But thinking of the dream of "the landlord" and thinking that "people are selling themselves all their lives", he endured. But the language barrier is also a big problem for Jia to "sell himself". As soon as the locals heard his Mandarin with Henan accent, they thought he was a second-hand dealer from other places and called him "Yankee" (referring to northerners) contemptuously, and his products could not be sold. In desperation, Jia had to let local employees sell in front, and he followed behind without saying a word with a scale. Later, people found that the chickens and ducks sold by this foreigner with Henan accent Mandarin were really delicious, so they went directly to the farm. Now, there is no need to sell it, and he is no longer worried that the product will not be sold.
The next year, the farm encountered a great test. 1In the early spring of 1999, Guangning encountered a rare cold weather. A frost looted the fruit trees on the farm, and the fish ponds and water pipes were frozen. As soon as the sun came out, the ice melted, dead fish floated on the surface of the fish pond, banana trees fell down and pineapples turned black. Frozen pineapples and bananas cost 50 cents a catty, and the loss reached 65438+ tens of thousands of yuan that night, and all the refunds were gone. "A frost woke me up." Jia said. That is, that night's frost, Jia, who only knows hard work, realized the importance of scientific planting and scientific management. He began to consider adjusting the planting structure.
He persuaded his wife to take out all the savings at home, borrowed money from relatives and asked his comrades-in-arms to guarantee a loan from Guangning Bank, and replanted all the 180 mu of mountain forest with sugar oranges. From digging holes and planting trees, to weeding and pest control, to wiping buds and picking fruits, they all went into battle in person. By the end of the third year, the farm began to make a profit.
In addition, Jia learned theory from books, looked for experts to learn technology, and looked for old fruit farmers to learn tricks. Party committees and governments at all levels in Guangning often inform him to attend various trainings and lectures. Since having computers and networks, Jia has been able to keep abreast of new information, laying a technical foundation for expanding production scale and sales channels. Seven years have passed, and the comprehensive production ecological farm planned by Jia has gradually taken shape.
Jia said that there are special passages under the three pig farms distributed in different places, which concentrate the excrement of more than 3,000 pigs into biogas digesters, and biogas residues become the domestic fuel of the farms, and biogas residues become the fertilizer for making more than 20,000 sugar oranges.
Jia said that he plans to introduce a fresh-keeping packaging production line, expand the factory, and prepare to set up a company focusing on processing trade.