In 1997, 22-year-old Ni Xiaojun graduated from the Department of Management of Zhejiang University in .
That year, he had thick hair, thick eyebrows and big eyes, and behind his youthful face, there was also the honor of "the first college student in the village". He put on a suit and tie, and was ambitious to do something big in the city.
At that time, he could not have imagined that he would return to the countryside by chance and become a bayberry grower like his father. What is the future of
kinds of bayberry? When college students grow bayberry, isn’t it wasteful to read the books?
has had such doubts, but Ni Xiaojun used his time and results to fight back: in the most bayberry ring competition in Zhejiang Agriculture, he won the double championship of water chestnut seeds and Dongkui seeds for two consecutive times; under his leadership, 1,000 acres of greenhouse bayberry in the province, 800 acres of Lanxi , and 400 acres are in his hometown - Majian Town Qianyu Village.
The first college student in the village
set off from Lanxi city and drove along the Lanxi section of Provincial Highway 47 towards Pujiang . Along the way is the "fifty-mile bayberry corridor".
In the past few days, the bayberry in Lanxi has come to an end. On the hillside along the way, I occasionally saw a few bayberry trees , with red fruits hanging on it. There are many red umbrellas on both sides of the provincial highway, and they are originally temporary stalls selling bayberry.
Just experienced the hustle and bustle, and several heavy rains have brought Lanxi Majian Town back to tranquility.
Relying on the mountain to eat the mountain, Majian Town relies on these bayberry trees that are high and low all over the mountains.
Because of its unique inland climate, it is on the edge of the Majian Basin. The temperature difference between day and night is large, and the unique red sand soil is acidic and has good breathability. It has created a sweet taste of Majian bayberry.
But the same natural environment, the situation was completely different more than 20 years ago. The bayberry at that time was not very valuable.
Qianyu Village, Majian Town, a typical bayberry planting village. Almost every household in the village has bayberry trees planted in almost every household. A rural child like Ni Xiaojun is a native of the countryside who plays big on Yangmei Mountain. There are more than 200 bayberry trees in the family, and only earn three or four thousand yuan a year, which serves the family of four to eat and drink, and Ni Xiaojun and his brother and sister to go to school.
Rural people all want to go out.
In 1993, Ni Xiaojun did it. He became the first college student in the village and attended Zhejiang University.
That summer vacation, my mother took Ni Xiaojun to visit relatives. Eggs and noodles were the standard for entertaining distinguished guests in Lanxi rural areas. She went to a family for a meal, and in the end Ni Xiaojun was afraid when she saw the eggs.
College student Ni Xiaojun has become the pride of the whole village and the hope of the family.
Go home to plant bayberry, my father was the first to disagree with
1997, Ni Xiaojun graduated from the Department of Management of Zhejiang University. The word management is like a key to jump out of the farming gate. The 22-year-old man returned to Lanxi with his dream and entered a local state-owned enterprise.
In Lanxi, this company that produces tire rubber was once a large company envied by many people. Working slowly, maybe you can get a house.
Ni Xiaojun once thought so. Suits and tie are his standard outfits when he goes to work every day, and he even needs to use facial cleanser twice in the morning and evening. It seems that only in this way can we get rid of the label of "village people". But reality quickly slapped him in the face. His salary of more than 350 yuan a month made him gradually lose expectations for this job.
talked about my girlfriend. My father-in-law is an unloader in the fruit market. After get off work, he can set up a stall to sell watermelons and earn more than 100 yuan a day. "It's better to be your own boss than to work for others." That was the first time. Ni Xiaojun had the idea of starting a business. Two years later, he resigned from his unit, set up a street stall, sold watermelons and skewers, and also went out to start a business and opened a cement factory. He made money and lost money. He went on a lot of trouble. In 2004, he returned to Lanxi and started a fruit business.
It was probably from this time that his fate with Yangmei began again.
Every year when bayberry is ripe, Ni Xiaojun always picks bayberry from home and sells it to the fruit store. Because it tastes good, it has gradually accumulated many old customers.
Ni Xiaojun wants to go home to plant bayberry.Ni Genshui, the father of a farmer who has been working as a lifelong farmer, was the first to disagree.
But Ni Xiaojun wants to prove that he is better at studying than others. He can grow bayberry when he graduated from Zhejiang University, and he can also be different from others. The initial change of
started with the sales method.
In the eyes of older fruit farmers like my father, bayberry is just waiting for the buyer to come. The buyer has the final say on the price.
"Why don't you sell it yourself, or provide a mountain picking experience?" Provincial Highway 47 connects Lanxi, Yiwu and Pujiang. It is a main road with many passing vehicles. Unexpectedly, after a few days of setting up the business, the business is amazing, especially when climbing up the mountain picking, the price can also be increased. "I made 20,000 yuan that year. If I waited for the buyer to come, I would make about 5,000 yuan."
set up a stall for a few days, and the villagers next to me also followed suit. The "road market" of bayberry along the line took shape, and also changed the single sales model of waiting for the buyer to come.
but the blow came again soon.
The season when bayberry is ripe is just the rainy season, and Lanxi is rainy. Often when it rains, most of the ripe bayberry fruits on the trees are knocked down. In 2008, it rained heavily in Lanxi for more than 10 days, and many fruit farmers, including Ni Xiaojun's family, had almost no harvest.
To change the fate of planting bayberry, the fate of relying on the weather to make a living. As early as 2006, local fruit farmers tried to plant greenhouses, but the effect was not ideal. Compared with open-air bayberry, the bayberry trees in the greenhouse had poor results, and even if they bear fruit, the taste would not work.
often invests tens of thousands of yuan to build greenhouses, but not having enough planting technology means that you can’t make a profit, and many fruit farmers dare not try it easily.
Understand Yangmei
2011, Ni Xiaojun couldn't sit still. Ask experts and search for information online, he sorted out all the possible problems encountered in greenhouse cultivation, and wanted to change his fate if he went against the will of heaven.
This year, he spent 13,000 yuan to build a bayberry greenhouse and cultivate 13 fruit trees in facilities.
How to pollinate? How to apply fertilization? How to adjust the temperature? How to control humidity? Ni Xiaojun recorded them one by one in the notebook. At that time, he often entered the greenhouse at dawn and came out until dark. He soaked in the greenhouse all day to experience the temperature and humidity, and observe the growth and changes of bayberry trees.
Wife Chen Haiyan recalled that during that time, Ni Xiaojun often returned home at night and found that he had no lunch.
"Just try first, I didn't expect to make 75,000 yuan this year." Greenhouse bayberry was listed half a month earlier than open-air bayberry, and the price could be sold 10 times that of ordinary bayberry. "The income of 13 fruit trees exceeds the total income of other open-air bayberry."
But after several years of planting, Ni Xiaojun also found that greenhouse bayberry was much more difficult.
Take the core pollination as an example. Babyberry trees are dioecious fruit trees. Male flowers and female flowers can only be pollinated under the action of wind to produce bayberry. However, after planting in the greenhouse, there is no wind and pollination becomes a problem. When is the time for pollination with artificial intervention? What is the proportion of pollination? A slight deviation will lead to a series of subsequent problems.
Ni Xiaojun wants to explore the best planting plan.
Since 2015, he has used his experience in university management classes to divide bayberry into six groups for group experiments, experimenting with the impact of data on the results in different temperatures, humidity, fertilizers and other aspects.
Some greenhouses are specially used for "failure". That year, two of the experimental greenhouses were too high before flowering, with no flower buds, and the loss was at least 200,000 yuan.
"Failure is not necessarily a bad thing. If you fail again and again, I know where the limit is and where the problem is." After nearly 5 years of exploration, the high humidity and high temperature environment in the greenhouse have turned Ni Xiaojun from a young young man who was anxious about his hairline, but what he got was a set of greenhouse bayberry planting techniques, which could even be accurate. On a branch, the best time is to pollinate the female flowers when they have to bloom for a few flowers.
"Growing bayberry is very simple, but it is difficult to have flavor. This flavor depends on technology."In 2016, Ni Xiaojun represented Lanxi bayberry in Zhejiang's most bayberry ring competition. Unexpectedly, he won the double championship with the best taste of water chestnut seeds and Dongkui seeds in one fell swoop.
gave more than 800 people
0 greenhouse planting bayberry, Ni Xiaojun succeeded.
with the "college students" taking the lead, and in recent years, the local subsidy of 6,000 yuan per mu of greenhouse planting bayberry, many fruit farmers also want to taste the sweetness of facility cultivation.
"At first, I didn't believe that the bayberry planted in the greenhouse was so light, how could anyone buy it? "Village Li Binghui said that now everyone believes in the greenhouse bayberry of "college students", and even has to follow. Some villagers have to ask Ni Xiaojun to go up the mountain to provide guidance from the beginning of building greenhouse bayberry.
More than 30 farmhouses in Qianyu Village, more than 20 households have built greenhouses, with an area of 400 acres. "The province has 1,000 acres of greenhouse bayberry and 800 acres of Lanxi, half of which are in our village. "One of Ni Xiaojun's goals is to build his hometown into the "No. 1 village of greenhouse bayberry in Zhejiang".
seems to be getting closer to achieving this goal.
As the champion this year, Ni Xiaojun once again participated in the most bayberry ring competition in Zhejiang Agriculture, and ended up winning the double championship.
"To be honest, I carefully prepared the 2016 competition. I picked out one of the 400 fruit trees, and the blossom and fruiting were calculated. I was really not prepared this year. I told me the first day I wanted to compete, and I went the next day. "Even Ni Xiaojun himself was a little surprised in the final result," indicating that the grouping experiment has improved the technology. "
Ni Xiaojun admitted that in May this year, it was the fruiting period of bayberry, but several high temperature days caused many fruits of open-air bayberry to be sunburned, and the taste was not good. The advantages of greenhouse bayberry planting showed good harvest this year.
" The picking period of greenhouse bayberry was earlier and longer, and lasted 35 days this year. Open-air bayberry, water chestnut species and Dongkui species, which was very good for a total of 20 days. "At present, Ni Xiaojun has 50 acres of greenhouse bayberry, ranking second in Lanxi. "This year, it has been sold out, about 40,000 to 50,000 kilograms, earning about 2 million yuan. "
The situation of other growers in the village is similar. "Our cooperative has 5 members with an annual income of more than 300,000 yuan. With greenhouse bayberry, the per capita annual income of villagers in Qianyu Village can reach 40,000 yuan, and all their families have built new houses. "Ni Xiaojun said that the village has 200 people growing bayberry, and the output value can exceed that of 800 people growing open-air bayberry in other places.
promotes Lanxi bayberry to go out
In the past few days, at the International Bayberry Research Center in Xiadu Village, Majian Town, Lanxi, many aunts in the village are busy sorting bayberry, purple-black fruits, evenly sized, put them in packaging boxes. The SF Express courier next to it keeps tearing the tape, packing and sealing... These bayberry will be sent to all parts of the country. "These days are quite good, because bayberry has almost been removed from the market, and there are not many packages. It was just a few days ago, from morning to night. "The courier said that these express delivery mainly consists of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, "and there are also in far away Guangdong, and they have to be sent to Xinjiang before. "
Ni Xiaojun's family alone has more than 1,000 express delivery items a year. Ni Xiaojun has more than 2,000 WeChat friends, not many, but most of them buy bayberry from him every year, and many of them are old customers for many years.
" There is no need to worry about selling agricultural products. "When I walked into several greenhouses, the bayberry trees inside were already bare, with no fruit left, but Ni Xiaojun's cell phone kept ringing, sometimes in Mandarin and sometimes in Lanxi dialect, he could only refuse one by one, "Come next year, there will be no greenhouse this year, and I feel embarrassed to sell it, so I smashed the Lanxi bayberry brand. "
Nowadays, in addition to bayberry growers, Ni Xiaojun is also an authority in the greenhouse bayberry planting industry. He also hopes that this optimal solution can benefit more fruit farmers.
"I grow bayberry, which is definitely more famous than I stayed as an accountant back then. "Ni Xiaojun often jokes about his college student identity, but for the future, he has a clear goal: to help Lanxi bayberry go out.
Now, Ni Xiaojun will also be invited to Shangyu , Fuyang, Huangyan , Lin'an and other places to teach fruit farmers. "It is fake to do agriculture, not being tired, but if you love this industry, you will forget the hard work.Lanxi bayberry is like my lover. I miss you if you don’t see you for three days. It’s my love. "Ni Xiaojun said that he did not go out of the countryside back then, "I hope Lanxi bayberry can replace me and go further. ”
Source: Qianjiang Evening News·Hours News Reporter Zhu Lizhen/Text Liu Dong Zheng Yang/Photo
Editor: Ji Qianqian
