(China's Poverty Reduction Story) "Stone becomes gold": The road to prosperity of Dendrobium in Shicha Village, Haikou
China News Service, Beijing, July 21st, title: "Stone becomes gold": The road to prosperity of Dendrobium in Shicha Village, Haikou
Author Liu Liang
"What can be grown on stones? At that time, many people couldn't believe it." Hong Yigan, the party branch secretary of Shicha Village, Xiuying District, Haikou City, Hainan Province, recalled that when he proposed to plant Dendrobium, many villagers were dubious.
Shicha Village is located in a volcanic lava area, with more rocks and less soil, the terrain is undulating and water storage is difficult. "If you marry a girl or don't marry gold or silver, whoever has more water tanks will get married" was a popular local saying. Today, Shicha Village relies on the local volcanic rocks to develop the dendrobium industry and embarked on the road to prosperity.
According to the staff of Shicha Village, Dendrobium is a herbaceous plant that grows on rocks. The characteristics of volcanic rocks of "multiple holes, deep holes, and cross holes" are used to synthesize dendrobine and dendrobine by Streptomyces pellets in the roots of dendrobium. A great environment. At the same time, the porous surface of the volcanic stone also helps dendrobium to stabilize its roots and develop its root system, to maximize the absorption of selenium, strontium, magnesium and other trace elements from the volcanic stone to provide valuable nutrients for the growth of dendrobium.
"The unique natural environment and the growth characteristics of dendrobium provide a good opportunity for Shicha Village to develop the dendrobium industry." Hong Yigan said that although he tried to grow lychees, mushrooms, and pigeons before, the effect was not satisfactory. . After years of exploration and investigation, Shicha Village began to develop the dendrobium industry in accordance with local conditions in 2015, adopting the model of "enterprise + professional cooperative + farmers" to promote dendrobium cultivation.
Specifically, a cooperative is a cooperation between an enterprise and a village. The enterprise is mainly responsible for capital contribution, seedlings and technology, and farmers can participate in it through land purchases and business workers. Today, the planting area of dendrobium in Shicha Village has exceeded 500 mu, directly driving more than 200 villagers' employment, and it is expected that the final planting area will reach 1,000 mu.
Hong Yigan said that Dendrobium has a long industrial chain and can not only be sold as bonsai, but also can be further processed into Dendrobium decoction pieces, Dendrobium wine, Dendrobium cosmetics and other products. Now, through the Internet platform, the sales of Dendrobium in Shicha Village have become wider.
The development of the dendrobium industry has also enriched the surrounding businesses of Shicha Village. Hong Yigan pointed out that combining local tourism resources, Shicha Village has developed a number of specialty catering, and has also set up a farmer’s market, opened volcano coffee houses, ancient village customs tours and other industries, which further broadened the source of villagers’ income. Statistics show that the per capita disposable income of farmers in Shicha Village reached 14,500 yuan (RMB, the same below) in 2017, which was 4.5 times that of 2013.
As the dividends of the local dendrobium industry continue to be released, Hong Yigan said that many young people in the village are also very optimistic about the development momentum of dendrobium cultivation. In recent years, Shicha Village has attracted more than 30 college students to return to their hometowns to start businesses, injecting new vitality into the development of the village.
Wu Qingwei, the “post-90s” born in Shicha Village, Haikou, is one of the returning college students who returned to work in 2016.
“In the past, the roads in my hometown were full of potholes and bumps, which turned into muddy roads when it rained.” Wu Qingwei said that in recent years the village has been paved with spacious and flat roads and the natural environment has become more and more beautiful. Now he is responsible for the management of the local volcanic dendrobium garden, and his average monthly salary is nearly 1,000 to 2,000 yuan more than before working outside.
Nowadays, the villagers of Shicha Village no longer "pull" the black mud from the crevices of the stones to cultivate the land, and no longer rely on water tanks to marry their daughters. The village has also developed the dendrobium industry from the former dirty and poor stone village to a famous one. Happy Village.
"Now we Shicha is a beautiful five-star village with a beautiful ecological environment, thriving industry, and affluent life. The villagers of Shicha no longer have to worry about not having beautiful women to marry Shicha Village!" Hong Yigan said with a confident smile. (Finish)