This year is the sixth year of Long Pinde's rice planting, which is not a long time. But he didn't just smell the scent of rice flowers for 6 years.
He is the son of a farmer, who has lived in Jiwei Farm in Huayuan County since he was a child, and graduated from agricultural school, and has an inseparable affection for the land.
In the Spring Festival of 2016, Long Pinde, who had been working abroad, returned home and saw that Jiwei Farm was becoming increasingly barren and thriving. Unable to bear to see what he saw, he made up his mind to "rescue" the farm, and contracted 300 acres of land to grow rice the following year.
In the past 6 years, he has led the villagers to develop the rice industry with a spirit and enthusiasm, and the social benefits of the "Jiwei Agricultural Reclamation" brand created by him have exceeded 50 million yuan, and "Jiwei Rice" has become a "golden rice grain" for the villagers to get rich and get rid of poverty.
Open up the market and open up the sales channels of "Jiwei rice".
Nowadays, it is the "slack season", but Long Pinde is unwilling to stop and rest, he is busy "running the market". "The outside world is changing too fast, and I am worried that I will be 'eliminated' by the market if I stay in Jiwei and can't go out. He said.
Long Pinde has the simplicity and persistence of a farmer in his bones, and it is precisely by virtue of this quality that he has opened up the sales market of his own high-quality rice.
In 2017, the 300 acres of land contracted by Long Pinde achieved a bumper harvest. Shortly before the rice harvest, Long Pinde accidentally fell from a 3-meter-high roadblock and broke his lumbar vertebrae. The doctor asked him to stay in the hospital for three months to recuperate, but he kept thinking about the rice that was about to be harvested at home, and he was hurriedly discharged from the hospital in six days. After only recuperating at home for more than 30 days, Long Pinde was barely able to stand and went down to the field to harvest.
However, once the rice was grown, how to sell it became a problem. The first batch of more than 3,000 kilograms of rice harvested has been hoarded at home, and he is anxious in his eyes and heart.
Long is not good at words, and in order to sell the hoarded rice, he took the lead in sales. He called a friend to drive and dragged him with the sample-sized rice to a store and a store in a nearby county and city to sell it. The other party did not trust the quality of his rice, so he put down a bag of rice and left, allowing the other party to taste it for free. Long Pinde is very confident in his rice, he said: "Jiwei rice in Xiangxi Prefecture is equivalent to the status of Wuchang rice in China, and it can be said that every household knows it." ”
This seemingly clumsy method ushered in a turning point for Long Pinde, and he dragged his body that had not yet opened the market. The more than 200,000 catties of rice harvested that year were finally sold out in August of the following year, with a net profit of 200,000 yuan.
Promote technology and plant rice to grow "new tricks".
Agriculture is an industry that grows out of the dirt and places great emphasis on practice.
Although he graduated from agricultural school and can be regarded as a "professional background", Long Pinde has not worked in agriculture for many years. For the fast-growing agricultural industry, it is not easy for Long Pinde to "pick up" what he has learned in the past and master the latest agricultural technology. But he relied on consulting teachers and experts, and he made up for the "missing homework".
He is well aware that science and technology are the support of industrial development, and has not only established industry-university-research cooperation with Hunan Agricultural University, Xiangxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences and other units, but also carried out high-quality rice variety test demonstration, green and efficient cultivation, and full mechanized production projects for farmers planting rice can not be stable and high-yield.
In 2018, under the guidance of the Huayuan County Agriculture and Rural Bureau, he also established the Jiwei District Unified Defense and Ruling Service Station in Huayuan County, trying to apply unmanned plant protection machines on various crops. In June 2020, when there was a large-scale outbreak of rice leaf curling insect pests in the province, the loss rate of the unified control service station was less than 35%, the effect is significant. At the same time, the application of unmanned plant protection aircraft has also alleviated the pressure of local labor shortage.
Rice cultivation is a very hard work, in order to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and increase yields, the only way to achieve mechanization and large-scale production is to achieve large-scale production.
Long Pinde is a new type of farmer who understands technology and loves to study, through the promotion of new varieties and new technologies, he has changed the planting Xi formed by farmers for many years, and used his own machinery and equipment to promote socialized services, machine farming, machine harvesting area of about 2,000 mu year, realizing the whole process of mechanized operation of rice from farming, harvesting, drying to storage and processing, and farmers have generally increased their yields steadily, with an increase of 30%.
Get rich together, let the fragrance of rice flowers waft to thousands of households
A rich family is not called rich, everyone is rich. Long Pinde, who tasted the sweetness, actively mobilized the villagers to grow high-quality rice together. He led the villagers to plant "Jiwei rice" together, successively cultivated 8 large planters, and drove 105 poor households to get rid of poverty and become rich.
Bursts of rice flowers "floated" to every household, nourishing the fruits of getting rich.
In the process of promoting planting, Longpinde established Jiwei Agricultural Reclamation Modern Agricultural Machinery Professional Cooperative to provide agricultural machinery operation services to solve the problem of labor shortage. In order to solve the problem of high cost of agricultural materials and product sales, he organized everyone to develop together, reduce costs by purchasing agricultural fertilizers in a centralized manner, and stabilize income through unified selling prices and unified sales.
It is in the process of mutual help and common development that Jiwei Farm has gradually been revitalized and has a new look.
There is no doubt that Long Pinde is a person with a strong sense of social responsibility. In 2021, he took over the Jiwei Farm Collective Economic Rice Industry Base, generating 200,000 yuan of income for the village collective economy, an increase of 230%.
Gradually, the name of Long Pinde spread out of Huayuan and went to the whole country.
For him, winning the national agricultural and rural model worker is a "thing that I can't even think of". He said that he just did what he was supposed to do, and he only had awe in his heart for this heavy honor.
Long Pinde felt that he had not done enough and was not good enough, but it was with his efforts that he changed his destiny, the future of the farm and the lives of the villagers.
I am the son of an ordinary farmer, and if I can do this successfully, then I can also inspire other young people who are interested in returning to their hometown and developing agriculture. For the future, he said: "I hope to be able to promote my production experience and production model, and contribute my strength to the development of the 'Jiwei' brand." ”