Is there a "Mada" to grow "soil bumps" and get rich?

This is a saying spread among the villagers in Langertan Village, Tianshui Town, Huanxian County. "soil bumps" refers to the potato grown only in platinum by the villagers.

The 45-year-old platinum has only grown crops and worked as a small worker, but has failed to change the poverty of his family. After the separation of the three brothers in 2008, the two brothers went out to work and entrusted all the arable land to one person. Seeing that a large area of land was about to be abandoned, platinum felt a pity, and the idea of a kind of potato came into being.

In the first year, 50 mu of yams, with an income of more than 10,000 yuan, bought a motorcycle, which was the first "valuable" belongings he bought after he got married.

In 2009, the platinum talent who tasted the sweetness, transferred more than 200 mu of abandoned land around the migrant workers to continue to grow yams, with an income of nearly 50,000 yuan. Later, platinum found that in some places, such as northern Shaanxi and Ningxia, the average income per mu of potato was much higher than that of their own. Is it a seed problem, a technical problem, or a way problem? After many times of learning, he made improvements from many aspects, such as seed selection, planting techniques, field management and so on. In 2011, he transferred more than 1,000 mu of land. However, there was a rare drought that year, with a loss of more than 30,000 yuan that year.

But platinum did not lose heart. In 2012, drawing lessons from the ridge planting method, he raised 300000 yuan through various channels to buy a large tractor equipped with digging, planting, rotating and ploughing, and planted more than a thousand mu of potatoes. Over the past year, his painstaking efforts and efforts have not been in vain. at the end of the year, he produced nearly a thousand tons of potatoes, with a net income of more than 200000 yuan.

In the autumn of 2013, Platinum realized that growing yams in each household could not become a scale, nor could technology and sales become a system, so he decided to set up a professional cooperative for planting golden talents in Huanxian County, to mobilize the people of the village to join the cooperative to grow yams, while developing their own yams. At the same time, the whole village should also taste the benefits of growing yams. Villager Shi Xuewu is one of the members of the cooperative. He joined the cooperative in 2014 and paid a dividend of 5000 yuan a year in addition to his own land income. Twenty-six households in the same village leased their land to cooperatives in the form of shareholdings and planted yams with platinum.

In order to implement the whole process of mechanized operation, platinum has added more than 300,000 yuan of machinery such as rotary tillers, potato harvesters and planters, and built a new potato library of 350 square meters.

At present, the potato planting scale of Jincai Cooperative is stable at about 1500 mu. Platinum also reached an agreement with the merchants to invest in virus-free seed potatoes and give the products to the merchants after harvest. "this year, I personally plan to add another 500 mu to drive more people to join the co-operatives." Bai Jincai said, "as long as you plant 'soil bumps', there is no 'Mada' when you get rich."