The Rich Dream of Green Bamboo "Native expert"

"in 2015, the sales of green bamboo shoots in our cooperative reached more than 2000 tons and green bamboo wood more than 6000 tons, with sales exceeding 10 million yuan." On December 4, green bamboo "soil expert" Jiang Nengze told me excitedly.

Jiang Nengze, 55, member of the forestry special committee of the county's veteran scientific and technological workers' association and chairman of the Eternal Green Bamboo Professional Cooperative, invested in earning income and getting rich by planting green bamboo on his doorstep in 1985.

Over the past 30 years, he has specialized in planting and exploring horseshoe green and sweet green in Youxi, and has achieved high-yield cultivation, water-saving irrigation, formula fertilization, fresh shoot preservation and other techniques, and has become a "soil expert" in the cultivation of green bamboo in Youxi. He gave priority to "horseshoe" green bamboo cuttings, planted more than 100 mu of his own, made efforts in high-yield cultivation, scientific tending and management, and embarked on the road of development to become rich.

With the continuous accumulation of bamboo planting experience, Jiang Nengze unreservedly passed on the bamboo planting experience to farmers and actively provided farmers with one-stop services such as seedlings, special fertilizer, centralized processing, fresh shoot sales and so on. it has driven more than 1000 farmers in 18 villages in 7 townships, including Youxi Xicheng, Chengguan, Meixian, Xibin, Yangzhong Town, Xiwei Township and Taixi Township, to plant green bamboo, opening up a new world for the development of characteristic green bamboo industry in Youxi.

"planting green bamboo has the advantages of low investment, low cost and quick effect." This is a good way to generate income and become rich found by Lai Yingwen, vice chairman of the County Eternal Green Bamboo Professional Cooperative and member of the Forestry Special Committee of the County Association of Old Science and Technology. With the green bamboo cultivation skills, he is already 52 years old, at the end of 2001, he leased more than 50 mu of barren mountains in this village to afforest barren mountains, combined with the site condition of the mountain farm, raised funds from many aspects, started with high-standard land preparation, chose rainy or cloudy days, planted on the same day, watered root water and covered with straw, carried out standardized development, carried out pollution-free cultivation, and improved the survival rate of planting.

From then on, he got up early in the morning and dark every day, weeded and cultivated the soil, managed carefully, managed scientifically, and fertilized according to the formula, such as ditch application, hole application, spreading application, heap application, pouring application, cavity application, and so on; during the shooting period, he carefully grasped the height of soil cultivation to ensure the quality of green bamboo shoots. the bamboo shoot production period of the managed green bamboo forest is long, from mid-May to early October of that year, and the shooting period is more than 120 days.

Having tasted the benefits of planting green bamboo, he accelerated the pace of scientific development of green bamboo. Investment in machine ploughing roads, bamboo forest access roads, and the construction of cisterns have improved the infrastructure construction of Zhushan and improved the efficiency of Zhushan. In his green bamboo forest, the number of bamboo left in each clump is 10 ~ 12, and the number of standing bamboo is 600 ~ 700 per mu. The quality of bamboo forest is significantly improved. The green bamboo shoot shell is thick, white, tender and crisp, sweet and delicious, with a unique flavor and sweet taste, which has become a favorite delicacy of vegetables and banquets in summer and autumn.

Over the past 15 years, through intensive cultivation, scientific tending and management, and making efforts on the high-yield cultivation of green bamboo, he has planted a "cash cow bamboo" and become a "soil expert" with rich experience in planting and management of green bamboo in the county. In 2015, he made a good income of more than 50 mu of green bamboo forest, with an annual income of more than 100,000 yuan for green bamboo shoots and green bamboo wood, and his green bamboo forest became the science base of the Forestry Special Committee of Youxi Old Science and Technology Association. In 2014, he was awarded and commended as an outstanding member of the county with a sense of worthiness.

Jiang Nengze and Lai Yingwen became rich on their doorstep, and bamboo farmers followed suit one after another, building a "Jinshan and Yinshan Mountain" through high-yield cultivation, weeding and soil cultivation, application of organic fertilizer, strict prevention of diseases and insect pests, and water diversion and sprinkler irrigation. Green bamboo market is bullish, do not worry about no market, the county green bamboo forest cut bamboo thinning reached more than 2.5 million kilograms, every 100 kilograms of green bamboo wood price reached 40 to 50 yuan, increasing the economic income of bamboo farmers.

The demonstration and driving role of their co-operatives in 2007 propped up the economy of the bamboo township and promoted the sustainable and scientific development of the eco-economic green bamboo industry in Youxi. At present, the county has established a high-yield and efficient base of more than 42000 mu of green bamboo, accounting for 64.6% of the total area of green bamboo forest. This year, the per capita income of bamboo farmers in the county alone "Youxi green bamboo shoots" has increased by 4200 yuan, and the income of green bamboo shoots and green bamboo in the county has exceeded 200 million yuan.