Mao Hailin, Staff Member of Regiment 134: Alkaline Beach Changed into Vegetable Garden Greenhouse to Increase Income

A Mao Hailin, who came to work in Xinjiang, relied on his diligent and frugal hands and with unyielding strength to start a business. He simply turned an alkali beach into a green vegetable garden and used new greenhouse technology to find a way of circular development. In only five or six years, he has gone from nothing to a very smooth life. On January 18, Mao Hailin was nominated by the spiritual Civilization Office of the 13th regiment as one of the candidates for moral model, diligence, thrift and self-improvement.

Mao Hailin was an employee of the 134th regiment and eighth company. In his early years in the mainland, he heard that the army was able to earn money and came to work in the 134th regiment. After arriving at the eighth company, Mao Hailin took a part-time job for the workers. At this time, Mao Hailin had nothing but a whole body of strength. Mao Hailin, who is full of brains, thinks that he always works for others and earns not much money. This is definitely not possible, and he has to find a way.

In 2009, Mao Hailin contracted 10 mu of wine grapes in the company, the harvest is good, but the income is low, coupled with the children's school expenses, life is still very difficult, it seems, do not want a new way out. Life can't go on. He calmed down to see what he was good at. He found himself growing vegetables and raising pigs. So he discussed with his wife that while growing grapes, he should give prominence to growing good vegetables and raising pigs, so as to increase the family's income.

It is good to grow vegetables and raise pigs, but the question is which kind of food and where to raise pigs? In fact, Mao Hailin has long taken a fancy to an abandoned sheep pen in Balian, which is a broken point, but it can be used together. The soil around the sheep pen is saline-alkali land, but it is very spacious and close to the water source, so it is very suitable for breeding. Mao Hailin told the company cadres his idea, and the company cadres were very supportive, saying that they were idle even if they were idle. In this way, in the spring of 2010, Mao Hailin's family moved to the alkali beach he liked and began a long way to increase their income.

For the industrious Mao Hailin couple, they could not afford to plough the land, so they turned the alkali land over with a spade of manpower. They spent two whole days digging the canal, flooding with water, and draining the alkali. It took half a month to drain the wasted alkali. The barren land could not be done without fertilizer, so Mao Hailin and his wife used rickshaws and donkey carts to be stuck in other people's circles to load farm manure. Other people's conditions were quite carved, and they were also responsible for padding the fertilizer themselves. Mao Hailin had no money to pay for fertilizer, so he had to change jobs. One car, two cars, mu of land, he unexpectedly pulled more than 400 carts, according to him, the ground is covered with 5 centimeters of thick fertilizer, he said, he does not believe, do not grow crops. After all this, Mao Hailin finally breathed a sigh of relief, planted the vegetables, picked up the old circle, and entered 10 sows, looking forward to a good harvest.

However, what awaits them is a terrible thing. Vegetable seedlings grow on the hair curls become yellow wilt, and finally died, the pig catch up is not a good year, the market is in the doldrums, life and death do not make money. Mao Hailin, who was full of hope to make a lot of money, was so disappointed that he once wanted to give up. Seeing this, Mao Hailin's wife enlightened him and said, apart from growing vegetables and raising pigs, what else will we do? if we don't want to do this, how can we live? There seems to be no choice but to do it. Mao Hailin carefully analyzed his current situation: if he is still engaged in general vegetable cultivation without special advantages and cannot make money, he must build a vegetable greenhouse in a sunshine greenhouse. To raise pigs, you must raise high-quality pigs, but you can certainly not raise mixed-brand pigs. in a depressed market, you can use green feed to reduce costs and exchange space for market prices, and the idea will certainly take immediate action.

Mao Hailin first went to the bookstore to buy information about growing vegetables, studied according to the book, while groping, and slowly mastered the techniques of raising seedlings, management, and pest control mentioned in the book. When he encountered a problem, he also asked a technician for on-site technical guidance. In the spring of the following year, he planted cucumbers of 0.5 mu of land, and the income of that year was more than 3000 yuan. Mao Hailin, who first tasted the sweetness, gradually expanded the area, bought materials to build a simple greenhouse, and by 2013, he had developed a greenhouse area of more than 2 mu. Planting some southern specialties is particularly popular around the regiment.

In order to fully improve the economic benefits of vegetable production, in spring, he mainly produces cucumbers, and has mastered the production technology of cucumbers in early spring, and every year, no matter in terms of yield, market time, and income, the yield of cucumbers per mu can reach 10000 jin every year, the time of listing is at least 15 days earlier than that of other farmers, and the benefit per mu reaches more than 40, 000 yuan. In order to reasonably arrange the autumn stubble, make full use of the existing greenhouse facilities, improve the economic benefits of greenhouse production, and achieve high efficiency without affecting winter seedlings, Mao Hailin summed up a set of vegetable production techniques for prolonging autumn through continuous experiments.

In feeding pigs, he pays attention to science, what to feed, how much to feed, and when to feed, he has a set of systematic methods. He pays special attention to the survival rate of sows. Others feed piglets in the greenhouse, fearing that piglets catch cold, but he goes in the opposite direction. He puts the newly born pigs in room temperature to withstand the test of the environment. Only piglets that adapt to the environment will have strong vitality and are not easy to die. The survival rate of sows raised by him is 12.5, which is more than 2 higher than that of others. This greatly reduces the cost of pigs. Mao Hailin also uses some vegetable leaves to feed pigs, increase the green feed of pigs, let pigs listen to rest assured grass, and then use pig dung to serve dishes. This is what Mao Hailin called circular economy, which is not only green but also environmentally friendly, taking the road of circular economy. Mao Hailin's ecological pigs are very famous and favored by consumers, and pigs alone produced more than 70,000 benefits in 2015. Mao Hailin has skillfully mastered more than 10 kinds of vegetable production techniques by constantly exploring and summing up experience in practice and learning from technicians with an open mind. Relying on this circular economy model, the annual income is more than 100000 yuan.

Mao Hailin not only made his own way to get rich by growing vegetables through science and technology, but also used his own technology to guide his neighbors to grow vegetables. In vegetable production, as long as the masses ask him for advice on planting problems, he always responds to every request, and his mobile phone number has become a hotline for vegetable farmers to grow vegetables. Nowadays, as long as he makes a phone call, Hailin always gives up his work and goes to the workers' homes to help his neighbors solve the technical problems of growing vegetables. However, what Hailin does is free and voluntary. In his words: "I have made myself rich by growing vegetables through science and technology. What kind of money do my neighbors charge to help others?"

Now Hailin not only takes the initiative to provide help to the surrounding vegetable farmers, but also raises excellent vegetable seeds into seedlings and supplies their own surplus vegetable seedlings to vegetable farmers free of charge. In April last year, in order to help his neighbors, he devoted all his greenhouse to the development of seedlings, raising more than 20,000 seedlings and selling them to vegetable farmers at a low price, ensuring the use of seedlings in the vegetable base and effectively promoting the smooth progress of production.

With the selfless help and drive of Mao Hailin, the surrounding farmers also joined in the greenhouse vegetable planting one after another. He taught hand in hand, and his efforts lived up to the good will. With his encouragement, the vegetable area has greatly developed. Combined with his own vegetable growing experience over the past two years, after full consultation with the masses, combined with the advantages of the fields, as well as his own personal experience, he mobilized a group of intelligent and technology-loving people to start growing vegetables. At present, the company has developed an area of 100 mu of vegetables and built a vegetable greenhouse of more than 50 mu.