After returning to his hometown, retired soldier Yan Xutian took root in the countryside and devoted himself to the development of the industry, successively drove more than 40 people to work in the company he founded, and successfully absorbed 6 retired soldiers to work nearby, and he also became the leader of the village's youth to get rich.
In the papaya industry planting base of Qingquan Village, Maling Town, Yan Xutian introduced his papaya planting situation to reporters, since returning from the army, he is full of confidence in the development of his hometown papaya industry, because he planted papaya at home when he was a child, which is very familiar to him.
Retired soldier Yan Xutian:
Our cooperatives send out about 2 million seedlings every year, and about 1,000 farmers take our seedlings to plant papaya, and the throughput of our factory can make 1520,000 catties of raw papaya a day.
From seedling, planting, pulp cutting to selling fruits (pulp), graters, pickles, Yan Xutian has also worked hard to understand the entire production industry chain. Growing up in the countryside since he was a child, and after the tempering of the army, he did not pay attention to the "hard work" of farming, but how to promote the unique papaya industry in his hometown and win the favor of the market made him distressed. In recent years, Maling Town has built the core area of Maling, a papaya industry demonstration zone, in Qingquan Village, which has a good foundation and sufficient conditions in all aspects, and has achieved large-scale planting and deep processing of the papaya industry by cultivating large planters, building industrial bases, and introducing leading enterprises. Yan Xutian seized the opportunity of development, responded to the call with the young people in the village, and actively integrated into the development of the papaya industry. In 2022, farmers in Qingquan Village achieved a per capita annual income of 16,000 yuan through land transfer, papaya planting, and employment in papaya processing factories, with significant social and economic benefits.
Huang Jian, head of the veterans service station in Maling Town:
Under the leadership of the town party committee, we will actively establish party building contact points for party members and leading cadres and retired soldiers, give full play to the spirit of retired soldiers who are not afraid of hardship and tiredness, vigorously develop the planting industry, and actively drive the villagers to increase their income and get rich. At present, there are more than 50 retired soldiers engaged in the development of the papaya industry in the town. In the next step, we will continue to mobilize the enthusiasm of veterans and let them fully participate in the construction of rural revitalization.