She resigned to become a "farmer" to create a new world.

Li Huiwen is looking at the growth of red rice.

(left) red rice, (medium) white rice, (right) black rice.

When it comes to the late rice harvest season, a crimson rice field is particularly eye-catching in the yellow rice fields of Zutang Village, Pingling Town, Longmen County. Beside this red rice field, a woman dressed in a red coat, glasses on the bridge of her nose, a ponytail and a straw hat on her back is carefully examining the situation of rice ears. "this is red rice. It grows well and can be harvested right away. We are ready to harvest rice in the granary." The woman is Li Huiwen, chairman of the Huixing Rice Professional Cooperative (hereinafter referred to as the cooperative) in Longmen County. With a sweet smile on her face, no matter how she looks, she doesn't look like a farmer. "I used to be a teacher, but then I quit to work in agriculture. I want more people to eat our Longmen's high-quality rice. " Faced with the reporter's questions, Li Huiwen explained.

Run around the harvest site for more than 10 days in a row

Li Huiwen, born in 1982, is a native of Pingling. Since the late rice harvest in Longmen County, Li Huiwen has been running around the rice harvest site.

The cooperative now has 116cooperative members with a planting area of about 2000 mu. There are nearly 5000 cooperative farmers with order contracts and a planting area of about 6000 mu. In addition, some farmers who are not cooperative will also send rice. These rice planting sites are scattered in many villages and towns in Longmen County. After Double-ninth Day, Li Huiwen has been running in villages and towns for more than 10 days.

Because the mountain road in the countryside is difficult to walk, if you drive in, it will take half an hour for the car to turn around, so Li Huiwen drives his own motorcycle into the mountains to learn about the situation in the farmers' homes. Sometimes she talked to farmers until more than 9 p.m., and she didn't leave until after the rice harvest. The temperature was low a few days ago, and although Li Huiwen was shivering with cold, she still insisted on standing at the edge of the rice field, waiting for farmers to harvest the rice before leaving. "after the Spring Festival this year, we will send seeds to farmers. Only when we find out clearly can we have confidence in our hearts."

The red rice field that Li Huiwen inspected that day is a new variety that has only been tried out this year. "this is red rice, which only began to be planted in this village this year." Li Huiwen said with a smile that at first some people didn't understand red rice and thought there was something wrong with this piece of rice, saying that the rice leaves had turned red because of overuse of insecticides. In addition to red rice, the cooperative also gives black rice seeds to farmers, and now the black rice planted by some villagers has also matured and harvested. " Li Huiwen said, "Red rice and black rice belong to brown rice. Although they are not as slippery as rice, they have high nutritional value and have the effect of preventing anemia, so they can be used to focus on 'healthy rice'."

I have a relationship with rice since I was a child in the countryside.

Li Huiwen was originally a teacher. In 2001, she entered Pingling Middle School and taught computer, geography, comprehensive practical activities and other subjects, and was appointed secretary of the Youth League Committee of the school. "when I was a teacher, I worked very hard. Whether it is class or enrollment, the work is done very seriously, and often go home late to visit the students' homes. " She told the reporter.

After being a teacher for more than nine years, she chose to resign. When it comes to why he resigned from public office to become a "farmer", Li Huiwen said that he was not clear about it. She lived in the countryside from an early age and grew up eating Longmen rice with natural fragrance, which is hard to give up with Longmen rice. In addition to like Longmen rice, there is also a food safety problem. Because her mother-in-law runs rice, she is often asked by relatives, friends and students' parents: how to buy rice at ease.

This gives Li Huiwen the idea of trying to do agriculture. How to produce healthy and safe agricultural products?

I mistakenly harvested wet rice when I first started my career.

As soon as he entered the threshold of agriculture, Li Huiwen was a complete layman and knew nothing. She doesn't even know what varieties of rice there are.

She did not expect that there were so many varieties of rice. She compared several different kinds of rice purchased by her family, such as silk Miao rice, Mei Xiang Jian, Seven silk sticky rice and so on. Some rice looks the same on the outside, but when cooked into rice, its aroma and taste are very different. She studies and participates in all kinds of agricultural training through practice, surfing the Internet and communicating with farmers.

As a novice in the industry, Li Huiwen has also suffered losses. Since my mother-in-law has a rice processing plant, a large amount of rice is purchased and stored every year for a year's processing. Some farmers sold the rice that had not been fully dried. Li Huiwen did not identify it and directly bought it and stored it in the warehouse. "fortunately, the family had a lot of experience, so I saw a clue during the random inspection. I had no choice but to go out and take the rice back to the school playground to dry. If we don't find out in time, when the rice gets moldy, the loss will be great. "

Li Huiwen knows that only by constantly learning can he become an expert from a layman. Now Li Huiwen speaks eloquently about rice. Only she knows the hardship.

Take the lead in the establishment of cooperatives for unified planting and sales

After diligent study, Li Huiwen gradually became familiar with the growth of rice, and in 2011, Li Huiwen took the lead in setting up a cooperative.

Li Huiwen's cooperative operates in the mode of "processing factory + cooperative + peasant household + base". Every year, the grain processing plant issues purchase orders to the cooperative according to market demand, and then the cooperative puts forward the planting quantity to the farmers. and sign a purchase and sales agreement. In order to ensure quality, cooperatives choose high-quality rice seeds to be distributed to members free of charge and plant them uniformly (for cooperative farmers, they sell them at half price); uniformly supply means of production to members at lower than market prices; uniformly sow seeds; uniformly carry out field management and technical guidance, and exercise unified control; unified harvesting; unified purchase of rice at prices higher than other high-quality rice in the market; unified packaging and sales.

In order to encourage members to grow safe rice, the purchase price of the cooperative is about 10% higher than that of local high-quality rice. Li Huiwen told the reporter that because the quality of rice was controlled from the source, the rice quality of cooperative members was good. Once upon a time, when villagers were still drying rice in the yard, outsiders drove over to "rob" rice at high prices. As a result, they harvested a lot less rice that year. Later, they gradually improved their purchase and sales contracts with farmers. In the free distribution of seeds for planting, there is no longer a deposit as it used to be. "for cooperative farmers who are not familiar with it, we will collect the deposit first, and then return the deposit at the time of acquisition."