Hunan ** New Hunan Client Correspondent Chen Rui.
Pour the ground sweet potato batter into the mold, steam for one minute, then remove the mold, shape it neatly, put it on the drying rack to dry and then cut into shreds, and the crystal clear sweet potato vermicelli is made. On February 21, the Fuyouyuan Farmer Breeding Cooperative, located in Jinyang Village, Fenglin Town, Liling City, has fully resumed work, and the scene is in full swing and steaming.
In 2018, Yan Qinghua, who was engaged in the wholesale of sweet potato vermicelli in Zhuzhou, came up with the idea of going home to start a business under the personal persuasion of the Secretary of the Party Committee of Fenglin Town: "I know sweet potato vermicelli very well and want to contribute to my hometown. ”
In order to make quality and start the brand, Yan Qinghua built a standardized workshop, purchased professional equipment, and created the "Xinfu Youyuan" handmade sweet potato vermicelli brand after many debugging product formulas, with its original ecology, zero additives, continuous strips, no paste soup, good taste, five seconds into the flavor characteristics in the market has a certain popularity.
Soon, Yan Qinghua realized a problem. Most of the raw materials needed to process sweet potato vermicelli are purchased from other places. Raw materials rely on other places, not only to spend logistics costs, but also to grasp the quality, which is related to the development of the industry. Realizing this, in 2022, he took the initiative to seek help from the town and village, offering to grow sweet potatoes locally.
After the discussion, Jinyang Village immediately organized a group of growers to come to Shiting Town, Junchu Town, Liling City to learn the experience of planting sweet potatoes, and successfully introduced commercial potatoes 19 for planting, this kind of sweet potato flour yield can reach up to 22%, is a high-quality raw material for sweet potato flour processing, from the source to improve the quality of sweet potato vermicelli, but also for local farmers to find a new way to increase income, to achieve the "best of both worlds".
Up to now, Yan Qinghua's sweet potato vermicelli processing plant has driven the surrounding Jinyang Village and surrounding areas to plant sweet potatoes for 200 acres, which can achieve 40,000 catties of sweet potato cleaning, crushing and slurry residue separation per hour, and the annual output of sweet potato vermicelli is 500,000 catties. From 2020 to 2024, "Xinfu Youyuan" handmade sweet potato vermicelli represented Liling agricultural products three times to participate in the Central China (Hunan) Agricultural Expo, and sold well all over the country.
In the next step, we will try to develop new products such as dried sweet potatoes and sweet potato chips, so as to add value to the brand and bring more income to local farmers. He said.
At the same time, more and more local villagers who work abroad also have the opportunity to return to their hometowns for employment. Since Yan Qinghua returned to his hometown to start a business, he has driven many farmers in the village to find employment, and Zhang Tianxiang is one of them.
Once, Zhang Tianxiang, as the main income of the family, worked abroad all the year round, and it was rare to go home. "Since I can work at home, it is also convenient to take care of the elderly at home, so I don't have to wander around. She sighed.
In the context of rural revitalization, people who used to be far away from their homeland in order to make a living like Yan Qinghua have returned to their hometowns like leaves, and returning to their hometowns to start a business has become a new way to go out to work.
It is reported that since 2023, Liling City has taken a series of measures to actively cultivate new farmers. It has successively promulgated a series of policies and measures such as "Liling City Optimization Industrial Development Policy" and "Liling City Returnee Entrepreneurship Policy Package", organized and carried out publicity activities on the policy of returning to hometown and entrepreneurship, encouraged successful people with Liling nationality and outstanding talents with lofty ideals to return to their hometowns to start businesses, and provided them with free training, technical guidance, information and tax incentives and other whole-process services. In 2023, 1,933 new entrepreneurs will return to their hometowns, driving employment of 11,981 people, and in 2024, 2,018 new people will return to their hometowns to start businesses, and 45 projects will be intended. As returning to their hometowns to start a business has become a new craze, more and more young people with dreams will return to their homeland and write a splendid chapter of Liling's "100 billion era" with youthful enthusiasm.