The Wealth Classic of Wang Mingli, the Watermelon King in Nanwangdian

Nanwangdian Town is a famous "hometown of watermelons" in Heze. Nanwangdian watermelon is a pollution-free watermelon product of the Ministry of Agriculture, with a planting area of more than 15000 mu and an annual output value of 130 million yuan. Behind these honors and figures is the silent dedication of big watermelon growers. Wang Mingli, the "watermelon king" of Wanglou Village in Nanwangdian, is one of them.

Wang Lou Village is a professional watermelon village. When Wang Mingli, the "king of watermelons" in the village, was mentioned, the villagers all gave a thumbs up. "Wang Mingli is very intelligent, daring, bold and careful. Regardless of character and honesty, he planted watermelons on land in Liuqiao, and the villagers nearby were willing to work in his melon shed with high wages, free working hours, and never arrears of wages. I heard that he has now set up a professional cooperative of Youcheng fruits and vegetables, and the planting scale of watermelons is really getting bigger and bigger. " Wang Guoqing, 46, at the head of the village, said with emotion. The author went to his Youcheng Fruit and vegetable Professional Cooperative, and before he entered the cooperative, he saw arched plastic sheds in the distance, connected into one piece, and could not see the edge.

See the rainbow after the storm

As the saying goes, people often come early in spring. The author walked into the watermelon greenhouse and saw Wang Mingli instructing the workers to interrupt the melon seedlings. Wang Mingli, who has been growing watermelons for nearly 20 years, treats watermelons as if they were his own children. He knows clearly when watermelons grow, when they are released, when they are interrupted, when they are watered and when they are pollinated.

"in the spring of 2011, at about 4 p.m., a strong wind suddenly hit and blew away a lot of grass and plastic film in the plastic greenhouse, resulting in a loss of more than 30,000 yuan. Mingli, with pliers in one hand and steel wire in the other, led the workers to fix the melon shed for hours. After 12:00 in the evening, the sound of a car on the side of the road woke Ming Li up,'it's broken, it's windy again. Get up quickly and take a look at the shed.' Ming Li burst into tears, put on his coat and ran out. As soon as he ran out of the door, he only saw a car passing by. In addition, the sea was calm and it turned out to be a false alarm. " Du Liangyu, a partner of Wang Mingli, told me vividly. "in Ming Li's view, all the difficulties are temporary, and this small setback will not dampen his enthusiasm for growing watermelons at all."

Nanwang Dian watermelon taste sweet, crisp, thin skin, deeply loved by consumers, not only occupied Heze early spring melon and fruit market, many customers in Lanzhou, Shanghai, Xuzhou are also admired. "in another ten days or so, the surrounding retail investors who grow watermelons will also come to me to deliver watermelons. The open space over there will be full of trucks carrying watermelons. Last year, a department store in Yuncheng came to me and pulled four trucks of watermelons, nearly 4000 tons. They sold out in just one day, and demand fell short of supply, . " Wang Mingli pointed to the open space outside the shed.

Take advantage of the east wind of policy to expand the road of development

In 1997, Wang Mingli tried to grow watermelons in his 5.5 mu responsible field, and the net income of that year was double that of the previous year, tasted the sweetness of growing watermelons, and directly strengthened his belief in planting watermelons. When asked about the transfer of land in order to expand the scale of watermelon cultivation, Wang Mingli opened the chatterbox: "in 2014, by chance, I saw in the news that the state encouraged land circulation, advocated moderate scale operation, and set up professional cooperatives in rural areas. I was delighted. Through my inspection of the surrounding villages, I found that there were more migrant workers in Liuqiao Village, there were fewer young adults in the village, and the villagers had a strong desire to transfer the land out, so I transferred 70 mu of land in Liuqiao Village and built a watermelon shed. In 2015, another 60 mu was added, so Wang Mingli built 21 watermelon sheds on 130 mu of land transferred.

"our watermelons are of high quality, in order to make the brand out and attract more merchants. I registered and established the Dingtao County Youcheng Friendship Fruit and vegetable Professional Cooperative in August 2015. this year, I intend to continue to transfer 45 mu eastward. This is nearly 200mu of land. According to the yield of 4 tons per mu, it will produce about 800t of watermelons. The current market price is 3.50 yuan per jin, and the watermelon income of 200mu is 5.6 million. "

Counter-contract management to drive poor households to become rich

Wang Mingli built the contracted land into a watermelon shed, and then subcontracted the watermelon shed to farmers, and each household was responsible for a watermelon shed, which can not only ensure unified management, save manpower, material and financial resources, but also give full play to the advantage of guaranteed production to every household, intensive cultivation, and greatly increase the yield of watermelon.

Liu Shaorong, 54, has a husband with a dislocation of the cervical vertebra and no ability to work, and his three daughters still have one to be married. The burden of the family falls on Liu Shaorong alone. "in the past, I followed the women in the village to work out of town to earn money to support the family. Now my partner is sick and cannot do farm work. I still have to take care of him. I have no way to go out to work. I have directly cut off the source of income. I heard that Wang Mingli, a major watermelon grower in Wang Lou, wants to cover the land to grow watermelons. The annual rent per mu is 1000 jin of wheat, and priority is to hire cooperatives to work, with a monthly salary of 1800 yuan. He can also learn the techniques of growing and managing watermelons for free. I just came over. If you work on your doorstep in this way, you can not only take care of your family, but also earn money. You can have the best of both worlds, . " Liu Shaorong told the author with joy.

Full of longing for the development of cooperatives

Wang Mingli is full of longing for the future development of the cooperative. He looked at the watermelon shed in the distance and said with a simple smile: "Watermelon exists here not only as a characteristic industry, but also as a symbol and culture of Nanwang Dian. More and more city people are willing to personally experience the fun of picking melons in the melon fields during holidays and weekends, feeling and recalling the unique amorous feelings of the countryside. In order to make better use of the intangible resources of influence and seek new development, I intend to develop eco-tourism agriculture. Next year, I plan to explore letting citizens come to grow green vegetables and lease the land to them. We are responsible for daily management. They can bring their children to grow vegetables on weekends. This can attract urban and rural tourists to the park for leisure vacation and taste the rural farming culture and the natural original ecological environment. "