* * University student village officials help flower farmers out of poverty

Ma Yaxin (left) is discussing flower cultivation techniques with the villagers.

At present, although it is the middle of winter, spring is full of spring in the corridor of Bao Fa, a villager in Lower Sadik Yuzi Township, Yining County, Uygur Autonomous region. The branches and leaves of the flowers planted here, such as radish lotus, trumpet flowers, cockscomb flowers, money trees, and so on, begin to turn green, and there are dots of flowers, which makes people very happy.

Bao Fa, who was busy feeding cattle, said that we Hui people love to grow flowers, but this is the first time that we Hui people have made money by growing flowers. Ma Yaxin is also responsible for the fact that the whole village has been able to shake off poverty and become rich. Ma Yaxin in Bao Fa's mouth is a university student village official in Sadik Yuzi Township. In 2016, Ma Yaxin was assigned by the township party committee to work in the village team of Yuzi Village in Lower Sadiq. The team members who work together come from the relevant functional departments at the state, county and township levels, and they are all experts in rural work. Ma Yaxin decided to seize this once-in-a-lifetime learning opportunity to improve his ability and strive to do something for the villagers.

Lower Sadik Yuzi Village is composed of Hui, Han, Uygur, Kazak and other eight ethnic groups, and the villagers have a certain ability to cultivate and manage flowers. Every year, more than 50 farmers in the village cultivate flowers independently, which are used for the beautification and greening of their own courtyards and doorways. In addition, there are more than 100 people in the village engaged in greening and municipal maintenance work in the county at the beginning of spring every year.

"so that the poor people in the village can also have work, earn money, and have something to do with a happy life." This is the original intention and goal of Ma Yaxin's work. Based on this, after carefully analyzing the disadvantages and advantages of the development of the village, Ma Yaxin decided to take advantage of the situation to guide the villagers to develop the flower industry and turn "small farmer flowers" into "market flowers". After she talked about her ideas to the comrades of the village team, she received strong support from the village team, and immediately set up the "Flower Huifeng Flower planting Professional Cooperative" in Yining County.

After the establishment of the professional cooperative, Ma Yaxin and the cadres of the team stationed in the village spent two weeks visiting 128 families in need in the village and held party members and villagers' meetings. They identified 42 special poverty-stricken households as the main objects of assistance, of which 15 were precision help households. Subsequently, Ma Yaxin, the cadres of the task force and the village cadres distributed the 16000 flower seedlings cultivated by themselves free of charge to the poor families helped by their pairs, and since then the vigorous flower seedling cultivation work has begun.

Unified provision of necessities for flower production free of charge. The means of production such as pesticides, seeds and cave plates needed by poor households to grow flowers shall be provided uniformly and free of charge by the village committee and the village team stationed in the village. For the first time, the village committee and the village working group provided 900000 marigolds, 60, 000 cockscomb flowers, 12000 trumpet flowers, 500 bags of pesticides, 4000 burrow trays and 1.1 million nutrition bags to poor families free of charge. Poor households only need to raise their seedlings until they blossom and sell them to flower cooperatives at a price of 0.4 yuan each to earn labor income.

Carry out training in flower planting techniques. With the strong support of the village committee and the working group stationed in the village, Ma Yaxin invited flower experts from the state and county to carry out flower planting technical training for poor families. In order to enable poor households to master flower planting techniques more intuitively and profoundly, she also meticulously produced eight courseware of flower planting techniques, constantly organizing poor families to watch and learn.

Establish a flower cultivation log. In order to better help poor families grow flowers and ensure income, the village has also set up 80 flower cultivation logs to record the growth and existing problems of each flower every day, so as to solve various problems encountered in the process of flower cultivation in time.

The flowers are in bloom and the acquisition work is under way. The cadres of the village task force give full play to the advantages of contacts and open up a wide range of sales channels. The urban construction department of Yining County has carried out a "total purchase" of flowers in Lower Sadik Yuzi Village. Major enterprises and schools stationed in Yining County, Horgos City and Yining City have also sent orders one after another, and the idea of "small farmers' flowers" turning into "market flowers" has become a reality. In 2016, 80 flower breeders in the village have sold 600000 flowers of all kinds, with an income of 240000 yuan, and 15 precise poor households have successfully lifted themselves out of poverty.