From "ascetic monk" to Big Brother Meimei

As soon as the hive opened, thousands of fluffy little bees "buzzed" around the master. The master looked at the honey in the box and smiled: "you see, they are not afraid at all and want to find something I want to eat."

His name is Nie Shuning. He was born in Puling Village, Yong'an City. He is 42 years old. He is the leader of national rural youth entrepreneurship and the president of Yong'an Bee Industry Association.

"changes in temperature and humidity directly affect the individual development of honeybees, group activities, colony reproduction, and so on. If the temperature in the nest is higher or lower than the suitable temperature of the spleen, the bees will take various solutions to 'adjust'." In the apiculture in Puling, Nie Shuning talked about the "apiculture classics."

"Bee" helps to start a business.

Nie Shuning graduated from Fujian Automobile Factory Technical School in 1995. he worked as a car worker and pastry maker, planted flowers and sold pesticides. After working for seven years, he decided to return to his hometown to start a business. In 2002, under the guidance of a retired leader who loved beekeeping, he fell in love with beekeeping. Bid farewell to the working years in 2003, with 11 bees sent by the master, embarked on a beekeeping trip.

Starting a business is easier said than done. Over the past 13 years of beekeeping, Nie Shuning has experienced 9981 difficulties just like the Tang monk and master and apprentice learning scriptures from the west.

At first, there was no way to develop the colony due to lack of funds. In June of that year, he found a swarm of bees in the Western Ocean Timber processing Factory and wanted to "collect" them. As a result, he was stung to pieces by these bees. Later, the master took the beehive frame and hive to teach him to "cross the hive." only then did he learn to train wild bees into domestic bees. Nie Shuning raised money for development while learning skills. He attended the Hercynian Entrepreneurship training course organized by the Yong'an Youth League Municipal Committee, and received an interest-free loan of 50,000 yuan, as well as one-to-one entrepreneurial guidance, and the entrepreneurial door opened slowly: 20 bees in 2004 and 30 in 2005. By 2009, it had reached 100 high boxes, established the first beekeeping cooperative in Yong'an City, and registered the trademark "Jialu".

Taste the joys and sorrows on the way to "migration"

At that time, Nie Shuning kept Italian bees. From March to December every year, beekeepers had to transfer to more than 10 places inside and outside the province, as far away as Hubei.

He chased flowers and honey all the year round. He didn't go home until December for three consecutive years from 2008 to 2010, and went out to release bees again after the New year. The hardest part is that in 2010, beekeeping didn't make any money. He only got home seven days before the Spring Festival. In order to take care of the bees, the family finished the New year's Eve dinner, and his wife and children came with him to stay in the tent of Fuzhuang Apis Farm for the night.

"now that we have chosen 'far away', we can only go through both wind and rain." In April 2010, after Nie Shuning and his wife placed their daughter under the age of 6 with their Western relatives, they rushed to Zhangpu to collect litchi honey. When the farmer was busy and his relatives were not paying attention, his daughter, who was playing on the road, was hit by a motorcycle. Nie Shuning and his wife rented a car overnight and rushed home, so the beehive had to entrust friends to take care of it.

Be extra careful in serving bees. Once, it took more than 20 hours to transport bees from Yong'an to Hubei to collect honey, but it took two days. It turns out that they all travel at night, rest during the day, and get off the highway during the day to keep watch for the industrious bees.

Releasing bees also has a lot of "tribulations". In 2008, Nie Shuning went to Anxi to put bees to collect honey, and some local "Miba" deliberately created difficulties and came to him from more than 10 kilometers away from each other to ask for money. later, the local village secretary rescued him: "Nie Shuning is my relative." he gives me 2000 yuan a year in rent, or you give it, or I'll tell him to go home. " When he arrived in Zhaoan, "Miba" asked him directly for "land occupation fee". When he arrived in Longhai, the motorcycle was stolen.

Suffering and distressing his family, they all advised him to stop. His parents-in-law even wanted to give him a piece of orchard to manage.

Nie Shuning was at a loss. At the end of 2010, he tried to "change careers" and went to Hubei to buy 60 cattle, ready to sell. There was a snowstorm that year, the road was blocked by snow, and the promising business was lost. Unable to do business, he went to the West to manage the orchard for another year in 2011. After a lot of trouble, he realized that the reason why beekeeping can't make money is that it only cares about "chasing flowers and honey," which is seriously out of touch with the market, and he is making wedding clothes for others.

The industry promotes the "bee" surge.

Changing his way of thinking, Nie Shuning returned to the beekeeping industry and changed to Chinese bees from 2013, which can not only take care of his family, but also pay more attention to marketing.

He became famous for selling natural honey, royal jelly and bee pollen. In starting a business, he met many entrepreneurial mentors and entrepreneurial young friends. With the help of this business platform, he introduced "Jialu" brand bee products into the Fuzhou market, and the cooperative was also rated as "Provincial Farmers' Professional Cooperative" by the Provincial Agricultural Department in 2013. The varieties of honey he sells have also developed from loquat honey, litchi honey and longan honey to seven or eight kinds of orange honey, wild sweet-scented osmanthus honey, locust lotus honey and so on, with rape pollen, lotus pollen and tea pollen as by-products.

Today, he has also led dozens of farmers around him to develop the beekeeping industry, and has cultivated nearly 10 beekeeping bases, including Hongtian, Luofang, Puling and Fuzhuang. Through cooperation with other places, he has more than 500 high boxes of bees and produces nearly 10 tons of honey a year. The output value exceeds 800000 yuan. Yong'an Entrepreneurship Home was also established in 2012, which led to the development of seven small and micro enterprises of agricultural products that year. In May last year, the Beekeeping Association was first established in Sanming. At present, the association has more than 6000 cases of bees and annual sales revenue of more than 6 million yuan, leading more than 200 members to increase their income and become rich.

Nie Shuning did not forget his original ideals and aspirations, gave full play to the advantages of members, provided free beekeeping training for the disabled, and helped 26 disabled people adopt 260 swarm bees in the first batch. Services such as field investigation, bee delivery, distribution tools, and late-stage tracking of beekeeping techniques were provided, forming an accurate poverty alleviation model of "association + members + poor households" and "imparting + helping + giving consideration" technical services, and effectively helping poor families to achieve common prosperity. He has successively won the title of "Fujian Youth May 4th Medal" and "National Rural Youth Rich Leader".

"Beekeeping is only part of the career." Nie Shuning said that from honey collection to the production of pollen and royal jelly, and then to honey health products and cosmetics, an ecological farm with three-dimensional aquaculture, recycling of resources and comprehensive development is his dream.