Yanggezhuang Village, Xia Gezhuang Town, Pinggu District, Beijing, has fertile soil and rich trace element content, and has been growing tomatoes, cucumbers and other common vegetables for many years. In 2004, under the vigorous promotion of Comrade Li Yufu, then secretary of the town party committee, he began to experiment with the planting of traditional flavor tomato varieties suitable for fresh food in 2 acres of solar greenhouses, and after investigation, the two varieties of "Luheng 108" and "Canadian powder" with the best quality at that time were selected.
In order to grow tomatoes well, Li Yufu led the villagers to apply organic fertilizers such as sheep manure and pig manure as the base fertilizer, using the top-applied Taiwan "Nongbaozan" organic liquid fertilizer as a source of nutrition, promoting carbon dioxide fertilization, and strengthening field management, implementing natural pollination methods such as oscillating assisted pollination and bumblebee pollination, and prohibiting the use of more than 10 technical measures such as "ethylene li" regulator to promote ripening.
For example, in the past, vegetable farmers used to take the "tomato spirit" and other growth regulators to spray flowers or dip flowers to promote fruit setting, and now take the release of bumblebees or shock pollinators in the shed to promote fruit setting, which is a natural pollination method, which can produce soft flesh, sandy surface, juicy suitable fresh tomato products. In the spring tomatoes earlier the market price is higher, it can be said that one price a day, vegetable farmers use the production regulator "ethylene" to spray the fruit, so that the color can be changed early for 2-3 days, but the skin changes color, the flesh is still green, and the taste is significantly worse than the natural ripe fruit.
In order to ensure the quality of tomatoes, Secretary Li Yufu resolutely put an end to the use of production regulators to spray flowers and ripen in the planting process, and many vegetable farmers did not understand at first, but after many ideological work and effect comparison experiments, the vegetable farmers changed their concepts and finally produced high-quality tomato products in accordance with the laws of nature. Many citizens feel that the taste of tomatoes when they were young after eating them is in short supply, and the supply of products is in short supply as soon as they are listed. In the past, the price of tomato products in this village was about 0.5 yuan per 500 grams, and the test 2 acres of products were very popular with consumers, starting at a price of 1.4 yuan per kilogram, which was three times that of previous years, and later changed to a gift box to buy, each box contained 12, weighing about 6 kilograms, the price began to 30 yuan, so that the price per kilogram was increased to about 5 yuan.
In 2005, all 42 solar greenhouses in Yanggezhuang Village were planted with suitable fresh tomato varieties, combined with technical training for vegetable farmers, and continued to promote supporting technologies. Secretary Li Yufu not only gave strong support to the work of old flavor tomatoes, but also personally proposed the concept of product development as "growing high-quality products such as tomato cucumbers as fruits to sell", which promoted the development of high-quality fresh tomato industry in Pinggu District.
Now after more than 10 years of practice, the concept proposed at that time is fully in line with the development concept of urban agriculture, and they advocate the registration of two trademarks of "Yuansheng" and "Old Taste", the concept of "Yuansheng" brand refers to "the original ecology of the product, the original taste, people eat the vitality rises, turbidity declines"; the concept of the "old taste" brand is "to find the taste of thirty years ago". Products are sold in gift boxes, each box contains 15 pieces, the price is 50-80 yuan, and the price per 500 grams reaches 8-12 yuan. At that time, the fresh tomatoes sold by the Yuyang Hotel, a four-star hotel in Pinggu District, became a must-bring souvenir for guests, and they were priced at 120 yuan per box.
The high-quality tomatoes planted in Yanggezhuang Village, Xia gezhuang Town, Pinggu District, have become the tomatoes pursued by major scientific research institutes, hospitals and people who pay attention to the quality of life in Beijing, and have come to Yang Gezhuang Village to pull the ground, and later purchased them through online means. Pinggu has a peach blossom festival every year, many consumers have to buy some tomatoes to bring back when they go to Pinggu to see peach blossoms, and gradually the tomatoes in Yanggezhuang Village, Xiajiazhuang Town, Pinggu have become a good gift for tourists to give to relatives and friends.
At present, the tomatoes in Yanggezhuang Village, Xia Gezhuang Town, Pinggu District, are used by the Beijing Municipal Government as an ingredient for receiving foreign guests, each plate is put into 3-4 pieces, broken into 6 petals, the juice is full, the fruit seeds are exposed, the flesh is sandy, and there is an appetite when looking at it. Yang Gezhuang village planting tomatoes per mu output value of about 50,000 yuan, is the previous ordinary tomato products ten times, and the benefit per mu from the previous 2,000 yuan, increased to 15,000-20,000 yuan, effectively driving the surrounding Zhang Gezhuang, Longjiawu, Zhuanghu, Cui Gezhuang and other villages fresh high-quality tomato development, in recent years, summer town and surrounding villages fresh tomato planting reached 500 acres.
Yang Gezhuang Village, Xia Gezhuang Town, Pinggu District, has registered brands such as "Shundao" brand, the concept is "the road goes forward, the taste goes back", reflecting the natural law of "human law land, ground law field, field law road, road law nature". Yang Gezhuang Village has successively selected tomato varieties suitable for fresh food, such as "Apple Green" and "Original Taste No. 1". Through the support of departments at all levels in Pinggu District and the hard work of the majority of vegetable farmers, Pinggu tomato has become a well-known brand of agricultural products in Beijing, providing 2200 tons of products for the market every year. For the peach blossom festival, music festival and other festivals held every year, it provides high-quality agricultural products that are popular with consumers.
Recalling the development process of 17 years, the development of high-quality fresh tomato industry in Xiagezhuang Town, Pinggu District, has been fully supported by leaders at all levels such as the relevant departments of Pinggu District, Xia Gezhuang Town, Donggao Village Town and the second committee team of various professional villages; and has been enthusiastically served by the technical personnel of the Beijing Agricultural Technology Extension Station. Teacher Cao Hua has repeatedly gone to the field to guide and lecture on the spot to impart knowledge, rain or shine. In December 2011, the party branch of Longjiawu Village specially sent a pennant to Teacher Cao Hua, "braving the wind and snow without fearing the cold, and caring for vegetable farmers to pass on the technology".
Article source: This article is excerpted from the "Modern Agricultural Products Sales and Consumption" 2021 No. 29 Total No. 180, without permission may not be reproduced; pay attention to the "Zhongnong Futong" public account and reply to the dialogue page "Magazine" to subscribe for free.
Original title: Develop high-quality tomato production to meet consumer demand.
Author: Cao Hua/ Famous vegetable expert of Beijing Agricultural Technology Extension Station. Compiled by Zhongnong Futong Editor.