The Wealth of strong Women in the depths of the Dingxi Mountains in Gansu Province

Since late July 2015, the precipitation in most parts of Dingxi has been rare in history. Among them, Anding, Tongwei, Weiyuan and Min County broke the record of minimum precipitation in the same period in the history of nearly 55 years, resulting in a large reduction in potato production in Anding District, one of the three main potato producing areas in China. Qiang Caixia, head of Lv Ping Agricultural Products Purchase and Sales Farmers Professional Cooperative located in Shiquan Township, has a bumper harvest of potatoes planted in the transferred land.

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The weather was dry, but the potato of the "stubborn" family was harvested.

January 4, there is still more than a week to enter this year's lunar month. On the village road of Lvping Village, Shiquan Township, Anding District, people who went out to work came back six times, gathered together in twos and threes, talked about this year's income outside, and talked about this year's harvest in the fields.

The same loess, the same dry days,"stubborn people" how to plant potato harvest, more than all over the ground. The villagers said "stubborn people", is Qiang Caixia, Lv Ping agricultural products purchase and sale farmers professional cooperatives head.

Qiang Caixia said: "From planting to harvest, including spraying pesticides in the field, mechanical operation is adopted in the whole process. Black film is used for planting, virus-free new Daping is used for seeds, special fertilizer for potato is applied in the field, and our farm manure is added."

"Farm manure not only preserves soil moisture but also fertilizes the land, resists hardening, and has more obvious effects in drought years." Speaking of why their own kind of potato can harvest, strong Caixia is simply full of knowledge.

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The establishment of a cooperative also cashes in the dividends of its members

Qiang Caixia's clearest memory is that she once sold alfalfa seeds, 1 jin for 4 jiao, 10 jin for 4 yuan, bought 1 jin of salt, 1 jin of kerosene in the commissary, and a pair of couplets for a simple year for a poor family.

"I borrowed 10 yuan from someone else's house, sold sugar gourd in Dingxi City, and used the 200 yuan I earned to sell the grocery store at the door of my hometown. He runs a grocery store during the day, brings some fresh vegetables from the city at night, and sells them the next day." Every potato picking season, she drove a tricycle into the village to buy potatoes sold to Dingxi potato market. From then on, she embarked on the road of managing agricultural products. Starting from borrowing 10 yuan of debt, it has developed to about 300,000 yuan of planting income in recent years, and 100,000 yuan of income from purchasing agricultural products; the tools have been changed from agricultural tricycles to large trucks.

Relying on the popularity accumulated by opening the commissary and watching TV, in 2010, Qiang Caixia tried to set up a cooperative to purchase agricultural products at a price 5 cents higher than that of the cooperative members, and to provide credit sales of agricultural products and daily necessities such as chemical fertilizers and pesticides for the members.

"At the beginning, I didn't even know what the cooperative was doing. I only knew how to do something good for the common people. We twisted into a rope and started a business to go all over the world." When Qiang Caixia first established the cooperative, even her husband's Shao Quan, relatives and neighbors opposed it. As a result, no one had argued with her. With her "stubborn temper", she successfully "lobbied" 104 villagers to join her cooperative.

This year, potato purchase prices continued to rise, from the initial 0.85 yuan per catty to 1.20 yuan. However, no one thought that it was not long before the price of potatoes sold in the terminal market fell, almost a price a day, falling every day, and most vendors did business at a loss. Qiang Caixia also suffered a big loss. When she fell to 0.75 yuan/catty, she lost 150,000 yuan.

"A gentleman's word cannot be repeated. At the beginning, I promised to give each member a dividend of 100 yuan at the end of the year, which should be fulfilled. Never let the members suffer!" In that year, Qiang Caixia cashed in more than 10,000 yuan of bonus money to the members and built a potato storage warehouse of ten million tons.

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Take the masses to the road of prosperity by using e-commerce platform

At present, Qiangcaixia's cooperatives have built 300 square meters of steel frame sheds, driving the cultivation of 6 large planting households, setting up 6 agricultural machinery professional service teams, creating a new agricultural machinery service mode of "cooperatives plus family farms and farmers" for agricultural production in deep mountain areas, solving the rural development problem of "where people go, who grows the land and where the money comes from", and innovating the new mode of agricultural socialized service system in deep mountain areas.

Qiang Caixia distributed the land suitable for mechanized farming to five members of the cooperative, each of whom received 200 mu of land, becoming a large household supported by the cooperative and planting 700 mu by himself. "Cooperatives drive large growers, and large growers drive retail investors, thus completely solving the problem of abandoned land without cultivation." Strong clouds always have a way.

During the interview in the cooperative office, customers contacted the business one after another, either to sell potatoes or to buy sweet buckwheat, black beans and other small cereals. She patiently replied to each customer.

Today, micro-e-commerce is a new trend, a new format and a new engine. Qiang Caixia also caught up with fashion, built an e-commerce platform in the cooperative, neatly placed on the shelves local honey, tartary buckwheat noodles, sweet buckwheat noodles, lentil noodles, naked oats noodles and black beans and other local specialties. On how to make good use of the e-commerce platform to sell local agricultural products, Qiang Caixia has a new plan, she is determined to open up a wide range of sources, make friends, make good use of traditional sales, do a good job in e-commerce sales, brand, let "Lv Ping" products popular throughout the country.