The "Jinggang Honey Pomelo King" drives income growth and prosperity for the people of Wan'an, Jiangxi

To replace orange trees with Jinggang honey pomelo, others would have to pull the orange trees out by the roots, replant and cultivate them, and only after several years would they reach full production. But Deng Lanyun, chairman of the Lufeng Fruit Industry Development Professional Cooperative in Wan'an County, does not have to go to such trouble. He only needs one year to complete the variety replacement and reach full production, and he can even make a single fruit tree bear more than 10 different kinds of fruit at the same time, with 100% survival and pure varieties.

Deng Lanyun graduated in 1994 from the Jiangxi Agricultural Correspondence University with a major in fruit and vegetable studies. The knowledge taught by his teachers in class sparked a strong interest in fruit tree grafting technology, which is in widespread demand in rural areas. Combining the theoretical knowledge he learned with years of exploration and practice, Deng Lanyun has now proficiently mastered top grafting technology that even senior agricultural experts marvel at. It was with this skill that Deng Lanyun set out on the path of agricultural industry development. In 2008, Deng Lanyun and several fruit growers jointly established the Lufeng Fruit Industry Development Professional Cooperative and began growing navel oranges, Nanfeng mandarin oranges and other fruit trees.

With strong support from the county agricultural comprehensive development office and other relevant departments, the cooperative's planting base area has continued to expand, and it gradually kept pace with the city's development of leading agricultural industries, shifting step by step toward focusing on Jinggang honey pomelo cultivation. In 2014 alone, it expanded by 500 mu. At present, the cooperative has more than 3,500 mu of planting bases, including more than 1,600 mu of Jinggang honey pomelo, and has registered the “Fujing” trademark and established a stable honey pomelo sales network.

Deng Lanyun has become a widely known "Jinggang Honey Pomelo King." Not only that, the base has also planted more than 30 mu of early-maturing warm oranges, bayberries, loquats, plums, kumquats and other crops, and has developed pig farming, masked palm civet farming and water-surface aquaculture, using livestock to support planting and planting to promote livestock, truly moving toward an ecological leisure and sightseeing agriculture development model.

Being wealthy alone does not count as being wealthy; only when everyone becomes wealthy together is it truly wealth. Deng Lanyun fully leverages his technical advantages. Not only does he use the base as a platform to help 32 impoverished households escape poverty and become prosperous through capital investment, land investment, consignment sales of products and other methods, but with the guidance and help of the county Party committee's organization department, he has also upgraded the base into the county's agricultural technology "gas station." The fruit industry practical training base for cadres' technical study and application activities, the fruit industry planting practical training base of the Party member entrepreneurship incubation center, and the Party member and cadre modern distance education terminal site -- three shining plaques -- have attracted Party members and cadres from across the county to come for study and training. Through them, the reach of Deng Lanyun's technical services quickly expanded to all 17 townships (farms) in the county.

"When you run into technical problems growing honey pomelo, go to Old Deng and you can't go wrong!" Today, Deng Lanyun has become a trusted guide to prosperity for the broad masses of farmers in Wan'an. According to incomplete statistics, he has led more than 600 farming households in Wan'an and Taihe onto the road to prosperity through Jinggang honey pomelo cultivation.