Fan Xuelian grows grain and produces great knowledge.

The per unit yield of wheat in the previous crop was 410 kg, and that of corn in the next crop was 500 kg. The annual grain yield reached 910 kg, 168 kg higher than the city's average grain yield of 742 kg, and the annual net profit per mu reached 600 yuan, 111 yuan higher than the city's average annual net profit per mu. Fan Xuelian, a farmer in Lijiao Village, Liulihe Town, Fangshan District, Beijing, has developed great knowledge in growing grain. The above figures are his pioneering work.

Fan Xuelian (photo source: organization Department of Fangshan District Committee)

Fan Xuelian is a pacesetter for growing grain and getting rich in the city. from 2006 to 2007, he was awarded the title of "national grain grower" by the Ministry of Agriculture for two consecutive years. With this honor, Fan Xuelian got inspiration from grain cultivation, radiated to drive the large-scale operation of land, drove farmers with the model of creating high grain production, and realized farmers' income increase and prosperity.

In 1986, Fan Xuelian, who preferred grain cultivation, had only 50 mu of land. in 1989, the planting scale was expanded to 160 mu, and the income from growing grain was able to support two children to go to school. In 2003, he made use of the land transfer policy, with many years of planting experience, expanded the planting scale to 500 mu, with the scale and efficiency increasing year by year, the planting scale reached 780 mu in 2007. Fan Xuelian carried out the activity of creating high grain yield in cooperation with agricultural scientific research and extension departments. Under the guidance of experts, his grain has had a bumper harvest year after year. This year, the average per unit yield of wheat reached 450 kg, 108 kg higher than the average per unit yield of the whole city.

As an authentic farmer, why did Fan Xuelian create the miracle of grain yield per unit area? People who are familiar with and know Fan Xuelian can point out the three "magic weapons" of his high grain production: accepting, mastering, and applying science and technology; driving the surrounding farmers to grow grain through science and technology and taking the road of common prosperity; and being willing to accept new things. a stable development mechanism has been gradually formed.

Fan Xuelian has joined the Beijing Grain Association since 2004 and began to cooperate with scientific research and extension departments. At the same time, he also led six major grain growers in the village to join the "science and technology household" project in Fangshan District. Last year, he introduced a new high-quality wheat variety "Yannong 19" from the Regional Institute of Agricultural Sciences, planted 400 mu, and implemented techniques such as rapid propagation of improved wheat varieties, purification and rejuvenation of improved varieties, balanced fertilization by soil testing, backward movement of nitrogen fertilizer, matching cultivation of high quality, safe drying and storage, and sold all the products as seeds, achieving a net profit of 260000 yuan. According to Lao Fan's own words, "after planting the land for so many years, I have never seen such a good harvest. It is technology that has helped me a lot." From the year before last, Fan Xuelian began to participate in a technical training course on rain-fed corn and decided to implement rain-fed corn planting. According to the requirements of experts, he selected a drought-resistant variety "Jingdan 28" and led the whole village to implement rain-fed corn planting. Last year, 1500 mu of corn in the village had not been watered during the whole growth period, saving 90, 000 cubic meters of water.

Although Fan Xuelian became a benchmark in the village, he never kept his technology secret, unreservedly imparted scientific and technological knowledge to the growers around him, and introduced new varieties and technologies to other farmers. Some farmers are short of funds and have difficulties in purchasing agricultural materials, so Fan Xuelian buys more for them to use first. Fan Xuelian also solved the employment of more than a dozen idle labor force in the village, and now he has contracted 800 mu of land in the village.

Fan Xuelian is a risk-conscious person. He knows that there are certain risks in farming, so he actively participates in agricultural risk cooperation. In 2005, the Beijing Grain Association established a risk mutual assistance mechanism, carried out demonstration work on agricultural risk mutual assistance, and provided mutual insurance compensation for wind, hail and other natural disasters encountered by crops in the growth stage. Fan Xuelian insured 400 mu of corn that year. In 2007, the attack of strong wind and high temperature caused some damage to corn, and Fan Xuelian received more than 20,000 yuan in mutual compensation for risk. In order to better drive farmers to participate in market competition with collective advantages, Fan Xuelian applied for the establishment of Liulihe grain production and marketing cooperatives to achieve unified purchase of agricultural materials, unified mechanized operations, unified plant protection prevention and control, and unified price sales, which not only reduced production management costs, but also increased sales prices, and more and more farmers benefited from it.