Suqian, Jiangsu Province: the Golden Phoenix flew out of the vegetable field

Zhou Xiangmin, the neighborhood committee of Longmen, Chengxiang Street, Siyang County, Suqian City, is an authentic peasant. With only a high school education, he sees a way to engage in large-scale management of rural land.

In 2006, he founded the Baichun Jin vegetable production Cooperative in Siyang County, took the lead in the transfer of land and began to grow vegetables. Later, he mobilized surrounding farmers to join cooperatives, gathered scattered fields from one household to another, and developed vegetable cultivation in groups, gradually forming the advantage of large-scale production, turning farmland with low efficiency into a "mining land" for "sunrise fighting gold."

Be calm in the face of setbacks and delve into the technology

At the beginning of his start-up, Zhou Xiangmin encountered many setbacks and failures. At the end of 2009, a heavy snow fell suddenly. Due to lack of experience, the vegetable planting shed built with bamboo was completely collapsed by heavy snow, and more than 300 mu of vegetable fields were destroyed by a natural disaster. The huge loss cast a haze over Zhou Xiangmin and his family. Zhou Xiangmin failed to pay attention to the Spring Festival, while making every effort to take post-disaster remedial measures, while conscientiously summing up experiences and lessons, and actively organizing production to help themselves.

Experience must be bought. After this setback, Zhou Xiangmin was well aware of the importance of science and technology. From then on, he concentrated on studying efficient agricultural planting technology-building a steel-framed vegetable greenhouse, which solved the problem of poor stability of the greenhouse; every year, he hired agrotechnical experts to carry out technical lectures in the idle season, set up technical training groups, and taught key technologies to members in the form of on-site demonstration and centralized teaching.

Today, Zhou Xiangmin and his members have all set up a new type of steel shed or multi-span shed, using new equipment and technologies such as anti-insect net, sunshade net, sprinkler irrigation and other new equipment and technology, and the production level and disaster resistance have been greatly improved.

The benefit of production is improved rapidly.

In addition to his own transfer of land to grow vegetables, Zhou Xiangmin also actively led surrounding farmers to join the community to develop vegetable cultivation, integrating the land of each household, and the cooperative arranged production uniformly, giving full play to the advantages of large-scale operation.

In the spring of 2010, villager Wang Heng made up his mind to join the cooperative and contracted 40 mu of land to grow vegetables. Zhou Xiangmin taught Wang Hengzeng how to select varieties, do a good job in management, connect crops, and so on, and designed a "three-dimensional" planting model for it. Over the course of a year, Wang Heng made a profit of more than 300,000 yuan. "what a 'golden Phoenix' flying out of the vegetable field!" Having tasted the sweetness of joining the cooperative in unified production, Wang Heng could not hide his excitement. Seeing Wang Hengzeng's success, other farmers greatly increased their confidence and joined the cooperative one after another, opening the way to growing vegetables.

At present, Zhou Xiangmin's cooperative has 344 peasant households, with an area of 1600 mu of protected vegetables and an open-air base of 450mu. A vegetable processing plant of 2200 square meters has been built, with an annual sales income of 43 million yuan and an annual profit of more than 10 million yuan. the average benefit per mu is more than 5000 yuan.

The enlightenment of increasing income: many farmers find it difficult to lose their land, but they suffer from the low efficiency of planting traditional crops, and their unique planting is weak and unskilled. Through the establishment of cooperatives, gathering and dispersing into a whole, unified production, large-scale operation, and scientific and technological cultivation, Zhou Xiangmin has greatly improved the efficiency of agricultural production and enriched the local people.