Zhao Huifen in Tang County: let good technology become a golden idea to help farmers increase their income

"the scion section must be smooth, the cutting surface should be 'white', and the cut of the rootstock and the joint of the scion should be all wrapped strictly." When she saw Zhao Huifen, she was explaining the grafting techniques of "Shuguang No. 1" to the village grafting team in the jujube garden in the north of Gushan Village, Koutou Town. "with the new variety of 'Dawn 1' in charge, the quality and output of Tang jujube will be improved in an all-round way, and the good days for villagers to shake off poverty and become rich are not far away!"

As the director of the Red Jujube Technical Station of the Bureau of Agriculture, Forestry and Animal Husbandry in Xingtang County, Zhao Huifen travels to the mountain village almost every day to promote new techniques and varieties of jujube trees. Over the past 12 years, Zhao Huifen has led the staff of the whole station to promote the practical new technology of jujube pruning and the new variety of "Shuguang No.1" in the mountainous areas. the output of jujube in the county has increased from 80 million kg in 2003 to 120 million kg in 2015, and the output value has increased from 160 million yuan to 360 million yuan.

"as an excellent agricultural technician, I think that with good technology, we should be duty-bound to promote it and turn good technology into a golden idea to benefit more jujube farmers." Zhao Huifen said.

In order to comprehensively promote the new technology of "happy trees, flattened branches, fine tubes, fertilizer balance, no pollution, and quality first," and promote the improvement of quality and efficiency of dates in the Tang Dynasty, Zhao Huifen simply stationed in Caopotou Village, went door to door to do jujube farming ideological work during the day and night, and mobilized the people of the surrounding villages to carry out transformation and renewal according to the new technology.

Soon, jujube farmers' enthusiasm for scientific pruning was aroused. Zhao Huifen became a busy man and plunged into the poor mountains and ditches to teach jujube farmers new techniques for pruning jujube trees. With the advanced new technology of jujube trees, the jujube farmers who changed their minds quickly took off the hat of poverty for many years.

Yang Guoqing in Aoyu Village has 30 mu of jujube orchard. In 2003, the income from selling green jujube was only 1000 yuan. In 2004, by pulling branches and pruning, the income from red jujube production reached more than 10, 000 yuan that year. In 2006, the income from the garden reached 70, 000 yuan to 80, 000 yuan. Now the area of the jujube garden has been expanded to more than 60 mu, with a stable annual income of 130,000 to 40,000 yuan. " Zhao Huifen said: today, like Yang Guoqing, there are more than 40 Tang jujube farmers who rely on new technology to manage an annual income of more than 200000 yuan.

Over the past 12 years, Zhao Huifen has successively held more than 120 training courses on jujube cultivation techniques and pest control in jujube areas, trained more than 10000 jujube farmers, established more than 20 demonstration bases for popularizing new technologies, and completed tree transformation of more than 400,000 mu. In addition, a team of "local experts" of jujube management has been established for more than 20 villages. As a result, Zhao Huifen was awarded the title of "expert in forest and fruit technology in Hebei Province" and was employed as a "jujube expert" by the Forestry Bureau of Hebei Province.

The yield of jujube increased, but the climate of Tang Dynasty accelerated the occurrence of fruit shrinkage disease and fruit cracking disease in a large area, resulting in a poor harvest for many jujube farmers. Zhao Huifen began to study the variety improvement of Tang jujube and promote the new jujube variety "Shuguang No.1" with high resistance to fruit shrinkage and fruit cracking.

"only by visiting the front line can we find problems and give technical guidance in a timely manner." Zhao Huifen made her own work plan: go to 14 grafting villages to check the current grafting progress of new varieties, guide grafting techniques, and organize jujube farmers to carry out knowledge training on pest control.