"How do you think of that thatched valley? When we started the agricultural village, the brigade organized 11 production teams to open up a famine. The rest of the place was finished, and finally I wanted to dig out the thatched valley as well. After two farming seasons, a total of more than 100 acres of mountainous land were opened. Later, a production team was divided.

In that mountain valley, except for some water in the mountain valley, there is no water on the mountain at all, and the rice and wheat are all eaten by the sky, and finally some peach and pear fruit trees are casually loaded. After the package was delivered, the family did not have a share of land, the land was too little, and the road was too far, and no one was willing to take care of it. In recent years, there have been many people who have gone out to find work, and the peach and pear fruit trees planted back then have basically been abandoned after aging, and they have all returned to the old name of the thatched river. Hehe, why are you asking this?"

Qi Zhengming was familiar with the things on the village team, and he felt strange when he talked about it. How many years has Qi Jingtao not been to the thatched river, which was originally named the granary river with good wishes? When he was a child, he would go to pick fruits to eat. It seems that he hasn't been there since he was in high school, why is he suddenly interested in that place? Qi Zhengming looked at his son with a questioning expression.

Qi Jingtao took a puff of cigarette, thought for a while, looked at his father with a smile and asked, "Dad, if the entire mountain valley is contracted over, will the village agree?"

"The whole mountain valley, except for those mountains and mountains that are distributed to each family, the others are barren hillsides, and the property rights are still in the village committee. That valley is surrounded by mountains on three sides, and the wind is easy to enter and difficult to get out, so the climate there is hotter than the outside. Qi Zhengming looked at his son puzzled.

Qi Jingtao thought that Lao Qi had specially said a few days ago that the cherries and cherries grown in the valley of Liangcang River later tasted very good, which may be the reason why the special geographical environment of that valley is suitable for the growth of cherry trees. Well, find a time to go to that depression and take some soil samples and send them for analysis and testing, to see what the soil is doing. If the long-term contract is regarded as the operation and management of a large orchard, as long as the initial investment is willing to invest, the water flow at the bottom of the ditch will be intercepted to form a small reservoir to improve the climate and environment of the small area. Further investment in the construction of a road, the introduction of electrical equipment, the construction of some irrigation facilities and reservoirs, that mountain valley will have a lot to offer.

Of course, it is impossible for such a large orchard to be contracted and the family will work in person, but to manage it. It will not engage in extensive management like those who contract the orchards in the village, but will make large investments and build large-scale plantations.

There are many older villagers in the village like my father, and there are not many ways to go out to work and make money on weekdays. Just help in the orchard near your home, and take care of the family's farm work while working. Thinking of this, Qi Jingtao smiled knowingly: "Dad, how do those cherries I got taste back?"

"It's delicious, much better than what is grown locally. What, do you want to grow cherries?" Qi Zhengming was relieved, there were some cherry trees planted in that valley, and the fruit quality was good. It's just that there are too few mountains and too far away from the village, and after they are scattered to each family, there is no one to manage them at all, and it is gradually barren. Those fruit trees have also become natural, and whoever wants to eat them can do it themselves, and no one cares at all.

"Well, Dad, you take the time to go to the village committee and ask, if you can do it, our family will contract all the valleys. ”

"The village committee should be able to come forward, according to the situation in the past few years, it will not cost much money to contract that mountain valley, except for the more than 100 acres of land in Taishan that will be distributed to each household will be rented, and the rest of the land will be assessed at a reasonable price. ”

Qi Zhengming is a party member, used to be the captain of the production team, and also has a place in the village committee, and he is very clear about the mountain and forest land contracting fees contracted by the village committee over the years, and he is no stranger to the geographical environment of the big mountain depression of the Liangcang River.

"Dad, I'm just a preliminary idea, and now the state is also advocating returning farmland to forests. Rather than being barren, the valley should be turned into an orchard. The village committee came forward to convert the scattered mountain land of each household into rent according to the area, which was paid every year, and everyone could have some regular income.

You see, there are many people in the village like Uncle Zhenglin's family, and it is easy for young people to go out to build infrastructure or work, and it is inconvenient for older people to go out. If our family is all contracted and built into a large orchard, there will be no shortage of manpower in planting management. ”

"Of course, that kind of business is good, and it will definitely revitalize that big mountain valley. The problem is that there is too much money to be invested in, and the big collective just didn't have the money to invest in it at that time, so that the big mountain and depression became like that, and after it was dispersed to every household, who would invest money in it for that little bit of land? It was completely worth the loss. ”

Qi Zhengming understood that the thatched river had not become a granary river, and that the valley would definitely not be able to grow grain, and it would be no problem to build a fruit orchard. As for whether it is done well or not, it depends on the cost of investment and operation and management.

It is barren because the collective and individual land is intertwined, and the village committee has no money in its hands and is too lazy to do it. Now, if someone is willing to come out and contract, the hillside land that is owned by the village committee can be turned into money, and the land is still in the absolute majority, and the village committee will of course support it.

Qi Jingtao was full of confidence in contracting the orchard in the mountain valley, he thought for a while, looked at his father and said: "Dad, infrastructure construction is nothing more than repairing the original road, as long as it can be opened to traffic, it doesn't cost much." Electrification, damming and storing water, repairing canals, and digging reservoirs can be done slowly, and investment can be made in batches and one by one. The current project uses construction machinery, the funds are in place, and the speed is very fast, unlike those years when people were hired to fight. money, I'll figure it out. However, this matter is not busy, and it is also a matter after the autumn harvest to contract. When you are busy for a while, take the time to ask, if you want to contract, the longer the better, not less than 30 years, otherwise the investment will be too much of a loss. ”

"There are not one or two orchards in the village committee, plus there are dozens of large and small production teams. Those contracted out are at least 20 years of management rights. The thatched river is barren and low, and it cannot be compared with the mature orchards that have been contracted out. It is easy to contract, but it is necessary to invest in the contract, the contract fee, the basic investment in the early stage, the cultivation of fruit tree seedlings, and the labor input, at least three years is a pure investment without any return. If the fruit tree is successfully planted, it will take three years for the fruit tree to bear fruit, and it will take five years to enter the harvest period. At least there will be no profit for the first ten years, and it would be good to be able to maintain the operating costs of the orchard. These all require capital investment, Xiao Tao, it's good that you have this plan, but the question is how much money you have to invest? Where do you find such a large amount of money to make an upfront investment?"

Running an orchard, Qi Zhengming is an insider, he has a positive attitude towards any idea of his son, and he never denies it easily, which discourages his enthusiasm. However, he also has to remind his son of the difficulties. If this is so easy to do, there are so many families in the village, and there are many families with better conditions than theirs in all aspects, why is no one doing it? It's not that it's unexpected, it's that there is too much money to be invested, and there is no ability.