Capable woman Chen Chunlan leads the villagers on the road to becoming rich

Recently, when the author came to Chunlan Family Farm in Qinglong Village, Shanghe Town, Tongnan District, I saw that some workers were picking vegetables in the field, and some were loading seasonal vegetables into the car. It was a busy scene.

In Qinglong Village a few years ago, the mountains were high and the ditches were narrow, and the feet of the ditches were covered with withered and yellow weeds. Today, under the leadership of Chen Chunlan, a "capable woman", villagers have set up cooperatives to clean up the land that has been abandoned for many years, and more than 10 barren slopes have been transformed into more than 3000 mu of land and planted melons, fruits and vegetables. The mountains of the village have been invigorated, and the pockets of the villagers have bulged up. "as long as you are willing to use your brain, barren mountains can also become 'treasures'!" Chen Chunlan said with a smile.

According to Chen Chunlan, in 2010, when she returned to her hometown for the Spring Festival, she saw that there was no one in the mountains, which was a great pity; coupled with the fact that her parents were old and her son was young, she resolutely went back to her hometown and took out all her "wealth." decided to turn the barren hillside into a "treasure basin."

At the beginning of her business, Chen Chunlan adopted the transfer of land to rent and the integration of land resources by means of land ownership. The use of local soil and climate and other conditions, planting suitable for mountain pumpkins, watermelons, vegetables and other fruits. In 2013, Chen Chunlan established a professional cooperative of mountain vegetable shares, which has grown on a scale of more than 3400 mu. Two seasons of vegetables a year, pumpkins and watermelons can be produced in summer, and pickles and mustard in winter. The output value of vegetables, melons and fruits reached more than 7 million yuan in 2015.

Today, the franchisees and growers who develop in coordination with the cooperatives, together with the transferred land and the villagers who earn their remuneration through labor, are happily feeling the changes brought about by the cooperatives and tasting the benefits of invigorating the wasteland.

"Qinglong Village used to be full of barren mountains, but now it has become our 'treasure land' yo!" Villager Chen Yongrong told the author with a smile on his face.

"in the future, I will further transform the barren mountains, expand the scale, let more villagers join the co-operatives and embark on the road to prosperity!" Chen Chunlan said confidently.