The processing of fruit tree branches into organic fertilizer saves fertilizer money and improves quality.

In recent years, Jixian County, Shanxi Province has promoted the upgrading of apples and began to implement "densification and thinning" in densely planted orchards throughout the county. Most of the abandoned branches of apple trees have been put in the fields and open spaces at the edge of the village as waste by fruit growers, which has become a major problem in the current rural environmental renovation.

Xie, who worked hard outside, just returned to his hometown to see the environmental problems caused by abandoned branches of apple trees, and began to think about solving this problem. He successively went to Malaysia and Taiwan for a six-month inspection, and finally, after analysis and comparison, he signed a contract to introduce Taiwan's agricultural technology and agricultural experts, and returned to Jixian County to try to process organic fertilizer from abandoned branches of apple trees.

"We crushed the branches, then mixed with livestock and poultry manure in the proportion of 1 ∶ 1, added organic bacteria to ferment for about 60 days, and finally processed into the finished organic fertilizer. In the past, the general price of a ton of organic fertilizer used by fruit farmers was about 3000 yuan, while one ton of branches could be used to process one ton of apple organic fertilizer, which cost only 600 yuan per ton. " Thank you just said.

According to Yu Yanshan, head of Zhongduo Township in the county, the application of fertilizer and bagging is the main cost investment in apple production, while soil is a key factor affecting apple quality. Due to the high utilization rate of chemical fertilizer, some orchards have different degrees of soil fertility decline, consolidation and other problems. The best way to solve this problem is to increase the proportion of organic fertilizer, and the price of organic fertilizer is high. "by processing abandoned branches of apple trees into organic manure, there is little cost for fruit farmers."

Xie Jiegang registered and established Shanxi Jinfunian Agricultural Technology Development Co., Ltd and Jixian brilliant Organic Fertilizer processing Professional Cooperative. At present, soil testing and formula fertilization has been completed in 3 townships, and a model of processing organic fertilizer from abandoned branches of apple trees has been established with more than 200 fruit farmers in 4 townships.

For fruit growers, apple planting according to the standard of 1 ton of organic fertilizer per mu, 5 mu of land can save about 10,000 yuan. Dou Xinghua, director of fruit trees research in Jixian County, believes that if organic fertilizer is used to promote soil control, improve the quality of apples, and drive up prices, this will be another order of magnitude of benefit for 300000 mu of Jixian apples.

Yan Haibin