Yongdeng, Gansu: the Classic of getting Rich contained in a garlic Seedling

Yan Ren, a farmer from Beitong Village, Datong Town, Yongdeng County, came to Lanzhou 20 years ago to start a business, and the vegetable wholesale business was booming. When his business was big, he went back to his hometown to start a business, and planted garlic seedlings in the village, driving the villagers to gradually bid farewell to the cultivation of traditional food crops such as wheat and flax, and began to grow cash crops such as garlic seedlings with higher benefits.

People often come early in spring and are busy with farming in the fields. On March 18, before the the Spring Equinox solar term in the lunar calendar, the villagers of Beitong Village in Datong Town were already busy planting garlic seedlings in the fields, and the one who directed everyone to plant was a burly middle-aged man, Yan Ren, the "capable man" of Beitong Village. In 1989, Yan Ren left the village to start a business in Lanzhou. When he first arrived in Lanzhou, Yan Ren worked in the vegetable market. From then on, Yan Ren's life was closely linked with vegetables. From working for others, to setting up stalls to sell vegetables, and then to wholesale vegetables, Yan Ren's business has gradually grown.

When he started the vegetable wholesale business, Yan Ren, like everyone else, wholesale whatever vegetables made money. Shopping malls are like a battlefield, rapidly changing, and if they are not careful, they will lose. Then Yan Ren found that this practice of following the trend was not desirable, and it was better to be refined than to do a variety of things. Yan Ren believes that garlic seedlings are essential in Lanzhou beef noodles, and northwestern people have a special preference for garlic seedlings, and they especially like to eat garlic seedlings, so Yan Ren made a precise positioning for himself: mainly wholesale garlic seedlings. Every year, Yan Ren buys garlic seedlings from Tianshui, Dingxi and Wuwei to Zhangye.

For many years, Yan Ren went out for business, and every time he went back to the village, he saw that some villagers were still growing inefficient wheat and flax in their fields, the income was not high, and life was more difficult. Yan Ren felt very bad in his heart as a person walking out of this piece of land. The next thing that happened, he decided to change himself and the status quo of the villagers at the same time.

One day in October 2013, when Gulang was harvesting garlic seedlings, some growers expected that the price of garlic seedlings would rise soon, so they stopped digging garlic seedlings from the ground. Yan Ren noticed that there would be snow, so he raised the purchase price and pulled several carts before the heavy snow, while all the garlic seedlings left in the field were buried in the snow, resulting in heavy losses to growers. Through this incident, Yan Ren realized that if the garlic seedlings were their own, or ordered garlic seedlings, then this would not have happened. If there is a purchase point in that place, the garlic seedlings dug up will be stored centrally, and the garlic seedlings will not be frozen. Yan Ren thought that if we want to avoid similar things, we should grasp the initiative of acquisition and innovate practices. How to solve this problem? Yan Ren thought of his own advantages and the most familiar village of Yongdeng Beitong.

As a vegetable buyer and wholesaler, Yan Ren has an advantage that ordinary growers do not have. Generally speaking, what growers can control is to grow vegetables as well as possible. As for where to sell and what price to sell, it is not up to them. While Yan Ren controls the trend and pricing of garlic seedlings within a certain range, which means that Yan Ren has a certain ability to control the end market.

From vegetable wholesale to vegetable cultivation, from going out to starting a business back home. When he told the villagers what he thought, many people shook their heads: "garlic seedlings have never been planted for generations. Can they grow them?" In the face of this situation, Yan Ren was not discouraged, and he decided to prove it to the villagers with his practical actions. If you don't believe in the east wind, you can't call it back. In 2015, Yan Ren planted garlic seedlings in the rented 20 mu of land, surrounded by neighbors' wheat and flax. In the eyes of everyone, the green garlic seedlings grew to 1 meter high, and the income per mu of garlic seedlings exceeded 10,000 yuan. The wheat adjacent to it is less than 1,000 yuan per mu. Facts speak louder than words, and the villagers look with admiration and envy. This year, driven by Yan Ren, villagers in Beitong Village have grown vegetables one after another. at present, the area of garlic seedlings alone has reached more than 100 mu.