After graduating from college, the two sisters and brothers went home to grow potatoes to drive a hundred farmers to become rich.

In the past two years, agriculture has become a hot venture capital, all kinds of entrepreneurs have set foot in agriculture, many aspiring young people also hope to find entrepreneurial opportunities. In Triangle Village, Tunzi Town, Junxian County, there is such a brother and sister. After graduating from university, they did not stay in the city to work, but returned to the countryside to "grow potatoes." They introduced advanced planting technology into rural areas and set up special agricultural cooperatives, which not only increased the income of the villagers, but also sold agricultural products to the whole country with the help of the Internet.

Go home and farm after graduating from college.

Wang Meng, 27, and his brother Wang Ke, 25, are both college graduates. Many people in the family did not support the return of the brother and sister to start a business in the countryside after graduation.

Wang Meng told reporters that for many rural people, the purpose of training their children to go to college is to let their children change their fate through knowledge, so that they will no longer suffer from "facing the loess and facing the sky."

"but I like the countryside and agriculture. When I was in college, I wanted to return to the countryside and devote myself to agriculture." Wang Meng met with strong opposition after he told his family what he thought.

"the relatives in the family complain every day that we have finally graduated from college, but now we have come back to farm, and the knowledge we have learned has been delayed." Wang Meng said with a smile that his mother had ignored her for this.

However, Wang Meng has the support of one person, and that is her father Wang Shuliang. Wang Shuliang is 53 years old. after Wang Meng told him his idea at that time, he very much approved of it.

"now the people who farm the land are all people over the age of 40 or 50. Young people seldom know how to farm the land. There must always be people in the land. If she is willing to plant, I will support her." Wang Shuliang said that he has been managing agricultural materials all his life, and seeing that the state's support for agriculture is getting stronger and stronger, and farmers' farming technology is becoming more and more advanced, he does not think that it is a shame for his daughter to come back to farm.

In 2013, Wang Meng, who graduated from university, returned to the countryside to start a business after working in the city for half a year; his younger brother Wang Ke also returned directly to the countryside after graduating from university in 2015 to join hands with his sister in gold mining agriculture, while the implementation of the land circulation policy and the popularization of e-commerce have brought new opportunities for the two brothers' rural entrepreneurship.

Their Potato Sutra

After some inspection, Wang Meng decided to grow potatoes. When the reporter interviewed on June 7, Wang Meng and Wang Ke were checking the growth of potatoes in the field, and the patches of potatoes were about to be harvested. Wang Meng and his brother were very happy.

Wang Meng introduced to the reporter: "We go south here, it is too hot, potatoes do not like hot weather, can not grow; we go northeast here, it is too cold to grow." So this season is suitable for growing potatoes in Henan and Shandong, but we mainly produce wheat in Henan, and the planting area of potatoes is not large. "

"grow potatoes in spring and peanuts in summer. When it gets cold, we grow spinach." Wang Meng said with a smile that she has transferred more than 500 mu of land, most of which are planted in this way.

Although their families did not support them to return to their hometown to start a business, their families and villagers gave them a lot of help when they really devoted themselves to agriculture. Many neighbors know that sister and brother grow a lot of land, so when they grow potatoes, everyone is willing to help. But to their surprise, the brother and sister planted all the potatoes in a few days.

The villagers wondered how they could grow so fast that they didn't know their "secret" until they asked. Because of the high technology, his younger brother Wang Ke worked for more than a dozen people for several days.

"A family in Xinxiang planted 40 mu of potatoes and found a lot of workers to help grow them. Over the past few days, more than 10,000 yuan was spent on labor alone. And we used an advanced potato seeder, and when the machine came down, the seeds, chemical fertilizer, grass medicine, drip irrigation belt and plastic film were all laid. I planted 50 mu of land in only three days. " Brother Wang Ke said proudly. With advanced machines, it saves a lot of labor costs, not to mention, but also saves a lot of time.

As soon as the villagers saw that their method was good, they came to borrow the machine, and the sister and brother generously pulled the machine out for others to use.

In addition to the existing agricultural technology, Wang Meng and Wang Ke continue to go out to learn new technologies. "every time I attend the training, most of the people I attend the class with are older farmers, and there are few people of my age." Wang Meng said.

In the past few days, they went out of town to order a potato harvester. As soon as the machine passes through the ground, it can dig up all the potatoes underground. It only needs people to pick them up and bag them, which can save a lot of manpower.

Wang Meng mentioned that because of the lack of water in the location of their village, they used drip irrigation to grow potatoes. Drip irrigation belt runs through each ridge of potatoes, "saving 70% and 80% of water than flood irrigation." If we had to water our potatoes seven or eight times in the past, our potatoes would have been watered only three times now. " Wang Meng said.

The yield of potatoes commonly planted is about 6000 jin per mu, and the yield of potatoes planted with drip irrigation is basically the same. "according to the traditional method of planting, for my situation here, watering these 50 mu of potatoes costs thousands of yuan." but we only used a thousand yuan for water. " Advanced planting methods have saved them a lot of costs. Wang Meng and his brother said that they used peanut planters to grow peanuts and also used drip irrigation to water them.

Bring advanced technology to farmers

Wang Meng and his brother not only brought advanced agricultural technology to the villagers, but also put their agricultural products online and sold them to all parts of the country with the help of the "Internet + agriculture" model.

"now the relationship between the Internet and agriculture is particularly close, and we must keep up with the pace. The big farmers who grow food and vegetables around them often let them sell their agricultural products on the Internet. " Father Wang Shuliang said proudly.

"there was a family in the nearby village that contracted 400 to 500 mu of land last year, of which 200 mu planted radish. Later, the radish was unsalable and found my sister. My sister sent a message on the Internet and sold it all for them. " Wang Ke said that they all volunteered to help farmers sell grain without charging any fees, so nearby farmers trusted them very much.

"sometimes the farmers in Tangyin even come to us and ask us for help." Wang Meng said that this will not only help others, but also improve the relationship, so that large-scale planting can be carried out in the future.

Since Wang Meng established Chengshun crop planting professional cooperative in Junxian County in 2013, it has realized land transfer of more than 500mu and trusteeship land of more than 1200 mu, driving more than 100 farmers to become rich.

Seeing the cause of Wang Meng's sister and brother becoming more and more prosperous, the rumors of the villagers became less and less, and some young people even left messages to Wang Meng to support her and encourage her.

"We feel very promising for the future. in the next step, we are going to take increasing the yield of potatoes as the main goal. Now the yield per mu is about 6000 jin, while in some places abroad, it can reach more than 12000 jin per mu. We must find ways to improve water conservancy conditions and strive to increase the yield per mu to 8000 to 10000 jin. " Wang Meng said.