Yangji couple in Fangcheng County fell in love with greening barren mountain into "Jinshan".

Sun Jianhua renovates mountain road after rain

On March 25, it rained lightly. After breakfast, Sun Jianhua and her husband, who live in Yinzhuang Village, Yangji Township, Fangcheng County, picked up a shovel and went straight to the "Danyang Temple" mountain behind the house. The road was slippery, and the couple could only carefully support each other as they walked along the path.

"Rainy weather preservation effect is the best, but the road is not good, often slip." Sun Jianhua told the author.

This kind of life, Sun Jianhua and her husband persisted for six years. Today, the couple contracted 5000 acres of stone barren hills have been covered with green shade. In addition, Sun Jianhua and his wife also led 74 farmers to set up forest fruit planting cooperatives to plant soft seed pomegranate, thin-skinned walnut and other high-value-added forest fruits, finding a way for villagers to become rich.

" This is Danyang Temple Mountain. It has basically been covered by mature trees and young trees." Sun Jianhua told reporters. Since she packed this barren mountain, the mountain has become her home.

As one of the earliest farmers to go out to work in the county, Sun Jianhua in his early years worked odd jobs, sold eggs, and contracted Hami melon fields with her husband in **. With his hard-working hands, the couple slowly accumulated some family resources. At the beginning of 2010, she and her husband decided to return home to contract barren hills for greening.

" Looking at how the Gobi Desert has turned into an orchard, I firmly believe that the barren hills in my hometown can also turn green." Talking about the decision of that year, Sun Jianhua is very calm.

At that time, the "Danyang Temple" Mountain had many ugly nicknames-"Water Shortage Ridge" and "Bald Mountain". That year, urban greening is very difficult, let alone barren hills, but Sun Jianhua resolutely took out years of savings, and Yinzhuang village committee signed a contract agreement, reclaimed 5000 acres of barren hills afforestation land.

Easier said than done. Drought is a difficult problem for greening barren hills. There is no water. Sun Jianhua hires a car to pull water from a few kilometers away to the foot of the mountain. A bucket of water can only irrigate a sapling. Every day, she carries a bucket weighing more than 30 jin up the mountain and down the ditch; there is no road. She draws a sample map of winding mountain road by herself, and then takes the bulldozer master to open the road, and builds an 8-kilometer long dirt road on the rugged mountain ridge; In order to conserve the water source, she and her husband hit it with a hoe and built it with their hands. They dug layers of terraces on the barren hills. Wherever the trees went, the terraces went...

During the past 6 years, Sun Jianhua and his wife paid in advance and raised funds, and invested more than 10 million yuan accumulatively to pave dirt roads, terraces and water cellars on the contracted 5000 mu barren hills. From the hundreds of trees that survived at the beginning to more than 100,000 mature trees now, the couple did not know how much effort they had paid.

The barren hills turned green, and Sun Jianhua began to look for suitable economic tree species.

In March 2011, after consulting experts and going to Xingyang for field investigation, she introduced 5000 soft-seed pomegranate seedlings from Henan Province Academy of Agricultural Sciences at the price of 12 yuan each for trial planting. The following year, the planting scale of soft-seed pomegranate trees reached more than 1000 mu.

In September 2015, the first batch of soft-seed pomegranate planted by Sun Jianhua began to bear fruit. The largest one weighed 1.8 jin, juicy and sweet, and sold for a good price of more than 10 yuan per catty.

Sun Jianhua naturally wouldn't miss out on his unique advantages. In July 2015, she and her husband introduced more than 100 mu of Salvia miltiorrhiza seedlings for trial planting, with good effect. This winter, she plans to expand the planting area to 2000 mu. At the same time, also planted dahurian angelica root, peony root, angelica, chrysanthemum and other traditional Chinese medicine, tree scattered pheasant, wild duck, enliven the "forest economy."

In addition, the "Forest Fruit Planting Cooperative" led by Sun Jianhua and his wife and participated by 74 farmers was officially established. More than 80% of the members of the cooperative are left-behind women. Through cooperative management, members can not only learn planting techniques, but also earn extra income of more than 10,000 yuan each year through pruning, flower picking and fruit thinning.

In September 2015, with the popularity of soft-seed pomegranate, some self-driving tourists began to pick it in person on the mountain, and Sun Jianhua became more and more famous in nearby villages and towns. At present, she is leading her members to build infrastructure and create a "one-stop" economic model of "leisure + tourism + under-forest picking."