College Graduates Quit To Return Home To Grow Potatoes &Nbsp; Earn Five Hundred Thousand This Year.

"We have all grown potatoes, but we can't sell them well. In the past few years, we could only sell 20 Fen catties."

Jiang Zhibin, director of the village committee, said, "these two children are not aware of such a large area.

"These two children", said Liu Xian and boyfriend Liang Shaohong of the 80 generation female college student in Beiliu, Guangxi.

Liu Xian, who was born in 1985, lived in Licun, the town of Shan Wei, Beiliu. His father died early.

In 2007, Liu Xian graduated from the Economics Department of Yunnan University of Nationalities. The following year, she found a good job in a Yunnan branch of a well-known joint-stock commercial bank.

Talking about the reason for resigning home, Liu Xian told the author: "on the one hand, after his father died in early years, Yunnan was too far away from home.

But most of all, I have always been interested in agriculture, and I have planned many courses in Agronomy in my university. I have made up my mind to go back to the countryside when I quit my job.

Back home, Liu Xian and his boyfriend Liang Shaohong, who were born in the same year, decided to plant potatoes as their "first jump" in agriculture.

Last November, relying on the support of both parents, 300 acres of potatoes were planted on the ground of acquaintances in the village.

The author saw that at the moment, part of the stem and leaf of the 300 mu potato has been turning yellow gradually. It is expected that the harvest will be achieved in another ten days.

According to Liu Xian, the 300 acres of land are actually "snatching" seeds.

It turned out that according to the farming habits of Licun farmers, after the harvest of the two season rice, the land was basically idle, and a few farmers would grow some vegetables to eat at their own homes, and then grow early rice in March second.

Seeing a lot of winter fallow fields, Liu Xian and Liang Shaohong went from door to door asking people to give up their free fields to grow potatoes instead of planting rice in the coming year.

In this way, the "free" 300 mu of land joined.

Straw mulching, no tillage and potato planting in winter is a popular technology popularized in recent years in Guangxi. However, the author found that they used black film mulching.

Liang Shaohong told the author that before they carefully studied the weather information for the winter and spring, they thought that it might be cold in winter, while the black film had the function of keeping warm and keeping water.

Sure enough, in the early days of low temperature and rain and snow, potato seedlings grew fast and well.

At the same time, they also used double row planting to increase plant density.

Finding workers, organizing work, watering, fertilizing, spraying medicine, everything has to go to battle in person, but after hard work, Liu Xian and his boyfriend seem to be very confident.

They say that this year's conservative estimate of yield per mu is also around 2000 kg, and the latest news is that the price of the new potato will reach about 1.6 yuan per kilogram this spring, and many traders have come to the village to inquire about it.

"Excluding the cost of about 1600 yuan per mu, the total net income is about 4.5 million yuan."

Jiang Zhibin, the director of the village committee, calculated roughly, and shook his head repeatedly.