College students who return to their hometown to grow pears increase the income of the villagers

Yang Dake (first from left) is busy in the orchard.

More than ten years ago, Wuliang Village of Shuangtu Town was the poorest mountain village in Yunyang County. At present, on Wuliang Mountain, which is more than 1000 meters above sea level, pear trees are everywhere. Villagers have tasted the "sweet taste" of planting pear trees one after another. The annual per capita income is more than 5000 yuan. Every household has built a small foreign-style building. All this is because Yang Dake, who graduated from Sichuan University, put down his work in the city and returned to the village to lead the villagers to become rich and start a business. In 2006, this year's top student was named "Top Ten People Touched Chongqing".

Yang Dake is not the first college student in the village, but the first young man to give up his job in the city and return to the village to start a business.

In 1999, Yang Dake graduated from the Department of Applied Electronics of Sichuan University and was hired by a communications company in Chengdu. It is the dream of many mountain children to jump out of the mountain and jump out of the "farm gate". Just when his family was happy that he could take root in the city, Yang Dake decided to quit his job and return to his hometown to start a business.

Yang Dake said that he had visited Chengdu Longquanyi many times, where the characteristic sightseeing agriculture opened his eyes. He remembered what his grandfather had said: the poorer and more backward a place was, the more technology and talent it needed. Grandpa, who graduated from the Department of Agriculture of Wuhan University before liberation, planted pear trees in his hometown. Up to now, there are dozens of mu of pear gardens in his home. "Now that the national policy is so good, why don't you go back to your hometown and do something?" Yang Dake thought.

In 2000, Yang Dake resolutely quit his job and returned to his hometown as a farmer. During the day, he and his parents went up the mountain to open up wasteland, weed and nest; at night, he taught himself pear planting techniques with books in his arms. A month later, the barren slope behind the mountain was reclaimed. Yang Dake borrowed more than 50,000 yuan from relatives and friends, traveled all over Hunan, Beijing, Jilin and other more than ten provinces and cities, introduced more than 300 pear varieties, and led villagers to plant together.

In 2003, the pear tree planting in Wuliang Village took shape, covering an area of 2000 mu, and fruit wholesalers lined up to buy it. In 2005, Yang Dake registered the first brand of Wuliang Mountain,"Dake Brand" Crystal Pear.

In 2006, Yang Dake began to teach pear planting technology to villagers free of charge. That year, he was named "Top Ten People Moved Chongqing" and became a Communist Party member.

"Most villagers have been relying on mountains for many years. How can they have the money to contract land to grow pears? They worry about not having the technology, they worry about not seeing the benefits, they worry about losing the money." Yang Dake mobilized villagers to plant pears and took the initiative to sign a contract agreement with villagers: he provided seedlings to villagers, carried out package survival, package technology and package recovery, and the survival rate was no less than 95%. After hanging fruits, villagers paid seedling money.

With the strong support of the local government, Yang Dake initiated the establishment of Yunyang County Big Fruit Crystal Pear Professional Cooperative and signed a contract agreement with villagers. By 2007, the planting area of crystal pear in the town reached 4500 mu.

In order to help villagers buy cheap chemical fertilizer, Yang Dake advanced more than 30,000 yuan to buy 32 tons of special fertilizer for fruit trees from the new county town. Two cars full of fertilizer were transported from the county town to Wuliang Village. After that, he went to Wanzhou for many times to buy back agricultural pesticides, these two items alone, for the villagers saved more than 3000 yuan.

Today, Yang Dake, 41, is president of the Federation of Rural Cooperative Economic Organizations in Yunyang County. "The village has developed very well in recent years." Yang Dake said, Yunyang County big fruit crystal pear professional cooperative has led 476 villagers to develop pear planting, Wuliang Mountain pear garden annual sales revenue has reached 12 million yuan.