Let Fuping farmers grow "golden mushrooms"

The first time I met Professor Hou was at the local agricultural bureau in Fuping County, Baoding City. He was nothing like the professor one might expect from a laboratory, but more like a native farmer: dark skin, rough hands, crude clothes, muddy rubber shoes on his feet, just like the locals. Only the kindness in his smile and the wisdom in his words revealed the temperament of an intellectual.

It was this professor, unlike the professor, who spent more than eight months squatting in Fuping and helped a large number of farmers get out of poverty quickly with his edible mushroom cultivation techniques. Deep in the mountains, he became the most respected and closest person to the local people. Everywhere they went, Professor Hou and Teacher Hou, each of them expressed a kind of trust and gratitude from the hearts of the villagers.

Hou Guisen, professor of Langfang Vocational and Technical College, has devoted himself to the research of edible fungi for nearly 40 years, helping farmers open the door to poverty alleviation with edible fungi. He is also an excellent teacher in Hebei Province, a model worker in Langfang City and an advanced worker in Hebei Province.

He didn't say anything about himself, but when it came to edible mushrooms, he started talking. In the mushroom plantation in Longquanguan Town deep in the mountain, he is familiar with every mushroom shed. He talks all the way. The technical problems such as the process of mushroom planting, precautions and how to control the amount of mushrooms in a planned way are patiently introduced. In the interval between interviews, do not forget to give technical guidance to local farmers. How much temperature and humidity should be controlled, and when to pick, he told them everything before they could rest assured. He often said that this is the guarantee of the common people's life, not careless at all. Only when the results are achieved and the people believe can we help them get out of poverty.

"We haven't even eaten mushrooms. Can we grow these things? If you don't, you have to give us a statement!" Last August, Hou Guisen came to Fuping County, spent countless days and nights to study out the planting plan just to land, on the wrong start. In Fuping County, where more than 50% of the population is poor, the per capita annual income is less than 2500 yuan, and the per capita annual income of individual villages is less than 1000 yuan. It is difficult for farmers to invest money for planting. Farmers have no bottom in their hearts, no one dares to try easily, no one believes that this little mushroom can get rid of poverty and become rich. Hou Guisen did not know how much time he spent, painstakingly, little by little ideological work, mobilization, training and technology promotion, slowly, bold farmers began to follow him, now the first batch of mushrooms down, the market price up to eight or nine yuan a catty, a shed output value of more than 20,000 yuan, according to a household planting two mushroom sheds calculation, a mushroom farmer a season income of about fifty or sixty thousand yuan. In addition to the management of leading enterprises in the early and late stages, in addition to planting income, mushroom farmers can also get a monthly salary income of 3000 yuan. Not only do not worry about sales, but also more income, farmers pocket bulging, the hearts of doubts also disappeared.

"The harvest is so good. I can't tell you how happy I am. Thanks to Professor Hou! Let alone a farmer, as a township cadre in Longquanguan Town, I am especially grateful to him!" Gu Xiaohui, deputy mayor of Longquanguan Town, Fuping County, said that at present, the town's edible fungi greenhouses have grown to 125,75 poor families are planting edible fungi. Standing on the base overlooking, one by one covered with black sunscreen net neatly arranged in the valley, that is Hou Guisen struggle for the hot land, but also the hope of the common people to get rid of poverty and become rich.

At the beginning of planting edible mushroom, mushroom farmers also encountered many problems in the face of complex planting methods. Hou Guisen taught mushroom farmers how to plant edible fungi, from how to place mushroom sticks, how to inject water, how to thin seedlings, when to pick and cultivate mushrooms, for fear of problems in the process of cultivating mushrooms, affecting the next crop of mushrooms. With the successful planting of the first batch of shiitake mushrooms to the market, farmers 'money bags bulging, hearts also happy flowers, more and more farmers joined the edible mushroom planting team five, on the road to get rid of poverty and become rich.

At present, under the leadership of Professor Hou and other experts, Fuping County has established Tianshengqiao 1000 mu modern edible fungi industry core area, which is a core area of the whole industrial chain integrating modern edible fungi technology introduction R & D exhibition area, efficient cultivation demonstration area using advanced facilities and equipment, deep processing industrial area for producing high-quality products, and model area for driving the masses to increase income and become rich. At present, the core area is under intense construction. After completion, it can produce 100,000 bacterial sticks per day and 20 million bacterial sticks per year, which can meet the planting demand of 400 mushroom farmers around. In the future, the core area can provide nearly 1000 jobs, opening up a new road for farmers in Fuping County to get rid of poverty and become rich.

Fuping County planting edible fungi to get rid of poverty effect is obvious, Hou Guisen heart has a new idea. "There are many poor counties in Taihang Mountain Range. In the future, we will build an industrial belt, upgrade and transform those old mushroom areas, open up more poverty-stricken areas suitable for the development of edible fungi, and realize precise poverty alleviation by using the mode of cultivating leading enterprises and cooperating with the government, so as to upgrade the agricultural industrial structure adjustment of Hebei Province to a higher level." Hou Guisen said that his biggest wish is to introduce the latest technology and planting mode into poverty-stricken areas where Hebei Province can develop edible mushroom planting industry and help more farmers get rid of poverty and become rich.