Chenxi: Small fungus opens "rich flower"

Shu Xiangjun is picking black fungus.

Members of the cooperative are picking fungus.

Weeding weeds in the fields and picking newly grown fungus. In Yanmen Village, Houtang Yao Township, Chenxi County, Shu Xiangjun, head of the specialized cooperative of black fungus farmers in Chenxi County, led the members to be busy at the black fungus planting base in the early morning of April 10.

"We need dried fungus on our side, and we want as many goods as your co-operative can deliver." During the weeding interval, Shu Xiangjun received an order call from Xia Houjun, an old customer in Xupu. After calculating the inventory, Shu Xiangjun told Xia Hou Jun that the cooperative could provide 10,000 kilograms of fungus, and the goods could be shipped within a week. After hanging up the phone, Shu Xiangjun went straight to the agaric sorting area not far away to guide the members to prepare for the order they had just ordered.

Shu Xiangjun is famous in the industry. In 2012, Shu Xiangjun, who served as the branch secretary of Yanmen Village, in order to develop the industry and lead the masses to shake off poverty and become rich, he made a personal loan of 500000 yuan that year to develop the planting base of Auricularia auricula, but due to lack of technology, the cultivation of Auricularia auricula was not successful. With the personality of not admitting defeat, Shu Xiangjun went to Zhejiang, Guizhou and other places to inspect and learn technology, borrowed more than 2 million yuan, and tried to grow it in Yanmen, Wangjia and other villages in the township, and reaped a bumper harvest that year.

After tasting the joy of success, Shu Xiangjun kept up his efforts and gradually expanded his scale. In 2015, on the basis of mature funds and technology, Shu Xiangjun set up a specialized cooperative of black fungus planting farmers in Chenxi County, developed more than 110 members, and adopted the "four-follow-four-walk" precise poverty alleviation model of "company + base + peasant household" to help poor families shake off poverty and become rich.

"in the past, by farming alone, one mu of land had an income of more than 1000 yuan at most, but after joining the cooperative, the income could be increased by at least three or four times a year." In the black fungus packing area, Shu Xiang, a member from Yanmen Village, said happily that joining the cooperative would bring both dividend income and migrant income, and he decided to transfer another 10 mu of land this year in an effort to take off the hat of poverty and add some new furniture to the family next year. In 2016, specialized farmers' cooperatives for planting black fungus in the elephant army produced more than 50,000 kilograms of dried fungus per year, with an annual profit of more than 2 million yuan, increasing the per capita income of more than 90 poor households by at least nearly 4000 yuan.

"the county has listed the Auricularia auricula planting industry as a key poverty alleviation industry, and there will be more policy support." Shu Xiangjun said: this year, the cooperative will gradually expand to 1000 mu, absorb more poor people to join, and make the masses rich.