The "vegetable King" of Jishui leads the villagers to become rich.

Chen Jisheng (first from left) instructs villagers to control early vegetable seedlings with thermometers

Just after the cold winter, a lot of land has become winter fallow fields, but in the eyes of one person, winter fallow fields have become golden land. The seedlings of early vegetables such as chili, eggplant and cucumbers he cultivated in winter fallow fields are growing gratifying and are about to be put on the market. He is Chen Jisheng, the "vegetable king" of Zhushan Village, Baisha Town, Jishui County, who has been rated as a national agricultural modern science and technology demonstration household for four consecutive years.

Zhushan Village is a good place to grow vegetables because of its abundant water and fertile soil. With the inherent diligence of farmers and great interest in growing crops, Chen Jisheng began to grow all kinds of vegetables and cash crops here 20 years ago. He has planted radishes, cabbages, peppers, eggplant, peanuts, sesame seeds, sugar cane, watermelons, and even melons and gourds that others do not grow. During this period, he has participated in many visits and training organized by provincial, municipal and county agro-technical departments, and combined with his own practical experience, gradually explored a set of unique methods for vegetables and cash crops.

He also made full use of the time difference, highlighted the word "early", changed winter leisure into winter busy, built a greenhouse, and cultivated more than 4 mu of early-maturing pepper, eggplant and other vegetable seedlings every year. After the early-maturing pepper, eggplant and other vegetable seedlings were sold, he adopted the method of crop interplanting, interplanting pepper, eggplant, edamame bean, gourd and other crops in the sugarcane field. He was particularly optimistic about the word "late" and planted late-ripening watermelons. During the National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival, he planted a large number of late-ripening watermelons on the market. Therefore, the economic benefit of his land is more than 50,000 yuan per mu.

Chen Jisheng never forgets his fellow villagers when he gets rich. He often teaches the villagers about planting techniques and management methods, and drives them to grow all kinds of vegetables and cash crops together in their farmhouses and fields. Under his influence and drive, farmers in the village have changed the previous mode of growing rice alone to planting vegetables and cash crops with large areas of science and technology, with an area of more than 1000 mu of vegetables alone, and their economic income has doubled. "under the leadership of Chen Jisheng, every household in this village grows vegetables. No matter what technical problems they have, they will come to Chen Jisheng. He will be on call, help solve the problem, teach us the technology, and tell us how to manage. Now, we only plant early pepper seedlings, and one mu of land can earn more than 30,000 yuan. Chen Jisheng deserves to be the king of vegetables, and he is really the leading goose for us to get rich. " Recently, in an interview, villager Chen Jixiang expressed his praise for Chen Jisheng.