Industry is the key to rural revitalization. Shao Zongfu, a young man from Tengchong City who was engaged in e-commerce in Kunming, returned to his hometown to found a cooperative, leading the masses to embark on a road of industrial development based on potato planting and helping the revitalization of local villages.
In the farmland of Jietou Town, Tengchong City, a potato planting technology training organized by the Tengchong Jieyang Vegetable Planting Professional Cooperative is underway, and the training teacher is not only the agricultural personnel, but also the chairman of the cooperative, Shao Zongfu, the potato order planting in Jietou Town, is the first to initiate Shao Zongfu.
In 2014, after Shao Zongfu returned to his hometown to start a business, he saw that there was no local business entity in Jietou Town to sell agricultural products, so he established the Tengchong Jieyang Vegetable Planting Professional Cooperative.
Jietou Town is a large agricultural town in Tengchong City, but from November to the following spring, a lot of land is idle due to the lack of suitable crops to grow. In response to this situation, Shao Zongfu invited experts from the Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences to provide guidance, signed orders with relevant enterprises to develop potato planting, solved the problem of fallow fields in winter, and effectively promoted the increase of farmers' income.
In the past five years, Tengchong Jieyang Vegetable Planting Professional Cooperative has driven more than 1,000 farmers and planted more than 8,000 acres of potatoes alone, achieving an output value of more than 20 million yuan, and an average income increase of more than 20,000 yuan for member households, leading the local people to walk out of a road to get rich with potato order planting.
Jietou Town has sufficient sunshine, suitable rainfall, warm climate, and good quality of vegetables produced locally, which has a good reputation in Tengchong City. In addition to ordering potatoes, the business of Tengchong Jieyang Vegetable Planting Professional Cooperative is vegetable distribution. According to the order, every morning, the cooperative will send people to the field to purchase all kinds of vegetables needed. At the same time, local vegetable farmers will also deliver the harvested vegetables to the cooperative's purchase point. At present, through the Tengchong Jieyang Vegetable Planting Professional Cooperative, the vegetables grown in Jietou Town are not only the best hotels, hotels, enterprises and other places in Tengchong City, but also a considerable part of them are sold to other places.
I planted more than three acres of chili peppers, and paid more than 400 catties to the cooperative every day, and this year I have earned 50,000 or 60,000 yuan, so I don't need to run and sell everywhere. Zhao Kaicheng, a pepper grower, is very satisfied with this way of order acquisition.
Tengchong Jieyang Vegetable Planting Professional Cooperative also vigorously develops grain and oil planting, with an annual rice planting area of 5,000 acres, soybeans and corn, with an annual planting area of 5,000 acres and a rape planting area of 12,000 acres. We have spared no effort in guarding the "rice bags" of food security and the "vegetable baskets" of enriching the people's tables. Tengchong Jieyang Vegetable Planting Professional Cooperative was named as a demonstration cooperative of farmer professional cooperatives by the All-China Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives in 2021.
When it comes to the development of cooperatives in the future, Shao Zongfu believes that the most important thing is to rely on science and technology.