Local expert Gao Haitao: chili pepper breeding industry

On July 25, in the 68-mu experimental area of Jiangsu Surun seed Industry Co., Ltd., located in Jing'an Town, Peixian County, a hot science and technology training seminar was being held. More than 100 representatives of pepper growers and seed dealers from all over the country attended the training meeting. As the keynote expert of this training meeting, Gao Haitao, director of the National Pepper Industry Alliance and head of Jiangsu Surun seed industry, was questioned by pepper farmers endlessly. He compiled the technical points of pepper variety characteristics, planting management, and pest control into jingles to tell you.

In the eyes of the reporter, Gao Haitao is really not an ordinary farmer. after graduating from junior high school, he took the initiative to go back to his hometown to farm and grow vegetables, and combined with local planting advantages to form a bond with pepper breeding. He transferred 326 mu of land, set up cooperatives to specialize in sweet pepper and pepper breeding, production and management activities, first helped more than 10 agricultural research institutes across the country, such as Hunan and Jiangxi, to breed pepper seeds, and bred more than 1000 varieties before and after. In the process of reproduction, Gao Haitao carefully studied the growth habits of each variety, the ability to resist diseases and insect pests, and so on. Through the pepper parent germplasm resources in his hands, Gao Haitao gradually began to learn his own cross breeding. since the breeding of more than 200 new pepper varieties, the early seedling production of the cooperative can drive more than 3000 mu of pepper seedlings around.

Bond with chili

Set up professional cooperatives

In 1997, 17-year-old Gao Haitao returned to Tanglou Village, Jingan Town, Peixian County, where there is a tradition of growing vegetables, rented 10 mu of land and tested the pepper varieties selected by Xuzhou vegetable Research Institute. Gao Haitao named a special linear pepper variety with strong resistance, long picking period and extra high yield as the king. At that time, the average pepper grower had an income of 6000 to 8000 yuan per mu, while his new king variety test mu income could reach 12000 yuan. The news spread widely in the local area. Vegetable farmers in Shiliba townships came to consult technical requirements for introduction and trial planting, and the farmers' enthusiasm for getting rich moved Gao Haitao. He gave his seeds to the villagers for trial planting of more than 200 mu, with an average income of more than 2000 yuan per mu that year. This not only gave Gao Haitao great encouragement and confidence, but also strengthened his determination and belief in pioneering the road to prosperity through science and technology.

With more and more pepper varieties bred by Gao Haitao himself, the original protected land can no longer meet the needs. He guided farmers to transfer 3000 mu of land in the surrounding villages and set up a professional cooperative for pepper breeding in Yunong.

In order to manage the land better and more finely, and to further improve the variety of chili peppers, Gao Haitao built several houses in the field and did not go home all the year round to eat and live here alone. The cooperative's "home" and farmer training classroom are also installed here. As the selected varieties are excellent and the business reputation is good, the cooperative will soon make a profit and increase by 10% a year. It is estimated that the total sales this year will exceed 40 million yuan, and the net income will reach 5 million yuan.

Master more than 300 kinds of chili.

Germplasm resources

Gao Haitao said that when he first dabbled in pepper seed management, it could be said that it was a small knock, and it was all a generation of breeding varieties, and the income was not high. After nearly 20 years of exploration, he has mastered more than 300 kinds of pepper germplasm resources all over the country. Collecting the essence of many families, he used various types of male and female pepper parents in his hands to cross with pepper selected in the field, and cultivated a series of pepper hybrid varieties with independent intellectual property rights and strong disease resistance. Among them, the sales of the main "king" pepper species exceeded 6000 kilograms last year, entering the top five of the national pepper brands.

In the highly competitive market tide, high-quality agricultural products are always loved by everyone. It is based on this understanding that since the establishment of Surun seed industry, Gao Haitao has been adhering to the brand strategy, introducing new varieties, promoting new cultivation techniques, and actively doing a good job in the certification of pollution-free products in order to improve the popularity of the products. From seed selection to management, the company strictly checks every link, soil testing, formula fertilization, integrated control of diseases and insect pests. A series of pollution-free management measures, so that the quality of pepper straight up, steadily have a number of fixed customers.

If you want to "turn pepper into gold", you must quickly dock with the market. Su run seed Industry has set up a special office in the e-commerce public service center of Jingan Town to sell chili seeds packed in boxes online. "now e-commerce has been very popular, as a new marketing method, it has the advantages of convenience and rapidness. We have opened an online sales path, not only the products can be sold at the first time, but also the price is guaranteed." Gao Haitao told reporters.

At present, approved by the provincial seed management station, Surun seed already has the conditions for small packaging for pepper breeding. Talking about the next plan, Gao Haitao said: "in the next step, I will further introduce new technologies and varieties, make new breakthroughs in scale, output, and efficiency, and give full play to the economies of scale of family farms." to provide other farmers with unified seedling breeding, unified fertilization, unified drug use, unified management, unified sales of 'one-stop' services to help farmers get rich. "

In Gao Haitao's mind, there is a dream that he wants to study the deep processing technology of chili peppers and turn the chili peppers produced by the villagers into deep-processed products, so that growers can make money all the year round.