Potato industry chain strung together dreams of getting rich

"in the past, the purpose of growing potatoes was to collect some food rations, to grow their own food, and to be self-sufficient. Now it is an economic society. Potatoes are grown to make money. If potatoes are sold, if you buy some food casually, it will be enough to eat for a year!".

On November 11, when a reporter from China Women's Daily, China Women's Network, interviewed Hongguang Village, Gaofeng Township, Anding District, Dingxi City, Gansu Province, villager Dong Ju said a series of words to the reporter. Dong Ju is a poor family in the village. now, by planting potatoes, she has embarked on the road to getting rid of poverty.

In recent years, by changing the mode of development, Dingxi City has established the concept of industrial poverty alleviation and vigorously developed the potato industry. it has become one of the three major potato producing areas and the largest virus-free seed potato breeding base, an important commercial potato production base and potato product processing base, and has formed a complete industrial chain integrating production, storage, processing and sales. Potato industry has become an important pillar for the city's industrial poverty alleviation and farmers to get rid of poverty.

Like Dong Ju, more than 100,000 poor farmers in Dingxi have become the beneficiaries of the development of potato industry.

The earthy balls turned into golden ones.

Hongguang Village, where Dong Ju is located, is located in the mountains at the junction of Lintao, Weiyuan and Anding District in Gansu Province, just like many mountainous areas in Dingxi. Because of inconvenient traffic information and bad natural conditions, especially the dry climate and backward planting technology and ideas, villagers have been relying solely on the land for a living for generations. Apart from collecting some rations on the land, it is difficult to get more income.

But the development of the modern potato industry has changed all that. "now farming is completely different from what it used to be. from planting and receiving, the film is all operated by machines. What I mainly grow is seed potato. The price of seed potato is high. If it is good, one ton of seed potato can have an income of 17,800 yuan. " Dong Ju told reporters.

Villager Jin Yali used to work with her lover, far away from home, leaving the elderly and children, suffering from exile, not to mention, not making much money. In recent years, Murakami began to develop seed potato cultivation. Jin Yali returned to her hometown and started planting. In addition to her family's more than ten mu of land, she also transferred dozens of mu of land left idle by the villagers, most of which was used to grow seed potatoes and commercial potatoes.

The reporter roughly calculated an account for Jin Yali's family. The income per ton of seed potato is about 17,800 yuan. Calculated according to Jin Yali's family's 50 mu land, excluding labor, agricultural input and other costs, Jin Yali's family's income is much better than a part-time job.

According to the poverty alleviation standards of Gansu Province, Dong Ju will be able to achieve poverty alleviation this year. "now you don't have to worry about food and clothing," she told reporters. "I just hope to make more money by planting seed potatoes!" Dong Ju's words speak the hearts of many villagers.

Potatoes are the most common food on the Dingxi rural dinner table, which used to be common in the eyes of Dingxi farmers, but today they have really become the golden eggs for the villagers to shake off poverty and become rich.

Multi-mode development of industrial poverty alleviation

The standardized planting of potato through the way of "enterprise + base + peasant household" is not only the basic form of the development of Dingxi potato industry, but also the main mode of poverty alleviation and poverty alleviation through the development of industry in Dingxi.

In this model, professional cooperatives involved in the construction of planting bases are an important part. At present, there are 377 potato farmers' specialized cooperatives in Dingxi, covering 121 poor villages.

The person in charge of the "Golden Egg Professional Cooperative" in Hongguang Village told the reporter that apart from having its own planting base, the cooperative mainly cooperates with villagers in two ways: one is to pay farmers the transfer fee through land transfer, and at the same time absorb farmers to work in the cooperative, so that farmers can earn two incomes; the other is order cooperation, in which cooperatives provide seeds to ordered farmers and purchase products in a unified manner.

The reporter learned that Anding District has given preferential policies to growers in industrial poverty alleviation, such as original potato seeds, the market price of one mu of land is 1800 yuan, farmers only need to pay 300 yuan, and the other 1500 yuan is subsidized by the government.

"the advantage of cooperation with professional cooperatives is that the seed prices provided by cooperatives are low, and there is no need to worry about the harvest season. Cooperative societies carry out acquisitions, and we just plant them." Villagers Dong Ju and Xi Xiumei told reporters.

It is understood that the main poverty alleviation model of "enterprise + base + peasant household" has also derived a variety of specific models, enabling Dingxi to form a good pattern of enterprise assistance and mass participation in the development of the potato industry to help get rid of poverty. Out of their own way out of poverty.

These specific models such as potato improved varieties "one field" project poor households seed potato self-propagation promotion model, enterprise transfer land construction base to absorb poor households employment model, "enterprise + base + farmers" poor households participation model, enterprises absorb poor households employment income model, market + acquisition network poor households trafficking income model and so on. Among them, the "one field distribution" project of improved potato varieties allows poor households to plant 0.1 mu of original potato varieties, through year-by-year self-breeding and switching with neighboring farmers, so that the planting area of improved varieties has been continuously expanded; the "enterprise + base + peasant household" participation model for poor households is for seed potato production enterprises to build breeding bases and potato products processing enterprises to establish raw material bases to drive poor households to plant. At present, the city builds a seed potato breeding base of about 1.5 million mu every year, driving poor households to build 100000 mu, and building a raw material base of about 700000 mu a year, driving poor households to plant 150000 mu.

In addition, Dingxi City also provides scientific and technological support for poor households to increase their income through innovative planting patterns, and provides intellectual support for poor households to increase their income by strengthening technical training, training 35000 potato farmers a year, of which 16000 are poor households.

In 2015, 2.9352 million mu of potatoes were planted in Dingxi, with an output of more than 5 million tons. 70% of the poor farmers joined in potato cultivation. In addition to planting, the storage, processing and sales links in the potato industry also provide employment opportunities for poor families. at present, there are 27 leading potato processing enterprises of more than 10,000 tons in Dingxi City, attracting 432 employment from poor households, and 32 seed potato production enterprises, absorbing 528 employment from poor households.

Yang Qifeng, deputy director of the Gansu Provincial Department of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry, told reporters in an interview: "Dingxi has built a complete industrial chain in industrial development by developing the potato industry. The formation of the industrial chain not only benefits the broad masses of farmers, but also eliminates risks and ensures the income of farmers. It can be said that with this industry, farmers have not only supported themselves, but also become rich! "