Zheng Haijun, a post-80s college student from Qianxi, Hebei Province: okra holds up the dream of getting rich

Zheng Haijun

In one's life, there are always many choices. The result of choice often determines the height of one's career development. Zheng Haijun, a post-80s college student in Xiaoxiying Village, Santunying Town, Qianxi County, Hebei Province, encountered two important choices on the way to starting a business.

In 2008, Zheng Haijun became a doctor in the infirmary of Jinxi Co., Ltd after graduating from the clinical department of North China Coal Medical College. A year later, Zheng made a decision that surprised many people-- to resign and go into business. The vigorous development of modern agriculture in Qianxi County has greatly inspired Zheng Haijun's entrepreneurship. He believes that Qianxi has a unique natural endowment, and there is a broad space for the development of agriculture with mountain characteristics. Only by doing a good job in this article on characteristic agriculture can we make the road of entrepreneurship go further.

In early 2016, a crop called okra attracted the attention of Zheng Haijun. He is determined to be the first person to plant okra in Tangshan area.

In the spring of the same year, Zheng Haijun invested 300000 yuan to transfer 60 mu of land in Nanzhuang Village, Xingcheng City, and built the first okra planting base in Tangshan. Adapting to the concept of green, organic, and pollution-free development of modern agriculture, Zheng Haijun decided at the beginning of the establishment of the base to strictly prohibit the use of chemical fertilizers and all use of organic fertilizers; strictly prohibit the use of pesticides; all promote physical pest control; strictly prohibit the use of herbicides; and adopt the "three strict prohibitions and three uniform" management rules with manual weeding as the main content, and implement them consistently.

In his first close contact with the land, Zheng realized the importance of scientific knowledge, as well as the hardship and difficulty of developing the planting industry. Although he grasps the time, squeezes the time, from the Internet, from books, and even to the Hebei Academy of Agricultural Sciences to learn planting knowledge.

Since then, Zheng Haijun has brought samples of okra and okra fruits produced by the base to sell in many places. Zheng Haijun soon opened the sales door of the headquarters of Jinkelong supermarket in Tangshan Rural Cooperative Federation and Fengrun District, and the base's okra products also entered the major supermarkets in Tangshan and began to enter the Beijing-Tianjin market.

In August, with the gradual expansion of the market, Zheng Haijun installed drying equipment, set up a small processing plant in a farm yard next to the base, and began to process small packaging and drying products of okra fruits. Zheng Haijun said, "now, our daily shipments are all about 1000 jin. After the fresh products were picked the day before, they were sent directly to the Jinkelong supermarket in the county the next morning, and the dried fruits after rough processing were sent to other places for sale." Based on the current yield of 6000 jin of fresh fruit per mu, it is estimated that it will not be a problem to recover the investment within this year. "

In the process of the construction and development of the base, he more and more deeply understood the farmers' unlimited yearning for a happy life, and more and more deeply felt the significance of the base to the villagers to get rich.

Over the past few months, the base has employed more than a dozen villagers to plant and pick every day, with a maximum of more than 40 employees. For Nanzhuang Village, a small mountain village with no foreign enterprises, it not only provides extremely valuable employment opportunities for villagers, but also opens a door for villagers to emancipate their minds. Li Xiaochun, a peasant girl who has been working at the base, said happily, "for many years, apart from doing housework, we women have been cleaning up the mu of land at home. After the establishment of the okra base, more than a dozen of us women came here to work together, earning dozens of yuan a day, and I feel that my life has become more fulfilling! "

Speaking of the impact of the okra base on the villagers, Song Baoquan, the manager of the base, lamented that "when the base was first established, most villagers did not know what the okra was." Only after people went to the base to work, did they know that okra is a vegetable with very high nutritional value, and only then did they really understand that it is the same land, but because of the different crops planted, it will produce great differences in economic benefits. Now, many people in the village have to plant okra and develop modern agriculture. "

The expectations and aspirations of the villagers are constantly knocking on Zheng Haijun's young heart. On the basis of paying attention to the economic benefits of the base, he also gave more consideration to the social benefits of the base. "now it seems that I am right to choose okra, because it is not only a good project for individuals to get rich, but also opens up a new way for farmers to get rich," he said. " The continuous strengthening of the sense of social responsibility has imperceptibly enhanced Zheng Haijun's realm of life and made his pursuit of dreams more firm and powerful.

"next year, I plan to set up a professional cooperative of okra. While further expanding the scale of production, we will introduce advanced equipment and develop deep processing of okra products, so as to make the okra industry a new bright spot in the agricultural development of the county step by step. Lead more people on the road to prosperity." Standing in the undulating okra field, thinking about the future of the base, Zheng Haijun is full of confidence.