Go back to your hometown to start a business and become a "medicine brother", "company + peasant household" to bring rich villagers.

"Trichosanthes is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine with high economic value. I planted more than 2 mu under the guidance of 'Brother Medicinal Materials' last year, and I plan to grow more than a few mu this year." A few days ago, Zhang Changchun, a villager of Mazhuang Village, Nanhe County, Hebei Province, said to the author.

"Brother Medicine" is the name given to Dong Qian by the villagers of Mazhuang Village, Nanhe County. Dong Qian, 31, graduated from Yanshan University in Qinhuangdao, majoring in international trade. After graduation, with his love for his hometown, he returned to his hometown to start a business. after eight years of hard work, he created a base of 10,000 mu of traditional Chinese medicine, which has become a characteristic planting area for the key development of Nanhe County, and has also been listed in the three-year outline for the optimization and upgrading of the county's industrial structure.

At that time, he jumped over the "Dragon Gate" but returned to his hometown to farm. At that time, many villagers did not understand his behavior, but Dong Qian calmly faced the comments of the villagers. "as a matter of fact, this piece of heaven and earth in the countryside has made great achievements. Now agriculture is no longer simply facing the loess. As long as we do it in a down-to-earth manner, we will certainly be able to break through a piece of heaven and earth." Dong Qian said.

Since you choose to go back to your hometown to start a business, how do you choose the direction of starting a business? When he was young, Dong Qian often traveled all over the country with his father, who was in the medicine business. when he was a teenager, he had a deep understanding of where to grow what kind of medicine and how to quality. Occasionally, he was very excited when he saw wild Trichosanthes in the field. This traditional Chinese medicine has the effects of clearing heat and purging fire, invigorating body and relieving thirst, expelling abscess and reducing swelling, and has high economic value. Therefore, he specially went to a Chinese herbal medicine planting base in Anguo City to learn planting techniques.

Starting a business is always difficult. After learning planting techniques, Dong Qian leased 30 mu of arable land to plant. In the first year, the survival rate of his planting was pitifully low, and he harvested very little trichosanthin. In the following year, due to lack of pest control techniques, it was found that almost all Trichosanthes had been eaten up by parasites during harvest. The failure for two consecutive years did not overwhelm Dong Qian, and he carried it down with a "stubborn" strength. In the third year, he invited experts of traditional Chinese medicine from Nanjing Agricultural University to solve the planting problems on the spot, and improved the planting methods and techniques by doing experiments. He succeeded in this year, when the yield of trichosanthin per mu reached about 250 kilograms.

Dong Qian excitedly told the author that after eight years of painstaking management, his Zhilan traditional Chinese medicine planting base has become a larger trichosanthin planting base in China, and it was awarded the "Trichosanthes GAP Certification Base" by the State Food and Drug Administration last year.

Dong Qian, who is famous, is not satisfied. He told me that his dream is to make this family business a common cause of the villagers, a characteristic industry of his hometown, and lead the villagers to become rich together. In order to realize this dream, Dong Qian figured out the production mode of "company + base + farmers" and provided free technical services to farmers growing traditional Chinese medicine in Nanhe County and its surrounding counties, and purchased their products all the year round. In this way, farmers can rest assured to plant and steadily increase their income. In addition, he also set up a cooperative peasant household poverty alleviation and development fund and signed special agreements with poor households, five-guarantee households and other poor groups to help them lift themselves out of poverty or improve their lives at an early date in the form of targeted assistance. At present, more than 600 farmers have joined Dong Qian's "company + base + peasant household" production model. His company provides an average of tens of thousands of temporary jobs every year, indirectly driving thousands of families to employment.

Grower Liu Dacheng told me that driven by Dong Qian, the villagers began to grow Chinese herbal medicine and did not have to worry about the market.

After several years of development, Dong Qian has driven more than 800 farmers around to plant medicinal materials, formed a Chinese herbal medicine planting base of more than 10,000 mu, signed a cooperation agreement with Guangzhou Baiyunshan Zhongyi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., jointly created the first large-scale and standardized trichosanthin planting base in China, and passed the national GAP certification in 2014.

"as farmers in a new era, we should continue to learn and try various ways of operation. Next, I am also going to carry out online sales to strengthen myself with the strength of 'Internet +'. At that time, I will try my best to put my brand abroad. " Dong Qian said.