China News Service, Yiyang, October 17 (Song Mei) "Uncle Chen, according to the first wave of autumn grain harvesting, this year's autumn grain harvesting and storage is expected to be more than double that of previous years. You can quickly call a few more workers and put these The spare warehouse was sorted out..." On October 17, in the drying base of Dadongkou Village, Jinpen Town, Datonghu District, Yiyang, Hunan, the head of the base Liu Weizheng seized the rainy weather and deployed the base power to harvest autumn grains. Chu played the "preparatory battle" ahead of time.

  At the moment when the autumn grain is harvested in the Dongting Lake area, the continuous rainy weather has caused the drying room of the Liuwei Cooperative to enter a "busy state" in advance.

In order to solve the problem of difficult harvesting and storage for retail farmers, he innovated the cooperative "production and marketing" model to provide farmers with various services such as harvesting, drying, purchasing, and flexible employment of agricultural leisure, reducing the loss after the harvest of autumn crops and ensuring the paddy in each paddy field. All of them can “return the pellets to the warehouse” to achieve high yield and increase income of farmers.

Liu Wei's cooperative ensures that the rice grains in each paddy field can be "returned to the warehouse."

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  Liu Wei, 43 years old this year, is a "double-season rice" planting expert in Dadongkou Village. He has been rooted between "rice" and "field" for more than 20 years, and has witnessed the "advanced" changes in rice planting in Dongting Lake area. This is the transition from "eat food" to "eat well".

For Liu Wei, “food for food” not only fills the stomach, it is also a career that we will stick to for a lifetime.

  After graduating from high school at the age of 18, Liu Wei began to learn about rice planting. He followed his father’s daily life in the traditional farming life of "sunrise and sunset". He worked hard throughout the year, but only the family’s food and clothing were obtained in return. .

In order to change the living conditions, many people in the village began to interplant a variety of cash crops in the fields to increase the yield per mu, but Liu Wei chose to insist on planting rice and stick to the "food for food."

  In order to increase the output value of rice fields, Liu Wei closely followed the national food policy, starting from three aspects of rice seeding, management and protection, and sales. Mechanization, reduce costs, and scientifically increase the value of rice output.

Due to perseverance and hard study, Liu Wei has become a well-known rice planting “expert” and a “leader” in farming wealth from the village’s rice planting “nail house” in the past 20 years.

Datong Lake "double-season rice" planting expert Liu Wei is repairing agricultural drones.

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  In order to increase the confidence of more grain farmers, the planting area of ​​“grain for food” will be further expanded.

In 2014, Liu Wei established a professional rice planting cooperative in the village to circulate 1,700 acres of rice for centralized management and protection, and provide retail farmers with mechanical farming, mechanical planting, mechanical harvesting, mechanical seeding and other agricultural mechanization "custodial" services, and at the same time regularly provide Growers in need conduct technical exchanges, learning and training in the use, operation, and maintenance of agricultural machinery.

  With technical guarantees, the double-cropping rice planting area in Dadongkou Village has been further expanded. More and more growers have handed their own paddy fields to cooperatives for "trusteeship". The whole process is mechanized to improve labor efficiency and provide farmers with flexible employment. Provide more possibilities.

  "Nine acres of land in the family were transferred to the cooperative at a price of 800 yuan per acre, and the remaining 5 cents of'grain' planting was also handed over to the cooperative throughout the whole process. The cooperative came to'help' during the busy season and earn 200 to 400 yuan a day. Wages vary." Chen Shoufan, 52, was once impoverished due to illness and has been living on the edge of poverty.

After the labor force was restored in 2015, he began to pick up his farming life again. Despite his hard work, he still did not change the poverty of the family.

  In order to allow more poor people to enjoy the "dividends" of modern agricultural development, in 2017, Liu Wei gave "custodial" assistance to 82 poor rice farmers in the village, and provided long-term "flexible employment" opportunities.

As a target of assistance, Chen Shoufan was hired as a long-term worker of the cooperative, and simultaneously received services such as "custody" and agricultural machinery training. With the help of good national policies and cooperatives, Chen Shoufan got rid of poverty as scheduled and achieved the doorstep at home. With the "food and bread", the beautiful vision of living a good life.

  In order to lead more people to the well-off road, Liu Wei made a new attempt in 2021. At the beginning of the year, he hired experts to analyze the soil quality of all rice fields, and carried out “soil and measurement method” based on the analysis results. At the same time, we will purchase a new drone to spread green manure on the rice fields after the autumn harvest. Ecological soil cultivation will improve the soil fertility in the coming year and fully improve the safety index of “food for food”.

  "This year's autumn grain is not only full of grains, the yield per mu is twice as high as last year, and the price trend is also gratifying. Practice has proved that such an ecological model is feasible. It can be replicated and promoted next year. It is no longer a dream to get rich under Hexia... "Looking at the 700 tons of autumn grain that has been dried in the storage warehouse, as the guardian of the "food grain", Liu Wei firmed up that share.

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