Luo Tingfu, the Fish King of West Chongqing

Editor's note: Chongqing Yuxi Fish Fry first Village Fish Culture Association is a demonstration unit of the Ministry of Agriculture in 2002 and a municipal demonstration unit in Chongqing in 2003. Luo Tingfu, chairman of the association, was awarded as a national model worker on April 29 and went to Beijing to receive the award. The advanced deeds of this comrade are now published, and the agricultural and economic departments of all districts and counties (cities) are invited to conscientiously organize the study of agricultural and economic cadres and persons in charge of farmers' specialized cooperative organizations, so as to continuously promote the development of farmers' professional cooperative organizations in Chongqing.

Luo Tingfu, 71, is an authentic farmer in Meishiba Village, Shuanghe Town, Rongchang County, Chongqing. When it comes to his achievements in fish farming, people praise him as a front-runner who dares to eat crabs, relies on the party's policy of enriching the people, and leads the villagers to get rich together. His advanced deeds have been reported successively in the national and provincial-level news media such as CCTV, Chongqing Television, "Contemporary Party members" magazine, and Chongqing Daily, and have been praised many times by relevant leaders of cities, counties and the Ministry of Agriculture. Rongchang County has been rated as an expert in science and technology, a "three high" agricultural demonstration household and a model worker in Chongqing. In 2003, his village was identified as a ministerial fishery pilot unit by the Ministry of Agriculture and was known as the first village of fish fry in the west of Chongqing.

Daring to do is a prerequisite for getting rich

Luo Tingfu is very legendary in Rongchang County, Chongqing. He dared to think and work hard, deducing for us the myth of a poor farmer who became the "fish king of western Chongqing".

Twenty years ago, by chance, Luo Tingfu went to work in his town government, and an eye-catching slogan on the wall attracted him: "there is a bright future for the development of the fishing industry." He thought, "since there are so many ponds in the village that are wasted, why not make use of them?" Back in the village, he put forward his idea to the village party branch, and the village leader encouraged him to find a few villagers to have a try. That night, Luo Tingfu went to his employer and joined the West to do the work of the villagers. Finally, he said that three families had to type out the word "difficult" and the word "fear". So, with courage and spirit, they chose a slightly wider drainage ditch in the village to dry. After more than two months of hard work of getting up early and feeling dark, shoulder-to-shoulder and back-to-back hardship.

A planting pond and fry pond covering an area of more than two mu has finally been built. After storing water, Luo Tingfu bought nine kinds of carp and put them in the pond at the town farmers' market. The following year, nine species of fish successively propagated more than 40,000 fry, with an income of more than 800 yuan. Victory in the first battle, Luo Tingfu did not meet the status quo, he struck while the iron was hot, showing a more valuable spirit. The town and village cadre he found said, "those who touch the hoe are not shorter than others. If they want to shake off poverty and become rich, they must think far and do great things." With the support and help of the party organization in the town and village, Luo Tingfu established a fish farm in Meishiba Village, Shuanghe Town, and served as the director of the field. At the same time, he boldly contracted several abandoned Shitangzi in the village to breed fish fry. Without money, he did everything possible to raise money; without skills, he traveled all over the country to learn. Because Luo Tingfu is able to bear hardships, good at learning, and willing to study, his fish culture skills have improved year by year, and he has become the leading expert in fish hatching in the county. The number of fish species in his fish farm has gradually increased from the original single carp to the "four major domestic fish" such as crucian carp, grass carp and silver carp. Later, Luo Tingfu successively introduced new species such as mandarin fish, rouge fish, tiger sand fish, Wuchang fish and yellow spicy fish, and invested millions of yuan to carry out technical transformation of the contracted 65 mu fish ponds. Small to large, shallow to deep, mud to stone, stagnant water to live water, so as to improve the load capacity of water per unit area, increase the breeding area, improve the quality of fish species and economic benefits. In 2004, the Luo Tingfu family produced 90 million water splashes, 60 million standard fish fry, 10,000 kilograms of commercial fish, an annual output value of more than 600,000 yuan and a profit of more than 200,000 yuan.

Common Wealth is the goal of effort

How to repay the society when you get rich? How to lead the villagers to get rich together? This is what Luo Tingfu usually thinks most and does the most. Especially after he was elected as a model worker in Chongqing in 2002, he insisted on visiting 225 households and 1100 mu of fish ponds in the village every month to teach the villagers feeding methods and provide technical services free of charge. Some people said that he was a "fool", but he said disapprovingly: "now it is a market economy, everyone wants to make money, but money is not everything." I am not at ease when I am rich alone, and I am only happy when the villagers of the whole village and town are rich. " Over the past 10 years, Luo Tingfu has invested more than 30,000 yuan in fish fry funds for more than 20 people, solved more than 60 pieces of technical problems for professional fish farmers free of charge, and recovered a total of more than 500,000 yuan in economic losses. Tang Xianneng, a villager of the fifth society in Meishiba village, lived in a hut a few years ago, and his family was very poor, and his daughter in high school dropped out of school because she had no money to pay tuition and fees. When Luo Tingfu learned of this, he extended a helping hand to him and invested more than 1000 yuan to support him in raising fish fry for his children to continue their studies. Today, Luo Xianneng's hut has become a "small foreign house", and his daughter has also graduated from graduate school and is working in Hunan, preparing to study for a doctorate. In addition, 20 villagers, including Zhou Lungao of Society 4 and Luo Anyuan of Society 3, also began to learn to raise fish fry with the help of Luo Yanfu, and are all becoming famous wealthy households in the village. At present, Meishiba Village has a concentrated fish fry culture pond of more than 1100 mu, with an annual output of 490 million fish fry, 310 million standard fish fry, 100000 kilograms of finished fish, an output value of more than 6.5 million yuan, and an average income increase of more than 2000 yuan. it has become the largest fish and fry production base in southwest China, and has been praised as "the first Village of Fish fry in West Chongqing" by the State Ministry of Agriculture and relevant leaders of cities and counties.