Sun Shanda, "Potato King", Salaxi Town, Qixingguan District

In early summer, when the author came to the potato planting base in Longfeng Village, Salaxi Town, Qixingguan District, I saw Sun Shanda in the field to help villagers observe the growth of potatoes. "look how well this potato is growing. Each seedling has its own unique spirit. This year's harvest must be good." Seeing the author's arrival, Sun Shanda pointed to the uniform potatoes at his feet and said happily.

Sun Shanda is the deputy director of Longfeng Village in Salaxi Township. In recent years, in order to lead the masses to shake off poverty and become well-off, he actively led the villagers to adjust the agricultural industrial structure and vigorously develop the potato planting industry, effectively expanding the space for the villagers to get rich, and making the villagers' pockets bulge step by step. Therefore, the villagers jokingly called him Longfeng Village.

In 2012, in order to integrate resources and improve the people's anti-risk ability in potato planting, under the guidance of the town party committee and government, combined with the reality of Longfeng Village, Sun Shanda established a professional potato cooperative of Hongzhida with a registered capital of 400000 yuan. and applied to the administrative department for industry and commerce to register the "Hongzhida" potato trademark. At present, the income of people participating in cooperatives is increased by more than 15000 yuan a year. The establishment of the cooperative not only enhanced the market competitiveness of potato in Longfeng Village, but also made Longfeng Village a famous professional potato breeding village.

Every spring, Sun Shanda provides seeds and chemical fertilizer to the villagers and teaches the technology to the villagers. As soon as the harvest comes, he buys potatoes and seeds from the masses at a price higher than the market price per jin, stores them and sells them in a unified way, so as to solve the worries of the masses. Over the years, Sun Shanda has turned Longfeng Village potatoes into a brand industry by relying on his own potato "planting classics". In order to ensure the healthy development of cooperatives, Sun Shanda discussed with other managers of cooperatives and decided to seize the market and set up 15 sales outlets in six large and medium-sized cities inside and outside Guiyang, Chengdu, Chongqing, Guangzhou, and so on. Eight additional acquisition outlets in Bijie City.

"my family has planted 13 mu of potatoes this year. Through the technical guidance of the cooperative, it is estimated that the output value this year will reach 40 to 50,000 jin, with an increase of about 35000 yuan." When villager Li Xingfa talks about the "sweetness" brought about by planting potatoes, he can't restrain his inner joy, and the villagers who are working in the fields are all filled with the joy of harvest.

Sun Shanda has always had an inextricable bond with growing potatoes. He used to grow traditional Chinese medicine and potatoes, which made him have a strong interest in agriculture. Talking about the "affection" with Tudou, Sun Shanda said that it was Longfeng Village's unique geographical advantages and fertile land that created Longfeng Village brand potatoes and made him a success. He said that in the past, when the family was separated, there was a shortage of land, and people had to go to other villages and towns to buy potatoes of good quality. In 2007, in order to change the current situation of land shortage in Longfeng village, Sun Shanda encouraged villagers to grow potatoes while providing free technology and seeds themselves. through a series of efforts, many villagers in Longfeng village again carried hoes and used idle land to grow potatoes.

Through the introduction of high-quality potato varieties and the support of agricultural technology departments, the potato planted in Longfeng village has high quality and unique flavor, which has gradually established the high-quality brand of Longfeng village potato. We can see that the quality of potatoes in Longfeng Village is different from that in other towns and places, so they rush to buy them one after another, and sometimes the boss buys them in the land.

In 2008, Sun Shanda led the villagers of Longfeng Village to increase the yield of potatoes by more than 2000 jin per mu, and then increased by 3000 to 4000 jin. "it can both sell and eat, which not only solves the problem of food and clothing for the masses, but also solves the food problem of livestock." Sun Shanda said that potatoes belong to "lazy" crops, which can basically be planted and wait for the autumn harvest. With Sun Shanda's "cow strength", the villagers expanded the potato planting scale one after another, and their pockets bulged step by step. Today, 10, 000 mu of potatoes are planted in Longfeng village, and 169 poor households are driven by planting potatoes. the annual income of poor households involved in planting reaches 15000 yuan, and at the same time, more than 30, 000 households in surrounding villages and towns are encouraged to plant 3.05 million mu of potatoes.