Fenxi Song Xueqin: walking sonorously on the tonsil road

Not reconciled to poverty all one's life

Song Xueqin felt most deeply that in the first few years from Hebei to Fenxi, all the curiosity and freshness were quickly replaced by the feeling of desolation. With the optimistic and positive attitude formed for a long time, this strong woman not only did not give up, but thought hard to change the poor situation.

In 2008, the plaster suddenly became hot. As a result, Song Xueqin also invested in building a gypsum factory, but the factory soon closed down. She spends a lot of time visiting or searching the Internet for entrepreneurial projects, and finally sets her sights on almonds.

No matter how hard it is, no matter how tired it is.

Almond, also known as almond, American almond, has high nutritional value, contains 18 kinds of mineral elements, and is rich in vitamin A, vitamin B, vitamin E and so on. Most importantly, there is a great demand for almonds. 95% of almonds in China need to be imported, so the space for the development of almonds is very broad!

Yes, where do we start? When she was at a loss, Song Xueqin inadvertently found on the website that Fenxi County was cultivating almond experimental base, and she was pleasantly surprised. It took a lot of trouble to find out that the person in charge of the almond base is Cao Yugui, director of the Fenxi Science and Technology Development Center.

She told Cao Yugui about her strong desire and plan to plant almonds and received strong support from the other party.

Just do it. In 2011, Song Xueqin contracted more than 150 mu of barren hills and slopes and decided to vigorously develop almond. The first step was to clean up the barren mountains. at that time, the mountains were covered with messy shrubs and thorns all over the mountains. It was not only laborious to clean up, but also the hands and body were often punctured. Song Xueqin, who grew up in the plain, never walked the mountain road and often fell. "I always think that no matter what you do, if you don't have a strong will and persistent spirit, you can't do anything, so you might as well regard the current situation as a hone for yourself." In this way, after more than two months of hard work, she finally led her family to clean up the weeds.

In the spring of the following year, the county science and technology development center provided scions free of charge, and sent scientific and technological personnel to train grafting techniques, thus grafting more than 1,000 almond trees. Then there is the management of de-cute, bracing (binding), pruning and so on. The almond tree is very prosperous, and by autumn, the fruit tree has grown to more than one meter tall, and Song Xueqin is more confident. Immediately, the Fenxi County Zhuohan Agriculture and Forestry Professional Cooperative, with Song Xueqin as the legal representative, was officially established, and quickly trained more than a dozen grafting personnel. after more than a month of efforts, more than 10,000 almond trees were grafted.

During this period, due to the lack of experience and technical guidance, there were many problems in the management process, such as the lack of sunshine caused by the high density of grafting, the excessive loss of nutrition of fruit trees due to inadequate early pruning, and so on. These problems perplexed Song Xueqin for a long time. Fortunately, he Yong, an expert from the Fruit Research Institute of the Provincial Academy of Agricultural Sciences, made a special trip to the base many times to solve the technical and management problems. In addition, Li Jie, director of the Provincial Fruit Tree Research Institute, and a number of experts have given guidance and help to the newly established base.

"I am particularly grateful to them, who made me fall deeply in love with this land that is not rich but warm." Song Xueqin often talks about this, inadvertently full of affection.

The almond project has started, but the development of almond is inseparable from people. This family, which devotes all its energy to the almond project, will then face a bigger problem, that is, if both people make almonds, what about life? What about the child's tuition? What about the investment in almond? If you go out to work, there will be no one to manage the tonsil tree, which means that all your previous efforts will be wasted.

After thinking about it, Song Xueqin decided to do odd jobs in the surrounding villages.

According to an acquaintance, there is a broiler farm in Sun Mountain that recruits breeders. As a result, the couple went to this chicken farm to become a breeder. After drying, I learned that the breeder is not just feeding, but also removing dung every day, and the heat in the house is mixed with the stench, which is unbearable. The boiler is burned 24 hours a day in both spring, summer, autumn and winter, and the husband and wife replace it and dare not sleep all night. In this way, the couple worked for four autumn and winter. "my husband and I have to earn money to support trees and families, and we have no time to take care of our children. Both of my children are in kindergarten in Hebei. Now think about it, if there is no faith, how I can not stick to it. "

Lead the villagers to get rich together

The villagers around them have witnessed the little development of the almond base, they can no longer sit still, and they all have a strong desire to grow almonds. After understanding the wishes of the villagers, Song Xueqin handed over the grafting technology and management experience to them. because there were many people to be grafted and there were not enough scions, she went to other villages to contact the scions. Later, there was an endless stream of admiring growers from Ganhe Village in Hongdong County, which made this cooperative, which integrates almond planting, seedling raising, grafting and sales, busy and enriched. By 2016, the cooperative had more than 10 members and more than 30 grafting professionals. Song Xueqin led the villagers to develop more than 13000 mu of almond economic forest, including more than 8000 mu of mountain peach grafted into almond trees and more than 4000 mu of newly built almond orchards, distributed in eight townships throughout the county and radiated to Ganhe Village in Hongdong County.

"looking at the enthusiasm of the villagers one by one, I feel sincerely gratified, as if I saw a better tomorrow." Song Xueqin walked sonorously on the tonsil road.