"win-win" income for raising chickens in the vineyard

In the scorching afternoon sun, on both sides of Qian Linghua's vineyard, many weeds were withered and dried to death. In the grape greenhouse, the temperature went straight to 50 ℃, and large drops of sweat flowed down her neck, soaking her back. She smiled and said, "neither of the two farmers can compete with me when working in this shed!" This woman, who grew up in a city and was laid off from a company in middle age, chose to take root in the countryside when she knew her destiny, wrapped up a grape plantation with demolition and resettlement money, and dreamed of selling her organic agricultural products to all parts of the country.

Qian Linghua, a former worker of Nanjing Construction Machinery Factory, was laid off from the enterprise more than a decade ago. A few years ago, she learned that the Nanjing Federation of Trade unions could help start a business, so she found the love of the city's subordinates to help the market and expressed her desire to learn the skills of raising chickens. Love help the market contacted the love help volunteers, running pheasant "king" Han Xiulan, let her practice raising chickens for free.

"Han Xiulan is really a good person. She gave me 1000 chickens for free, and if she raised them, it was hers. If she raised them, they all belong to me. Not only that, she taught me how to build the chicken shed, how to mix the chicken feed, and how to give the chicken an injection. " Under the careful guidance of Han Xiulan, Qian Linghua's chicken is growing gratifying. However, unfortunately, when bird flu broke out that year, there was no market for live birds, and she had to find another way out.

Later, she found a job as a kindergarten nurse for several years. In kindergarten, she found that children love grapes very much, but the grapes on the market are of mixed quality, sometimes inexhaustible in washing, and worried about pesticide residues. As a result, she sprouted the idea of planting grapes. If she wanted to plant grapes, she would plant grapes that were delicious and safe.

Growing grapes is a completely strange skill for her, who grew up in the city, and she must learn it from scratch. Speaking of the experience, it is really hard to taste. "at first, I watched CCTV's getting Rich every day and learned from the program. I felt that a teacher surnamed Cai from the Shandong Institute of Science and Technology was very good at teaching grape growing skills. I went to Shandong to find this teacher Cai and asked him for advice on the main technical points. " But she could not understand Miss Cai's lecture at all and burst into tears. As a last resort, she returned to Nanjing. later, introduced by a friend, she paid homage to a master in Pancheng and respectfully asked for advice. Master also gave it to her. After a year of study, she felt that she had learned almost, so she thought of contracting an orchard and starting practical planting.

However, it takes a lot of money to contract the orchard, which is a great burden on her family. At this time, when the old house was demolished, she got a sum of compensation. "at first, she proposed to use demolition money to grow grapes. I thought it was too risky and disagreed. I argued several times, but finally I couldn't beat her." Qian Linghua's lover Ding Nanting said.

In this way, Qian Linghua and his lover "broke the pot and sunk the boat", took out the house demolition money and rented nearly 50 mu of vineyards in Donggou Recycling Agricultural Garden in Liuhe District.

In a twinkling of an eye, three years have passed. The vine only hangs fruit for three years, and each of these three years has a different planting knack. "the fertility of grapes is different every year: bean cake fertilizer should be applied in the first year, chicken manure in the second year, and sheep manure in the third year." Speaking of the planting classics, Qian Linghua said, "I also specially bought biological fertilizer from Beijing. With this fertilizer, grapes are not easy to get sick and do not need to be treated with pesticides."

Last year, the grapes began to bear fruit on a small scale, and she began to raise chickens in the greenhouse. 300 chicken seedlings are scattered in the shed, usually eating weeds and grapes falling from trees. Because she specializes in chicken raising, the survival rate of the first batch of chicken seedlings reached 95%, and local farmers praised it as "better than people who have been raising chickens for decades." Free-range "grape chicken" is particularly good to sell, this year, she expanded the number of breeding to 600, and is ready to play the "Aunt Qian Grape Chicken" brand to expand the organic agricultural product chain.

This year is the first large-scale result of Qian Linghua's vineyard, and the output has suddenly reached 100000 jin. However, when the garden was opened for the first time at the end of June, because the grapes grown organically were not inflated or pigmented, the appearance and color were not good-looking, and fruit sellers refused to accept them. Seeing other people's grapes being pulled away one by one, I neither knew how to sell nor had a market, so I could only rely on returning customers to buy some. I was both lost and anxious, so I couldn't help crying.

"half of the vines have survived the summer flood, and we must be able to find a way this time!" Ding Nanting advised her. After hearing about this, Zhang Shangmin, the person in charge of the loving support market of the Municipal Federation of Trade unions, personally went to Liuhe, tasted the grapes they planted, and confirmed that the quality was really worth recommending, so he found the media, hoping to help this simple, lovely, self-reliant woman through the power of the media. When it comes to sales considerations, Qian Linghua still does not change her simple nature. "Let's play word of mouth without thinking about money first." Now it is sold by repeat customers, and many people who have bought it here will come to buy it again. I have confidence in the quality of grapes. "