On 28 may, a row of ice and sugar-trees was green and full of full dates filled with branches in the collective huts of the four flat streets of the pulenjo district of dalian city. The first secretary of the village, song tun, traveled through the village to look closely at the situation and remove the sick and weak leaves that covered the light. "you see these dates, they're all good-looking," he was happy to say, "we don't just grow them with experience, we talk with data."
It is hardly known that song teng was vice-president of dalian university, dalian school of rural renewal. The “test field” of a vice-president of a higher education institution was still a waste two years ago。
From a dump to a dump
“the five huts were abandoned.” song tan told the reporters. In 2020, the state invested in five collective huts in the villages. An investment of $300,000 was made to plant a five-year-old glucose date tree, which was destroyed due to inadequate technology. At the beginning of 2023, there were only 50 centimeter-high bald stakes. At the end of june, weeds were nearly 1 metre high, taller than trees, and the branches were sent only with large chopsticks. The investors completely lost their confidence and left。
When the village went to recover the sheds, the scene was alarming: the remote-controlled electric power had been scrapped, the cotton had been deformed, the drip irrigation equipment had become old, some of the walls in the back of the huts had swelled and the side walls had broken. “the grass, which is nearly a metre high, is in the eyes of a desolate desert.” sondan's recollection。
The turnover occurred in 2024. Under the guidance of the street party labour committee, the community learns from the local grower, chen yooqiang, about the techniques of growing the date palms based on regional climate and soil conditions. Following various studies, the ice-gluceous date planting project was finalized. On its own initiative, song dan carried the burden of the five idle collective huts。
What's the hardest place to get from a dump to a shed? “to organize a process to improve cultivation techniques.” he explained that the ideal goal was to take up the market between ching ming and the rain and to strike before the midday festival, during which time there was little demand and good prices. However, the target has been achieved in only a few years, and at other times it has matured to a low of 120 per cent in economic value. “strenched production and cultivation technology processes are a top priority for development.”
It's a golden fruit
According to the song dang, the planting of ice-cream date-palms was started in 2017 by local growers and the technology continues to improve. “it is my duty as the first secretary in the village to take care of the home-grown industrial formation.”
Technology has become his worst. In partnership with dalian university, communities have installed network monitoring equipment in sheds. Song dang pulled his cell phone out for the press: the temperature of the air, the temperature of the soil, the intensity of the light, the pressure, and the rate of soil electrical conductivity are clear. The technicians collect crop growth data on a daily basis, from tree planting, water fertilizer control and pest control, each of which is integrated into the science of cultivation。
What does digitalization do? “the causal link between past planting practices and results is blurred and everything is felt. Digitalization describes the environment, crops and planting practices as a chain of evidence that can be repeatedly demonstrated to form technical flow standards.” over the past three years, the digitization of the five sheds has documented the implementation of more than a dozen additional technologies, some of which have been successful and others have resulted in a reduction in yields. The basic “technology processes for ice and sugar tree cultivation” are now in place。
Since the beginning of may, fresh dates have been on the market at a market price of between $30 and $40 a pound. Five demonstration sheds are expected to produce between 4,000 and 5,000 pounds, yielding approximately $80,000. The shacks that have remained silent for many years have truly become “floating”. At present, four square streets have developed more than 60 acres of ice and sugar palm cultivation, with annual production stabilizing at around 30,000 pounds, with a value of about 900,000 yuan。
# growing up like a comrade #
Sondan said he was not an example, but a reference. “i learned from the growers in the village. The villagers, who saw him stay from 2017 to now, and especially the secretary-general of song, grow dates, believe that we are better off at a meeting than song and that we are better off in the field than song
Every day he came to the shed, and he had a fixed move: the five sheds had to take a lap to see if sensors, controllers and mechanical equipment were working together. “sensitious sensors, buddhist controllers and simple mechanical devices are combined, with attention, when needed, to achieving the most important temperature, humidity and light regulation under human care.”
What if one sentence describes the relationship between these five sheds and you? “it is a position, like a comrade, to generate demand — to ask scientists and farmers to solve production problems and to organize a platform for mutual growth in a demand-driven manner”
A small date of ice and sugar has become, with the care of the song dang, a “gold fruit” that boosts popular growth and collective economic efficiency, and explores new paths to rural industrial development that “head geese lead, technological empowerment, collective benefit, global solidarity”. The next step, he would like to eat hard bones, is market-oriented and from the standpoint of the dominant position of farmers, to write " standards for the technological processes of growing ice and sugar dates in greenhouses in dalian city " 。
“organized scientific research promotes organized production”, he said, “let the distributor find room for differentiated profits and give consumers a sense of scarce satisfaction”
Su-ming, peninsula morning, 39-degree video chief journalist zhang sing ming
