In the evening, August 20th, when reporters saw Qin Xinmin, the party branch secretary of Buzhen Village, Yu Xiakou Town of Tujia Autonomous County of Changyang, he and Wangwei, who is“the first secretary” were thinking that how to guide farmers to plant Konjac.“Come on, let us listen to the villagers' opinions together.”Qin Xinmin said. He was so happy as picking up“a life-saving straw”when he saw the reporters.

 

　　Walking into Zheng Baoqing’s home , who is a farmer living in three group, they found that there were several villagers in his home. So they talked about growing Konjac with the other villagers in Zheng Baoqing’s home.“our income will quickly increase by growing Konjac. However, it is hard to plant it. We will suffer losses if lacks planting technology of  Konjac.”Tian Furong said.Tian Furong, the female leader, was the first person planting Konjac. She tried to plant it in 3 acres of land the year before last. Due to a lack of technology, all the efforts have been to no avail. Then, she analyzed that it is hard to plant Konjac, but it is a good way to increase our income if there is technology guiding us to plant it. “Although we should input lots of money to plant Konjac, there were people wanted to plant it as long as they were given financial support.”Zheng Baoqing also said.“The poverty alleviation project can not only help villagers solve the most intractable problem of funding but also insures acquisition their Konjac in insured price. There is no risk and it is attractive to famers.”Wang Wei explained. “Because we have spread the planting technology of peppers and tomatoes, villagers believed that they can shake off poverty by these industries and their enthusiasm is increasing.”Qin Xinmin added.

 

　　Everyone joins in the conversation and they chat to more than 22 o’clock unwittingly. After listened villagers’ opinions, the two secretaries have more firm confidence to develop konjak industry after calamity. They made an analysis to the reporter that if there are over 500kg germchit per acres of land and every affected households plant it in 5 acres, the households will increase income over RMB 15,000 yuan per year .