Sericulture In Rugao, Jiangsu: Development Depends On Itself

Nowadays, when the cold winter is coming, the pheasant water is quiet after harvest, but the Zhouzhuang community in Gaoming town is still a busy scene.

A few days ago, the 9 group of Huang Xiangjian just ploughed the floor, while patting the mud side of his trouser legs looking at the contracted 20 acres of greenhouses, cheerfully told

Old models encounter new problems.

Referring to the Zhouzhuang community in Gaoming Town, the most widely known one is the local mulberry cultivation and sericulture.

The total area of the whole community is more than 80% of the total area of cultivated land, nearly 7000 of them are sericultural, and the total income of silkworm is over 12 million yuan / year. The output value of mulberry garden is nearly 5000 yuan. It is a professional demonstration village of Rugao sericulture production (community) and a Nantong high yield mulberry base.

However, in recent years, the cocoon market fluctuated greatly, the cocoon price was not stable, and the labor intensity of sericulture production was great.

How can we increase the efficiency of agriculture and increase farmers' income?

Zhou Jiuhai, Secretary of the general Party branch of the Communist Party of China and a group of people from the two committees of the village, made a resolute decision: the establishment of a community land joint stock cooperative, through large-scale land circulation, on the one hand, stabilizing the mulberry area and concentrating on the large silkworm rearing families; on the other hand, doing enough articles to remove the 1100 Mu arable land in mulberry fields, and strive to increase land output, and achieve three times of multiplication.

In October 2009, a total of 860 acres of land were pferred to the community, including 230 mu of mulberry garden, involving 10 villagers and 232 households.

Innovative thinking, "apprenticeship"

Clear the way of thinking, vacate the land, and wait for a good and efficient agricultural project to settle down.

The two committees of the community are under pressure, and everyone is responsible for doing everything possible to attract foreign investment.

5 businessmen have been approached. Many of them are experts in planting in Dongtai. They are sincere enough to work in the community to contract the land for planting watermelon in the greenhouse.

Bold and cautious Zhou Jiuhai found: greenhouse watermelon consumption is large, afraid of continuous cropping, the land planted this year will be much worse next year, and it can only be planted for two years at most. When people go to the ground and empty land, the farmland is wasted, and the confidence of further development is gone, and the hope of the common people is broken.

Knowing that some businessmen were looking at the land, the masses came to ask: is the greenhouse watermelon a seed or not? Zhou Jiuhai answered it positively, but instead of changing the way of thinking and changing the way.

To develop, the key is to rely on ourselves.

Zhou Jiuhai came up with a plan: he signed a 1 year agreement with businessmen from Dongtai, and 5 community cadres were butting up 5 merchants. They established service relations and established mentoring relationships. They were businessmen and teachers, and community cadres. They used 1 years' time to "learn" others' watermelon planting technology as their own.

1 years later, community cadres should be able to raise the backbone and be a model and demonstration for the development of efficient agriculture.

At the same time, we should encourage the masses to join the "learning class" to learn from each other and make progress together.

Since the end of 2009, community leaders have worked with 4 farmers in 70 acres of greenhouses as a test base, followed by businessmen from Dongtai to cultivate and enter the market.

At the beginning of this year, the community organized 3 groups of interested and energetic farmers to study in Dongtai, three towns, Xinjie Town, Dafeng City and other places.

The 11 group of Wu Fuping said: "after watching in the field, I am very excited and I want to do it at once."

Show the masses and earn the masses.

"I planted 8 mu of field myself, and the sales revenue of only one crop of watermelon reached 60 thousand yuan, not only recovering all the investment, but also surpluses more than 24000 yuan."

Zhou Jiuhai gave the accounts to the ordinary people who wanted to do it but did not dare to do so.

But the people are also worried, hesitant: efficient agriculture has become scale, where is the market?

So Zhou Jiuhai led a group of people in the community to the market in Shanghai and South of Jiangsu.

"Once you break out, you will find that good products need not worry about the market at all."

In September of this year, more than 200 acres of summer cabbage were planted by community cadres, and the "fresh" supply to more than 20 local and surrounding schools was fully cleared until the contract period.

"Thanks to the scientific and technological personnel of the Municipal Agriculture Commission's" standing point Hing Garden ".

Zhou Jiuhai has made a secret. Today, the director of vegetable office of the Municipal Agriculture Commission and Li Jian, a senior agronomist, have become the backbone of the development of the park.

Since the beginning of the year, from the beginning of the year, from planning to positioning, from building a greenhouse to plowing and plowing, from seed selection to pest management, from packaging sales to stubble arrangement, Li Jian has been questioning and strictly checking, which has injected a strong needle for ordinary people to devote themselves to efficient facility planting.

Up to now, 48 people in the community have been involved in contracted cultivation. Each community cadre has set up a demonstration base of not less than 30 mu, and has developed nearly 700 acres of high efficiency facility agriculture.