Xinhua News Agency Nanjing, September 30 Title: Zhao Yafu: Walk well Technology to promote agriculture Funong Road
Xinhua News Agency reporter Liu Yuxuan
Brew rice into rice wine, the remaining lees are made into black pig feed, the manure excreted by the black pig is composted to peach trees, free-range chickens and ducks shuttle through the shade of the tree, pecking at the falling fruit, chicken manure and duck manure also turn into fertilizer...
This Family Farm Ecological "small cycle" is a researcher Zhao Yafu, a researcher at Daizhuang Organic Agriculture Professional Cooperative in Tianwang Town, Jurong City, Jiangsu Province, led local farmers to carry out a new exploration on ecological agriculture.
Zhao Yafu (left) checks the growth of fruit trees in a agricultural cooperative in Daizhuang Village, Tianwang Town, Jurong City, Jiangsu Province (photo taken on September 9, 2022). Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Bo photo
"We have not applied fertilizers or pesticides in the organic rice fields in Daizhuang for 16 consecutive years." Zhao Yafu told reporters that advocating organic cycle farming and implementing agricultural ecological restoration is a path of high-quality agricultural development that he led the farmers in Daizhuang Village to rush. ,
It is hard to imagine that Daizhuang Village, which now practices the concept of advanced ecological agriculture, is a "poor mountain village" in the hilly hinterland of the old revolutionary base area of Maoshan in the past. In 2002, Zhao Yafu, who retired from his job, insisted on coming here to promote agricultural technology. At that time, the annual per capita income of Daizhuang Village was less than 3,000 yuan, which was less than one-quarter of the average level of , Zhenjiang City.
"He came to Daizhuang at that time and said that he could develop organic agriculture. Peaches could be sold for five yuan per kilogram after planting them. After hearing this, the people said, 'That old man said nonsense, our peaches cost three kilograms per kilogram, and you cost five yuan per kilogram. Isn't it a fantasy?'" Li Jiabin, former secretary of the Party Committee of Daizhuang Village, Tianwang Town, Jurong City, recalled the difficult situation when Zhao Yafu just came to the village to open up the situation.
Zhao Yafu did not argue and silently led experts from the Institute of Agricultural Sciences to build a demonstration park on the transferred 175 acres of gang slope land to teach farmers skills and pay farmers' wages. Soon, "A Chinese Night" became a reality. With the high economic added value of fruit planting such as organic rice and peaches, grapes, and figs , the per mu yield income has increased four to five times compared with conventional cultivation.
Zhao Yafu (left) checked the growth of rice in Daizhuang Village, Tianwang Town, Jurong City, Jiangsu Province (photo taken on September 9, 2022). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Bo
Zhao Yafu not only brought excellent varieties and agricultural technology experience, but also took the lead in establishing a cooperative. Farmers' ability to resist risks has improved, market information has become more sensitive, and their pockets have become bulging. The rumor of "To get rich, find Yafu, find Yafu, be able to be rich" is spreading far and farther and farther.
"He is so old, can't he take a break? He has a pension and enjoys a happy life at home. Why do you have to crawl around in the rice fields and sweat profusely in the fruit forest?" Peng Yuhong, a farmer in Daizhuang Village, said that he often receives step-by-step guidance on weekdays, which makes him wonder why Zhao Yafu is always so energetic?
For decades, "doing it for farmers, taking them, helping farmers sell, and achieving farmers' wealth." In people's eyes, Zhao Yafu is a enthusiastic agricultural "Journal of Everything". You can call him at any time if you have any difficulties.
Zhao Yafu checked the growth of rice in Daizhuang Village, Tianwang Town, Jurong City, Jiangsu Province (photo taken on September 9, 2022). Photo by Li Bo, Xinhua News Agency,
Villagers often see Zhao Yafu wearing thick glasses, bent down in the fields, sometimes leaning over to check the growth of crops, sometimes straightening up to look into the distance, thinking about something. "As an agricultural science and technology worker, he spends two-thirds of his time in the fields 365 days a year, anxious about what farmers are anxious about and what farmers think." said Yao Weichao, secretary of the Party Committee of Daizhuang Village, Tianwang Town, Jurong City.
Once upon the low-yield land, high-yield organic rice is now planted. In 2021, Yueguang organic recycled rice planting in Daizhuang Village, Jurong City was successful in large-scale cultivation. It did not use any pesticides and fertilizers, and it harvested for two seasons a year, and the annual yield per mu increased to 1,000 kilograms.
Under the leadership of Zhao Yafu, in 2021, the annual per capita income of Daizhuang Village has reached 37,500 yuan. Today, ecological agriculture has become an important part of the "Daizhuang Experience", and the "Daizhuang Experience" is also being promoted to the whole province according to local conditions.
Zhao Yafu (right) checked the growth of kiwi fruit in an agricultural cooperative in Daizhuang Village, Tianwang Town, Jurong City, Jiangsu Province (photo taken on September 9, 2022). Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Bo, photo
Not long ago, Zhao Yafu was elected as a representative of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. In the eyes of the villagers of Daizhuang Village, his election is something that everyone hopes for, and it is also everyone's recognition of him taking root in the countryside and serving farmers.
"Write the paper on the earth and keep the results in the farmers' homes. Make new contributions to agricultural modernization and let farmers live a happier life." Zhao Yafu said that he had never left the countryside in his life, and he would write more and better achievements on a broader land in the future.
