A documentary report on the development of desert medicine industry in Dongming Town, Naiman Banner

Editor's note: to implement the "8337" development idea of the autonomous region and accelerate the construction of green production, processing and output base of agricultural and livestock products, the four banners in the south of our city have advantages, potential and great potential Recently, the Political Research Office of the municipal Party committee conducted a special investigation on the typical development of green organic agricultural and livestock products industry in the four banners in the south, forming typical materials, aiming to provide strong support for the construction of green organic agricultural and livestock products production and processing output base and the increase of income of farmers and herdsmen through typical leading and demonstration driving From today, we will continue to launch a series of reports for the readers A few years ago, if you asked people in Dongming, what was the biggest headache? He will not hesitate to tell you that it is sand! The 170000 acres of boundless sand, not only when the wind blows, but also when the pain hits the face, is more like a chasm, which mercilessly blocks them from the door of the well-off society Now, the sand has become the treasure of Dongming people In the past few years, Dongming people have been thinking hard and developing the medicine industry in the sand land according to local conditions, which not only makes the sand covered with green clothes, recovers the ecology, but also makes the people walk on the road of increasing income and becoming rich and running for a well-off life In July, the golden herbs were planted in the desert, and entered Dongming town of Naiman Banner In the sand, the Chinese herbs such as the price of windbreak, winter flowers and Astragalus are green, growing happily and having a good harvest Sun Guiwu, a villager in rendalang village, dajil, praised the benefits of planting herbs He said: "herbs are my magic weapon to increase my income and become rich!" He calculated three accounts with his fingers First, the benefit account Last year, his family planted 6 mu of land on the sand for wind protection The yield per mu reached 1500 Jin, and the net income per Jin was yuan, nearly three times the benefit of planting corn The second is the working hour account After the plants come out, they only need to be watered once and herbicide once In addition, the town also implements the mechanization of unified sowing and harvesting Some villages can serve more than 100 mu of land by one person The third is the ecological account The medicinal materials can effectively control the soil hardening, and have a good function of windbreak price and sand fixation, which effectively promotes the soil improvement in the sandy land Sun Guiwu said that this year his family expanded the planting area of medicinal materials to 40 mu Looking back on the development of medicinal materials in Dongming Town, Tang Guocheng, the mayor of Dongming Town, said with emotion that Dongming Town, which has poor natural conditions, neither resources nor geographical advantages, how to make the people get rid of poverty and become prosperous? It has become a difficult problem for the Party committee and the government to cultivate and develop advantageous industries and seek wealth from the sand As early as 2000, Dongming town began to investigate and demonstrate the Chinese herbal medicine of Shasheng On the basis of trial, failure and re trial, it introduced the Chinese herbal medicine suitable for planting in Dongming Town, such as the price of winter flower and the price of windbreak In order to support the development of the pharmaceutical industry, Dongming town provides support in land use, loans and many other aspects In recent years, more than 10 million yuan of credit funds have been accumulated to support pharmaceutical farmers in purchasing medicinal seeds and fertilizers The town also hired scientific and technological personnel to give on-the-spot guidance on the production technology of medicinal materials, pest control technology and gap standardized planting, so as to ensure the quality of medicinal materials up to the standard At the same time, pharmaceutical companies and merchants are invited to visit Dongming town to attract orders and expand the market of medicinal materials Nowadays, it is the common understanding of the villagers that "growing medicinal materials can make people rich" The planting area of medicinal materials in this town has increased steadily, reaching more than 8000 mu The ecology of sandy land has been improved obviously The other secret of the steady development and expansion of the medicine industry in Dongming town is that they innovate the mode and market-oriented operation By vigorously supporting professional economic cooperation organizations and by the way of "cooperatives + farmers", they have found a new way to develop the industry and enrich the people's income In 2011, Zhang Lei, the leader of the town's herbal medicine industry, took the lead in registering and establishing Tongda herbal medicine planting cooperative Since the establishment of the cooperative, the cooperative has organized the planting and technical guidance in a unified way every year, and launched the order mode of "bottom guaranteed but not top guaranteed" door-to-door acquisition The cooperative has signed a recovery order of 5000 mu of windproof price with more than 200 farmers, and implemented the policy of "bottom guaranteed" of 2000 Jin of corn per mu of income If the farmers' per mu of income fails to meet the bottom guaranteed standard, the standard shall prevail If the income is higher than the minimum guarantee standard, it will be recovered at a price higher than the market price, which ensures the enthusiasm of farmers in planting medicinal materials At present, the cooperative is building a herbal medicine processing plant in Dongming Town, with an investment of more than 4 million yuan in the first phase, which is planned to be put into production in the harvest of herbal medicines this year Zhang Lei said: "after the processing plant is put into production, the drug farmers can save 30 to 500 thousand yuan a year by only shipping costs." From scattered planting to centralized planting; from extensive planting in the field to standardized fine management; from selling raw materials to deep processing One by one gratifying changes have made us see Dongming Town, which is making great strides on the road of agricultural modernization by taking advantage of the east wind of building a green production, processing and output base of agricultural and livestock products in the Autonomous Region Discussion on the new way of development The success of the desert medicine industry in Dongming town benefits from innovative thinking, relying on comparative advantages, striving to find a win-win combination of ecological protection and industrial development, insisting on both benefits and ecology, changing disaster resistance into disaster avoidance, transforming sand hazards into resources, constantly exploring the management mode of coordinating the protection and utilization of the desert, and coming out with a combination of scientific ecological protection and development of green industries for the people A new way of cooperation It also benefits from strengthening the broker team, giving full play to the driving effect of capable people, ensuring the price at the bottom but not the top and good practice, ensuring the maximum benefit of farmers and reducing the market risk, which has important enlightenment for accelerating the development of advantageous and characteristic industries in the South siqishan sand area.