Vegetable farmer Xu Tingjie

In the Beiwan formation of Guanying Village, Mubo Town, Huanxian County, speaking of farmer Xu Tingjie, the locals made up a joke for him: "four people, three mu of land, and seven vegetable sheds have made money." With the support of the government, he used his 3 mu contracted land to set up a shed to grow vegetables, which not only enriched the whole family, but also led the whole group, and became a well-known local vegetable grower.

Ten years ago, Xu Tingjie's family was very poor, and sometimes they had to pay credit to buy some oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar. Because of the lack of land and drought, the grain grown in a year was often not enough to eat in that year. In order to make a living, he works in a nearby brick and tile factory. After a year of hard work, the money he earns can hardly maintain the minimum expenses of his family. "can't this piece of loess feed these people?" Unwilling to be poor, he has been thinking hard.

In 1999, Mubo Town launched the construction project of greenhouse vegetable base in Guanying and Gaozhaigou villages. Xu Tingjie was one of the first farmers to build sheds and grow vegetables. He first contracted a solar greenhouse, because it was a high investment that year, and it was also his first time to grow vegetables with high technology. in the first year, the greenhouse only earned more than 4000 yuan. although the income was not high, he mastered some vegetable planting skills. Since then, his experience in growing vegetables has become richer year after year, and with the strong support of the government, his planting scale has gradually expanded.

In 2008, Xu Tingjie's family already has 2 greenhouses and 4 small sheds, each with an income of about 10, 000 yuan, and the income of the small shed is not less than 4000 yuan. He and his wife were too busy, so they asked for help at a daily wage of 40 yuan. at the end of the year, Xu calculated the account. in addition to the input of fertilizer, seeds, plastic film and employment fees, he made a net profit of 3. 10 Thousand yuan. In the second quarter of 2008, Xu Tingjie was so excited when he saw the new technology of grafting watermelon seedlings with pumpkin vines on TV that he modestly asked the county agricultural technician for advice and started out of season pollution-free watermelon cultivation in his greenhouse. By the time the watermelons came on the market, it was just in time for New Year's Day and the Spring Festival. Every day, visitors packed the vegetable shed and sold it for 5 yuan per catty. After the Spring Festival, the first crop of melons earned more than 10,000 yuan and the second crop more than 4000 yuan. Growing watermelons in the greenhouse made Xu Tingjie taste sweet.

This year, when he learned that Feng Huaizhi in his village was going out of town and that there was a greenhouse idle, he discussed with Feng Huaizhi and agreed to rent an annual mu of wheat at the market price of 350 jin of wheat, and let Feng Huaizhi's family come to work in his vegetable shed. At present, in his three greenhouses, watermelons, tomatoes and cucumbers are all on the market. In four small arch sheds, rape and wheat are green, chili and radish are growing gratifying. By the end of May, his gross income had exceeded 20,000 yuan, and he estimated that it would earn 40,000 yuan by the end of the year. The land is still 3 mu, with a population of 4, but his family is no longer as tight as it used to be. His income per mu and per capita net income are more than 10 times higher than before. He not only lives in a new house, but also has savings. Xu Tingjie said with emotion: "all this thanks to the support of the government, the efficiency of facility agriculture is high."