3000 Gucheng female players "form a group" Zhong Xiang planted yam, the output and price have all gone up.

A "women's group" composed of more than 3,000 women of childbearing age traveled from Gucheng to Zhongxiang to search for gold. They made clever efforts to make money in the circulation fields, and made a boom in the management of 20,000 mu of yam. Families worth more than a million dollars can be found everywhere in co-operatives, and it is not unusual to build foreign buildings and buy cars.

The talented woman in Gucheng transferred the land to grow yam.

The core figure of this "women's group" is Liu Heying, a capable woman who has been growing yams for more than 20 years.

Liu Heying, 43, lives in Liuzhou Village, Lengji Town, Gucheng County. Liuzhou Village is located in the west bank of Hanjiang River in the lower reaches of Danjiangkou. More than 5000 mu of gray sand bar land is very suitable for the growth of yam. In 1995, Liu Heying went home to grow yam, but he could only earn more than 1000 yuan per mu of yam after one year's hard work, which made Liu Heying feel "lame".

Because he was afraid of replanting yam, Liu Heying and his family migrated successively in Xiangyang and Laohekou in the province, Weinan and Xiaoyi in Shaanxi, and Qinyang and Wuyi in Henan, looking for space for development. In the spring of 2000, after several inquiries, Liu Heying and several sisters who planted yams came to Wolong Town, Xiangyang, where they felt that they had "found a precious place to grow yams."

They transferred land from local farmers at a price of about 3000 yuan per mu. The output and benefit are twice as much as those planted on your own land on your doorstep. The women who initially partnered with Liu Heying have each gradually grown from 10 mu to 20 mu, and then remain at about 100 mu a year.

Set up a cooperative 3000 sisters to take the road of wealth

Going out to subcontract and transfer land not only solved the problem of continuous cropping of yam, but also taught local farmers how to grow yam, stimulated the local agricultural fertilizer and labor market, and brought rich local farmers.

This group of women in Gucheng has become more and more famous in the local area and become the "bellwether" of getting rich. With the idea that "one rich is not rich, sisters are rich", Liu Heying and his sisters set up a cooperative.

Cooperatives not only absorb women who have migrated from Gucheng, but also actively attract farmers around Xiangyang to join. By 2015, the number of cooperative members has grown to more than 3000, with a total planting area of 20, 000 mu. Among the cooperative sisters, some are already worth more than one million, and more than 80 have bought high-end cars.

"joining the co-operative is like reassuring us." The sisters of the cooperative said that they were no longer confused about the market price. The co-operative is connected with its members at one end and the market at the other, and knows well from planting to harvesting.

The output and price of skillfully planted yam has gone up.

On February 29, members of the cooperative are digging yam at the yam base in Wenji Town, Zhongxiang City. "it's not the season to produce yams. We're digging out-of-season yams. If you have a good time difference, you can sell it for an extra 1 yuan per kilogram. " Liu Heying, the leader of the cooperative, said that it is impossible to start an agricultural business by enduring hardships alone. If you want to work hard, you have to work skillfully.

Coincidentally, coincidentally, it saves effort. In order to solve the problem of high labor intensity and low efficiency of manual land-turning in the past, cooperative members and agricultural machinery personnel have developed a yam deep loosening machine. Deep loose soil extends from 1 meter in the past to 2 meters now, from single bit to double bit.

The machinery boomed and the ground was easily turned over, and the output of yam also increased several times. The yield per mu has increased from 1000 kg in the past to 4000 kg, with the highest reaching 10000 kg. In addition, the cooperative also bought more than 200,000 yuan of hook machines, reducing labor intensity and improving work efficiency to a certain extent.

Two coincidences, coincidences in quality. "quality should be given priority to seed quality. In order to select high-quality yam species, our entrepreneurial sisters bought high-quality yam species at high prices." Liu Heying said: high investment has high returns, and improved varieties have solved the problems of increasing production and income in the past.

"if the yam is to be favored by consumers, quality is the key." In production, in order to make the products meet the requirements of green and pollution-free, cooperatives use all farm fertilizers. Even if the price of farm fertilizer rises to 60 yuan per cubic meter, thousands of yuan per mu of land is needed, and the cooperative members are also unambiguous.