Shangcai County, Henan Province: sweat paves the way to get rich

February 20, spring, sunshine.

Entering Gaoli Village, Shaodian Town, Shangcai County, Henan Province, a newly built cement road passes through the village from west to east. As the temperature rises, the grass on top of the vegetable shed of villager Li Guosong has been lifted. In the shed, rows of cucumber beds are all ready, Li Guosong and his wife are still enough to throw plant ash on the beds as a marker for cucumber seedling transplantation.

This year's 39-year-old Li Guosong to reporters introduced, Before, He worked outside, Suffering not to say, Salary is often in arrears. In the summer of 2010, encouraged by Li Guoying, the village secretary, Li Guosong borrowed more than 100,000 yuan from relatives and friends to build two greenhouses and two smaller seedling sheds. Without technology, Li Guosong modestly consulted and learned from large vegetable growers in surrounding towns, plus his own exploration and practice. Over the past few years, he has mastered the greenhouse vegetable planting management technology.

Li Guosong calculated an account: Last winter, he planted two greenhouses celery harvest, the market is also particularly good, income more than 100,000 yuan. In addition to the income of 2 cucumbers and 2 tomatoes in the first half of the year, the net profit for the whole year was 260,000 yuan. In 2015, he also demolished three dilapidated tile houses where he lived in the past and built a two-story facade house totaling more than 600 square meters on the street.

Today, Li Guosong is not only a rich star, but also a large land operator. He transferred 80 mu of land from villagers in his village and nearby villages, and took the lead in establishing Tengqi Planting Professional Cooperative in Shangcai County. Li Guosong said: "In the next step, I will further expand the vegetable planting scale, relying on cooperatives to attract more farmers to develop characteristic vegetable planting, so that the villagers who transfer land can not only get stable rent, but also increase their labor income, and drive more poor neighbors to realize the dream of a well-off society together!"