Leizhou boy "likes ploughing fields" to return to his hometown to grow melons can make money

Chen Yuan checked the growth of out-of-season watermelons in the greenhouse.

The TV series "the Story of enjoying ploughing the Field" was popular for a time, which mainly tells the story of migrant workers who like ploughing their fields under the influence of the national rich peasant policy, decide to leave the city to return to work as farmers, and lead the villagers to build large-scale agricultural comprehensive companies. In Shaoshan Village, a town attached to Leizhou City, there is a post-80s college student named Chen Yuan who resolutely gave up the generous treatment of big cities and returned to his hometown to develop efficient agriculture and lead the villagers to become rich. "I hope to be a real-life version of Xigeng!" A few days ago, in the face of the author's interview, Chen Yuan said with a smile.

Give up work in the city and return to the "agricultural gate"

Chen Yuan, 27, is an authentic peasant son. After graduating in 2007, with his excellent professional knowledge, he got a relatively well-paid "decent" job in Guangzhou, and many of his brothers in the same village looked at him with envy.

Unexpectedly, with a smooth wind at work, he made a strange decision to resign and return to his hometown. It was the Spring Festival in 2012. When Chen Yuan came home for the festival, he saw some villagers gathering in the commissary to hang out. When he asked why, the answer he got was that everyone had nothing to do to kill time.

Shaoshan Village is located in the belly of Toyo in Leizhou. The local people mainly plant rice twice a year. After the late harvest enters the winter, the farmland is basically idle. "if the land is not idle, people will no longer be idle." So, despite his parents' opposition, Chen Yuan resolutely quit his job and returned to his hometown to develop agricultural cultivation.

"at that time, many people did not understand my idea, because it was not easy for most of our peasant children to get out of their homes and find their own development space in the city." Chen Yuan frankly said that he is a "second generation of farmers." his family is in the countryside, and his roots are in the countryside, and he can also make a difference in the vast rural areas. He can use his own practical actions to lead the villagers to become rich and get rid of the bad habits in the village. This is also the way to realize the ideal of life.

Build a base to develop modern agriculture

It is the first step that costs troublesome. Although he came from a peasant family, Chen Yuan, who majored in mechatronics, had almost no experience in farming. In 2012, he contracted 10 mu of farmland to grow cucumbers, got up early in the morning and night every day, and carefully put into melon land management. Seeing that the cucumber was about to enter the picking period, who would have expected a typhoon to hit, the shed in the melon garden fell and the vine broke, and all the painstaking efforts were wasted.

The first planting failed, but Chen Yuan was not discouraged. In 2013, he arranged the planting time of cucumbers scientifically, skillfully avoided the typhoon-prone period, and experimented with planting in the greenhouse, and finally achieved a bumper harvest of more than 4000 jin of cucumbers per mu, making a net profit of more than 50, 000 yuan. When he tasted the sweetness, he did not stop the pace of development. last year, he built a steel greenhouse again, and the output of cucumber doubled, reaching 8000 jin per mu.

For cantaloupe, chili and other crops, Chen Yuan also tried to plant them first, and then planted them on a large scale after gaining relevant experience. Today, he has built nearly 100 mu of modern agricultural base to carry out out-of-season melon and vegetable cultivation in the greenhouse. "We all produce in accordance with pollution-free standards and strictly control the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides. To deal with insect pests, we spray physical adhesive attractants on plastic bottles and hang them on the top of the greenhouse to trap flies. " Chen Yuan said.

This autumn, he contracted 40 mu of farmland in Yingshan Village of the attached town to grow out-of-season greenhouse watermelons. "the land rent here is very high, which costs about 3000 yuan per mu per year. However, in order to learn from the planting experience of melon farmers in Zhejiang, they had to bear the pain and rent it. " Chen Yuan said that the anti-season greenhouse watermelon planting technology of melon farmers in Taizhou, Zhejiang Province is in a monopoly position throughout the country. For more than ten years, a large number of Taizhou melon farmers have planted watermelons in Leizhou, east and west, and achieved better economic benefits. In order to "steal teachers and learn skills", Chen Yuan specially leased land in their intensive areas and planted out-of-season greenhouse watermelons at the same time.

In the interview, the author found that Chen Yuan's plastic greenhouse is different, all using steel pipe as the frame, the greenhouse is 3 meters high and 5 meters wide, highlighting the "high-end" temperament. This kind of greenhouse is designed by him, and the cost of building it is high, about 5000 yuan per mu, but building this kind of greenhouse can improve the utilization rate of land, and there is more space in the greenhouse, which is more conducive to labor and crop growth.

Don't change your original wish to bring the rich.

After more than three years of returning to his hometown to start a business, Chen Yuan has gradually grown into a new modern farmer, but what remains unchanged is his original mind. Every time the base needs to work, he tries to recruit workers in the village so that the villagers can earn money by working in front of their homes.

According to Chen Yuan, his base uses about 8 people a day, needs more than 30 people when the farm is busy, and pays each worker 80 yuan a day, which is not a small income for villagers who have nothing to do at home. Chen Yuan was delighted that, driven by him, many villagers in the village also started to grow melons and vegetables.

"this spring, more than 30 households in our village have planted more than 700 mu of muskmelon, and the economic benefit is much higher than that of planting rice, which has strengthened everyone's confidence in the development of melon and vegetable cultivation." Chen Yuan said with relief that the planting area of melons and vegetables has increased, and dealers go directly to Tian Tou to set up a point to buy, and the melons and vegetables harvested are not worried about not being sold. Seeing that other people have made money by growing melons and vegetables, other villagers have followed suit.

In Chen Yuan's view, Leizhou has a tropical climate, with high temperature and sufficient light all the year round, while the east and west of Leizhou are even more fertile, with unique natural conditions for the development of efficient agriculture. "planting out-of-season melons and vegetables in a greenhouse has a relatively high yield, and it can avoid the peak period of traditional melons and vegetables on the market, so that there are no people, and people have their own advantages, and its benefits will certainly rise." Chen Yuan told me that in the next step, he will set up melon and vegetable planting cooperatives to explore the development model of "cooperatives + farmers + supermarkets" to drive more villagers to embark on a broad road by growing melons and vegetables.