Xing Juncheng: grow melons on saline-alkali beaches

Xing Juncheng (right) is checking the growth of cantaloupe with the management in the shed.

The land in Qianying village is seriously saline-alkali.

By the Hutuo River, on the saline-alkali beach, the nearly barren low-yield fields are now covered with green sheds showing the vitality of spring. The newly cultivated watermelon seedlings have broken out of the ground and will soon be planted in the field. Several rows of muskmelons under soilless cultivation are growing gratifying and have many strong seedlings and fruits. The most mouth-watering is the muskmelon that is about to be put on the market in the shed. The nearly ripe and yellowed melon noodles are tempting to be picked, and the fragrance of melon is overflowing in the shed. Maybe you think it's not unusual to grow cantaloupe in the greenhouse, but it was first planted on the low-lying saline beach, and its taste is even sweeter than that of cantaloupe produced in the field. You can't help but like it. The villagers of Qianying Village, Jizhuang Township, Dingxiang County had no idea that delicious melons had been planted in saline-alkali land with only a little corn and a very low yield for many years, and the quality, taste, and output were beyond imagination. Here is the hope of getting rich for more than 600 people in this poor village. And this is the first step for Xing Juncheng, who has returned to his hometown to start a business, to realize his dream here for more than a year.

Qianying Village, Jizhuang Township, which is 4 kilometers away from the county seat, is Xing Juncheng's hometown. For more than ten years, he has been working hard in the provincial capital Taiyuan, engaged in some construction projects, and has made some achievements. When he returned to his hometown, he felt a sense of anxiety when he saw that most of the villagers went out to work and the economic development of the village lagged behind. The development of the village is not to let the villagers go out, but to let them come back. Qianying village has convenient transportation and more land resources, but due to the proximity to the Hutuo River, the terrain is more than ten meters lower than other villages, so the salinity is serious, the variety of crops that can be planted is single, and the yield can not go up. The villagers have no hope of getting rich, and the village cadres also make great efforts, but they suffer from the lack of good projects and funds. After various investigations, Xing Juncheng proposed to grow muskmelon in an experimental greenhouse. Grow cantaloupe on saline-alkali beach? This is something that no one in Qianying village has dared to think of for many years, and relatives and friends have come to persuade him not to throw money into it. Xing Juncheng, who has seen the world for many years, resisted the pressure and decided to give it a try. He consulted senior agricultural experts in the province, visited the Ningxia state-level agricultural demonstration park, and went to the vegetable bases in Shouguang and Northeast of Shandong Province to look for saline-alkali land improvement methods and good varieties. After coming back, in April last year, he owned more than 30 mu of land through land transfer and invested more than 2 million yuan to start building the base. Several villagers with active ideas in the village joined him in setting up a professional cooperative for farmers growing rich farmers in Dingxiang County.

With ideas and organization is only a good start, the key is to improve saline land, only this kind of land can grow good quality fruits and vegetables, can talk about the follow-up development. The surface of the land in Qianying village is white, saline-alkali is serious, and the ditch is about 1 meter deep, and the soil turned out appears white saline-alkali in a few days. After careful consideration, Xing Juncheng decided to adopt the most economical and effective way of improvement. The first is the improvement of agricultural technology, through deep ploughing, leveling the land, adding guest soil, increasing the application of organic fertilizer, improving the composition and structure of the soil, enhancing the permeability of the soil, and accelerating salt leaching. Then adopt the method of biological improvement, the ditch under the ridge of crops in the shed is about 1 meter deep, filled with straw, sheep dung and bio-organic fertilizer, about 40 cm above is covered with guest soil, improve soil fertility, promote the formation of soil aggregates, improve soil structure, and improve farmland microclimate, inhibit salt return. Through this series of improvement measures, Xing Juncheng's heart is still drumming. Can melons, fruits and vegetables be grown in the field? Around October last year, he decided to grow celery in the shed. When planting, it is necessary to adopt water conservancy improvement, establish a perfect drainage and irrigation system, lay two rows of drip irrigation pipes on ridges, and then plant with plastic film, which can not only strictly control the groundwater level, but also help to reduce the humidity in the shed and ensure that there are basically no diseases and insect pests during crop growth. This crop of celery is growing very well, and the output of each half-mu shed is about 3000 kilograms, which is soon bought by the merchants in the city at a price of about 1.60 yuan per kilogram. After the Spring Festival, Xing Juncheng began to cultivate cantaloupe. He specially hired master Li, a local melon grower with more than 10 years of experience, to provide technical guidance, and chose an old local variety, "early opening Garden". At the same time, several new varieties introduced from Northeast China and Japan were tested and compared.

At present, the base of Nongfu's professional farmers' cooperatives has 10 solar greenhouses and only two greenhouses with a span of 16 meters in Dingxiang County. In addition to a seedling and three-dimensional cultivation experimental shed, there is also a strawberry shed. Strawberries have been picked and ready to plant watermelons in the garden. Xing Juncheng said that all these are trying to do experimental comparison and accumulate more planting experience for stubble. Cantaloupes are planted in the other 10 greenhouses. For more than two months, Xing Juncheng ate and lived on the base, had no time for other things, and rarely returned to his home in the provincial capital. He always paid attention to the growth of cantaloupe and at the same time devoted himself to learning the cultivation and management techniques of cantaloupe from local expert Master Li. In order to ensure the quality of cantaloupe, only two biological fertilizers were used during the whole growing period, and no pesticides were used. In early April, Xing Juncheng's first crop of cantaloupe was finally on the market, the quality and taste exceeded everyone's expectations, and the villagers praised them one after another. The taste feedback of guests in Xinzhou and Taiyuan was very good, and in a few days they were snapped up by merchants in Beijing and Hebei at a price of about 60 yuan per kilogram. Excited, Xing Juncheng registered the "Xiangzhen" brand for his cantaloupe in time.

Looking at a large number of mature melons in the shed, 41-year-old Xing Juncheng, who has been hanging for more than a year, has finally settled down. "what worries me most is that we can't grow good melons in saline soil, so that all our efforts will be wasted," he said. The leaders of the village, the cadres stationed in the village and the first secretary of the village all took good care of me and tried their best to help solve the problems. I finally lived up to their support. I was born and raised here, and it is my motivation to find the hope of getting rich for the villagers. I am already a small rich, that is, I am at ease. Qianying Village is a poor village with serious saline-alkali land, low efficiency, backward economy, and no economic entity. The villagers can not find a good way to earn money and stop with their inherent thinking. Growing melons in the greenhouse is feasible in terms of quality and benefits. I hope to change the planting structure of the village through my own radiation, so as to help the villagers shake off poverty and become rich as soon as possible. "