Lao Xie's Peach Blossom relationship: from Poor households to Technical Advisors

The nine mountains are green, and the clouds are long. In Shangping Town, Lianping County, Heyuan City, Guangdong Province, peach orchards, bursts of fragrance, red fruits full of branches.

Xie Jieming, 55, of Xinzhen Village, Shangping Town, tilted his body, picked a big peach with water droplets hanging on it, rubbed his hair with his clothes and took a bite. It was really sweet.

Shangping Town, Lianping County, located in mountainous areas, is the hometown of Chinese chicken-eared peach. However, Lao Xie, who only got out of poverty last year, has lived a bitter life for more than 20 years.

A car accident in 1989 caused Lao Xie to lose half of his foot. His foot was disabled and the mountain at home fell down. The youngest of the three children is only three years old. What should I do? "I have no choice but to take it head-on!" Old Xie had a strong drive in his bones.

Cigarette tobacco, wood chopping, small shops. Although Lao Xie's legs are inconvenient, he can work hard to make money. "There's always a beginning to hard times, and one can't always carry them." Old Xie said.

In 2007, Lao Xie planted 36 peach trees in his dry land. Later, he planted several trees every year until he planted 70 trees. He hoped that after collecting the fruit, his daughter would be able to slowly repay the money she borrowed from others for college.

However, less experience, lack of technology, will not take care of, planting peach 4 years when the harvest, Lao Xie dumbfounded: peach branches grow crazy, airtight, but did not hang a few fruits.

Planting peaches is not about digging a pit or planting a seedling. There is knowledge in applying medicine, fertilizing and pruning. Old Xie said: "You have to understand technology."

He wanted to ask an expert, but there was no way. He didn't know who to look for.

With the steady progress of poverty alleviation and development in Guangdong, 173 households in Xinzhen Village, including Lao Xie, were listed as poor households in 2013 and received key assistance. Characterized by chicken-eared peach, the whole village has been promoted to become the working idea of poverty alleviation team in Nanshan District of Shenzhen City through industrial poverty alleviation.

"What do you lack?"

"Lack of skills!"

The poverty alleviation team soon invited peach planting experts from Guangdong Province Academy of Agricultural Sciences. The experts went to the village for many times to give lectures and teach technology in the field. As of January 2016, each supporting unit has carried out labor skills training for 22403 person-times in Lianping County.

Lao Xie said that he was afraid that he would not learn, so he recorded the whole lecture of the expert with a mobile phone and went back to watch it over and over again.

"This is a nutrient branch, so cut it; this is a fruit branch, so break it." Lao Xie gestured to reporters, this is called "branch folding method", folding and constantly is a skill, folding right after can bear fruit. "If it weren't for experts teaching us, how would we know this?"

Lao Xie said that he learned new management techniques and increased the yield of each peach tree by 100-150 jin. Last year, the purchase price of eagle peaches was 8.5 yuan per catty."How much more money did I earn?"

With the help of his daughter, Lao Xie also learned to surf the Internet with his mobile phone. If he didn't understand it, he would check it online. Peachers sit together for tea and chat about technology and exchange experiences with each other when they have time.

Old Xie is serious, thoughtful and diligent. Soon, his peach-growing skills were known far and wide.

There is a big farmer in Xiaowudang Mountain in Jiangxi Province adjacent to Shangping Town. He asks Lao Xie to help him manage the peach garden and give him three components of sales income. Before long, Lianping County Neiguan Town a large planting household also hired Lao Xie perennial planting guidance.

From poor households to well-known "technical consultants", Lao Xie really did not expect.

Today's Xinzhen Village, the planting area of chicken-eared peach exceeds 1000 mu, a big sweet peach sales hot.

Villagers also tidied up many peach orchards with poetic names: Peach Blossom Margin.

Every March, peach blossoms bloom, Shangping Town Peach Blossom Festival comes. Old Xie listened to his daughter's words, printed business cards and distributed them to tourists everywhere. "We're using our business cards now." Old Xie said excitedly.

On his way out of poverty, Lao Xie rewarded the villagers who helped him with teaching peach garden management techniques. Who kind of peach has a problem, Lao Xie did not reserve to teach them to deal with. Xie Yuxiang, a villager, said that the villagers nearby called him "Master."

"Getting rid of poverty alone is not poverty alleviation. If you want to be rich, everyone will be rich together." Old Xie said.