Agricultural Technology Popularization in Pingquan County helps New Farmers set sail

??? "you no longer have to get up earlier than a chicken, sleep later than a dog, eat worse than a pig, and work more than a donkey," Li Dongbo said with a smile.

Li Dongbo, born in 1992, was a member of five Huizhong vegetable industrial parks in Maolangou Township, Pingquan County, a member of 1004 scientific and technological demonstration households in Pingquan County in 2016, and a new professional farmer cultivated in Pingquan County in 2014. he is also a veritable family farmer with an annual income of more than 150000 yuan for a family of three with two facilities and vegetable sheds.

Migrant workers are transformed into new farmers to shake off poverty and become rich.

Like most of the post-90s generation, it was unwilling to be a farmer all his life, wandering among the ranks of migrant workers like many young people, trying to change his fate completely and realize his dream of "city dwellers" by jumping out of the peasant door. With the rapid development of various industries, it is difficult for Li Dongbo, who lacks skills, to make a lot of money by selling coolies and buying buildings to live a good life. However, from the national policy of supporting agriculture, benefiting agriculture and vigorously developing "agriculture, rural areas and farmers", he formulated an agricultural dream for himself: to become a modern farmer through his own efforts and to realize the dream of starting a family through the development of modern agriculture. In 2014, he returned to his hometown and invested 190000 yuan to build two solar greenhouses in the vegetable park in Wujia Village.

In 2014, Pingquan County is a state-level pilot county for the cultivation of new professional farmers. Li Dongbo seized this opportunity to participate in the facility food teaching class set up by Pingquan Agricultural Broadcasting School in Wujia Village, Maolangou Township. Through cultivation, he not only mastered the cultivation techniques of facility dishes, but also became a modern farmer who has knowledge, knows how to manage, is good at management and can use Internet +.

Agricultural technology extension helps new farmers to innovate and start their own businesses

In 2016, Li Dongbo was selected by Pingquan County Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Bureau as a professional science and technology demonstration household of facility food.

He listened carefully to the agricultural instructor's explanation on the knowledge of new varieties, new technologies, and quality and safety of agricultural products, and communicated with them. Every time the instructor enters the house, he works as hard as a bee in the greenhouse. "although the body is a little tired, the heart is sweet," Li Dongbo said.

As the vegetables in the greenhouse are coming to an end in the first season in May, Li Dongbo discussed with everyone to cultivate cucumbers in a cold shed and achieved better income, with an increase of nearly 30,000 yuan per household. He not only used new technologies and varieties himself, but also recommended them to farmers around him and encouraged farmers who went out to work or were unemployed to go back to their hometown to build greenhouses and start their own businesses. Driven by successful people such as Li Dongbo, more than 100 new greenhouses were built in Wujia Village in 2016. The income from facilities and vegetables has become the main source of income for local farmers.

There are still many scientific and technological demonstration households like Li Dongbo. Driven by their radiation, the team of farmers to develop modern agricultural innovation and entrepreneurship will become larger and larger, which will eventually promote agricultural development to a higher level.