Sweet kiwifruit paves the way to agricultural prosperity

On November 8,2016, at the 14th International Agricultural Fair and the 12th Kunming International Agricultural Expo, kiwi fruit from Liupanshui, Guizhou Province was fired. In less than four hours, more than 1200 catties of sweet, fleshy and red kiwi fruit were sold out. Finally,"Watertown Kiwi Fruit" won the gold medal of agricultural products exhibited in this agricultural fair.

"To win the gold medal at the Agricultural Fair is a great recognition of the quality of our kiwi fruit." Holding the award certificate just received, Duan Changyong, vice president of Kiwifruit Industry Association of Shuicheng County and general manager of Guizhou Qianheng Agricultural Development Co., Ltd., was overjoyed.

In 2012, Duan Changyong left the coal industry, where he had worked for more than a decade, to devote himself to kiwifruit cultivation. "Coal is a non-renewable resource after all, and efficient agriculture with mountain characteristics is an industry encouraged by the government. It has a future!" Duan Changyong said.

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China is the origin of kiwifruit. Shuicheng is the famous hometown of wild kiwifruit in China. So far, there are a large number of wild kiwifruit resources distributed in Shuicheng, which is an important kiwifruit planting resource bank in China.

From the hometown of wild kiwi fruit to the big kiwi fruit planting county, Shuicheng County has the best weather, geographical position and people. Kiwifruit planting in Shuicheng County started from Houchang Town, and later led Panlong, Hongyan, Miluo and other towns. By 2016, the planting area of kiwifruit in the whole county has reached 100,000 mu, the output has reached 12,700 tons, and the output value has reached 508 million yuan. In 2008, Shuicheng kiwi fruit also became the designated fruit for the Beijing Olympic Games.

Through more than 10 years of domestication and cultivation, coupled with the unique geographical characteristics and climatic environment such as high altitude drop, high negative oxygen ion and high temperature difference between day and night, Shuicheng red-heart kiwifruit has formed a unique taste.

In 2013, Shuicheng County Kiwifruit Industry Demonstration Park became one of the "100 Modern Efficient Agricultural Demonstration Parks" built by the provincial party committee and provincial government, and won the first comprehensive ranking of the province for three consecutive years. At present, the park has formed a Baili kiwifruit industry corridor in Shuicheng County with Miluo and Monkey Farm as the core and Shuihuang Road, Guanliu Road and Yuma Road as the links.

The "Golden Fruit" of Getting Rich from Poverty

In Shaomi Town, Shuicheng County, where the kiwifruit planting base of Qianheng Agricultural Development Co., Ltd. is located, most of the agricultural land is sloping land. If corn is planted, the annual income of one mu of land is less than 200 yuan. Hearing Duan Changyong want to invest in planting kiwi fruit here, the young people who are ready to go out to work say one after another: "As long as you come to our village to invest in planting kiwi fruit, then we won't go out to work, come back to work for you, work at home can take care of the elderly and children."

Seeing the happy appearance of the villagers, Duan Changyong found the leadership of the township government. He said his idea. The township party and government leaders immediately stated: "As long as you can drive the villagers to become rich, we strongly support you!" With the support of villagers and local government, he raised 21 million yuan in just one month and registered Guizhou Qianheng Agricultural Development Co., Ltd., specializing in planting kiwi fruit.

At present, kiwifruit industry covers 32650 farmers in 18 towns and towns of the whole county. Through the "three changes" mode of "land into capital, capital into stock fund, farmers into shareholders", kiwifruit industry has become an important industry for local farmers to get rid of poverty and become rich. "Of the 35 poor farmers who started working for me, 29 have now been lifted out of poverty." Duan Changyong said he saw with his own eyes the transformation of rural areas involved in kiwifruit cultivation from earthen houses to buildings, from ox carts to cars. "Farmers are more enthusiastic about planting." Duan Changyong said happily.

"Brand Matrix" makes "cake" bigger

Through more than 10 years of development, Shuicheng County has formed the regional public brand of "Shuicheng Kiwi Fruit,""Liangdu Red Heart" and "Qianhong" have won the title of famous trademark in Guizhou Province, Shuicheng Red Heart Kiwi Fruit has also won the "Geographical Indication of Agricultural Products" of Ministry of Agriculture and "National Geographical Indication Protection Product" of AQSIQ successively. At present, Liupanshui Kiwifruit Industrial Park has cooperated with Wuhan Kiwifruit Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guizhou University, Provincial Academy of Sciences, Provincial Academy of Agricultural Sciences and other scientific research institutes to establish two kiwifruit production, research and application bases, accelerate the research and development of kiwifruit varieties, refrigeration preservation, processing and popularization and application of new technologies, and provide technical support and talent guarantee for the development of Shuicheng kiwifruit industry.

Duan Changyong's kiwi fruit is of good quality and has been widely praised in Shuicheng. Telephone, door-to-door, commission... other kiwi fruit growers in Shuicheng often take the initiative to contact Duan Changyong to ask for the secret of planting kiwi fruit. Duan Changyong also always went out of his way to give advice one by one. Later, more people came to consult, Duan Changyong came up with the idea of opening a public welfare service company to provide consultation. In 2016, Changyong Service Company was established.

"Good technology must be used by everyone. Only in this way can the brand of Watertown Kiwi become bigger and stronger." Duan Changyong said.

At present, the "brand matrix" of Shuicheng kiwi fruit has begun to take shape. With the continuous expansion of planting scale, in addition to the regional public brands of "Watertown Kiwi Fruit", brands such as "Qianhong" and "Mi Nihong" are also rising strongly, with certain regional and even nationwide influence. On January 4, 2017, the first batch of 5 tons of Liangdu "Mi Ni Hong" kiwi fruit went abroad and will be sold in supermarkets in Thailand.

Let the world taste the "sweet" from Guizhou

Spring has arrived. These two days, he always took time to turn around the orchard, touched the land to see if the soil humidity is appropriate, to see if the germination rate is normal,"warm winter is better for the growth of kiwi fruit, but it is also not conducive to the management of pests and diseases." However, we have done a series of work to prevent pests and diseases in winter, such as boiling lime slurry to coat fruit trees, killing eggs and so on."

At present, Qianheng Agricultural Development Company's thousand mu orchard has been equipped with water and fertilizer integration system, more water saving, fertilizer saving. Duan Changyong will also send soil samples to the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences for soil testing formula. Although the planting cost and sales price have increased, the fruit quality is more guaranteed. It has been "blooming in the wall and fragrant outside the wall" and exported to Tianjin and other places.

Agriculture is an industry with high investment, long cycle and slow effect. "In 2012, our planting scale was about 300 mu, and now it has reached more than 1490 mu." Duan Changyong said that the fixed investment per mu is about 20,000 to 26,000 yuan, and now more than 30 million yuan has been invested.