Chinanews.com, Changzhi, October 13th. Title: A 40-year-old man returns to his hometown to start a business in the yellow land "trying" to find a way to increase the income of left-behind villagers
Author Li Tingyao Bai Xuefeng
At the moment when the sweet potatoes are harvested, in the farmland of Nanchi Village, Xichi Township, Shangdang District, Changzhi City, Shanxi Province, with the roar of tractors, one by one sweet potatoes are turned out of the soil, and the villagers will find their "heads" to collect and load the sweet potatoes. box.
Li Fuping, who drives a tractor, is a native of Nanchi Village. He is 42 years old and has a dark skin and a strong build.
"Our village does not have any business." Li Fuping said. The villagers in Nanchi Village have grown corn for generations and their income is not high. They can only earn four to five hundred yuan a year per mu of land. Most young people go out to work, leaving mostly women and the elderly.
Li Fuping told reporters that he left his hometown to work in Shenzhen when he was 19 and returned to work in Changzhi ten years ago.
In 2018, the Shangdang District issued a policy of benefiting farmers to adjust and optimize the structure of the agricultural industry. Li Fuping decided to return to his hometown to start a business, "want to do something in the village".
There are more than 20 left-behind villagers working in the cooperative for a long time, and the average annual income per capita has increased by more than 10,000 yuan, reaching nearly 50 at the peak of the labor force.
Photo by Zhao Yanjie
Li Fuping used his savings to establish a professional cooperative for planting and breeding. He transferred 120 acres of land and planted fruit trees on the former corn field. At the same time, he invited technicians from neighboring counties to try out 20 acres of dry-land tomatoes. "Our village has never planted dry-land tomatoes before. In the first year, he only dared to plant 20 mu."
The dry-land tomatoes that were planted on the trial achieved a bumper harvest. The yield per mu was 15,000 jin, sold at 1.4 yuan per jin, and the net income per mu was about 14,000 yuan. “These dry-land tomatoes have a long growth cycle, long sunlight, and delicious taste. Many foreign merchants directly The supply of products exceeds the demand."
The first year of trial planting was successful. The land transfer cost was 600 yuan per mu per year, and this alone benefited about 100 villagers.
In addition, the cooperative has also spurred more than a dozen villagers to work and increase their income, all of whom are left-behind women and elderly people.
This year, the cooperative has planted 60 mu of millet, with an income of about 4,800 yuan per mu.
Photo courtesy of respondents
Since then, Li Fuping, who has tasted the sweetness, transferred more land to expand the scale of tomato planting in dry land, and invited experts from the Shanxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences to guide the planting of small grains, and try to grow millet, sweet potatoes, black peanuts and other varieties.
With the success of the trial planting, Li Fuping is also expanding the scale of small grain crops.
"This year, the cooperative planted 60 acres of millet, with an income of about 4,800 yuan per acre; 30 acres of sweet potatoes, with an income of more than 4,000 yuan per acre. The yield of 10 acres of black peanuts was also good. Around yuan." Li Fuping said.
Villager Li Qingfang is packing sweet potatoes. The family is impoverished due to illness. She works in a cooperative to increase her income. “Collecting millet and sorting sweet potatoes, there is a lot of work here. There are things to do every day, and she can earn more than 1,500 yuan a month.”
Today, the cooperative has transferred a total of more than 300 acres of land, mainly planting dryland tomatoes, sweet potatoes, millet, apples, pears, peaches, etc. The products are sold to Henan, Hebei, Beijing and other places.
There are more than 20 left-behind villagers working in the cooperative for a long time, and the average annual income per capita has increased by more than 10,000 yuan, reaching nearly 50 at the peak of the labor force.
By constantly experimenting with new crops, Li Fuping "tried" a way to increase income in the loess land.
"In addition to expanding the planting of crops that have been successfully tested, I am also planning to build a millet planting base of 1,000 mu in Xichi Township next year to drive more villagers to increase their income at home." Li Fuping said.
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