Panning for gold in the water and raising fish to get rich-- A record of Xu Jian, a typical aquaculture entrepreneur in Wangdian Town, Dangyang City

Xu Jian, a native of Wangdian Town, Dangyang City, was born in 1984. Compared with his peers, he is more mature and stable. From a wage earner with a dream of a few hundred yuan a month, to a fishery technology leader who dares to innovate and pursue his dreams. Under his efforts, now aquaculture aquatic products 100 mu, aquaculture service center area of 200 square meters, service farmers up to 500 households, service area of 10,000 mu, annual adult fish sales of more than 2000 tons. His persistent entrepreneurial spirit made him taste the ups and downs experienced by his peers, and he cherished the arduous journey he had gone through.

First, dream and make up your mind to breed.

After graduating from Hubei Yichang Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering in 2003, he worked in a factory in Yichang and ran through sales. He confidently wanted to use the cultural knowledge he had learned to change his destiny. It has been proved for more than a year that his dream is difficult to achieve. Think about the more than 100 mu of fish ponds managed by his elderly parents at home, and the hard days of his parents facing the black soil, ploughing at sunrise and resting at sunset, which led him to use his own resources to carry out aquaculture. Finally, under the agreement with his parents, he quit his sales job in Yichang and studied aquaculture in the Fisheries College of Jingzhou Changjiang University.

Second, work hard and breed hard

During his study at Changjiang University, he not only worked in the school aquaculture base, but also worked as a free aquaculture worker in Wangdian Town Fisheries Association at that time. Regardless of the wind and rain, he stayed by the fish pond until he graduated in 2005. At that time, the fishery medicine marketing department of Wangdian Town saw Xu Jian's hard-working, hard-working and down-to-earth attitude, and directly invited him from the fish pond to the marketing department to be responsible for feed sales and all the fish disease prevention and control work in Wangdian town. When I received the job, my own fish pond was also being excavated and renovated. During the day, he was both a salesman in the sales department and a feed porter, and a fisherman called and had to get to the breeding site at the first time. He is also responsible for the renovation of his more than 100 mu fish pond. At the end of 2006, the transformation of my fish pond was completed, and the sales department also did a good job. He still sighs when he looks back on his original experience. In 2007, more than 100 mu of fish ponds began to breed conventional species.

Third, study hard and breed scientifically.

Conventional species of breeding labor intensity, adult fish raised out and difficult to sell, no matter how good the benefit is about 500 yuan. In order to improve the efficiency of farming, he took the initiative to go to the three Gorges Vocational College to participate in entrepreneurship training and to participate in the training of a new type of professional farmers organized by the Dangyang Municipal Bureau of Agriculture. By learning from experts and consulting peers, we should strive to make use of what we have learned, improve the breeding model and update the breeding varieties. In 2012, 30 mu of fish ponds were used as the experimental and demonstration base to demonstrate the high-density culture and special culture of Pelteobagrus fulvidraco. As of 2013, the benefit of self-cultured Pelteobagrus fulvidraco per mu could be more than 8000 yuan, and that year it was more than 200,000 yuan. The gratifying benefits of culture let him see the sweetness of culture. At present, he mainly promotes the exclusive culture mode of Pelteobagrus fulvidraco, and at the same time, he also uses 30 mu of fish ponds to culture new species such as tilapia and Loach.

Fourth, serve the aquaculture industry and take the road of common prosperity

After getting rich, he did not forget to drive the vast number of aquaculture farmers around him, and he enthusiastically taught his aquaculture techniques to others, driving the surrounding farmers to become rich together. As a fishery science and technology demonstration household, he not only raised Pelteobagrus fulvidraco from 20 farmers in this village, but also guided them to transform their fish ponds, and developed tilapia culture, which achieved certain economic benefits in varying degrees. In order to avoid detours in the transformation of fish ponds, he did not know how many times he went deep into each household for guidance, so that one after another farmers smoothly carried out the transformation of standardized fish ponds, his selfless dedication, helpful behavior and spirit won the praise and praise of local farmers. Not only that, he also actively joined the cooperative and became a technical promotion consultant for Chunquan fishery professional cooperatives, selflessly solving fish diseases and breeding problems in the process of breeding for fishermen.

In the course of running the aquaculture service center and communicating with fishermen, what he heard most from the farmers was that "the sales channel for adult fish cannot be opened, and even the best fish can be raised for nothing." Xu Jian heard this in his heart. He had been thinking about how to solve the problem of selling fish. He contacted Wang Dachun of the Chunquan Aquaculture Association and came up with ideas and ideas for fishermen to open up sales channels. Through the efforts of the two people, in 2014, more than 2000 tons of high-quality fresh aquatic products were sold, with a sales income of more than 20 million yuan, and the income of farmers who sold their products increased by 300 yuan.

Xu Jian is not only an excellent student representative of the local new professional farmer training project, but also a progressive youth who is willing to learn. He did not stop at the existing achievements, but now every day as a new starting point, more goal, more confidence, as always, with his diligence to build a better life.