Editor's note: Rural revitalization, talent first. In June 2023, 20 workers rooted in rural Hunan were awarded the "National Agricultural and Rural Labor Model", serving the countryside, building the countryside, developing agriculture, and striving to be the "leading geese" of rural revitalization. In order to carry forward the exemplary and exemplary power of agricultural and rural model workers, recently, Red Net Moment News launched the column "New Power of Rural Model Workers" to record and pay tribute to batches of agricultural and rural model workers who are struggling to govern the countryside, develop industries, and strengthen villages and enrich the people.
Red Net Moment News reporter Yang Yiqing reported from Loudi.
When he first returned to his hometown in Loudi and was about to take root in agriculture, his family scolded him for "getting into the water in his brain", and finally jumped out of the farm, thinking that he had lost his "golden job" and came back "blind tossing".
The villagers were suspicious of him, and it was expected that he would not be able to endure hardships and work for a long time, and would rather abandon the land than transfer the land to him. But he was not discouraged, but repeatedly "lobbied" door to door, and did his work with great difficulty. Under the voice of incomprehensible doubts, and even the ridicule of others, he silently cultivated his dreams.
He is Liu Xiubo. In 2012, Liu Xiubo returned to his hometown and transformed from a state-owned enterprise employee with a high salary in the metropolis to a new professional farmer who loves agriculture, understands technology and is good at management. This "post-80s" who has dreams and is on the ground, dares to think and act, and is good at doing good things, interprets what it is to be a dream chaser on the field with his actions.
Liu Xiubo in the rice field.
The choice and hard work of the dreamer.
Liu Xiubo, born in April 1982, is the chairman of Lianyuan Shuotai Agricultural Machinery Professional Cooperative, a representative of the 6th People's Congress of Loudi City, and a member of the 15th CPPCC of Lianyuan City.
Liu Xiubo's hometown is in Yunhe New Village, Longtang Town, Lianyuan City, Zhumei Tiantai, Longtang Town, because more than 3,000 acres of fertile land are open and smooth, artesian irrigation to every hill field, and the machine farming road extends to the middle of the ridges.
At the beginning of 2012, Liu Xiubo, who had been working outside for many years, returned to his hometown to visit relatives, but inadvertently saw that a large area of fertile land in the former "Zhumei Tiantai" was abandoned, which instantly shocked and heartache this man in Hunan who was known for his family and country.
After half a year of deliberation and consideration, Liu Xiubo, who had always dared to think and fight, resolutely made the decision to give up his job in a state-owned military industrial enterprise and resign and return to his hometown to work as a farmer. He hoped to replant the barren land, explore the road of agricultural industrialization, and drive the old folks to get rich together.
Although Liu Xiubo was born and grew up in the countryside, he is the "full cub" of his parents and has never been in the field to farm.
finally jumped out of the "farm gate", but now he has to return to the village by himself. At first, Liu Xiubo's decision did not gain the support of his family or the understanding of the villagers.
In the eyes of friends, Liu Xiubo has a tiger head and a tiger face, and there is a tiger spirit between his eyebrows; is naïve, with a look of charity in his eyes. Relying on a tiger spirit, Liu Xiubo began to struggle silently.
Half a year later, everyone was moved by his persistence and belief. 184 farmers in Hexi Village signed a contract for the circulation of 680 acres of paddy fields and a contract for 1,208 acres of substitution cultivation with him, and established Lianyuan Shuotai Agricultural Machinery Professional Cooperative. By December 2021, 2,058 acres of paddy fields have been transferred, and a standardized rice planting base has been built in one fell swoop.
In addition, he also drove 3,268 cooperatives, family farms, professional large households and growers to plant high-quality rice in the form of industrialization orders, covering an area of 7,437 acres.
Patches of rice paddies.
Liu Xiubo plans to build a green rice brand and use "orders" to guide farmers to produce green rice, so as to form a local green brand and open up channels for farmers to continue to increase their income.
Now, with the sweat in the field growing a bumper harvest, Liu Xiubo, who used to be "a good hand of cards played poorly" in the eyes of his family and villagers, has gradually grown into a new type of professional farmer who loves agriculture, understands technology and is good at management, and has also gained everyone's recognition.
Forerunner".
I develop farmers, and I share the interests with farmers", this is Liu Xiubo's original intention, and it is also the "rules" he set for himself.
From poverty alleviation to rural revitalization, Liu Xiubo has always been the "leading goose" who leads the villagers to increase their income and get rich.
How does agriculture add value? How to dig gold in the soil? This is a question that Liu Xiubo has been thinking about.
In the end, he found the answer, that is, to update technology, optimize varieties, and make a fuss about the added value of agricultural products.
In order to allow local farmers to accept new varieties and new technologies, and improve the efficiency of planting and breeding, he took the lead in trying to demonstrate, dared to undertake phoenix insurance, and took the initiative to sign a guaranteed purchase contract with the masses.
He focuses on green products, improves the scientific and technological content and added value of products, builds "Zhumei Shuotai" brand agriculture, gradually develops in the direction of high yield, high quality and high efficiency, and implements the integrated industrial operation of agriculture, industry and trade. The original Longtang Town Tea Factory was leased to build Shuotai Agricultural Industrial Park, which covers an area of 7,500 square meters and a construction area of 4,800 square meters.
At the same time, Liu Xiubo has built a standardized production plant of 1,300 square meters, a fine packaging plant of 500 square meters, a storage of 3,000 square meters, and the purchase and installation of an annual output of 3,000 tons of high-quality rice production line. Form a complete industrialization chain to ensure product quality.
With a good product, it is also necessary to start a brand.
Liu Xiubo also actively carried out the work of "three products and one standard" certification.
At present, he has registered the trademark "Zhumei Shuotai", and has obtained 1 pollution-free agricultural product origin certification and 3 green food certifications. The cooperatives actively participate in various agricultural exhibitions inside and outside the province, settle in the 832 platform, and expand the brand influence of "Zhumei Shuotai". In 2021, a total of more than 800 tons of Zhumei Shuotai fragrant rice and farmhouse rice will be produced, processed and sold, with an output value of more than 600 yuan.
The added value of agricultural products is rising, and the villagers' road to getting rich and increasing their income is getting wider and more stable.
In recent years, Liu Xiubo has also led the cooperative to implement a new way of "standardized ranking, mechanized rice transplanting, industrialized management, and socialized services" in the local area, completing the whole process of mechanized rice operation service area of 10,544 mu, rapeseed live harvesting 5,216 mu, paddy field per mu for farmers to save 220 yuan in costs, rape cost savings of 140 yuan, and increase income for farmers by 3.05 million yuan.
Dream chaser" perseverance and feelings.
Industrial revitalization is the top priority of rural revitalization.
Liu Xiubo closely followed the theme of the times and signed a lease contract with the people of Longtang Town in December 2020 for the idle and shutdown of Longtang Town Cement Plant, focusing on building a grain and oil processing base. At present, the construction of 12,000 tons of grain storage, 10,000 square meters of production plants, 120 tons of drying equipment center per day, the introduction of the most advanced annual processing of 100,000 tons of rice production line, the formation of grain storage inspection and testing, processing, packaging, cold chain logistics and other industrial chains.
Driven by industry, it has effectively promoted the improvement of local agricultural modernization.
In order to allow more farmers to update their ideas and understand technology, Liu Xiubo led the cooperative to establish a horizontal cooperative relationship with Hunan Agricultural University, hired Liu Jie, Fu Zhiqiang, Xu Qingguo and other experts and professors as technical consultants of the cooperative, and organized technical training for farmers for many times.
He also invited the city's agricultural technology extension experts to carry out three technical training sessions on the use of biogas slurry, straw crushing and returning to the field, green manure planting, and pest and weed control, with 380 participants and more than 1,200 materials.
Invite experts to teach citrus growing techniques.
A series of scientific and technological training allows farmers to master the advanced technology of planting high-quality rice, and the average income per mu increases by more than 100 yuan, which can increase farmers' income by 78 per year50,000 yuan.
Since 2014, Liu Xiubo has led farmers to develop agricultural industry, led the masses to get rid of poverty and become rich, and has been recognized by farmers and friends.
No pain, no gain.
In recent years, Liu Xiubo has won a series of provincial and "national brand" honors. This "post-80s" with dreams and feet on the ground, has taken root in the countryside and deeply cultivated agriculture for more than ten years, showing the demeanor of a new type of professional farmer with wisdom and sweat, and interpreting the perseverance and feelings of a dreamer in the new era who has ideals and is willing to struggle.