition of the "Tonghe Cup" held by the Communist Youth League Luoyang Municipal Party Committee and other units, Gong Shirong won the third prize and the opportunity of entrepreneurship training. Through training, he strengthened his determination to start a business and made clear the development direction of the vineyard.

"in the next 20 years, I will only do table grape production, attract customers with high-quality products and form a high-quality brand." At the beginning of his business, Gong Shirong always insisted on the idea that we must produce the best quality products and quality first.

Through scientific innovation, Yuluan characteristic vineyard maintains the coordination and unity of the ecosystem. The ecological model of growing grass and raising chickens under the forest in the grape park not only makes effective use of space resources, but also reduces the use of unfavorable factors such as pesticides and chemical fertilizers, and greatly improves the product quality.

"I hope that through my professional expertise and capital chain, I can help the poor people in Luanchuan County on the project, so as to realize the dignified entrepreneurship and poverty alleviation of the masses." This is the original intention of Gong Shirong, a poor young man, to return to his hometown to start a business.

In 2015, with the support of the local government, through the strategic layout of "Poverty Alleviation first", we helped farmers with development aspirations and lack of project plans to set up projects and helped farmers who were short of funds to form a partnership. Gong Shirong successfully helped more than 60 villagers in Yantai Village, Heyu Town, including 40 poor households, to lift industry out of poverty. Finally, it formed a modern demonstration orchard leisure farm with Luanchuan Yuluan characteristic grape manor as the leader, helping farmers to participate in the development of organic grape ecological sightseeing picking, new agricultural scientific cultivation technology research and development, experiment, promotion, three-dimensional breeding, leisure and entertainment, catering tourism, expansion training and so on.

After participating in the training organized by the Luoyang Municipal Committee of the delegation, Gong Shirong also formulated a "three-year plan" for the development of vineyards, planning to successfully build four grape industry demonstration parks by the end of 2019, with an estimated total cultivated area of 150mu, with an annual income of 7 million yuan and a net profit of 4 million yuan by 2021.

At present, the characteristic sightseeing agriculture in the county and district is in its infancy, and the Yuluan characteristic vineyard is the first to try to summarize the development model of "leading enterprises + university scientific and technological achievements sharing platform + scientific and technological demonstration park + cooperatives + farmers". To promote the healthy and sustainable development of characteristic agricultural industry in counties and districts.