Zhejiang son-in-law came to Chongqing to farm: why did he go to the city to look for gold while guarding the "gold" mountain?

The picture shows Zhou Qing feeding chickens in the loquat garden.

If the labor force goes to work in the city, who will plant the rural land? A topic raised to make people frown, but some people asked him to plant it. Who's he? Yesterday (21), a large-scale thematic interview entitled "Learning and implementing the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's inspection of Chongqing's important speech Chongqing-- Young journalists turning to change" came to the third stop-- Qianjiang District, Chongqing. Under the "wave" of people leaving the countryside to work, a Zhejiang son-in-law followed his wife back to the reform village of Heixi Town in Qianjiang. Here, he transferred nearly 500 mu of wasteland to his neighbors, and now all these fields have become "golden" mountains.

Business opportunities for rural neighbors to go out to work and abandon their land

"it's a shame to get out of the mountain and come back to farm." In the face of the plans of her daughter Wang Xia and her son-in-law Zhou Qing, the mother just shook her head. "No matter how much hype is put, to put it bluntly, it is not farming. Only being a city dweller is a success.

The idea of going back to the countryside to look for "gold" is not the "impulse" of Zhou Qing and Wang Xia.

Zhou Qing, from Wenzhou, Zhejiang, used to be a village secretary in her local hometown. "many young people there have returned to the countryside to grow fruit and become rich in export." Zhou Qing is a witness and wants to be a practitioner, but she takes a fancy to the fertile soil and a large number of abandoned land in Heixi Town, Qianjiang District.

In 2009, Wang Xia, a migrant worker in Zhejiang, fell in love with Zhou Qing. During the Spring Festival in 2010, the two talked about marriage and went back to Chongqing to meet their parents. "the mountains here are much bigger than our hometown." Zhou Qing recalled that there was a great contrast in his psychology at that time. It was also in the rural areas. In the Reform Village of Heixi Town, there were only a few vegetable plots in the terraced fields of hundreds of mu. "it's a treasure trove in our hometown."

During the Spring Festival that year, Zhou Qing also heard about the idea that many young people returning home would continue to go out to work after the year. At that moment, Zhou Qing realized that everyone was only blindly chasing the outside world, which brought him business opportunities.

That year, Zhou Qing and Wang Xia finalised their marriage. Before leaving, Zhou Qing grabbed a handful of dirt by the side of the road. It was because of this soil that he returned to Heixi Town in Qianjiang only a month later. "the soil is rich in selenium."

Regardless of the obstruction of Wang Xia's parents, Zhou Qing transferred 200 mu of local villagers' land and replanted the Baisha loquat from her hometown.

A group of local chickens under the tree with fruit all over the tree.

On April 21, in Group 2 of Reform Village, Heixi Town, Qianjiang District, the reporter and his party met Zhou Qing. Although he has seen some vicissitudes because of the usual wind and sun, his dark skin, hearty laughter, and strong physique all show his healthy physique of eating pollution-free agricultural products all year round.

Today, the Fengfei Baisha loquat plantation run by Zhou Qing occupies more than half of the mountain. In the garden, the loquat on the tree has grown green fruit, and thousands of black chickens run wantonly in the forest, busy catching insects to satisfy their cravings. At the end of the loquat forest, three or five chicken sheds are scattered.

When the big guy approached the loquat garden, the black chicken naturally scattered, but the reporter found an unexpected harvest-a turquoise egg hidden under a tree, plated with a golden luster against the sun.

Despite the fact that there are native chickens running in the woods, two years ago, in addition to loquats, pumpkins were interplanted in the garden. "the distance between each loquat tree is 1.5 meters. After planting loquat, there is a lot of land idle. Interplanting is a commonly used way to increase the yield per mu of land."

Zhou Qing said that after he introduced Baisha loquat from Zhejiang Province in 2011, he planted loquat on 200 mu of land in Reform Village. In order to increase the utilization rate of the land, he began to interplant other crops in the forest gap.

Just planted the first year, found the problem, "Pumpkin, loquat trees will absorb nutrients from the soil, too many weeds, both can not grow well." Zhou Qing said that weeds, in particular, have to hire workers to weed every month, and labor costs alone cost thousands of yuan. Not only that, pumpkins and loquat trees will breed some insect pests, the two influence each other, but also bad planting, the land is also difficult to nourish.

How to make the loquat trees grow well, the land utilization rate is high, and the land nutrition can be restored, which makes Zhou Qing really difficult.

The picture shows Zhou Qing showing his home's native eggs.

Loquat with native chicken land increment of 100%

The turnaround came at the beginning of 2012, when the Heixi town government began to promote the "under-forest economy" to the village. The so-called "under-forest economy" means to make full use of forest land resources and forest shade advantages to engage in three-dimensional compound production and management, such as planting and breeding under the forest, relying on woodland resources and forest ecological environment. So that agriculture, forestry and animal husbandry can achieve resource sharing, complementary advantages, cycle and coordinated development of the ecological agriculture model.

This new idea instantly solved Zhou Qing's problem.

"Yes, we should raise chickens, the natural enemies of grass and insects." Zhou Qingpan calculated that chickens eating insects can prevent insects and protect the forest, and feces can fatten the woodland. The good natural ecological environment under the forest is also conducive to the growth of chickens, which not only reduces the cost and epidemic disease, but also greatly increases the taste of native chickens.

It is not too late. From 2012, Zhou Qing specially introduced 4000 improved black-skinned chickens from Hubei and other places and began to breed them in the loquat forest. "usually chickens will look for worms in the forest, and they will also eat some weeds, which will be supplemented by corn and soybean meal to ensure the quality of native chickens. There is no need to worry about it at all."

Zhou Qing said that the natural weeds growing in loquat orchards are the "natural oxygen bars" of poultry. Poultry eat grass and insects, feces fertilize woodland, and trees form a benign biological cycle chain.

Since 2014, loquat trees have begun to bear fruit after three years of nursery stage, and the chicks have just grown up.

"an average of 50 loquat trees are planted in one mu of land, and the average yield of loquat is 250jin per mu, which is 5000 yuan according to 20 yuan per jin. An acre of loquat orchard can raise an average of 25 native chickens, each of which is about 100 yuan, which is 2500 yuan. Plus 3 yuan for a 'green shell egg', there is at least 3000 yuan a year, which brings a total income of more than 10000 yuan. " Zhou Qing said that it is equivalent to doubling the value of each mu of land.

The popularity of picking tours can earn 200000 yuan without leaving the house.

In May last year, the Baisha loquat operated by Zhou Qing began to fully mature, the meat was delicate, and the sweet and delicious loquat immediately attracted the attention of Qianjiang and other surrounding citizens, and there was an endless stream of people driving to the loquat garden to pick loquat.

"20,000 jin of loquat is not enough to be picked, and there is no need to sell it at all." Zhou Qing said that the good quality of loquat attracted a large number of tourists to pick, and the price of 20 yuan per catty did not worry about marketability. coupled with the existence of rural native chickens, citizens who caught and bought chickens themselves made picking more fun and more and more involved.

Last year, Zhou Qing made a profit of 200000 yuan by relying on loquat and native chicken. This year, Zhou Qing transferred nearly 800 mu of land to plant loquat, and led the surrounding poor families to open up the under-forest economic model of loquat and soil chicken to get rich.