After 10 Years, He Chopped Down All His Walnut Trees - And He Says It Was to Get Rich?

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Seven years ago, Xin Jiaoyuan stood leaning against the door of his old house. The 28 seven-year-old walnut trees in front of his home were all he and his wife owned, and they were counting on the walnuts to bear fruit.

Go out and learn the skills!

These walnut trees produced "ben" walnuts - large in size but small in kernel, with thick, hard shells. Although these common walnuts didn't fetch a good price, for Xin Jiaoyuan they were the only "way to survive."

"How can I earn more money from these walnut trees?" With the idea of increasing his income, Xin Jiaoyuan gritted his teeth, packed his bags, and left home to learn planting techniques.

Three Years of Learning, and He Wants to Cut the Trees as Soon as He Returns

Xin Jiaoyuan was gone for 3 years. His wife waited bitterly at home and finally looked forward to his return. But who knew that as soon as Xin Jiaoyuan got home, he seemed "possessed" and wanted to cut down the family's walnut trees!

This worried Xin Jiaoyuan's wife terribly. The 28 walnut trees at home, each as thick as a bowl's rim, had grown for 10 years and were at the stage of bearing fruit! Cutting them down would not only mean losing nearly 2,000 yuan of income for that year, but after 10 years of growing them, she had also developed feelings for the old trees! But ignoring his wife's objections, Xin Jiaoyuan cut all 28 walnut trees clean through at the waist!

Could he have gone crazy from his studies?

What did Xin Jiaoyuan go through during those three years? Had he gone mad? It turned out that after cutting the 28 common walnut trees in half at the waist, Xin Jiaoyuan grafted high-quality, high-yield walnut varieties onto them. He knew very clearly that cutting the trees would temporarily eliminate his income, but once the newly grafted varieties bore fruit, the returns would increase significantly.

A Bumper Harvest

Two years later, Xin Jiaoyuan's new variety walnut trees produced 420 jin of dried nuts and sold for nearly 9,000 yuan, more than 7,000 yuan more than he had earned from growing common walnuts before!

The township where Xin Jiaoyuan lives established a special walnut association last year, hiring Xin Jiaoyuan as its president to teach fruit farmers planting techniques and lead more than 30 people in improving and boosting the efficiency of 1,000 mu of walnuts across the township.

Recalling the three years he spent away learning techniques, Xin Jiaoyuan said: "The master taught me hand-in-hand in the field, so it was easy to get the hang of it. As for walnut grafting techniques, if you just sit indoors and talk about them (without mastering the key skills), talking is useless."

/Xin Jiaoyuan's story has two things worth learning from: First, we must have the courage to break conventions and learn new techniques and new knowledge; second, regarding technical learning, only by combining it with practice in the field can you truly master the skills/

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