Veteran Xia Junzhi: grow grapes and enrich your neighbors

"come to taste this summer black, taste sweet fruit, eat lips and teeth to stay fragrant." Xia Junzhi handed me a string of pearl-like black grapes, his dark face brimming with the joy of harvest.

On July 26, taking advantage of the cool morning breeze, the author walked into Madian Village, Lucheng Town, Lujiang County, Anhui Province, along Provincial Highway 316 is a vast fruit base. The white greenhouse is spread out like wings, with one row connected to another. Under the greenhouse, there are neatly arranged grapes, hanging purple, yellow-red and cyan clusters of crystal fruits.

Xia Junzhi is the owner of this farm. He is a post-90s veteran. When I saw him, he was taking workers into the fruit shed to pick grapes, sweat drenched camouflage clothes.

"in 2010, after returning home from the army, I got a stable job in Shanghai, but the idea of starting a business has been" ready to move "." While picking grapes, Xia Junzhi talked to the author, "I want to work in agriculture, develop leisure and sightseeing agriculture, and become a 'new farmer'."

From the countryside to the city, and then back to the countryside, Xia Junzhi's path choice has not been scolded by his family. On the contrary, he won the support of the whole family with pragmatic market research and prospect analysis. After more than two months of searching, we knocked on the doors of hundreds of peasant households. With the help of the cadres of the local village committee, we finally found a piece of 200 continuous land in Madian Village and invested more than 3 million yuan with the support of relatives and friends to build a fruit picking base in Linhai.

Leveling the land, improving planning, and building a strong wind greenhouse have experienced a lot of difficulties and hardships, but Xia Junzhi tide over the difficulties one by one with the tenacious style and hardship spirit of a soldier. after the base was built, he set the tone of organic planting, focusing on grapes. Select six different grape varieties to plant, "make sure that there are new varieties to pick every month from July to November." Xia Junzhi said, "there are more than 130 grape varieties in the country, all of which are selected by technical masters after inspecting from various places and combining local soil and water." These new fruits are not planned to be priced cheaply, but Xia Junzhi is optimistic about the market outlook.

"the vineyard is like my child, taken good care of day and night." Under the meticulous management and care of Xia Junzhi, more than a dozen kinds of grape seedlings, such as Xia Hei, Hongti, Crisson, Frey, Goldfinger and so on, take root and sprout, flourish and bear fruitful fruits. At the same time, he also made use of online communication platforms such as Alibaba and physical investment promotion platforms such as local agricultural fairs.

In 2011, his grape planting area reached 60 mu, with an annual output of more than 90,000 kilograms of grapes and sales of 1 million yuan. This year's planting area has reached more than 170 mu, and sales are expected to reach more than 2 million yuan. The grapes in June and July are mainly sold to Nanjing, Hefei, Wuhu and other places, while the late ripening grapes are mainly sold to the major supermarkets.

"personal wealth is not wealth. People who are rich are called rich." While starting a successful business, Xia Junzhi did not forget to lead the villagers to become rich together. In 2012, he set up a professional grape growing cooperative, driving more than 300 grape growers around and from other places to get rich together.

Xia Junzhi is not only responsible for purchasing all grape seedlings, but also teaches grape planting techniques that he has studied carefully for many years. He promised the grape farmers who took part in the grape cultivation that if the quality of the grapes they planted reached the standard of the plantation, all their products would be underwritten by him.

His promise gave reassurance to many farmers who followed him in grape growing, and their enthusiasm for growing grapes was even higher, which also attracted more farmers to learn grape growing techniques from him. The planting area has also reached nearly 1000 mu, and the annual sales volume has reached more than 1000 million yuan.

Speaking of the future, Xia Junzhi, a sunny and optimistic handsome boy, is full of confidence. "I intend to strengthen the brand operation, expand the influence of the plantation, and attract more tourists to come here." Then develop supporting industries, extend the industrial chain of plantations, improve economic efficiency, and lead more people to eat "grape rice"! "