[Explanation] 69-year-old Song Huayou and 34-year-old Song Benxin are from Huxing Village, Toutuo Town, Yuexi County, Anqing City, Anhui Province. For more than ten years, the father and son have led the villagers to develop characteristic industries and create a new way of combining agriculture and tourism to become rich. road.
[Explanation] In 1976, Song Huayou went to work in the village and began to explore how to bring villagers to become rich.
In 2001, Song Huayou led the villagers to grow cabbage, cowpea, eggplant and other vegetables.
In 2006, Song Huayou's trial planting of single-season wild rice was successful.
Today, the whole village grows 2,000 mu of water jasmine, with an average income of about 6,000 yuan per acre, and the highest can sometimes reach tens of thousands of yuan.
[Concurrent] Song Huayou, the leader of agriculture
The highest altitude of our house is 1000 meters, and the lowest is only 400 meters. In some places, it is not suitable for double season water bamboo.
So since 2007, we started to plant single-season water jasmine, because the water quality and soil of single-season water-grass is different from that of double-season water-grass, and its requirements are lower, so our village is a veritable water-white professional village.
[Explanation] In 2008, Song Huayou led the establishment of a tiger-shaped alpine vegetable planting professional cooperative to help villagers sell water bamboo.
In 2012, it was the peak harvest of wild rice. He could collect nearly 100,000 catties a day. After a week, the villagers made money, but he lost more than 100,000 yuan.
[Concurrent] Song Huayou, the leader of agriculture
At that time, our conditions were all dirt roads. On a rainy day, it was like a muddy field. Cars could not go, large cars could not enter, and small cars could not finish pulling.
Therefore, in order to prevent the common people from being damaged, because we are in the development stage, if the common people have losses, they will not be able to do anything else, that is, I will not plant them next year.
So without affecting the enthusiasm of the masses, we insisted on accepting it. In that year, in order to ensure the interests of the masses, I lost about 100,000, but the losses of the common people basically kept them.
[Explanation] In 2016, Song Benxin, who returned from the army, took over the cooperative from his father, and changed the loss-making situation by grasping the market conditions in other places, introducing new varieties, establishing fresh-keeping warehouses, and entering the market in a staggered manner.
[Concurrent] Entrepreneur Song Benxin
At that time, the main reason for our water bamboo shoots was the poor technology in the planting process, and then in the process of acquisition, the good quality and poor quality were not divided in detail, resulting in the price being unsellable.
After I took over, I mainly introduced a planting technology to those places in Zhejiang, better planting technology and good varieties.
Including in the purchase process of farmers, it is divided into good quality and poor quality, which promotes the standard of farmers' planting.
[Explanation] At the same time, he built "Flower and Fruit Mountain" on the mountain field and developed 400 acres of alpine blueberries.
Then, the Internet celebrity check-in points such as "Mirror of the Sky", "Hand of the Sky" and "Sky Bird's Nest Observation Deck" were built to develop leisure tourism and drive the sales of special agricultural products.
[Concurrent] Entrepreneur Song Benxin
Now that our hometown is developing better and better, I also hope that more thoughtful and literate young people will return to their hometown and build a better hometown.
Reported by Zhang Jun, Chu Wei, and Zhu Sensen from Yuexi, Anhui
Responsible editor: [Luo Pan]