Make agriculture a promising industry

The picture shows Chen Zhaomi (right) guiding farmers in Huolongguo base.

In early 2016, a cold wave struck. Despite making enough plans, Chen Zhaomi, chairman of Zhejiang Miguoguo Ecological Agriculture Group, did not dare to be careless and guarded the fire dragon fruit base with technicians at a low temperature of minus 10 ℃ at night for five days and nights. After the cold wave, 1200 mu of "dragon fruit babies" are safe and sound, still growing healthily. Chen Zhaomi heaved a sigh of relief.

Three years ago, Chen Zhaomi, who likes to play golf in his spare time, took off his suit and put on a straw hat. He devoted himself to agriculture and became a farmer. This decision was temporarily incomprehensible to his wife, and his friends also advised him: "with such a large enterprise and good benefits, it is a close call to engage in agriculture." Why are you bothering me? " Chen Zhaomi ate the weight and was determined.

It is another year of spring ploughing and preparation. On April 25, accompanied by the relevant responsible person of Zhuji City Science and Technology Bureau, the reporter came to Jiefang Village, Shanxiahu Town, Zhuji City, where the Rice Fruit Agricultural Ecological Park is located. The staff said that the chairman was busy in the garden. After a while, Chen Zhaomi strode into the office, and a pair of big hands immediately reached out, "Welcome." He was of medium height, strong and dark, and his trouser legs and a pair of black cloth shoes were covered with mud. Chen Zhaomi noticed the reporter's eyes and said with a smile that agricultural bosses have to be farmers before they can be more approachable.

"do not compete with farmers for interests

To give real benefits to farmers. "

The "new land reform" in the mountain village

Chen Zhaomi, born in 1964, although he achieved glory in his career through his own struggle, he didn't really leave the land and dominate the business world until he was 30 years old. therefore, he had deep feelings for this land and the farmers who worked on it. To invest in agriculture, we must first solve the land problem. "do not compete with farmers for interests, so that farmers can get real benefits." This has naturally become the original intention of Chen Zhaomi to do this and adhere to the bottom line.

In the past, Jiefang Village was a traditional agricultural village in Zhuji, where most of the labor force went to the city to work, and many farmers were not enthusiastic about farming, and some even preferred to be abandoned.

"to this end, the village has been hoping to centralize these low-utilization land and carry out intensive management in the form of land transfer." Yu Xinguo, branch secretary of Jiefang Village, said.

After friendly consultations and a meeting of villagers' representatives, the two sides adopted the cooperation plan agreed between the two sides and signed an agreement. According to the agreement, the village committee extended the land contract period for 30 years through the village rules and regulations, and retransferred 2000 mu of land transferred from farmers to Zhejiang Miguoguo Ecological Agriculture Group for a total period of 40 years. The group gives the village share economic cooperatives 300kg of rice per mu of land per year. As the income from the transfer of the contracted management rights of the villagers' land, the village economic cooperatives are "priced in kind and settled in currency". The rice will be uniformly paid to farmers according to the national purchase price in that year, with a minimum income of 1000 yuan per mu. Before 2025, as the investment stage of enterprises, farmers do not enjoy dividends, but enjoy 10% of the assets invested by enterprises.

After 2025, it will be the stage of enterprise income. On the basis of enjoying the above land rental income, farmers receive 10% of the dividend income of the village share economic cooperatives in the Miguoguo Group, and the minimum dividend is guaranteed to be not less than 500000 yuan per year.

This new cooperation model of "land income + giving 10% shares + guaranteed income" has been unanimously recognized by 1100 households in Jiefang Village. The investment of enterprises is assured, and the people are happy to benefit.

The 63-year-old Wang Jianjiang family owns more than 7 mu of contracted land and grows cash crops such as sugar cane and water chestnuts. He calculated an account for the reporter: according to the current practice of planting one crop of rice a year, regardless of the weather, one mu of land can harvest about 500kg of rice a year, and according to the current purchase price of 3.40 yuan per kilogram, the total income is 1700 yuan. However, the harvest cost of planting an mu of rice is 150 yuan, ploughing and transplanting is 150 yuan, as well as pesticides, chemical fertilizers, seeds, etc., excluding labor costs, the income of one mu of land is less than 1000 yuan. Wang Jianjiang says that now their husband and wife work at the base at the same time, and they still have an income of 50,000 to 60,000 yuan a year, which is "much more cost-effective than farming."

"what I am most proud of is that I have brought young people here who have never smelled dirt to start a business together and made them fall in love with this land. I have found a dignified job for my 60-to-70-year-old uncle and sister-in-law who thought they were doing nothing. They can go to and from work on time like city people, and get a satisfactory salary to lighten the burden on their children." Chen Zhaomi said.

"pour your soul, sweat and blood into

Every inch of land. "

Maximize the benefits of each inch of land

For Chen Zhaomi, engaging in agriculture is by no means a temporary start, but the result of careful consideration. In his own words, I do leisure agriculture like sharks smell blood, not only targeted but also excited.

He analyzed that people's income continues to rise, followed by problems such as the sharp increase in urban population, traffic congestion, shortage of water resources, fierce social competition, and so on. More and more urbanites want to flee the city and go to the countryside to enjoy the freedom and leisure of blue sky and clear water. Rural vacation has gradually replaced urban vacation as a vane of leisure and fashion.

Unlike other business capital bosses involved in agriculture as shopkeepers, Chen Zhaomi handed over his former industrial enterprises to mature teams to take care of "rice fruit". He did everything himself and managed it with his heart. "I know where every stake, even every pipe buried in the ground, is." Chen Zhaomi said.

In the design of the park, Chen Zhaomi did not adopt an one-size-fits-all approach, but found eight well-known domestic design companies according to different functional blocks, and each plan must follow his own ideas. As long as there is a better idea, even if it has been built, Chen Zhaomi will have to start all over again. "at first glance, it looks like money has been lost, but if you don't, it will affect the quality of tourists' experience in the future."

"there is no shortage of creativity in agriculture. What is missing is that we find the inspiration for creativity." Chen Zhaomi said. In order to find inspiration and broaden his business ideas, he went to Germany, Israel and other European countries as well as Taiwan to conduct an in-depth study of modern agriculture.

After returning to China, he wrote in his notebook the following words: maximize the benefit of each inch of land and maximize the value of each fruit, that is, land use should be differentiated and subjective, and products should produce two kinds of value: one is tangible, that is, production is the main. The other is invisible, which is to use production and planting gardening to promote leisure tourism and tourism, and finally achieve the linkage of primary, secondary, and tertiary industries, so that farmers can really become the general secretary's proposal to "make agriculture a promising industry and farmers a decent career."

In order to provide safe and healthy green products and services to the public, Chen Zhaomi spared no cost. All the weeds on the farm are eradicated by manpower without herbicides; the sewage produced by the ecological restaurant is separated and decontaminated by oil and water, then filtered through the ornamental lotus pond, and the purified water is used in production; the 12.95-meter-high "Goujian Restoration of Agriculture" sculpture comes from waste from cement plants.