Zhu Feng: an expert on improving quality and increasing income of apples in Jixian County

In Jixian County, Zhu Feng, director of the technical station of the county fruit industry service center, is no stranger to all apple growers and will give a thumbs up praise. Jixian Apple is thanks to stationmaster Zhu, who is our expert. "

Over the past 30 years, Zhu Feng has been on the front line of apple production, and has done a lot of work in expanding the area, improving the quality, popularizing and popularizing new technologies of apples in Jixian County, and has made remarkable achievements for the development and growth of apple characteristic industries and the increase of fruit growers' income.

In fact, Zhu Feng is not a professional background, he gradually mastered the orchard management skills through hard study.

Anyone who knows Zhu Feng knows that his greatest characteristic is his love of study and study. In the 1990s, Professor Ma Enzheng of Shanxi Agricultural University often went to Jixian County to guide technology and hold training courses. Zhu Feng stayed with him every day, listening attentively to Professor Ma's lecture, and immediately asked for advice if he did not understand anything. During the years when Professor Ma came to Jixian under the guidance of Professor Ma, Zhu Feng learned a lot of practical experience that he could not learn from textbooks. Later, as long as fruit industry experts came to Jixian to teach technology, there was always Zhu Feng's figure, so he also got a lot of true biographies.

While learning from experts and scholars, Zhu Feng also participated in technical training courses organized by provinces, cities, and counties many times, and his open-minded and diligent learning attitude made him step by step from a layman in fruit management to an expert trusted by fruit farmers.

Zhu Feng is a man of ambition as well as a man of heart. In 1989, along with the leaders and colleagues of the Fruit Industry Service Center, he took Jixian Apple to Beijing to participate in the competition. Among hundreds of samples from across the country, he recognized "No. 11" as Jixian Apple at a glance, which surprised his colleagues. After the evaluation, he begged the head of the expert group to give him a copy of Jixian's evaluation results. colleagues asked him what he wanted this to do, and he said he would lead Jixian fruit farmers to produce national gold prize apples.

In 1992, Zhu Feng attended the first National Agricultural Expo with Red Star apples produced under his own guidance. In the evaluation, the experts gave five national firsts of "uniformity, high pile, five-edged protuberance, thick red and uniform coloring, and high hardness." The only deficiency is high starch content and low sugar content.

While the experts were discussing whether to give Jixian Apple a "gold award", the clever Zhu Feng boldly asked Professor Wang Jingyan, a national fruit expert who is one of the judges, "when will Red Star apples taste best?"

Professor Wang Jingyan said: "15 days after picking." Zhu Feng said, "Mr. Wang, our apples have been picked for only 5 days and have a high starch content. If they are converted into sugar 10 days later, won't they increase their sugar content?" Professor Wang gave a thumbs up to Zhu Feng and said, "Xiao Zhu, the National Gold Award should be awarded to Jixian County." It was at the first National Agricultural World Expo that Red Star Apple in Jixian County won the only gold award in the apple category, which has so far made the people of Jixian proud. Zhu Feng played an important role in winning the gold medal this time.

In the early 1990s, Jixian carried out the solicitation of papers on "invigorating Jixian through Science and Technology". According to Jixian's unique natural environment and national evaluation experience, Zhu Feng wrote the article "give full play to Jixian's advantages and develop high-grade apples". In an easy-to-understand language, this paper expounds the advantages and prospects of developing apple industry in Jixian County. The article won the first prize in 400 papers. Since then, Jixian apple acreage has taken four big steps in the past five years, from 40, 000 mu to 200000 mu.

Over the past 20 years as director of the technical station, Zhu Feng and Apple have formed an inextricable bond, ranging from seedling cultivation and transportation to planning, digging, backfilling, planting, pole fixing, and pruning, to pest control and soil fertilizer and water management. wherever there is a project, there is his footprint, and the project he has grasped is a "model project" in the county year after year.

As the person in charge of the technical station, Zhu Feng took the promotion and use of new technologies in apple orchard management as his own responsibility. he successively participated in the popularization of new technologies in orchards, such as growing grass, laying reflective film, fruit bagging, biological control, fruit tree pruning, and so on. He participated in the compilation of technical guidance materials such as "eight Reform and Ten matching" and "Organic Apple production Technology", and made his own efforts to increase the production and income of thousands of fruit farmers.

In the summer of 2012, the eastern and rural areas of Jixian County suffered the worst hail disaster in 60 years. When many fruit farmers were at a loss, Zhu Feng arrived in time to impart relevant knowledge to the affected fruit farmers and minimize the losses of fruit growers. The measures he proposed were fully affirmed by superior experts.

In recent years, the Jixian county party committee and county government have put forward the strategic decision on improving the quality and upgrading of apples. Technicians have devoted themselves to the upsurge of popularizing the technology of "density reduction and thinning", and Zhu Feng has gone all over the orchards of the county to persuade fruit growers to adopt the technology of "density reduction and thinning." thanks to the efforts of him and his colleagues, this technology has been widely promoted and used throughout the county, enabling thousands of fruit growers to realize their dream of increasing production and income.

In Zhu Feng's mind, Apple is his lifelong career, and he wants to lead the people of Jixian County to become rich through his own efforts.