The face is covered with the marks of the wind and the sun, always looking dusty, and has the title of "Strawberry Doctor", which is the impression left by Li Shiyao, a representative of the National People's Congress and chairman of the Liupanshui Shanhai Garden Planting Farmers Professional Cooperative in Guizhou Province.
Representative Li Shiyao. (Courtesy of the representative).
How much you give, how much you get! In recent years, Li Shiyao has led the masses to develop characteristic industries and has introduced more than 30 strawberry varieties, among which "red cream strawberry", "pink rose strawberry", "white peach strawberry" and other varieties stand out, which not only solves the problem of low efficiency of traditional agriculture, but also brings tangible benefits to the local people.
Because since he was a child, he has watched his parents face the loess with their backs to the sky, "working hard for a whole year, but the benefits are not high", Li Shiyao made up his mind to change this status quo. When he applied for the college entrance examination, he chose a major related to agriculture, and since then, he has formed an indissoluble bond with agriculture from a master's degree to a doctorate.
In 2017, Li Shiyao, who graduated from Northwest A&F University with a doctorate, chose to return to his hometown to start a business without hesitation after staying in school for a year of scientific research, and established a Shanhaiyuan Planting Farmers Cooperative in Zhongqing Village, Liupanshui City, specializing in planting strawberries.
Who would have thought that the first person to stand up for strong opposition was actually my father. My father thought that he was "unproductive", and he spent so much money and read so many books, and "read it in vain".
Working outside the home by yourself can only solve the employment of one person. Returning to your hometown to start a business can drive a group of people to work and change the concept of a generation. Li Shiyao enlightened his father again and again.
Liupanshui City is located in the karst mountain area, with the lowest altitude of 586 meters, the highest altitude of 2900 meters, and the relative altitude difference of 2314 meters. In the face of the actual situation of high altitude, less arable land, broken land, poor soil, and low efficiency of traditional agriculture, how can we lead the masses to develop characteristic industries and efficiently produce more, better, and more competitive agricultural products? This has become the biggest challenge facing Li Shiyao.
Representative Li Shiyao explained the planting technology to the villagers in the strawberry greenhouse. (Courtesy of the representative).
Li Shiyao actively explores the efficient planting mode of modern agriculture, adopts the methods of "summer corn + winter wheat", "waxy corn + autumn potato", adopts the intensive production technology of "strawberry-watermelon" rotation, and the high-yield and high-efficiency planting technology of grain crops, etc., and does everything possible to improve planting efficiency and yield.
However, it is very difficult to change the traditional planting concept of the villagers. In 2021, when planting watermelons, Li Shiyao told the villagers to leave one melon on one vine and pick the rest. As a result, because there are too many fruits on the watermelon vine, the nutrients are scattered, and the quality and value are greatly reduced. In the season of thinning flowers and fruits of strawberries, the villagers are reluctant to thin them and keep them, and the quality, taste, and commerciality of the results are affected.
At the beginning, Li Shiyao was very anxious, but then he thought about it: changing a person's concept is not an overnight thing, and if you take everyone to do it, you have to do it for everyone. By taking the lead again and again, the villagers can see the tangible benefits of developing modern agriculture, and they gradually change their concepts. Even his father, who had strongly opposed his return, happily changed his stance and handed over all the family's 10 acres of land to Li Shiyao to take care of.
Combined with the actual situation, Li Shiyao adopted the method of improving the quality and efficiency of traditional agriculture, and selected the best among dozens of varieties. Fresh corn, grain corn, potato, strawberry and other varieties continue to develop in accordance with the localization, and gradually screen out more suitable for the local, more market potential crop varieties and planting patterns, the yield of the experimental corn varieties is more than twice the local average, and a set of suitable for the characteristics of the Liupanshui mountain area "to store grain in the ground, to store grain in technology, to improve the seed and good method to benefit" way.
In 2023, Li Shiyao initiated the establishment of the Liupanshui Shanhaiyuan Agricultural Development Service Center, which provides new varieties and technologies to cooperatives, family farms and farmers. Through the development of the model of "service center + cooperative + family farm + farmer", we will popularize agricultural knowledge and teach agricultural technology to the masses, lead the masses to develop characteristic industries, and promote the high-quality development of local agriculture while solving the problem of increasing the income of the masses.
The people elected me as a representative, and I will be a representative for the people. Li Shiyao said: "Participating in the National People's Congress and the National People's Congress for the first time last year, I paid more attention to the improvement of the comprehensive production capacity of grain crops and the development of rural characteristic industries, and put forward suggestions to support the development of rural industries, new agricultural varieties and technologies, and the application of agricultural science and technology at the grassroots level to help rural revitalization." This year's two sessions will put forward suggestions in terms of increasing support for agricultural socialized services. ”
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Authors: Tian Shengping, Li Xiaojian.
Editor: Wang Ling.
Editor-in-charge: Zhang Yuchai.