Farmer Zhu Quanyun: determined to "realize" the villagers' dream of becoming rich in aquaculture

In early summer, the fishing ground of Caoqiao Town, Xinyi City, which is located on the bank of Luoma Lake, is shady with trees. After noon on May 22, the Quanyun ecological aquaculture base of farmer Zhu Quanyun heard bursts of laughter from time to time, breaking the serenity of Luoma Lake.

"the aquaculture market was not very good last year. I didn't expect that each household could share a surplus of more than 100,000 yuan. I thought it would be nice to be able to break even." Lao Zhu continued, "this year, all of our 1000 mu of fish ponds have been used to cultivate aquatic products such as grass carp and silver carp. I hope everyone will do their best to get a better harvest in the coming year." As soon as Zhu Quanyun spoke, more than a dozen farmers sitting in the room laughed happily and echoed, "good!"

Speaking of Zhu Quanyun, the villagers of the ecological aquaculture base all gave a thumbs up and called him "the leader of getting rich." More than 10 years ago, Lao Zhu patted his chest and assured the villagers that the yield of aquaculture exceeded 10,000 yuan per mu. In the villagers' skepticism, a huge dream of getting rich was "realized" by this smart, honest, reliable, benevolent Lao Zhu.

Determined to "realize" the villagers' dream of becoming rich

After years of continuous efforts, with the ability to endure hardships and be willing to use his brains, he has accumulated rich experience in aquaculture. When it comes to aquaculture, Lao Zhu talks eloquently, and his life is getting better and better day by day. However, the poor villagers around him upset Lao Zhu. "I cannot see that the villagers are so poor. They must make use of the state policy to lead us out of poverty and become rich." Lao Zhu said excitedly. In 2002, he organized 10 villagers around him to set up the Quanyun Aquaculture Cooperative in Xinyi City, centralizing all their fish ponds, unified aquaculture varieties, unified purchase of raw materials, unified sales, and dividends according to shareholds. reduce decentralized farming costs and risks, and lead everyone to a broad road together.

Lead us to explore the way to get rich.

The fishing ground of Caoqiao Town, Xinyi City, which is known as the "village of aquatic products", tens of thousands of tons of aquatic products are sent to all parts of the country every year. Zhu Quanyun saw the business opportunities and thought that silver carp, soft-shelled turtle and grass carp were very popular in the market. "so we held a Congress of cooperative members to study and decide to raise these kinds of aquatic products, which we all agreed to, and hired relevant experts from universities, fisheries bureaus and other relevant experts as technical advisers to the cooperatives." Lao Zhu said.

In this way, Quanyun ecological aquaculture base was soon completed and put into production. Since 2004, the annual income of each member is about 20,000 yuan. Everyone is very enthusiastic, and there is hope for getting rid of poverty and becoming rich. "but since 2011, as the production cost, especially the maintenance cost of fish ponds, has increased year by year, the maintenance cost of fish ponds is close to more than 500,000 yuan at its peak, profits have decreased year by year, and even losses have occurred. The enthusiasm of the villagers has been affected. Some even want to quit the cooperative." Lao Zhu said helplessly.

But Lao Zhu did not give up. While comforting the villagers, he searched everywhere for a "prescription." In the first half of 2013, Lao Zhu invited experts related to aquaculture from Nanjing Agricultural University to "feel the pulse" and write a "prescription": the most fundamental plan to reduce the cost of aquaculture is to increase investment and improve the infrastructure of the aquaculture base. There is a prescription, but Lao Zhu hesitates. After preliminary calculation, more than 2 million yuan needs to be invested to solve this problem. What should we do if the co-operative does not have so much money?. Seeing that more and more members offered to withdraw from the cooperative, Lao Zhu was at his wit's end.

One day in April 2013, Lao Zhu was checking the fish pond when suddenly the phone rang. "the village secretary called me and said that the leader of the agricultural opening of Xinyi City came to me and said that he could solve the problems I was facing. At that time, I was so happy that I quickly ran to the village branch secretary." Lao Zhu said excitedly, "the leaders of Xinyi Agricultural opening Bureau introduced in detail the relevant policies for supporting the industrialization of agricultural development, and took our cooperative as the key support object of the industrialization increment project in 2013 to help me improve the infrastructure of fish ponds."

After a year of unremitting efforts, Quanyun ecological aquaculture base has not only complete basic facilities, but also significantly improved efficiency, but also built a well-known leisure fishing village, where people come to play every day. The result is overjoyed: the quality and output of aquatic products are very good. Making use of the customer resources accumulated by many years of business, the products are soon exported to the major cities of Nanjing, Shanghai and Xuzhou, and the income of the cooperative is more than 10 million yuan in 2015. Lao Zhu gave everyone a dividend and planned how to increase the enthusiasm of the villagers again and get a good harvest in 2016, so there was the beginning scene.

"Internet +" adds soaring wings to aquaculture

This year, while actively mobilizing the villagers, Lao Zhu, who is in his 50s, also likes to "ponder" and has changed from a "Internet +" layman to a "cloud" local expert. As soon as he heard that there was a "Internet +" agricultural expert, he was sure to visit. The villagers often teased that they were obsessed with "Internet +" aquaculture as "Brother Yun". When I overheard that an expert from Nanjing Agricultural University studied "Internet +" agriculture, he decided to send aquaculture to the "cloud" in order to make use of "Internet +". Lao Zhu said proudly, "according to the suggestion of Professor Yu Degui of Nanjing Agricultural University, the aerator can be modified. On the one hand, it can automatically increase oxygen according to the oxygen content of fish pond water, reducing the cost of 1% and the loss of aquatic products by 2%. On the one hand, Internet + is used as a bridge to connect these aerators with mobile phone terminals, so that the aerators in fish ponds can be viewed and controlled even thousands of miles away."

With the help of the Agricultural opening Bureau and the Finance Bureau of Xinyi City, Quanyun Ecological Aquaculture Cooperative successfully declared the Xinyi City Agricultural Comprehensive Development industrialization Management Increment Project, and received a financial subsidy of 800000 yuan, which is mainly used for new fish pond slope protection, cofferdam cement road, purchase of power facilities, aerator and other equipment and facilities. Through the implementation of the project, it has not only enhanced the comprehensive production capacity of cooperatives, promoted the upgrading of aquaculture bases, but also helped Lao Zhu "realize" the villagers' dream of becoming rich.