Entering the orchard area, walk straight for more than 100 meters to reach the former accommodation building of Yumin Orchard, which is now the village committee.
Ye Mo drove the car in and saw no one outside. He honked the horn twice and the door to the village committee office opened and Chen Shan walked out.
"Uncle." Ye Mo shouted with a smile and got out of the car, followed by Lin Xiaomian.
Chen Shan responded with a smile: "Why are you here?"
"Come here and play. This is my girlfriend, Lin Xiaomian."
"Uncle." Lin Xiaomian shouted.
Chen Shan smiled and nodded, took out a cigarette and handed one to Ye Mo.
Ye Mo lit a cigarette and asked: "Are you the only one in the village committee?"
"They are all working outside." Chen Shan said.
"How many people live here now?" Ye Mo asked.
"The homestead site hasn't been approved yet, and now there are only about 20 people living here," Chen Shan said.
Now we are building roads, so we don’t need many people.
"I picked some coconuts and gave them to everyone to try." Ye Mo said, holding a few coconuts for Chen Shan.
"Have your coconut trees over there grown fruit?" Chen Shan asked in surprise.
"The big tree transplanted from my hometown has already been bearing fruit." Ye Mo said, "The road is already being built?"
"The roadbed is being consolidated, and the road will be hardened tomorrow." Chen Shan took the coconut back to the office and said, "Let's go, I'll take you there."
Chen Shan got on the motorcycle, Ye Mo got on the car and followed.
Yumin Orchard, now Team 11 of Changzhu Village.
There are 7,100 acres here, and the area of the orchard is larger than the other 10 production teams combined.
With such a large area, there are a total of 89 households. Each family is assigned an orchard with an average area of 78 acres.
The area of orchards varies from large to small. For example, Ye Mo's family only has 54 acres.
But 54 acres is still a large area.
Roads are being planned to connect roads to each household’s orchards…
The two-lane asphalt road in Changzhu Village used to be fully funded by the government. For the road construction of Team 11 in Changzhu Village, the town can no longer afford it, so the county and the town jointly subsidize it.
For rural road construction, the subsidy is 50,000 yuan per kilometer. The county knows that they all want to build two-lane roads, and the subsidy is calculated on a square meter basis, with a subsidy of 25 yuan per square meter. The town subsidizes another 15 yuan... which is a subsidy of 40 yuan per square meter.
.But the road thickness is required to reach 20 centimeters.
Hongshan Town very much welcomes them to settle here, settle down, and run orchards.
In the past, all the villagers in Huangtupo Village had the skills to manage orchards, and more importantly, they had experience in village committee organization.
All the former village committee members of Huangtupo came over.
To put it bluntly, Hongshan Town belongs to a remote and impoverished mountainous area.
The construction in the town is quite beautiful, and the roads are very beautiful, but these are state subsidies during rural revitalization construction. However, the income of local farmers is still very little.
Some places have basic farmland, but one acre of farmland normally only earns one to two thousand yuan in income a year.
There are two crops grown locally, rapeseed in winter, rice in summer... If they are all sold, one acre of land, which is better, can probably earn more than 2,000 yuan.
It is extraordinary for a family's labor force to be able to manage 5 acres of farmland in a mountainous area.
There are also many orchards here.
However, due to various reasons, the most important one is that the production area model has not been formed, as well as the lack of orchard management technology and the overall arrangement of the village collective... resulting in low output and low prices in local orchards.
Moreover, the local area has vigorously developed fruit cultivation in mountainous areas, which has only happened in the past six or seven years, and it started relatively late.
The arrival of people from Huangtupo can bring certain orchard management experience to the local area and at the same time increase the income of local people.
For large orchards, manpower is definitely needed in the production process.
The government subsidizes 80% of the road construction, and everyone is very happy. All roads are two-lane. After hardening, asphalt will be laid.
Ye Mo and the others came to the section where the road was opened, and everyone was working enthusiastically.
In the front are two excavators, one large and one small, digging the road. Behind, manpower is tamping the roadbed and laying cobblestones. After laying the cobblestones and compacting them, they will start making molds and pouring cement tomorrow...
Road modeling is to set up wooden boards on both sides of the road, and then pour concrete on the road...
On the rural roads here, large trucks are used to transport fertilizers and pick fruits. The roads do not need to be made too well, and there is no need for steel bars. They can just be filled with soil.
Ye Mo went over and honked the horn twice.
"Brother." Chen Chen shouted.
Ye Mo responded with a smile and looked at his second uncle and his second aunt: "Second uncle, second aunt."
Lin Xiaomian shouted after him.
"I brought coconuts here. Why don't you guys take a break and come over to eat coconuts?" Ye Mo shouted.
"There are so many of us, have you brought enough coconuts?" Chen Chen's second uncle put down what he was doing and shouted.
"It's definitely enough." Ye Mo said with a smile, "It's a full car."
Chen Chen ran over first.
Ye Mo opened coconuts while introducing people to Lin Xiaomian.
Ye Mo knows less than half of the people here. But everyone knows Ye Mo...
Each person eats one and takes one. With such a score, there are still a few left in the car.
Ye Mo's mother was also working here. She went over to ask Ye's father and Ye Ran to stop the machine and come over to rest.
"Dad, Mom...eat the coconut." Ye Mo opened the coconut and handed it over.
Lin Xiaomian was always helping. My mother took the coconut from Lin Xiaomian's hand with a smile on her face.
"The progress here is very fast." Ye Mo said.
"We are making progress. We need to get it up before the fruit matures," Chen Shan said.
The mangoes here are all late-ripening Kate mangos. As for the pomegranates, they ripen almost at the same time as the mangoes. That is, at the end of September or October.
Every household is a big orchard owner.
A large orchard must at least have a warehouse, and then there is the issue of housing. Without a warehouse, the picking time will definitely be a mess.
Ye Ran sat next to Lin Xiaomian, drank a few sips of coconut juice, and looked at Ye Mo: "Brother."
"What are you doing?" Ye Mo said.
"Are you going to drive the excavator later?" Ye Ran said, "I have a courier coming and I have to go to town to pick up the courier."
Ye Mo nodded: "After you go back, wait for the sun to set, turn on the drip irrigation, and water some water for the coconut seedlings."
"It just rained yesterday, and it was irrigated?"
"Five to ten minutes for drip irrigation and two to three minutes for sprinkler irrigation will be enough." Ye Mo said, "The grass in the orchard has not grown yet, and the soil surface has dried out again under the strong sun today."
Mainly because I want the grass to grow quickly...
"good."
Everyone sat and rested for a while, smoked a cigarette, and then continued working.
Ye Mo took over Ye Ran's shift, got on the small excavator, and started digging the roadbed.
Two excavators can dig out more than a thousand meters of roadbed in a day.
Chen Chen and the others lived in the village committee building, which was the former dormitory building, and had already finished work and returned home.
Ye Mo and his son worked for a while longer, and then they stopped working and went home when it got dark.