Yellow River Wan Li Water Town

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

Chang Dacheng Lin Zhihong

? In 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 small town, the roar of machines keeps coming and going, and people come and go. 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, only the south and northeast can produce rice.

? 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. Xue, a 58-year-old farmer in Liucun, led 15 village names more than ten years ago. After several 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 the income is sometimes jet lag. 20 15, Li Dayong, a native of Jiangsu province, contracted the land for growing rice in Northeast China for a long time, and suffered losses because of the perennial rice planting, lack of stubble and polluted river irrigation. So, 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 1.5 kg, and the price of rice A Jin was about 1.5 yuan. Li Dayong's income was RMB 6,543,800+RMB 5,000. After deducting the investment of RMB 600,000, his net income reached RMB 900,000. 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. 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, which sounds empty and seeing is believing, laid a good foundation for planting rice on a large scale on the beach later. The Party Committee and the town government of Ronghe Town seized this opportunity, and at the mobilization meeting of the whole town to get rid of poverty in the winter of 20 17, they called on village cadres to actively publicize and mobilize farmers in all villages to make full use of beaches and plant rice by using the water resources of the Yellow River in 20 18. They decided to plant rice on the beach as a new industry for local poor villages to get rid of poverty and become rich.

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

On the second day of the first month of 20 18, the Party committee and government of Ronghe Town held a "Feng Haichao" forum in the town government according to the instructions and requirements of the county party committee and government. All the entrepreneurs in the town attended the symposium. Wang Shiwei, deputy mayor of Baocun, reported the situation of rice planting by villagers Xue and Jiangsu in six villages on the beach, and put forward suggestions on behalf of the Party Committee and government of Shengxiang Town, hoping to get the support of government departments in rice processing. The idea is to build 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 matter once again attracted the attention of the town party Committee and the town government. They believe that the success of rice planting in the floodplain 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 they were able to lend a warm hand to support the construction of their hometown and invest in the construction of rice processing plants. At the call of the town party committee and the town government, foreign entrepreneurs Sun Qigeng, Hao, Hao Shijie and others who attended the meeting immediately said that they had been traveling 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, encouraged by the town government, the three entrepreneurs reached a cooperation agreement with Xue, raising 40 million yuan to build a rice processing factory and purchase processing facilities to solve the problem of rice acquisition 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 beach people 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 planting rice in Ronghe Town, and the area soared to more than18,000 mu, with an average household area of 600 mu. Some farmers cooperate with others when the investment is not in place, but they have money to pay but no money to contribute. A naval battle of rice planting was launched fiercely on the vast river beach. During the period of rice planting and management, the town leaders came to the seaside many times to coordinate the practical difficulties encountered in road traffic and water diversion irrigation. The cooperative employs rice planting experts to sit in the paddy field, providing 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",10.8 million mu of rice grows well, with an yield of more than10.4 million kg per mu and an yield of 25 million kg per mu. The total income reached 35 million yuan. After the rice is harvested, the cooperative opens to purchase, and the gross income of farmers per kilogram 1.4 yuan and per mu 1.000 kilograms of rice is 1.960 yuan. Excluding the contracted land payment and 600 yuan's labor input, the net income per mu is 1.36 yuan. Hao, a villager in Liucun, has been planting beaches for many years. In this year, he cooperated with others to contract 1 1,000 mu of tidal flat to plant all rice, and the income was10.2 million yuan, and he and his partner each got 600,000 yuan. When selling rice, he said happily, we have planted beaches for many years and have never counted so many tickets.

Practice has proved that there is great potential for planting rice in the yellow river beach.

? Rice planting on the Yellow River beach in Wanrong County has been successful and achieved good economic benefits, which provides strong evidence for whether rice can be planted on the Yellow River beach in southern Shanxi Province. 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 rice seedlings. The survival rate of rice 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. Natural immunity, no need to spray pesticides. Third, the Yellow River beach has strong ultraviolet rays and long sunshine time, and rice is exposed to sunlight for a long time, which 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 the northeast, not to mention the 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 plant of Maofa Grain Planting Professional Cooperative in Wanrong County, the author saw that the tall dryer dried the rice just collected, and then slowly sent it to the screening machine, and then shelled it by the elevator, cleaning screen, husker and other equipment and ground it into rice. Finally, the broken rice was screened out by the classifier. Xue, the chairman of the cooperative, said that although it was the first time that their factory processed rice 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 yield. Polished rice began to be sold in foreign markets.

Wanrong county has vast beaches and rich 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 has also provided an example for the adjustment of industrial structure and the transformation and development of new agriculture for the counties and cities along the Yangtze River in the city.

Photography: Li Kerong