Returning home to start a business to help rural revitalization

  Returning to my hometown to start a business for 6 years, I am actually a farmer + debtor

  It has been 6 years since he returned to his hometown to start a business. According to Wang Guohui, this period of time is the most difficult years in his life.

  “The main reason is that the income cannot keep up with the investment, and there is no benefit in planting and breeding for three to five years.” In the past six years, the 36-year-old Wang Guohui used land trusteeship in Shangtianzhuang Village, Shilou County, Luliang City, Shanxi Province, and contracted 6000. Many acres of mountainous land are planted with Yulu fragrant pears, sorghum, and millet to build a farm and become the "landlord" in the eyes of the villagers. However, the difficulty of eating in the yellow soil made him feel a lot of pressure, "I am actually a farmer + debtor."

Family members block and don't want the baby to "plan food"

  Shangtianzhuang Village is an ordinary small village in the thousands of ravines in the Luliang Mountain of Shanxi. For many years, due to poor site conditions, drought and little rain, traditional agriculture can only grow and harvest thinly, and the people mostly rely on the sky for food. Six years ago, Wang Guohui quit his well-paid job in the city and chose to return to the village to plant 6,000 mu of land. This became the biggest news in Shangtianzhuang Village at that time.

  "My parents didn't agree with anything at first, and they finally got admitted to university and jumped out of the'nongmen'. Why did they go back to the poor valley of Shilou to'graze in the soil'?" Wang Guohui's decision was firmly opposed by his family, saying that he was old A generation has been suffering in the field for a lifetime, and the baby must not be allowed to live like this again.

  With high ridges and heavy loads, distant mountains are always prone to poverty. How poor is Shilou County in Lvliang Mountain among the old population?

  Shilou is located in a concentrated and contiguous area of ​​Lvliang Mountain. The mountains are loess except for stones, and there are dense gullies and ruins. There are not many fields that can grow crops and produce food. The slopes above 25 degrees account for 60% of the cultivated land. In the year when Wang Guohui returned to his hometown, there were still 17,641 households and 52954 people in the county's registered poor population. The fiscal revenue was only about 50 million yuan for several years, and it was once called "the poorest county in Shanxi."

  In the past, the small-scale peasant economy under the background of traditional farming was dwarfed by the impact of the market tide. The peasants were once caught in the dilemma of increasing production but not income, and some places even vacant land.

  “Because of this, I want to break through the traditional farming and breeding models in the past, realize large-scale, intensive, and mechanized agricultural production through land trusteeship, unify sales, procurement, and management, and create high-quality local agricultural and animal husbandry brands.” Wang Guohui said, choose “ "Going upstream" is the result of careful deliberation. One is to take a fancy to the county's opportunity to encourage the development of characteristic agriculture, and the other is to be optimistic about the local government's entrepreneurial support policies.

Wang Guohui is determined to return to the village to start a business with broad prospects

  “My parents’ concerns are very real. The investment in agricultural production is large and the cycle is long. Some of the hardships have exceeded my expectations, but there is no turning back at the critical moment.” Although the continuous, long and high-intensity investment in manpower and financial resources has made Wang Guohui feel pressured, he Said that he was prepared to not see money back for 5 years.

  “If you don’t understand the countryside, it’s difficult to get benefits from the land.” Wang Guohui said that someone around him once went to the countryside to start a business, but he ended up because of lack of agricultural knowledge and ignorance of the rural culture. “I grew up in the mountains and worked as a farmer. He is a good player. Now the revitalization of the village has been raised to the height of the national strategy. The prospect of returning to the village to start a business is broad and it should be a good opportunity."

  Today, Wang Guohui’s hometown has proposed the “Luliang Plan” to win the “two tough battles” of afforestation and poverty alleviation on the same battlefield. This coincides with Wang Guohui’s choice of returning home to plant trees, and it also makes him feel confident about what he is about to achieve. "Agricultural Dream" is full of confidence. "In another two years, Yulu fragrant pears will reach the full fruit period, and they will start to make profits after three years of raising cattle. Although it is difficult at the moment, the future production will ensure income."

  The Yulu fragrant pear in Wang Guohui's mouth is a "treasure" in his thousands of acres of farmland.

  "Yulu fragrant pear has a thin skin and a very sweet skin, and its economic benefit is 2 to 3 times that of ordinary pears. The most important thing is that it is produced in Xi County, which is next door to us." In recent years, Xi County, which is next to Shilou, Vigorously developing the "Yuluxiang" pear fruit industry has long been well-known. There is a local saying that "planting one mu of "Yuluxiang" is better than planting ten acres of land", which has become an important means for the county's fruit farmers to get rid of poverty and become rich.

  "Our village is very close to the boundary of Xixian County, and the landforms are similar, so we can definitely grow them." Wang Guohui's thesis is well documented. Public reports show that Shanxi pears have traditional cultivation. Except for the alpine mountainous areas in northern Shanxi and northwest Shanxi, all parts of the province They all have the shadow of pear trees, and in the ditch chases of Luliang and Taihang in Shanxi, the sunshine time is long and the temperature difference between day and night is large, forming a unique regional microclimate environment, and achieving the excellent quality of Yulu fragrant pear.

People from the village praised the diligent monthly income over 10,000

  Wang Guohui’s idea won the support of the villagers. Under the leadership of the village party branch, they established a cooperative, and used 150 acres of the trusteeship to plant Yulu fragrant pears. A total of 54 villagers joined in, of which 34 were filed. Card poor households. In addition to the money that Wang Guohui may borrow or save, a large part of it benefits from the government's discounted loans for entrepreneurship and poverty alleviation funds.

  "Planting trees must be diligent and caring. In addition to asking experts for guidance, the key is to learn and observe on your own." When it comes to how to plant a tree well, Wang Guohui said that if a branch grows in different parts, what changes will happen next year What will happen after 3 years? Does it grow up or down, will it affect the nutrient absorption of other branches? Judging by experience, it depends on whether the tree planter has comprehension or not.

  Wang Guohui said that through land trusteeship, the villagers’ investment costs for land have been greatly reduced. Although there is no profit yet, the labor of nearby villages can come here to work and earn an income every autumn harvest. At the same time, the filed and registered households in the village also came to do things to add fertilizer for the pear trees and cultivate the land. "A farmer can cultivate 15 acres of land with a one-day car, and the income is 750 yuan. It takes more than half a month to cultivate 6800 acres, totaling more than 300,000 yuan We will provide part of the expenditure and part of the policy subsidy."

  One of the beneficiaries is Jia Xiaojun, a member of the cooperative and a registered file holder. He earns 3,000 yuan a year from doing odd jobs in the cooperative. At the same time, he is also employed as a cooperative farmer who can earn more than 10,000 yuan a month when he works hard.

  According to Wang Guohui’s plan, in addition to planting economic forests, a modern planting and breeding base will be built in the area. This year, the number of cattle farms has reached 30. With the development of leisure picking agriculture in the suburbs, the annual turnover is expected to exceed 80. Ten thousand yuan.

  Nowadays, in Shilou County, like Wang Guohui, the number of young people returning to their hometowns to work and start businesses is gradually increasing. According to Wang Xiping, director of the Shilou County Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, industrial poverty alleviation has become one of the important means for local poverty alleviation, and the young people who return to their hometowns to start a business are catfish in this waters, and they have certain funding and integration capabilities. , There is also the enthusiasm to return the folks, the future is worth looking forward to.

  China Youth Daily·China Youth Daily reporter Hu Zhizhong Source: China Youth Daily