Invest ten million yuan to set up a "happy farm" to return to your hometown.

Wu Mingzhong introduced the growth of fruit trees to fruit tree adopters.

On April 19, in the "Happy Farm" of Wu Mingzhong, a migrant worker returning to his hometown in Biyunsi Village, Tianjia Town, Dongxing District, Neijiang City, green plums were covered with branches. "Plum blossoms bloom for half a year, and plums are picked for half a year." This is Wu Ming-Zhong's dream, and it is also the direction of his efforts to grow American cherry plums, cultivate "happy orchards" and create a realistic version of "Happy Farm."

Return home after 50 years to create a realistic version of "Happy Farm"

A few years ago, "Happy Farm" rose on the Internet, was loved by the majority of office workers, students and other people, and formed a "craze for growing and stealing vegetables." Today, in the Wujiaba American Cherry Red Li Base in Biyunsi Village, Tianjia Town, Dongxing District, Neijiang City, a realistic version of "Happy Farm" has taken shape.

It is hard to imagine that the buzzword "Happy Farm" has something to do with a returning migrant worker who is over 50 years old.

His name is Wu Mingzhong. He is from Wujiaba, Biyunsi Village. He has been working in Shanghai and other places with his family for 30 years. Later, he set up a factory, and his family was well-off and happy.

Unexpectedly, in 2012, Wu Mingzhong made an amazing move-to give up the factory that had been put on track, leave his relatives, and return to his hometown Biyunsi Village alone to transfer the land to start his entrepreneurial journey again.

"I'm over 50 years old, so why do you want to start a business? it's a pain in the neck!" For some time, relatives, relatives, friends, and hometown neighbors all said they could not understand.

In spite of this, Wu Ming-Zhong returned to his hometown where he had been away for many years and used his actions to explain the real motivation of his return to his hometown to start a business: "before I went out to work, I was also an out-and-out farmer. At that time, our family was the poorest family in the village. Many villagers around have helped our family. You can't be heartless. I came back this time to give back to my hometown and promote my fellow villagers to get rich through the development of industry. "

Invest tens of millions of yuan to develop American cherry plums

What industries are suitable for the development of hometown? What industry can drive the villagers to get rich? Wu Ming-Zhong, who has 30 years of experience in hard work, believes that it is necessary to make sure that "people do not have what they have, and people have their own advantages."

By chance, Wu Mingzhong visited a friend's house and tasted American cherry plums. He felt extremely sweet and crisp, and immediately had a strong interest. However, after all, the American cherry plum comes from the other side of the ocean, and the climate and soil are different from those of the local area. therefore, many villagers are skeptical about Wu Mingzhong's plan. Wu Mingzhong realized: "if you want to make the villagers believe, you must be more cautious." To this end, he specially went to the United States to study and inspect, and sent the soil of his hometown to relevant institutions in the United States for inspection. At the same time, he invited agricultural experts from the United States to come to his hometown to consider climate, soil, and other natural factors again.

After getting an affirmative answer, Wu Mingzhong carried out a series of preparatory work and transferred 33.3 hectares of land at a rent of 12000 yuan per hectare per hectare to develop more than 30,000 American cherry red plums, involving Biyunsi Village in Tianjia Town and Longqiao Village in Liuqiao Town. Over the past few years, Wu Mingzhong has invested tens of millions of yuan in his "Happy Farm".

Company acquisition + adoption of fruit trees to open up sales channels

This year, some plum trees in Wu Mingzhong's plum orchard are officially hanging fruit, and the yield of each tree is expected to reach 100 kilograms. Wait until next year, the year after next, most fruit trees will enter the peak period, the output of each tree is expected to reach 150 to 200 kilograms.

How to ensure the sale of cherry red plums? Recently, the exclusive agency founded by Wu Mingzhong has signed an acquisition agreement with a company in Chengdu, and when Yinghong Li matures, the company will make a unified acquisition at a price of 40 yuan / kg.

At the same time, from the current popular "picking fever", Wu Mingzhong found a new way of economic income-- the adoption of fruit trees. According to the annual adoption fee of 2000 yuan to 5000 yuan per fruit tree, the agency has established a new type of cooperative relationship with fruit tree adopters. During the adoption period, the adopters not only enjoy the visiting rights, naming rights, consultation rights, income rights and fruit disposal rights of fruit trees, but also take their children to the base to learn planting techniques, experience the fun of picking, and cultivate and exercise their children's hands and brains and labor habits.

According to statistics, since the adoption of the fruit tree model on March 12, in addition to the local adopters in Neijiang, there are also adopters from Yibin, Zigong, Chengdu, Chongqing and other places. A teacher named Xie Daiqun told me that adopting fruit trees can not only let himself and his family experience the joy of pastoral farming, but also often bring students to the orchard in the future. let the students living in the city understand the whole process of fruit trees from pruning, fertilizing to branch, scattered leaves to flowering and fruiting.

With a good market, it is far from enough for Wu Mingzhong. "the existing cherry plums have only one season, and they don't mature until the end of June. It's too single." Wu Ming-Zhong began to take active action, consulting and planning, "I am going to introduce plum saplings hanging fruit in different seasons, so that within half a year, plum blossoms will bloom every month, and plums can be picked every month."

Provide seedlings and technology to make the hometown elders happy to earn money.

However, starting a business is not plain sailing, even for Wu Mingzhong, who has rich entrepreneurial experience.

As the American cherry red plum will not officially bear fruit until the fourth year, it can be said that the income in the first three years is very little. coupled with the inspection of soil, the transfer of land, the purchase of saplings, the employment of workers, and so on, at least millions of dollars have to be invested every year. Last year, there was another flood, the fish ponds were flooded, the fruit trees were destroyed, and the losses were very heavy. Wu Ming-Chung was short of funds several times. "because he didn't have the money to pay the workers, he dared not even go home."

Fortunately, Wu Mingzhong's hard-working spirit moved many people around him, and everyone extended a helping hand to him one after another. The local government also took the initiative to help him with advice, using land management rights as collateral, helping him with loans, and providing support in the construction of roads and fish ponds.

"there were already some cherry red plums hanging fruit the year before last and last year, with a cumulative income of more than 1.5 million yuan. Wu Mingzhong said happily, "depending on the situation, this year will be a bumper harvest year. It is estimated that the fresh fruit output of the plum orchard will exceed 250000 kilograms, with a sales income of 5 million to 6 million yuan. "

Seeing that there was a "lead" in growing American cherry red plums, his family changed their attitude towards him, and the villagers began to believe that growing American cherry red plums had a future and asked to join the club one after another. On the one hand, Wu Mingzhong provided seedlings to the villagers free of charge, on the other hand, he actively cooperated with the Neijiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences and appointed experts to provide technical support to the villagers free of charge. Wu Mingzhong said that in the next step, he will continue to work hard and adopt the approach of "companies + cooperatives + scientific research institutions + bases + adopters + farmers" to enable farmers to get greater benefits.

At present, more than 50 villagers have entered the orchard to work. Wu Jinsen is one of them, earning more than 2000 yuan a month. "although I am in my old business, it is easier than growing crops on my own. The key is to earn cash and be able to take care of my family, with almost no risk." Wu Jinsen said.