Li Wenxiang: cultivating "Yunnan famous Rice" to increase the income of the masses

Li Wenxiang (first from right) introduces the products to the guests.

"in the past, our village group mainly relied on traditional cultivation, but every year when the weather was not beautiful and every family was short of food, the villagers took their pockets to the nearby village to borrow grain, so they got the derogatory name of 'pocket village'. Now, every household planting 'Yunhui 290', the 'pocket village' in the past has become an enviable 'villa village' and a well-known national civilized village. " Wei Xianrong, head of the Lao Yanzi Village Group of the Wolong Valley Village Committee of Yangjie Township, Kaiyuan City, told reporters proudly.

At present, 95% of the cultivated land of the seven village groups of the Wolong Valley Village Committee in Kaiyuan City has been planted with high-quality rice, with an annual output of 3.5 million kg of high-quality rice, a total economic income of 76.28 million yuan, and a per capita net income of more than 7480 yuan.

It is Li Wenxiang, director of the village committee of Yangjie Township of Kaiyuan City and general manager of Yunnan Honghe Wolong Rice Co., Ltd., who let the "rice" thrive and drive everyone to become rich and well-off. The Yunnan Honghe Wolong Rice Co., Ltd., founded by him, has been recognized as a leading enterprise at the provincial level, and its high-quality rice has been selected as "six famous rice in Yunnan", "Yunnan famous Brand Agricultural products" and "famous Trademark of Yunnan Province". It has led more than 30, 000 farmers to plant 350000 mu of high-quality rice, with an annual income increase of 160 million yuan. Li Wenxiang was selected as the candidate of "Top Ten Farmers in China" and won the titles of "the second Top Rural talents in Yunnan Province" and "Honghezhou Labor Model". Not long ago, Li Wenxiang won the "Xingdian Talent Award" in our province, becoming the first rural "wise man and leader" in our state to win this honor.

A few days ago, the reporter approached Li Wenxiang to explore the secret of his success in leading farmers to grow grain and become well-off and "one meter of wealth for all the people."

Its person and its matter

The speed of the train depends on the front of the train

Born in 1961, Li Wenxiang moved from Qinglongjie Village of Xiaolongtan Office to Wolonggu Village of Yangjie Township as his son-in-law in 1982. In the middle and late 1980s, he successively operated restaurants, trafficked vegetables, wholesale goods, raised long-haired rabbits and so on. No matter what he did, his business was booming.

In 1997, Li Wenxiang gloriously joined Communist Party of China. Soon after joining the party, he caught up with the general election in the village, and the whole village unanimously elected him, who would do business, to be the head of the village. However, on his first day in office, Li Wenxiang's door was crowded with people complaining about poverty and participating in the fun, some crying and some quarreling. "there is no way of 'money' in the village, the villagers come to be poor, and the village cadres have no face." for several days in a row, Li Wenxiang was unable to eat well and slept uneasily, and he has been thinking about how to get the villagers out of poverty as soon as possible.

After much deliberation, a bold idea gradually took shape in his mind: the high-quality rice "Yunhui 290" introduced in Wolong Valley Village was very delicious, but the planting area was small and could not form a competitive advantage. Although Yangjie Township already has two high-quality rice processing plants, they process other rice. If the masses are mobilized to plant "Yunhui 290" and another rice processing plant will be built in the village to unify packaging and sales, this will not only increase the income of the villagers, but also promote the development of village collective enterprises. After Li Wenxiang shared his ideas with the villagers, every household in the village signed and gave their full support according to their handprints.

The iron must be struck while it is hot. The day after signing, Li Wenxiang went to the provincial capital to buy machines. After a painstaking journey, he set up a Rongxiang high-quality rice processing plant. Li Wenxiang also used more than 8000 yuan raised by the masses to buy 10, 000 bags, a sealing machine, a weighing machine, and three sieves, and began to process and produce "Wolong Valley quality rice."

Wolong Valley high-quality rice processing plant has just been put into production, people who have eaten "Yunhui 290" high-quality rice have come to place orders one after another. At that time, the whole Wolong Valley planted "Yunhui 290" only more than 200 mu, and the price of coarse rice on the market was about 3 yuan per kilogram. Li Wenxiang carried out the purchase at the price of 4 yuan per kilogram and sold it to 7.4 yuan per kilogram after selective packaging, but it was still in short supply. Over the past year, the processing plant has made a net profit of more than 10000 yuan. Although the high-quality rice processing plant has been developed to a certain extent, it also occupies a place in the market. However, because the factory processes and produces high-quality rice in a small workshop, not only the output is low, the scientific and technological content is not high, the scale is small, it often feels congenital deficiency in the market competition, and can not adapt to the development of the market.

In 2006, according to the overall goal of "production development, affluent life, civilized rural style, tidy appearance of the village and democratic management", Kaiyuan City put forward the idea of "blossom and bear fruit in point and promote in an all-round way". As a key cultivation industry, high-quality rice in Yangjie Township has been listed on the agenda of new rural construction. Wolong Valley Rongxiang High-quality Rice processing Plant, which is located next to Kunhe Highway, has also ushered in the spring of development.

In 2007, with the key support of the party committees and governments at all levels, the Rongxiang high-quality rice processing plant invested 12 million yuan to build the Rongxiang high-quality rice processing plant, which has a main factory building of 700square meters, a raw material warehouse of 2800 square meters, a product warehouse and laboratory of 2800 square meters, and a product showroom of 150square meters, as well as a product quality control center and a product R & D and innovation center. And introduced the most advanced clean and clean rice processing equipment. At present, the processing plant can process more than 3000 million kilograms of high-quality rice every year, driving more than 5000 farmers to increase their annual economic income by more than 5000 million yuan and annual profit and tax by more than 1.5 million yuan.

In 2010, the Rongxiang high-quality rice processing plant changed its name to Yunnan Honghe Wolong Rice Co., Ltd., in 2010, the company purchased more than 3100 million kilograms of Yunhui 290 high-quality rice from farmers at 6100 yuan per ton, with sales of more than 1900 million yuan. Drive more than 4000 households in the surrounding areas to grow "Yunhui 290" rice from more than 200mu in 2003 to 350000 mu in 2015.

The ambition of "invigorating agriculture"

Farmers need to get rich with science and technology to guide the way.

Science and technology is the primary productive force. Li Wenxiang is well aware of the truth involved in this. If we want to make the "Yunhui 290" high-quality rice bigger and stronger, we must arm the "first workshop" with science and technology.

Over the years, Li Wenxiang was deeply aware of farmers' thirst for scientific knowledge of farming. During his tenure as village director, Li Wenxiang paid special attention to arming new farmers with new science and technology, giving full play to the role of leading agricultural enterprises and professional cooperatives, and driving farmers to increase their income and become rich. In the past, although Wolong Valley Village had traditional industries to grow rice and early winter vegetables, it was small in scale, low in science and technology, low in yield, poor in quality, and low in value. In view of this situation, Li Wenxiang spent a lot of time going deep into the fields to extensively understand what the rural masses are thinking and looking forward to in terms of science and technology. Efforts should be made to cultivate a new type of farmers who are educated, skilled and able to manage. He tried to raise funds and opened a 70-square-meter popular science library in the village for villagers to consult. The village library has all kinds of materials, and through various publicity, training and self-study, the broad masses of villagers have skillfully mastered the planting techniques of greenhouse vegetables and high-quality rice. It also employs provincial academy of agricultural sciences, professors of agricultural university, technical experts of municipal agricultural bureau and local growers to give lectures to villagers 2-5 times a year. In recent years, more than 50 training sessions on high-quality rice and vegetable planting techniques have been held, with 3000 participants. At the same time, he often makes use of broadcasts, columns, and display boards to vigorously promote pollution-free and high-quality rice and vegetable planting techniques, and the main labor force among farmers has received more than 90% of training. And organize villagers to visit and study in other places for 10 times, and successively go to Tonghai, Chenggong and other places to learn planting techniques, so that the advantages of pollution-free, high-quality rice and vegetable leading industries can be developed rapidly. With the support of the Agriculture Bureau of Kaiyuan City, he has also trained more than 100 professional planting and breeding technicians in his village.