In 2012, Xiangtan County Hexiang Planting and Breeding Professional Cooperative was established.
In 2017, Hexiang Planting and Breeding Professional Cooperative was rated as a county-level demonstration cooperative;In 2018, it was rated as a municipal demonstration society;In 2021, it was rated as a provincial demonstration society;In 2023, it will be rated as a national demonstration society. For more than 10 years, Peng Yinhua, an advanced individual in grain production in the city and county, the person in charge of the cooperative, and a "soil expert" respected by the locals, has led more than 300 villagers to farm, and every household has made money.
In Fenshui Township, Xiangtan County, when it comes to Peng Yinhua of Hexiang Planting and Breeding Professional Cooperative, everyone knows and praises.
Peng Yinhua, who was born in 1982, joined the southbound migrant army after graduating from junior high school in order not to be a farmer, and this time it was 5 years. After getting married, because she didn't want to farm, she opened a clothing store and an agricultural material store.
In order to run the agricultural materials store well, it is not only necessary to understand the composition, efficacy, use methods and precautions of various agricultural materials, but also to have in-depth research on local agricultural habits, soil composition, insect diseases and other conditions. In the past few years, Peng Yinhua forced herself from a "novice in farming" to a "soil expert", and the local grain and farmers asked her to make ideas.
In the past few years of running an agricultural material store, Peng Yinhua has keenly discovered that the countryside is developing from traditional family-based agriculture to large-scale and intensive. Therefore, in 2008, Peng Yinhua united more than 10 farmers to establish the first rice planting professional cooperative in Fenshui Township - Xiangtan County Tianyuan Rice Planting Professional Cooperative.
By 2012, the cooperative has achieved leapfrog development, the scale has grown from more than 10 households and more than 100 acres to more than 380 households and more than 3,000 acres, and the cooperative has officially changed its name to Xiangtan County Hexiang Planting and Breeding Professional Cooperative.
In the following 10 years, Peng Yinhua did not deliberately pursue the expansion of the scale of the cooperative, but focused on strengthening internal management, improving varieties and promoting new technologies, in order to improve the yield and quality of grain per unit area, improve planting efficiency, and let everyone farm to earn money.
From 2014 to 2015, the cooperative undertook the national pilot project of "integration of professional control and green prevention and control of major rice pests and diseases", through the construction and application of the green control and control system of diseases and pests, it not only reduced the amount of pesticides, improved the quality of rice, but also saved about 40 yuan per mu of cost, and now the system technology is still improving, playing an increasingly important role.
This experiment gave Peng Yinhua a taste of sweetness, and also strengthened her determination to take the road of scientific farming.
Worried that some members would have doubts about the promotion of new technologies, Peng Yinhua always stood up and acted as the first person to eat crabs.
In 2014, Peng Yinhua took the lead in planting high-quality rice in more than 300 acres of land independently contracted by her own family and achieved success, and the benefit per mu was about 500 yuan higher than that of planting conventional rice.
In 2016, Peng Yinhua took the lead in planting regenerative rice in the area of Fenshui Township. Because regenerated rice is sought after by the market without chemical fertilizers and pesticides, Peng Yinhua has developed water-splitting fragrant rice on this basis and registered the "Peng Yinhua" brand trademark. After years of hard work, "Peng Yinhua" brand fragrant rice has become synonymous with high-quality rice.
Green prevention and control, high-quality rice regeneration rice promotion and expansion, centralized seedling raising ......Peng Yinhua is always the first to try, and after success, she selflessly teaches it to other members of the cooperative and the surrounding people.
Today, although Peng Yinhua's own cultivated field is only about 600 acres, through the demonstration and driving role of the 600 acres of "experimental fields" and the provision of whole-process socialized services, not only more than 380 members of the cooperative have followed her to farm and earn money, but also made many surrounding grain farmers become her "fans".
Zuo Jiping, a post-80s generation, is an agricultural mechanic in the cooperative. When he watched the surrounding farmers follow Peng Yinhua to earn money from farming, he also transferred more than 300 acres of land to plant rice, with an average annual income of more than 150,000 yuan.
55-year-old Tang Deqiang worked as a contractor when he was young, and after raising pigs and cattle at a loss, he followed Peng Yinhua to farm, from 100 acres at the beginning to more than 800 acres now, with an annual income of more than 400,000 yuan. Tang Deqiang said: "Farming is more profitable and less risky than raising pigs and cattle, and this is the right way." ”
Reporter Zhang Zhenyu.