The reasons for the formation of Lanwang Village in Weinan City

After the frost, the weather turns cold. Although this year's pepper picking and drying has basically ended, he has not been idle. In the past two days, someone came to visit him specifically to ask him about pepper pruning techniques, and he was willing to teach him everything he could. He was Lan Jian, the head of the New Silk Road Pepper Cooperative in Weinan High-tech Zone and the leader in getting rich in Lanwang Village. letter.

“Everyone says that the market situation of pepper this year is not good, but let me tell you, good things can always be sold at a good price. This year, the price of pepper in other places is four or five yuan per catty, but in our village it is nine "It's about 1,000 yuan." Lan Jianxin said, "There is no other reason than the good quality of the peppers produced here." The main reasons why Lanwang Village peppers are so popular are their red color, large size, thick flesh, and strong flavor. Demand exceeds supply.

Lanwang Village pepper can achieve today’s high quality, and all the credit is inseparable from Lan Jianxin. Lanwang Village belongs to a semi-arid area and once mainly grew wheat and apples. But the output is not good, let alone the quality. Apples have very low sugar content and poor taste. Later, although Murakami gradually laid irrigation water pipes, the quality of crops and planting efficiency did not improve.

Since the beginning of the fight against poverty, Lanwang Village has actively pursued industries to enrich its people. Murakami has tried various industries such as walnuts, but in the end he gave up because the efficiency was not high. In 2014, after many investigations and comparisons, Lan Jianxin believed that the development of the Zanthoxylum bungeanum industry was most in line with the actual situation of Lanwang Village and could also maximize the income of the villagers, so he began to prepare for the Zanthoxylum bungeanum cooperative. After that, he piloted the cooperative model and led a large number of villagers to develop the pepper industry. In 2016, Lan Jianxin unconditionally joined 17 poor households in the village into the cooperative, provided them with pepper saplings and technical guidance, and guided the villagers on the road to wealth through industrial development. Today, the area of ??Zanthoxylum bungeanum in Lanwang Village accounts for more than 70% of the total land area of ??the village. The main varieties of Zanthoxylum bungeanum are Dahongpao, Huanggai and other high-yielding and high-quality varieties.

Lan Jianxin’s exploration of Zanthoxylum bungeanum cultivation and management can almost be described as “bumpy”. In 2019, Lan Jianxin boldly tried the non-spraying planting model of Zanthoxylum bungeanum, but in the end aphids became rampant and the experiment ended in failure. "Although it is currently impossible to not spray pesticides at all, we have also found a balance between green ecology and economic efficiency. For example, for the same insect control, others sprayed 15 times with pesticides, but I only needed to spray 3 times to achieve the desired results. "Effect." At the beginning of this year, Lan Jianxin spent several thousand yuan to buy more than 2,000 ladybugs from the Internet in order to prevent insects from pepper. "After putting it in the ground, it was blown away by a strong wind. Our experience is that you can't buy adult insects, but just release larvae. The process of growing larvae is actually the process of eating pests." Lan Jianxin said, the next step is I also plan to plant earthworms in the pepper fields, which will decompose a large amount of organic matter, release soil fertility, and improve soil quality, thereby reducing or even phasing out the use of chemical fertilizers.

The cultivation and selection of thornless Zanthoxylum bungeanum is also one of Lan Jianxin’s important “businesses”. "The advantages of thornless Zanthoxylum bungeanum are obvious. They have large particles, high yield, and a refreshing aroma after entering the mouth, because its anesthesiol is higher than that of thorny Zanthoxylum bungeanum. Moreover, the yield of thornless Zanthoxylum bungeanum is very high, usually 350 kilograms per mu of land. If the weight is good, it can reach more than 450 kilograms." Lan Jianxin told reporters that he gradually transformed a Zanthoxylum bungeanum tree from thorny to thornless by selecting and grafting some Zanthoxylum bungeanum trees whose thorns have disappeared. So far, this screening model has obvious effects.

All these attempts reflect Lan Jianxin’s “obsession” in producing green, ecological and healthy pepper products. This year, he came up with the idea of ??producing "selenium-rich peppercorns" and quickly put it into practice. "From the perspective of public health needs, selenium-rich products are very marketable. There are many selenium-rich products on the market, but selenium-rich peppercorns have not yet been seen. In addition, many so-called selenium-rich products, mainly This is achieved by spraying selenium on the leaves, so that selenium is easily lost during storage or cleaning," Lan Jianxin said, "We now mainly achieve the purpose of 'selenium enrichment' through two methods: fertilization and spraying. This can retain the selenium element to the greatest extent and create real 'selenium-rich peppercorns.'" This year, Lan Jianxin has selected 50 acres of pepper trees for experiments and achieved good results. Compared with traditional Sichuan peppercorns, the market price of "Se-enriched Sichuan peppercorns" is more than double, and it is favored by high-end people, so it has no worries about sales.

Because of this attempt, Lan Jianxin is called "the first person to produce selenium-rich pepper in Weinan", but in his opinion, he is the only one who can produce truly high-quality "selenium-rich pepper". mission