Lou County, Longgu Township.

Yu Lei, who became a regular employee of Jiagu Forestry Business Group, was transferred here to assist in the establishment of the Wenguan Fruit Plantation Cooperative.

Yu Lei found for the first time that dealing with people is much more difficult than planting trees.

Problems of ideology and concepts, equity issues, cadre style and ability, as well as various unexpected problems that have arisen in long-term operation.

The extremely impoverished Lou County is like a weak baby, and what Jiagu has to do before investing is to help him practice walking, just like a nanny. This is the most basic and difficult job.

It can be seen that the government's efforts are being promoted: the work of promoting the whole village, industrial poverty alleviation, and project planning in the area are all being promoted. There are many projects: building roads, dams, resettlement, planting trees......

But what Yu Lei personally experienced was that many peasants' traditional thinking was deep-rooted, unwilling to take risks, and lacked interest in it. They are more concerned about the support measures that directly receive money and goods, such as the distribution of rural subsistence allowances and winter heating coal, and they are especially concerned about whether the quantity and quality will be discounted according to the standard.

"No, we have to make them understand that joining the co-op doesn't require them to contribute, they just have to contribute, and that's for themselves. Yu Lei found the township chief and suggested.

The full cooperation of the whole government is not just rhetoric.

Wang Qinghua, a high-ranking county official, made a public speech at the county-wide work meeting, saying that if any department or person disregards the overall situation for the sake of departmental interests and personal interests, there is no need to give him face. When encountering something that cannot be solved, Jiagu can find a local cadre, or he can go directly to him.

The attitude of the senior county officials determines the attitude of the government towards Jiagu. Even in order to appear in the eyes of senior county officials, grassroots cadres are willing to put down their bodies and talk to Jiagu staff about the details of the project.

However, with the attitude, the concept may not be able to keep up, and the head of Longgu Township feels quite difficult: "The farmers have not planted Wenguan fruit trees, they can't see the long-term benefits, and the ideological work is not easy to do." ”

Yu Lei was not satisfied with his shirk, took a deep breath, and said, "I grew up in the mayor next door and was born and raised in Jin Province. I know that many people in Jin Province are envious of areas where there is coal to dig up, and the income is soaring. But that was before, and now the coal-rich regions are also looking for more ways out, and it is difficult to count on getting rich from minerals. ”

"It's not easy to go out to work, it's hard to take root outside, it's not a thing to always drift outside, and there are many people who don't want to go out after getting married. Only by increasing the value of the land, allowing everyone to return to their hometowns and forming a real agricultural industry, this is what we want to see the most. If the people of Lou County are not willing to be poor, they must not miss the opportunity to join the Jiagu Cooperative!"

After saying it in one breath, Yu Lei himself was almost stunned.

Once upon a time, he, a miner with only coal in his head, could say such "deep" words?

Even if you count the days of being a temporary worker, how long has he only been in Jiagu, Jiagu is really toxic!

However, he is happy to see this change in himself.

After experiencing Jiagu's training, he realized that Jiagu's cooperative is quietly changing the "way of life" of many people.

Bringing together scattered growers, breeders and operators is not necessarily in the best interest of Jiagu – in the cooperative system of "leading enterprises + professional cooperatives", farmers have significantly improved their bargaining position with leading enterprises.

Being a coal worker is different. Take his father, for example, a worker who has experienced decades of ups and downs in the coal industry is not unsure of his future, even when the market is at its best, his wages will rise a little, and when the market falls, he will be kicked out by the coal companies at any time.

It turns out that both peasants and workers are very weak, and in a market economy, they are all weak.

At the beginning of the birth of Jiagu cooperatives, they put forward the slogan of "development for farmers, development depends on farmers, and the results are shared with farmers", and they have been working hard to do it.

He didn't know how long the cooperative's advantage would last, and when it would turn into a shackle to social development, because nothing lasts forever. But at least for now, cooperatives are in the best interests of farmers.

The head of Longgu Township naturally didn't know the turbulence in Yu Lei's heart, but he knew that the leaders above valued Jiagu, so he stubbornly gave the right words: "In this way, I will increase propaganda efforts, mobilize all village cadres, and visit door to door...... I won't be holding Katani back!"

Yu Lei breathed a sigh of relief.

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Qi Zheng doesn't care how the people under him carry out their work, with his current status, many times, he will only look at the results.

In fact, the fast-moving township has begun to be in full swing under the guidance of Jiagu technicians to start the cultivation of Wenguan fruit.

On the next hill in Longgu Township, Qi Zheng and Wang Qinghua, a high-ranking county official, bent over and walked along the rugged mountain road. By the time he arrived at the base of Wenguanguo, the shirt on his back had been soaked with sweat.

"Is this Wen Guanguo, can it really survive?" Wang Qinghua looked at the half-human-tall sapling, and said a little entangled.

There is a saying: it is harder to grow a tree in the mountains than to raise a doll.

When he made a decision, he didn't feel it, but when he faced the real thing, he intuitively realized that his career would be maintained on this half-human-tall sapling, and he couldn't help but feel worried.

"Of course I can survive!" a loud voice came from behind.

A slender middle-aged man strolled over, heard Wang Qinghua's question, and responded without thinking.

Qi Zheng coughed lightly and introduced: "This is our Jiagu's Wenguanguo technical consultant Ma expert, and he is also the one who solved the problem of the difficulty of transplanting Wenguanguo and the problem of 'a thousand flowers and one fruit', and is known as the 'father of Wenguanguo hybridization' by the industry......"

Ma expert's life is legendary, he was originally a reportage writer, in the process of writing drought-resistant and water-saving Wen Guanguo fell in love at first sight, since then he has been determined to study Wen Guanguo and become an expert in Wen Guanguo.

His dream is to plant crown fruit in barren mountains, barren slopes, wastelands, and even deserts and Gobi, so as to make the northwest green and build the northwest into a place with beautiful mountains and rivers. This is very in line with Jiagu's philosophy, so Jiagu Laboratory took the initiative to invite him to cooperate in research, and on the basis of his research, after seven or eight years of cultivation, a new generation of stable and high-yield Wenguan fruit varieties were obtained.

Wang Qinghua hurriedly shook hands with him and said, "I'm sorry, I said nothing." ”

Expert Ma waved his hand and said in a loud voice: "It's okay, your concerns are not wrong." It is indeed a plant that is difficult to transplant into a living plant. During the research and cultivation of Wenguan fruit, I failed many times, and it was precisely because of repeated failures and the addition of Jiagu Laboratory that this problem was solved......"

Wenguan fruit is a deep-rooted tree species, under the condition of sufficient water and fertilizer, strong light, it can grow more than two meters high in a year, the stem grows high and the roots are deep, and the seedlings can only be taken 20 centimeters when digging, and the main root is developed and the lateral roots are weak, so the survival rate of transplanting is low.

To plant on a large scale, we must first solve the problem of low survival rate of transplanting. After the joint research of laboratory and horse experts, a set of complicated transplanting technical measures such as strict taproot lateral root length, medicinal soaked roots, mud dipping roots and plastic wrapping roots have been explored to ensure that the transplanting survival rate is more than 95%.

Of course, survival rate is important, but fruit harvest is the focus.

"Will you be able to produce fruit next year?" After listening to the introduction of expert Ma, Wang Qinghua was pleasantly surprised.

Only a business that can make money can be done for a long time, and if it is a business that can make money quickly, it can be done for a longer time. He has gambled on his career, and naturally hopes that the business of Wenguanguo Energy Forest can make money quickly, so as to form a mutually beneficial relationship, and then help the poverty alleviation work continue.

"Not only can it produce fruit, but it can also produce more fruit and produce good fruit. The horse expert smirked.

And when it comes to this, he has to admire Jiagu.

He thinks he is a layman, and he will only use the most simple and crude cultivation method - select excellent varieties from 56 places across the country for crossbreeding, and find that the seedling has early fruit and many fruits, so he picks it for the second generation of seedlings. In this way, continuous breeding is carried out to cultivate high-yield seedlings of C. chinensis.

After Jiagu joined the study, this progress was greatly accelerated. I don't know if it's because Jiagu Krypton is bold enough, after four generations of breeding, the high-yield performance of the new generation of Wenguan fruit varieties has been extremely stable.

Generally, the Wenguan fruit is three-petaled, and there are some four-petaled ones, but the new generation of Wenguan fruit began to bear fruit in two years, and a large number of four-petaled and five-petaled fruits appeared.

"It's a world of kryptonite. Expert Ma also had to sigh in his heart.

Wang Qinghua, a senior county official, doesn't care who has more credit, he only cares about whether he can maintain a stable and high yield: "I learned that the age of the Wenguan fruit tree can reach more than 300 years, and the peak fruiting period of the new variety can be maintained for more than 20 years, right?"

The attempts to industrialize Wenguanguo in various places can be described as mud and sand, and the fish and dragons are mixed. Most of them are harvested from the wild, and they develop quickly in the early stages, but they fall into a low-yield dead end in the later stage – in other words, they are degrading faster than you think.

It is also because of Jiagu's consistently good reputation and the past of frequent achievements that many people dare to believe in the feasibility of the industrialization of new varieties of Wenguan fruit.

Qi Zheng smiled, stroked the leaves of Wenguan fruit, and said in a relaxed but unquestionable tone: "You can rest assured, the farmers who plant Wenguan fruit can benefit at least three generations, this is a 'hardcore crop' that is planted in a year and harvested in a hundred years!"

He didn't dare to say that the crops would yield higher and higher yields year by year, but he was the best at keeping the quality of the crops stable.

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