Yellow River Wan Li Water Town

—— Rice planting on the Yellow River beach in Wanrong County

Chang Dacheng Lin Zhihong

? In the early winter, the Yellow River beach area in Ronghe Town, Wanrong County has just fallen into a bumper harvest, and 18000 mu of rice has been harvested and returned to the warehouse. However, in a newly-built rice processing factory on the bank of Fenhe River in this town, machines are roaring, traffic is busy and people are coming and going. The staff in the rice processing workshop of "Wanrong Maofa Grain Professional Cooperative" are nervously and orderly processing glistening rice, and the rice throughput every 8 hours is 15 tons. Merchants who come to buy rice don't believe anything. In this endless Yellow River beach area, rice can only be produced in the south and northeast.

? Boldly try to break the imprisonment of rice planting in southern Shanxi

? Wanrong County has more than 200,000 mu of tidal flat land. These beaches belong to the continental shelf beach area between the Yellow River and Fenhe River. Due to the influence of traditional agricultural planting customs, no one has planted rice in history. 10 years ago, Xue, a 58-year-old farmer from Liucun, initiated 15 village names. After years of hard work on the banks of the Yellow River, he finally cultivated 200 million mu of cultivated land among reeds and weeds. After the wasteland was reclaimed, Xue and the local beach people have been planting traditional crops such as cotton, wheat, corn and black beans, and sometimes they have jet lag. 20 15 Li Dayong, a native of Jiangsu province, has been contracted to grow rice in the northeast for a long time, but he has lost money due to years of rice cultivation, lack of crop rotation and irrigation in polluted rivers. Therefore, after two years of repeated investigation, Li Dayong chose the 50,000 mu tidal flat in Ronghe Town as the new rice planting base. In 20 15, I came here with my wife, contracted the 1000 mu of beach land reclaimed by Xue, and began to grow rice. This year, the rice planted by Mr. and Mrs. Li Dayong reached per mu 1.500 kg, and the price of rice A Jin was about 1.5 yuan. Li Dayong's income was 6,543,800 yuan+500,000 yuan. After deducting the investment of 600,000 yuan, his net income reached 900,000 yuan. The news that rice can be planted on the Yellow River beach soon spread to more than a dozen villages along the river in Ronghe Town, such as Beixin, Nanxin, Shashifan, Shang Chao and Caizigou. In 20 16, influenced by Li Dayong, the rice planting area in Ronghetan reached 5600 mu. We also had a good harvest that year. This practical example laid a good foundation for planting rice in a large area on the beach in the future. The Party Committee and the town government of Ronghe Town seized this opportunity and called on village cadres to actively publicize and mobilize farmers in each village to make full use of the beaches in 20 18 years and plant rice by using the water resources of the Yellow River at the mobilization meeting of the town to get rid of poverty in the winter of 20 17. They decided to plant rice on the beach as a new industry for local poor villages to get rid of poverty.

? Build a nest to attract phoenix and expand the rice planting area on the beach

20 18 On the second day of the first lunar month, the Party committee and government of Ronghe Town held a "Feng Haichao" forum in the town government according to the instructions of the county party committee and government. Entrepreneurs from all over the town attended the forum. Wang Shiwei, deputy mayor of Baocun, reported the situation of rice planting by villagers Xue and Jiangsu in six villages on the beach, and made suggestions on behalf of Sheng Xiang, hoping to get the support of government departments in rice processing. The idea is to establish a rice processing factory to process rice into rice on the spot, which can not only ensure the sales of rice, but also improve the output value of rice. This incident once again attracted the attention of the town party Committee and the town government. They believe that the success of planting rice in the river beach is a good way for local farmers to consolidate the achievements of poverty alleviation and develop emerging industries. However, there are no local rice processing enterprises, and the sale of rice is a big problem. As a result, the town party committee and the town government mobilized entrepreneurs to participate in the symposium while the iron was hot, and extended their warm hands to support the construction of their hometown and invest in the construction of rice processing plants. Under the call of the town party committee and the town government, the foreign entrepreneurs Sun Qigeng, Hao Linsheng and Hao Shijie who attended the meeting immediately said that they had been wandering abroad for many years and were old, and they were willing to invest in building a rice processing enterprise to promote the economic development of their hometown. Subsequently, under the impetus of the town government, the three entrepreneurs reached a cooperation agreement with Xue to raise 40 million yuan to build a rice processing factory, buy processing facilities and solve the problem of rice purchase and storage. Subsequently, according to Xue's request, the town Party Committee and the town government helped him to set up the "Wanrong Maofa Grain Planting Professional Cooperative", which attracted 30 farmers to participate, and helped the cooperative to handle the business license of processing enterprises, land declaration procedures, environmental assessment procedures and food safety and hygiene licenses. The establishment of cooperatives and the improvement of processing enterprises have made more people in beach areas see the prospect of planting rice. Have invested in the ranks of planting rice. 20 18 In the first ten days of May, there were 32 farmers growing rice in Ronghe Town, and the area soared to more than18,000 mu, with an average household of 600 mu. Some farmers cooperate with others when the investment is not in place. They have money to pay but no money to contribute. On the vast river beach, a naval battle for rice planting has started fiercely. During the management of rice planting, the town leaders came to the beach area many times to coordinate and solve the practical difficulties encountered in road traffic, water diversion and irrigation. The cooperative employs rice planting experts to sit in the paddy field, and provides one-stop services throughout the whole process: unified land preparation and excavation channels, unified procurement of rice seeds, unified technical guidance, unified equipment sowing and harvesting, and unified provision of agricultural materials. Through the "five unification", 18000 mu of rice grows well, with an yield of more than 1400 kg per mu and a total yield of 25 million kg. The total income reached 35 million yuan. After the rice is harvested, the cooperative opens to purchase. The price per kilogram is 1.4 yuan, and the farmers' gross income per mu 1.00 kg of rice is 1.96 yuan. Excluding 600 yuan's contracted land remuneration and labor input, the net income per mu is 65,438 yuan +0.36 yuan. Hao, a villager in Liucun, has been planting beaches for many years. This year, he cooperated with others to contract 1 10,000 mu of tidal flat to plant all rice, and the income was 1.2 million yuan, and he and his partner each got 600,000 yuan. When selling rice, he said happily, we have planted the river beach for many years and haven't counted so many tickets yet.

Practice has proved that planting rice in the Yellow River beach area is promising.

? Rice planting in the Yellow River beach area of Wanrong County has been successful and achieved good economic benefits, which provides strong evidence for whether rice can be planted in the Yellow River beach area in southern Shanxi. At present, the Party Committee and the town government of Ronghe Town once again put forward a new plan to further increase the rice planting area in the town's beaches next year, and instructed the deputy mayor in charge of agriculture to implement it. After many discussions with Li Dayong, a native of Jiangsu Province, Xu He, secretary of the Party Committee of the town, and Dong Kai, mayor of the town, summarized several advantages of planting rice on the river beach. First, there is basically no pollution in the Yellow River, and irrigation of rice will not lead to the death of seedlings. The survival rate of seedlings is over 90%, while the survival rate of rice seedlings in some parts of Northeast China is less than 70%. Second, rice has never been planted here in history, and there is no poison of plant genetic diseases. Strong natural immunity, no need to spray pesticides. Third, the Yellow River beach has strong ultraviolet rays and long sunshine time, and long-term exposure of rice to the sun is conducive to growth. The most important thing is that rice planting here is direct sowing without transplanting, while rice planting in Northeast China and South China is to raise seedlings first and then transplant seedlings. Another advantage is the long growth period of rice in tidal flat. Sowing at the beginning of May and harvesting at the end of 10 is two months longer than that in Northeast China, not to mention double-cropping rice in the south. Due to the long growth period, the processed rice is rich in nutrition and has a natural taste. In the processing factory of Maofa Grain Planting Professional Cooperative in Wanrong County, the author saw that the tall dryer dried the rice that had just been collected, and then slowly sent it to the screening machine, and then shelled it by the elevator, cleaning screen and husker, and ground it into rice. Finally, the broken rice is screened out by a rice separator. Xue, chairman of the cooperative, said that although their processing factory processed rice for the first time this winter, they hired technicians familiar with machine operation from other places, and the effect was not bad. It can produce about 7 Liang of rice per catty, which is in line with the conventional rice output. Polished rice began to be sold in foreign markets.

Wanrong County has vast tidal flats and abundant cultivated land resources. It is also adjacent to the Yellow River, and it has a unique advantage to grow rice. The success of rice planting in this county also provides an example of industrial structure adjustment and new agricultural transformation and development for counties and cities along the Yangtze River in the city.

Photography: Li Kerong