A wage earner in Xingtai: walnut gets on the "early bus" of starting a business.

I don't know when a new "gadget" called sesame walnut became popular. With more people playing with hemp walnuts, growing hemp walnuts has become a new industry to get rich. The villagers of Dongpang Village, Neiqiu County, Xingtai City, and Zengyong embarked on the road to prosperity by planting hemp walnuts.

In 2011, he Zengyong, a migrant worker, encountered a "strange thing". He saw that an ugly walnut, which was not as good as that sold in his hometown, could be sold in pairs, and the price was not cheap, and some of them could even top his income for several months. After detailed inquiry, he learned that this ridiculously expensive walnut is called sesame walnut, not for food, but for fun.

"since they are all walnuts, can I go home and grow sesame walnuts to make money?" After much deliberation, he Zengyong decided to go back to his hometown to plant sesame walnuts and take this rich road of characteristic cultivation.

Ma walnut, also known as "Wenkuo walnut", because of its thick and strong skin, beautiful shell, unique fruit shape, is often made exquisite handicrafts or directly used as a relaxing and lively plaything for the middle-aged and the elderly. A pair of hemp walnuts can be sold at prices ranging from one million to tens of thousands of yuan. The history of sesame walnut as a plaything can be traced back to the Han Dynasty. it is said that Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty appreciated hemp walnut very much. Emperor Qianlong was not only a master of walnut appreciation, but also reportedly wrote poems praising walnut: "the sun and the moon on the palm, time wants to go back." The whole body is full of blood, when is the white head? "

In order to plant hemp walnuts well, he has visited Laishui, Handan, Shanxi, Shaanxi and other places many times to learn the techniques of planting and cultivating flax walnuts. After returning to his hometown, he contracted 100 mu of barren hillside from the villagers, raised more than 500,000 yuan in many ways, arranged the land, built nurseries, drilled wells to draw water, and invited technical experts to guide the technology from Laishui, the famous planting land of walnut in the country. Soon, the largest flax walnut breeding base in the city was built on the edge of the village.

At first, the survival rate of walnut trees transplanted from other places after grafting hemp walnut was very low. As a result, he Zengyong set aside ten mu of land from the transferred land, built a hemp walnut nursery, introduced 13 excellent varieties of flax walnut from all over the country, and began to cultivate suitable local flax walnut seedlings.

"it takes five years from the beginning of seedling raising, grafting, and transplanting to being able to hang the fruit. If you directly transplant two-year-old walnut seedlings, you can greatly shorten the time. You can hang the fruit in two years and catch the early bus to get rich." And Zengyong said.

After four years of development, there are 13 excellent varieties of flax walnut from all over the country, such as four buildings, Wang Hu Lion head, Yuanbao Lion head, Panlong pattern, Big thorn and so on. More than 20000 jute walnut seedlings and more than 2300 flax walnut trees have been cultivated, and they will be able to bear fruit by 2017, bringing him at least an income of more than one million. Aiming at the market, he Zengyong uses this small hemp walnut to "play" with great wealth.