Weijin: from "newborn calf" to "King of fruits and vegetables"

In the rural village of Buyi nationality on the slope of Wudang District, a hill called Shihuapo, more than ten mu of pear tree branches have been stained with silver makeup. Not far apart, kiwifruit and bayberry seedlings all over the mountains are fluttering in the wind.

This area is the "territory" of Weijin, the local "king of fruits and vegetables".

In addition to these dozens of mu of newly planted fruit trees, Weijin also has a special vegetable planting base of more than 10 mu. His green pollution-free non-classless beans and Agaricus bisporus are very famous in the local area, which also won him the first prize of "King of Bean" in Wudang District and the second prize of "King of Mushroom" in Pianpo Township from 2007 to 2008. Wei Jin, who just turned 23 this year, is a green and shy face, but he is a fruit and vegetable expert respected by villagers and a leader in getting rich.

Before becoming the "king of fruits and vegetables", Weijin had a working career for three years.

In 2001, 20-year-old Wei Jin went to Yiwu, Zhejiang Province alone after graduating from vocational high school.

Wei Jin, who originally wanted to get rich by going out to work, could only repeat the monotonous "screen printing" work in the cold factory building. the hard work of working more than 10 hours and two shifts every day did not bring a rich return to the hard-working Weijin. "the salary on hand is only 500 to 600 yuan a month." In order to earn more money, two months later he began to use all his spare time to do odd jobs at nearby farmers' markets. As long as he had money to earn, Weijin rushed to do the dirty work.

"at that time, I only wanted to make more money, and I could only rest for four or five hours a day." Weijin recalls that gradually, while doing manual work, he was still doing market research. He kept in mind which kinds of vegetables had high prices and good trends.

"accumulate funds and go back to your hometown to start a business!" In the process of working for others, Weijin was never satisfied with the pathetic salary of a few hundred yuan, but had a grand plan brewing in his heart.

Three years later, in a phone call with his father, he learned that Pianpo Township, his hometown, was vigorously carrying out agricultural industrial restructuring and encouraging and supporting farmers to plant pollution-free vegetables on a large scale. He, who has been living frugally, with savings of more than 30,000 yuan, resolutely quit his job and returned to Pianpo.

"the first feeling when I came back was that the changes in my hometown were getting bigger and bigger, the infrastructure was better, and there were more preferential policies, which greatly deepened my confidence in development." Weijin said that after making a net profit of more than 2,000 yuan in the first phase of planting waxy corn, Weijin had a bigger plan in mind: to do both small and big.

Subsequently, Weijin contracted 5 mu of land, all of which were planted with green pollution-free stemless lentils, cucumbers and tomatoes. Due to the standard management and the large market demand, Weijin dug up the first bucket of gold that year: a net income of more than 30,000 yuan. In the second year, Weijin's acreage of stemless beans reached 3 mu. Because Weijin's stemless beans are of good quality and low pesticide residues, the selling price is often 20 cents higher than the market price. nevertheless, Weijin's stemless beans are still in short supply.

In the second half of 2007, the Pianpo township government introduced the planting technology of Agaricus bisporus to farmers by attracting investment and investment. "the cultivation of twin mushrooms implemented the business model of 'company + base + farmers'. The township party committee and government made great efforts to support this new planting industry, but because the villagers were relatively strange to the project at that time, no one dared to plant it." Tang Yingjie, director of the Labor and Social Security Institute of Pianpo Township, told reporters that after Wei Jin found this opportunity to get rich, he immediately contacted the government to learn the planting method of Agaricus bisporus.

Build a shed, pile up materials, etc. After studying, Wei Jin invested more than 50,000 yuan and contracted 8 mu of land. Under the guidance of professional and technical personnel, he began the cultivation of Agaricus bisporus. Building sheds and stacking materials required a lot of labor, so Weijin hired more than 20 surplus labourers in the village to help.

"you are not afraid to grow eight mu, but I can also try to plant some." Driven by Weijin's demonstration, more than 30 farmers in the village planted more than 50 mu of Agaricus bisporus. Although thousands of jin of Agaricus bisporus were lost due to the worst freezing disaster in a century, Weijin still made a profit of 2000 yuan per mu.

Due to the influence of freezing, Weijin began to plant greenhouses in 2008. "as a pilot project, the investment of more than 10,000 yuan first planted one mu. Although the cost of the shelf planting method is higher, the yield will also be higher." Weijin said that if the pilot is successful, he will further expand the greenhouse scale of Agaricus bisporus.

In February 2009, when helping a boss in Longli to drag fruit, he found that the local soil was particularly suitable for planting kiwifruit, pear and bayberry, and immediately contracted more than 20 mu of land. "10 mu of bayberry have been planted, five or six mu of pear trees and 4 mu of kiwifruit have been planted. Bayberry has already borne fruit, and kiwifruit and pear trees can be eaten in three years." Wei Jin said cheerfully. Next, he will also develop the breeding industry, raise 100 pigs, form a new model of mushroom cultivation driven by pig and cattle breeding, make full use of pollution-free farm manure, and cultivate green pollution-free Agaricus bisporus.