(You look so good when you smile) Returning college students turn into "chao farmers": intensively cultivate the "fertile soil" for rural revitalization
Chinanews, Chongqing, August 18th, title: (You look so good when you smile) Returning college students turn into "chao farmers": intensively cultivated "fertile soil" for rural revitalization
Author Zhang Yan Ma Jiaxin Huang Luqian
Nowadays, sorghum is entering the harvest season. At the sorghum planting demonstration base in Huangzhuang Village, Jiangjin District, Chongqing, large areas of sorghum are like a crimson sunset, reflecting the smiling faces of farmers in the fields. A group of fashionable young people busy in the sorghum fields are particularly eye-catching. Among this group of post-90s, there are white-collar workers who have resigned from the city, and college students who have just graduated and devoted themselves to the construction of a new countryside.
The picture shows Hu Yuanzheng and his friends shooting vibrato in the sorghum field to record the harvest of sorghum. Photo by Ma Jiaxin
In the context of the “village revitalization” policy, as the base of the Jiangxiaobai Sorghum Industrial Park expands year by year, the industrial park has raised a group of post-90s representatives represented by Hu Yuan and Chen spaceD from professional technical requirements to overall management of personnel. The team of college students in township. This sorghum planting team, which was established for nearly four years and has zero turnover rate, became a post-90s "new farmer" in Huangzhuang, Jiangjin, about 80 kilometers away from the main city of Chongqing.
What the local villagers did not expect was that the addition of this group of "new farmers" changed their lives: not only was the whole process of sorghum planting mechanized, the yield per mu was also increased from over 300 jin in retail farmers to an average yield per mu. More than 600 kilograms, without having to go to work in other places, you can get a monthly income of several thousand yuan.
"White-collar" transformed into "new farmer", trendy man has a "manor dream" in his heart
Wearing a white shirt and tie, wearing a pair of sunglasses, natural curly hair and a pigtail, if it weren't for the dark hands and the sorghum in his arms, the reporter suddenly felt that the post-90s guy Hu Yuan in front of him was An urban "tide man". With nearly 40 degrees of heat and heat, Hu Yuan and his friends are shooting vibrato in the sorghum field, recording the scene of the sorghum harvest.
Hu Yuan, who graduated from Southwest University with a major in agriculture, gave up his job in the postal system in the city two years ago and became a planting technician in Jiangxiaobai Sorghum Industrial Park.
"My family has always opposed me going back to the countryside. As an older generation of farmers with traditional ideas, it is hard to get a college student at home, so I definitely don't want to let my children return to their hometown to farm." Recalling his initial choice, Hu Yuan said. Sitting in the office from nine to five is not what he likes. Due to the influence of traditional thinking, there are fewer and fewer young people engaged in labor and production in rural areas, and the problem of labor shortage has become increasingly prominent. He hopes to use the new ideas and new technologies he has learned to serve the rural revitalization.
The picture shows the Jiangxiaobai Sorghum Museum under construction in the industrial park. Photo courtesy of respondents
"The modern agriculture we are studying is completely different from the traditional agriculture understood by our fathers. Driven by the strategy of rural revitalization, the vast rural areas are promising." Hu Yuan said that he has worked in Jiangxiaobai Sorghum Industrial Park for 3 years and has been working continuously. The changes brought to the village by the new technologies and new machines he was exposed to gave him a sense of accomplishment.
When direct seedling planting was used to replace the traditional local seedling transplanting process, the northern planter could not be used in practice due to local soil porosity, moisture and other reasons. Hu Yuan combined part of the manual to modify the planter. After the successful trial, the new plant The planter is widely promoted and applied in the local industrial park.
"Adjust the traditional seedling raising and transplanting method to live broadcast, a modified lightweight planter can operate 20 mu a day, which is equivalent to the traditional seedling transplanting results of 50 laborers." Hu Yuan talked about the changes brought about by agricultural mechanization. Full of pride.
The rural life away from the hustle and bustle of the city ignited a "manor dream" in Hu Yuan's heart. He hoped that he could become a farmer in the future and build his own manor.
From the "ivory tower" to the "new countryside", the rural feelings of female "group pets"
Like Hu Yuan, Chen SpaceD is also chasing his dream in this "fertile soil". "Nowadays, many young people are running into the city, but I am going backwards." Chen SpaceD, with dimples on her face, told reporters that she grew up in the countryside and has always liked the vast fields and the villages. Greetings. I want to have my own flower garden in the future...
Chen SpaceD, who graduated from Sichuan Agricultural University, went out of the "ivory tower" and devoted himself to the construction of a "new countryside". She is the only female technician in the sorghum industrial park, and she is also a "group pet" in everyone's eyes. She has been working here for nearly two years. Chen spaceD's lively and lovely smile is particularly contagious. In the village, people of all ages, men and women, get along with her very well.
Chen spaceD's work is mainly to maintain plants in greenhouses and flower gardens in the industrial park. Open her mobile phone album, more than 3000 photos are almost all kinds of plants or handmade flowers. "Every more plant in the flower garden is like making another friend." In Chen SpaceD's view, the newly cultivated endless summer, sick geraniums, freshly cut Corolla... these plants have different growth conditions, she wants Take pictures and record them one by one in order to understand their growth habits and characteristics.
"Post-90s" college student Chen Yi's work is mainly to maintain plants in greenhouses and flowerbeds. Photo courtesy of respondents
Seeing former classmates in the circle of friends exposed the exquisite food and fun things in the city, Chen SpaceD admitted that although she occasionally felt a little disappointed, she still felt that she liked the work and life here more.
"Our company holds graffiti, street dancing, racing and other cultural activities that young people are interested in every year. This atmosphere, coupled with a job that I like, gives me a strong sense of belonging." Chen spaceD said, In addition to going deep into the fields, we will also participate in various trainings. The company provides opportunities for us to communicate and cooperate with experts from well-known universities and agricultural sciences institutes to avoid "paper talk"; and encourages us to learn, innovate, and use cutting-edge industry knowledge and technology to change local farmers’ perceptions of modern agriculture. The actual results have mobilized farmers' enthusiasm for planting sorghum.
"Our country is a big agricultural country, and its industry is improving day by day, and agriculture is in urgent need of development. However, many rural families and college students' concepts of agriculture and employment are still stuck in the past, coupled with insufficient rural employment and entrepreneurship platforms, resulting in a serious loss of high-quality agricultural talents." Tang Pengfei, production president of Chongqing Jiangxiaobai Liquor Industry Co., Ltd., said that with the development of agricultural modernization, the speed of agricultural mechanization is accelerating, and the sorghum planting model is also changing to an agricultural industry consortium, and the demand for agricultural professionals has increased sharply. Combining with the development of the enterprise itself, providing college students with a diversified employment space and a platform for pursuing their dreams is one of the key reasons for attracting college students to return home for employment.
Tang Pengfei said that in order to build a modern agricultural industrial park, Jiang Ji Winery is supported by Jiang Xiaobai’s entire industrial chain strategy, and uses industry to stimulate the development of primary and tertiary industries, creating more jobs, and not only attracting college students to return home for employment, but also Many farmers who go out to work have provided opportunities to return to their hometowns for employment and promote a virtuous cycle of rural economy.
It is understood that there are more than 100 "chao farmers" in this village, such as "post-90s" Hu Yuan and Chen SpaceD. A number of new homestays, entrepreneurial spaces and other projects have settled under the support of this group of "new farmers", giving the villages, which were dominated by left-behind elderly and children, new vigor and vitality. They use their new ideas , New technologies interpret the new story of the land, and drive farmers to increase their income and become rich.