Just after the Spring Festival, Shao Aitao, a new farmer born in the 1990s in Tianchang City, Anhui Province, has started a busy rhythm.
From the office in Qiaowan Community, Yongfeng Town, Tianchang City, to the fields, to business trips within and outside Anhui Province, his work scenes are constantly switching, introducing pearl planting technology, hosting a training salon for rural revitalization leaders, applying for rice invention patent technology, and creating Work such as the agricultural science and technology courtyard and the layout of high-standard wheat fields for weight loss and drug reduction are also proceeding in an orderly manner.
In June 2017, Shao Aitao graduated from Anhui Agricultural University with a major in applied chemistry and joined a company in Guangzhou to engage in scientific research and development.
He takes the crowded subway to work every day, shuttles between high-rise buildings, and feels the excitement and prosperity of the big city.
“I thought I would continue to work like this until I got that phone call,” he recalled.
In order to attract more professional talents to help rural revitalization, at the beginning of 2020, Bao Jilu, secretary of the Party Committee of Yongfeng Town, Tianchang City, paid attention to Shao Aitao, who had studied in the youth farmer class of Anhui Agricultural University.
After understanding and communicating, Shao Aitao on the other end of the phone learned that agriculture in his hometown is booming and provided remote technical guidance and assistance to farmers in his hometown through the Internet.
Since then, Shao Aitao has become even busier, handling the daily work of the unit while communicating with the village on agricultural assistance matters.
In 2020, Shao Aitao accumulated more resources and connections. Already a senior partner of his company branch, he decided to quit his well-paid job and return to his hometown of Qiaowan Community to raise money to found Tianchang Pinnong Agricultural Technology Company.
Shao Aitao started from scratch.
At first, the company didn't even have a decent office, so he had to work temporarily in an idle warehouse in his hometown in the countryside. Apart from a desk and an old computer, the warehouse had almost no decorations or furnishings.
The office environment did not deter Shao Aitao, but working at the grassroots level really gave him difficulties.
Qiaowan Community is located in the core area of the Tianchang City National Modern Agricultural Industrial Park. The most important thing in the local area is "farming experts" who can farm. At first, it was difficult for the villagers to accept the emerging theories mentioned by "young boy" Shao Aitao. Knowledge.
Until March 2022, local wheat suffered from waterlogging. Shao Aitao used emerging agricultural science and technology knowledge to quickly formulate a rescue plan and successfully saved wheat production. Local farmers began to praise Xiao Shao.
Since then, Shao Aitao has been carrying out various tasks more and more smoothly.
“Our company’s business is mainly divided into two parts. On the one hand, we educate villagers about various emerging agricultural technologies; on the other hand, we cooperate with other companies to help create personal IP in the agricultural field. We not only produce R&D, but also provide technical services and agricultural services. Science popularization." He devoted all his enthusiasm to the development of the company. In addition to conventional technical services, he combined the actual needs of farmers to open up online and offline technical service systems, and produced short videos to popularize agricultural knowledge and explain agricultural technologies live. The town’s main agricultural industries include rice and wheat.
The company's operation is becoming more and more stable, and Shao Aitao is going farther and farther and more steadily on the road of assisting farmers with science and technology.
On July 20, 2022, Shao Aitao and his girlfriend who had been in love for many years "cultivated themselves".
That day, he got up at 3 a.m. to prepare for the wedding, and it was already evening after finishing the wedding banquet.
Before he had time to rest, he changed his clothes and rushed to the farmland to check the situation.
"It happens to be the tillering period of rice. If factors such as moisture and light in the rice during this period are not controlled well, the rice harvest will be affected. I have been worried about this problem during the wedding preparations, so I came to check it out as soon as I was busy with the wedding." Shao Aitao Recalling that for more than a month after my marriage, I spent time with the rice fields. I left home early to go to the fields before the sun rose, and returned home in the evening with the moonlight. Fortunately, my family also understood my agricultural dream.
"Seeing that the harvest of crops is getting better and better, and seeing the happy expressions on everyone's faces, I feel that I made the right choice to return to my hometown." In the past three years, Shao Aitao's company has provided offline services to more than 3,000 acres of rice, wheat, and fruit. The base covers an area of more than 150 acres and also provides online technical guidance to nearly 300 strawberry and other fruit farmers.
With the help of Shao Aitao, a local farmer who was living in a tight financial situation started growing strawberries. In just two years, he achieved an annual income of 700,000 yuan. He not only built a modern greenhouse, but also supported the family's living expenses.
From an office white-collar worker to a new farmer born in the 1990s, Shao Aitao uses the "wheel" of technology to drive the development of local agriculture, and also releases his long-held dream on the land he is most familiar with.
At the end of 2021, Shao Aitao successfully passed the exam and interview and officially joined the Qiaowan Community Neighborhood Committee.
At present, the company's team is gradually expanding, and there is no shortage of young talents returning home from Nanjing, Shanghai, and Hangzhou.
When talking about the follow-up development plan, Shao Aitao is full of enthusiasm: "Next, we will organize everyone to go to Zhuji, Zhejiang to inspect the situation of pearl cultivation. Tianchang City has sufficient freshwater resources, and we will put the freshwater cultured pearl industry on the development agenda."
During the off-season, Shao Aitao likes to organize farmers to watch agricultural science videos at the community office, and helps everyone learn about crop disease prevention and control through the explanations of young anchors. When encountering difficult-to-understand disaster prevention and relief techniques, he will discuss and share them with everyone. , he noticed that some farmers took up pen and paper to record their knowledge and skills.
"Working in a large company when you graduate is one path, and choosing to return to your hometown to start a business is a different path later. But no matter what path you choose, you need to work hard. Some young people grow up with high-rise buildings, but I choose to grow up with my hometown. The city’s countryside grows together,” Shao Aitao said.
Intern Zhu Xinyu China Youth Daily·China Youth Daily reporter Wang Haihan Wang Lei Source: China Youth Daily