The Peony Garden in Binxian County blossoms to become rich.

During the the Spring Equinox season, more than a dozen villagers from Damaojiatun, Toudao Village, Jingjian Township, Bin County, sat on the hot Kang of Mao Xingdong's family, the "Shaoyao King", and warmly discussed the planting plans of each family this year. At present, more than a dozen villagers in this village have joined Mao Xingdong's "one family, one product, one family, one strategy" team to wade out a new way to get rich by changing the planting structure in the village.

The reporter learned that after 12 years of hard work, Mao Xingdong's peony garden has developed from 8 mu of land to nearly 100 mu, cultivating more than 200 cold-tolerant varieties. Flowers are exported to Liaoning, Inner Mongolia, Russia and other places. Peony flowers produced by Mao Xingdong can also be seen in the Children's Park and Zhaolin Park in Harbin. It is understood that at present, the wholesale price of a peony flower on the market is 0.50 yuan. Through intensive cultivation, 7500 peony flowers can be produced per mu, with an output value as high as 3750 yuan, which is three to four times higher than that of ordinary crops. In addition, after 4 years of continuous planting, the root of Paeonia lactiflora will generate 24000 yuan per mu of land.

Mao Xingdong told reporters that Bin County is a major corn growing county, and every family has always been accustomed to growing corn. A few years ago, the price of corn was high, and the net income of planting corn per mu was about 1000 yuan, and few people risked planting other cash crops. After the temporary storage price of corn was cancelled by the state in 2016, the price of corn plummeted, and the benefit of growing corn was not as good as before. Therefore, in the past two years, more and more villagers have recognized Mao Xingdong's planting direction and are willing to work with him.

As the leader of getting rich in Toudao village, Mao Xingdong made full use of his spare time to "recharge", went out to understand the market, learned characteristic planting and breeding techniques, and taught the skills learned to the villagers when he came back.

Mao Xingdong is full of confidence for the future. He said that with the increasing popularity of the Peony Garden, the number of tourists here is also increasing year by year, and the increase in the number of tourists is bound to promote catering and accommodation. Therefore, Mao Xingdong organized the villagers to take the family as the unit, and arranged for tourists to stay in the villagers' homes directly during the peak tourist season. Tourists like to eat farm food and stupid chickens, so Mao Xingdong organized families to try out asparagus, cauliflower, bracken, fungus and other cash crops at their doorstep, and then spread them to a large area of the field after a successful trial.

Villager Chu Liguo said: "I began to work with Mao Xingdong to grow peony in 2014. After receiving several groups of guests, I found that city people really like this rural life." With the increase in the number of tourists, I opened a telephone reservation service, tourists can order on the phone, I will prepare in advance, the city people like to eat stupid chicken, goose, wild vegetables here. Now, there are several peasant families like me in the village, all of which rely on peony flowers for food. "

Villager Wang Lidong said that when the price of corn dropped last year, the county organized farmers to collectively study cash crop planting techniques and relevant courses on adjusting the planting structure, and he also began to change his mind. This year, he joined Mao Xingdong's "one family, one product, one family and one strategy" team to get rich. Mao Xingdong got asparagus seeds and taught him how to raise seedlings. Now, Wang Lidong's asparagus seedlings have been successfully cultivated, and the next step will be transplanted to the field.

In recent years, Bin County has attached great importance to the adjustment of agricultural structure. In 2017, Binxian County will optimize the agricultural planting structure and regional layout in accordance with the overall requirements of "reducing corn, increasing rice, increasing soybeans, expanding fruits and vegetables, and raising animal husbandry". We will focus on promoting five major projects to enrich the people, such as "Green vegetables Rich people Project", "Soybean Revitalization Project", "Golden Leaf Rich people Project", "Qingshan Rich people Project" and "miscellaneous grains and beans Project", and strive to reduce the planting area of corn to less than 2 million mu.