[Explanation] There is such a cooperative in Heerying Village, Lanlongkou Town, Huangzhong District, Xining City, Qinghai Province. Villagers sit on the ground among piles of broad beans, carefully selecting high-quality broad beans, and these broad beans will be sailed out to sea soon , Transported to the port of Kobe, Japan.

  [Concurrent] Zhang Shengman, Head of Mansheng Cultivation Cooperative, Huangzhong District, Xining City, Qinghai Province

  We grow some of our beans and purchase some of them.

After the purchase (according to) the size of the beans, some of them will be used as seeds for next year, and most of them will be exported to Japan. Basically, exports to Japan accounted for 70 to 80%.

This part of exports accounts for 70% (of income), which is much higher than the domestic market price.

  [Explanation] The Huangzhongmansheng breeding and breeding cooperative was established in 2013 to build a broad bean planting base in the form of "cooperative + farmer + base".

On the one hand, he planted more than 400 acres of broad beans; on the other hand, he signed a contract with some counties in Hainan Prefecture for planting more than 1800 acres of broad beans. The purchase will be carried out during the autumn harvest, and the income of farmers will be increased at the same time.

The original cooperative had only 8 or 9 people, and now there are more than 30 employees. 80% of the employees are women from neighboring villages in their 60s. The cooperative has solved the employment problem for these women at home, with an average daily income of 80 yuan. They have increased their basic living income.

  [Concurrent] Zhang Shengman, Head of Mansheng Cultivation Cooperative, Huangzhong District, Xining City, Qinghai Province

  Now we have more than 20 people working here every day, nearly 30 people.

They are all local, and there are a lot of people from the surrounding 60-something old ladies, and the kind of disadvantaged groups who don't want to work elsewhere.

  [Explanation] The 64-year-old Wang Wenying followed Zhang Shengman to pick up broad beans to increase her income before the establishment of the cooperative. It has been more than ten years since she has a fixed income and her quality of life has also improved.

  [Concurrent] Wang Wenying, a villager in Shangsi Village, Lanlongkou Town, Huangzhong District, Xining City, Qinghai Province

  I have been picking soybeans for twelve or three years. It’s very good. Their wages are also very good. They are also very good to us. They are good to us (we) and earn good money. Students’ pocket money (me) It can also be given, and the vegetables (me) at home can also be bought. Elderly people like us, they also invite us to eat and drink and pay us back. Good, good to us.

I was too annoyed at home. After I came to the factory, I could laugh with everyone and I was in a good mood.

  [Explanation] The cooperative originally collected broad beans for a foreign trade company, and then began to take charge of all the work from planting to processing.

In 2020, Zhang Shengman established his own company on the basis of a cooperative, and he decided to plant, harvest, store, screen, inspect, pack and export.

Although the export volume has decreased, the income is one-third higher than in the past.

  [Concurrent] Zhang Shengman, Head of Mansheng Cultivation Cooperative, Huangzhong District, Xining City, Qinghai Province

  In the future, if we can get the support of the government now, we have to expand our operations, expand the planting area, and expand the export volume to Japanese customers.

  Reporter Qi Miao reports from Xining, Qinghai

Editor in charge: [Ji Xiang]