htmlOn July 5, I walked into the ecological rice planting base in Wengding Village, Ruoshui Town, Huitong County. With the sound of insects and frogs, under the green rice seedlings, the fish swimming around jumped out of the water from time to time "naughty" to get rich. A song of "Rice and Fish Symbiosis" is playing..."Enterprise ecological rice, and raise rice and flower fish, one water for two purposes, and one field harvested." Huang Meihua, head of the Wengding Ecological Rice Planting Professional Cooperative in Huitong County, introduced that the average altitude of the base is more than 500 meters, and the rice growth period is as long as 140 to 150 days. It is irrigated by mountain spring water with low water temperature and excellent water quality. No fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides are applied throughout the process. The "Ice Spring Tribute Rice" produced is of high quality and rich nutrition. Cultivating rice and flower fish can help weed and increase income.
Huang Meihua is a representative of the Sixth Municipal People's Congress. She is from Basong Village, Ruoshui Town. She has worked abroad for many years. Since returning home in 2017, she has been committed to developing and promoting ecological rice planting and rice flower fish farming industries. In 2022, the cooperative planted 7 hectares of ecological rice in Wengding Village, raised more than 50,000 rice and flower fish, and expanded the breeding area by 13 hectares in other townships, further expanding the radiation driving force.
"It is possible to let the people see such a model, and it is truly effective." Huang Meihua said. The cooperative implemented a unified seed supply, unified farming, unified field management, unified harvesting and unified sales operation model, and absorbed more than 100 farmers, with an average increase of more than 10,000 yuan per household. In December 2021, the cooperative dividend conference distributed agricultural product dividends and labor wages to more than 30 villagers, totaling more than 200,000 yuan, and Wengding Bingquan tribute rice became the "ripening rice" for villagers.
"I think rural revitalization is actually about developing the village collective economy and then doing something for the people." In January 2021, after Huang Meihua was elected as the Women's Director of the Basong Village Committee, she planned to extend the development of ecological rice planting and rice flower fish breeding industry to the village. "Take the lead in developing industries with everyone to get rich, you can also grow healthy ingredients and eat them, and then recycle the land." Huang Meihua said that developing industries will kill three birds with one stone.
In addition to developing the industry, Huang Meihua is also enthusiastic about public welfare undertakings. It is understood that before returning home, Huang Meihua had been engaged in social welfare work for more than ten years, and joined the Huitong County Blue Sky Rescue Team in October 2020, actively participating in school drowning prevention publicity, rescue, epidemic prevention, control and disinfection and other public welfare activities organized by the rescue team. "I think it is the happiest thing to be able to do for the people around me, do things for my hometown, serve others and help others," said Huang Meihua.
"National Congress representatives are elected by the masses and represent the people. We must solve the real problems of the people in one area." Since being elected as a NPC representative, Huang Meihua feels more pressure and more motivation. "We must go to the grassroots and visit more, collect the problem needs of different people, sort them out clearly in different categories, and better reflect and solve problems." She said that we must not only be good village cadres and drive the people to get rich, but also be good representatives of the People's Congress and be good "spokespersons" of the people. (Reporter Bu Xiumei)
