High Quality Development Research Tour | "Technology Partner" Promotes Tianye's "Prosperity Flower" Sweet Potato | Expert | Tianye

Jinan, July 25th, Xinhua News Agency - Title: "Technology Partner" Promotes Tianye to Become a Rich Flower "

Xinhua News Agency reporters Chen Hao, Liu Kaixiong, Jia Yunpeng

Chen Yingchun, a grape expert from Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, provided technical guidance at the Sunshine Rose Vineyard in Huzhuang Village, Yuncheng County.

"By September, the grapes here will be ripe. In autumn, we plan to add another 400 acres of grapes." Speaking of the upcoming "Sunshine Rose" grapes in the village, Hu Xuanfeng, the party branch secretary of Huzhuang Village, Tangmiao Town, Yuncheng County, Heze, Shandong, was sincerely happy.

Who would have thought that a few years ago, these grapes were still his "heartache". In 2019, Huzhuang Village adopted the model of party branch led cooperative to plant 180 acres of grapes. I had hoped that these grapes would increase the income of the villagers, but unfortunately, due to the lack of management technology, when they were supposed to be produced in small quantities by 2020, there were almost no fruits. A large amount of investment faces the risk of being wasted, which makes Hu Xuanfeng worried and unable to eat.

At this moment, the working group of Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences arrived in Yuncheng and dispatched a team of experts to conduct on-site consultations.

Cutting the wrong path in winter, leaving too many branches; The timing and dosage of the spring medicine application were also incorrect, and the green blind bug was not caught... In the view of Chen Yingchun, a grape planting technology expert at the Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, the grapes planted in Huzhuang Village were completely wrong at that time. Chen Yingchun led the villagers to prescribe the right medicine, and the average yield of grapes per mu reached 2500 kilograms the following year. Last year, the yield exceeded 5000 kilograms per mu, with a net income of over 30000 yuan per mu.

"Experts also guided us in building cold storage and selling products out of season. Wholesale prices reached 30 yuan per kilogram before and after last Spring Festival, doubling compared to usual." Hu Xuanfeng said that under the guidance of Chen Yingchun's team, there are already more than 30 "old hands" who can grow grapes in the village. Nowadays, the grape planting area in Huzhuang Village and surrounding villages has expanded to 720 acres, which has driven local tourism and local specialty sales.

Researchers like Chen Yingchun, who are active on the front line of agricultural production, have more than 500 people at Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and they are making agricultural "technology trees" bloom in the fields to become "prosperous flowers".

Xie Beitao, a sweet potato expert from Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, is investigating the growth of sweet potatoes.

In order to bridge the "fracture zone" between agricultural technology and rural industry development, starting from June 2020, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences selected scientific researchers to root in the front line of rural revitalization, providing technology and finding ways for rural areas, as well as investing in intellectual property and technology services, becoming the "scientific and technological partners" of rural revitalization.

Jia Wu, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, introduced that they have explored 10 models in practice, including "expert+farmer" interest community, "party organization+expert+cooperative", and agricultural science and technology socialized services. With the goal of "science and technology assistance, partnership, industry development, and farmers making profits", they have built more than 400 carriers such as interest community, science and technology innovation consortium, and agricultural science expert studio, focusing on opening up channels for technology to enter villages and households.

After collaborating with a team of experts from the Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wu Dianhu, a major sweet potato seedling farmer in Feixian, Linyi, Shandong, updated the varieties and cultivation techniques of sweet potatoes. The annual sales revenue of seedlings increased from about 5 million yuan to 18 million yuan last year.

"The sweet potatoes we used to grow here had poor quality and could only be sold at a low price to processing factories for starch. Nowadays, new varieties are sold to supermarkets, markets, or for dried fruits, and the prices are naturally different." He said that by introducing new varieties and planting techniques from the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, the price of sweet potatoes in the local area has increased from 0.3 yuan per kilogram to about 0.7 yuan, and the yield has also significantly increased. Farmers can earn an additional 1500 yuan per acre of land.

"I have to send out a salary of four to five million yuan every year," said Wu Dianhu. During busy periods such as sowing and lifting seedlings, workers earn over 300 yuan a day. In the local area, seedling farmers like him have grown to over 10 people, and sweet potato seedling cultivation and planting have enabled a group of left behind elderly people to find employment nearby.

The practical exploration of "partners" has also begun to feed back scientific research.

Tian Lili, a tea expert from Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, is inspecting the degree of withering of black tea leaves at the cooperative base.

Tea expert Tian Lili and the Huaihualing Family Farm in Zhaoyuan established the first "expert+farmer" community of interests in Shandong Province. In just one year, they helped the farm's tea plantation turn losses into profits, not only bringing the tea to market one month earlier, but also increasing its benefits tenfold. Tian Lili received a corporate dividend of 200000 yuan and established a development fund to support the research and application of new technologies.

"To revitalize rural industries, agricultural science and technology must take responsibility and give wings of science and technology to agriculture." Jia Wu introduced that Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences plans to organize 1000 agricultural science and technology special envoys inside and outside the institute in another three years, targeting 100 townships, 1000 villages, and 10000 farmers in Shandong Province, replicating and promoting the technology partnership model, and better serving rural revitalization and the construction of a strong agricultural province.