Ziyun, Guizhou: college students go back to their hometown to set up a vegetable garden

The picture shows Wei Gang pruning eggplant branches.

On March 19, in Wei Gang's vegetable garden in Longtou Village, Huohua Township, Ziyun Autonomous County, more than 10 villagers covered themselves with plastic film, dug nests, planted or covered soil. Busy planting eggplant seedlings.

Wei Gang, 36, graduated from Anshun College in 2000 majoring in animal husbandry and aquatic products. After graduation, he did not find a permanent job and went to some cities in Hubei and Guangdong to work hard for many years. In 2013, Spark Township began to develop the vegetable industry and included it in the provincial demonstration park. Wei Gang found that many entrepreneurs came to his hometown to develop vegetable gardens, and he wanted to give it a try.

In the same year, Wei Gang invested more than 200,000 yuan he had saved for many years into the vegetable garden base, and with policy support, transferred 50 mu of land and began to develop his own planting business.

While the workers were planting eggplant seedlings, Wei Gang was pruning eggplant branches in a nearby field with scissors. The eggplant seedlings he trimmed were old eggplant branches that had been hanging fruit for a year last year, and there were still a lot of dried eggplant hanging on them.

"the eggplant hanging from the eggplant branches was the fruit of last winter. It was no longer fresh after frost and snow, but it was barely edible." Talking about the knack of growing vegetables, Wei Gang said with delight: "the eggplant branches I trim are all grafted. In the vegetable business, if you want to have a good price for your own vegetables, the key is to grab the early and the wrong season."

"eggplant, melon and other fruit-hanging vegetables can be grafted." Wei Gang said that the roots of eggplant seedlings sown with eggplant seeds could not withstand the disease, and the roots were not well developed, so they cultivated a kind of wood seedlings with well-developed roots, and when the eggplant seedlings were as big as wood seedlings, the eggplant seedlings were grafted on the wood seedlings. However, in the process of cultivating wood seedlings and grafted eggplant seedlings, he has a high technical content, and the grafted eggplant seedlings he planted are purchased from Guangxi, and the survival rate is more than 95%.

Luo Mabu, a villager from Longtou Village, who is planting eggplant seedlings in the field, said that at their age, it is good to earn 60 yuan a day on their doorstep, and they feel very lucky to have such a vegetable garden in the village.

In order to stimulate the enthusiasm of the workers, Wei Gang adopted a minimum wage of 60 yuan a day, depending on the effectiveness of the pay increase, that is, guarantee + efficiency, which can not only improve the enthusiasm of workers, but also stimulate the workmanship of workers. "from February to September every year, there are no less than 10 workers in the vegetable garden every day, and sometimes more than 50." Wei Gang smiled and said that the development of a vegetable garden in his hometown not only gave him hope, but also helped some villagers out of poverty.

"No matter what you do, as long as you have confidence, there will always be a time to succeed. In the first year of growing vegetables, we lost money, and in the second year, we counted as capital preservation. Last year, we planted 90 mu of vegetables and made a net profit of 200000 yuan, which is not bad. This year, we have transferred 40 mu of land, totaling 130mu, and are prepared to expand the scale of planting year by year. " When it comes to future planning, Wei Gang is full of confidence.