In the town of horsehead, where a new farmer has been working for more than eight years, she has grown and developed ice grass, not only as the first person to grow ice grass on a scale in jiangsu province, but also as the lead team to continuously explore industrial upgrading, the promotion of organic agriculture and the extension of ice grass cultivation throughout the country. She made the ice-grass base a hot land for the local villagers to be rich, and she interpreted the mission and responsibility of the new farmers with a warm passion。
Research and development of “big leaves and icegrass”
Breaking price barriers
At the great eco-agriculture base in horsehead town, the last big leaf of the spring is being harvested. The green leaves spread flatly, and the ice crystals were clenched. Young new farmers, the founder of the “big leaves and icegrass”, are patiently guiding agriculture in the fields。
It was successfully planted in 2016, and it was born, leading western food to the table of ordinary chinese people. Previously, the grass was mostly rolly, and only high-end hotels were available in the country. The greater taste, ease of storage and significantly higher yields of “black grass” significantly reduce the cost of importing ice grass seeds and make it an domestically affordable vegetable。
From a small test field to today's 100 acres have their own planting base, the road to entrepreneurship in ting ting has not been easy. Since the start of entrepreneurship in the second half of 2015, ding ding has been visiting agricultural technology specialists and exploring marketing channels day and night, overcoming the challenges of planting techniques, marketing and marketing。
Today, the co-planting of large-leave ice grass produced at the eco-agriculture base has been registered as a “sanding grass” brand, with co-planting bases in nantong, nanjing, yunnan, shandong, hebei, and around 500 acres nationwide. In the past year alone, the farm generated an overall income of over $8 million and provided significant employment opportunities for local villagers。
Development of organic agriculture
Writing about social responsibility
As a new farmer after 90 years, the reasons for the roots of agriculture are not only the commercial value of the project, but also the spiritual core of “organic agriculture” and its social responsibilities。
During the start-up process, the overuse of fertilizers and pesticides, which not only cause soil slabs but also chronic poisons in humans, was found to be rare. She is determined to open up organic agricultural blocks to provide safe and harmless organic vegetables for the general public。
Common foods, green foods and organic foods are three types of low to high food safety standards. Green food standards require limited use of chemical pesticides, fertilizers and hormones, organic food standards require full use of organic fertilizers and biological preparations from plant sources, and produce very healthy and nutritionally valuable vegetables。
Even for other green plantations, the standard for large ecological agricultural bases is higher than the general rule. Herbicides are not allowed, all artificial weeding is prohibited and fertilizer use is minimized to ensure soil activity。
Ding ding said that organic agriculture was the future direction of corporate transformation and, although costly, food safety and health were corporate social responsibility. She is committed to being an organic agricultural practitioner and advocate。
Follow the tide of the times
Promoting industrial upgrading
Since the start-up of the ding ding ding business, ice straw has been sold mainly in box form and can be eaten directly with salad sauce, but a single field farm sale is no longer sufficient for company development needs. The ding is targeting the exploitable space of ice herb derivatives, breaking through traditional primary industry patterns and actively exploring upgrading in the secondary and tertiary sectors. Currently, the company is working with laboratories on products such as ice-grass masks and ice-grass soap. In addition, the eco-agricultural base has worked with universities to provide research and education bases that not only enhance the visibility of companies but also increase the knowledge of farming。
These development achievements depend on the advantage of team rejuvenation. More than 80 per cent of the ting ting team are young people. Together, you have created the electrician's live base, designed the ice cream mascot, so that the icegrass and its derivatives can reach people。
As a representative of jiangsu province's 14th woman, a representative of the huai an city people's congress, and a member of the expert committee for the “internet+” university students' competition on innovation and entrepreneurship in china, ding zheng was deeply responsible. She has repeatedly shared her experience of entrepreneurship with young people and provided technical guidance to young people who like agriculture. She hoped that, in the future, the farm would be opened to the outside world in the form of an agricultural partner, that it would become a production research platform, that agricultural courses would be offered to the general public and that knowledge of traditional farming, farming practices, 24 gas and organic agriculture and food safety would be better known。
Eight years of rain and hard work, after 90 years, the ice-grass girl was on the wave of the times, spreading her youth in the wilderness. By spreading her youth to the hot ground, she has contributed to the dynamism of the rural renewal。
