Chen Yeshi: sell houses and buy back tens of millions to pursue the dream of agriculture

Chen Yeshi examined the rice planted in the farmland carefully.

The sun was blazing at noon yesterday. Chen Yeshi went to the rice fields in front of Tonggu Village, Kelu Town, Leizhou City: "these 1800 mu of rice fields are all interest-free projects supported by the World Bank. According to the requirements of the World Food and Oil Organization, chemical fertilizers and pesticides cannot be applied in the whole planting process, so that the rice fields can be restored to their original appearance. So I basically come to patrol every day. " Wearing a pair of gold glasses, it is difficult to associate him with a "peasant fanatic" unless his skin is darker than that of a farmer.

Chen Yeshi, a native of the attached town of Leizhou City, resigned from Zhanjiang Maritime Safety Bureau to start a logistics company in Shenzhen in 2003. after several years of hard work, he has a fortune of more than 10 million yuan a year and owns two houses, including a duplex. In 2011, when he returned to his hometown to visit his parents, he saw that many farmers in rural areas did not want to farm, and he felt very unpleasant. Coupled with the country's growing emphasis on agriculture, he hoped to go back to his hometown to develop agriculture. But the decision was strongly opposed by his wife, and his sister flew back from the United States to dissuade her. In the end, Chen Yeshi stuck to his dream of pursuing agriculture, gave up the big city and returned to his hometown. At the end of the year, his wife divorced him.

After returning to his hometown, he first set up the city's first rice cooperative in Dapu Village, a town attached to Leizhou. "at first, our mouths were worn out, but the peasants refused to join our co-operative." Chen Yeshi mechanized the hundreds of mu of cultivated land he transferred from beating, sowing, transplanting and harvesting, and his output, quality and income were higher than those of retail investors. After several years of demonstration, his rice cooperative has increased from the first few to the present 168. Later, he successively established the Eastern and Western farming Cooperatives and the Grange Agricultural Machinery Cooperatives. The transferred land has been extended to Tonggu Village, Kelu Town, with an area of more than 5000 mu.

When Chen Yeshi was confident and looking forward to a bumper harvest, the patronage of strong typhoons "Seagull" and "Weimasun" caused Chen Yeshi to suffer heavy losses. only a few thousand mu of bananas about to be put on the market lost millions of yuan. "I was exhausted and really wanted to give up. Later, the local government urgently sent hundreds of thousands of yuan to meet the urgent needs. " After the typhoon, he stood up from the mud and returned to Shenzhen last year, where he liquidated and sold two apartments, including duplex, and raised 16 million yuan, all of which were used to resume production and continue to expand production.

If you keep thinking about it, there must be an echo. This year, he has reaped a bumper harvest of sweet potatoes, taro, fragrant rice and red rice, making a profit of several million yuan. At present, the son, who graduated from Guangdong University of Finance and Economics, was infected by his father's dream of pursuing agriculture and took the initiative to return to the company as director of supervision. Provincial Agriculture Department and leaders of Zhanjiang and Leizhou have inspected and encouraged his base many times. "there is Chinese Dream in China, and my dream is the dream of agriculture. I don't regret selling my house to pursue my dream." Chen Yeshi's face showed determination.

"he is the cultivator and hope bearer of local agriculture." Peng Bin, leader of the poverty alleviation task force of the Provincial Agriculture Department in Namao Village, Leizhou, expressed his admiration for Chen Yeshi, who was chasing his dream all the way. It is reported that Chen Yeshi is working with the Poverty Alleviation Task Force to accurately help farmers out of poverty. At present, his company has been appraised as the leading enterprise in Zhanjiang City.