During this time, the 450-acre ecological strawberry base in Yangli Village, Louzhuang Town, Jiangyan District, became an Internet celebrity punching point, attracting many tourists every day.
The 30-acre Mao Mao Strawberry Picking Garden is a corner of the beautiful "Dream Factory". In the spring, tourists flock here. Ding Xiangyun and Zhou Yuefeng tasted while picking, and from time to time took a vibrato to tell the feeling of tasting, share the joy of picking, and attract many fans to like and forward.
Here, tourists are in a good mood to pick and taste strawberries; over there, more than 10 peasant women are lined up to remove the leaves. Jiang Yonglan, a 70-year-old villager, said happily that the family's 5 acres of land were transferred to the strawberry garden, and the rent per mu of land was 800 yuan, and he went to work in the strawberry garden, earning fifty or sixty yuan per day.
Jiang Hua, a 37-year-old owner of the Mao mao strawberry picking garden, and his wife Lu Aifeng are both "tour guides" and busy receiving orders and sending supplies. Jiang Hua is a retired soldier and a party member, who has learned to lathe and driven a truck. In 2015, he and his wife responded to the government's call for entrepreneurship and transferred more than 40 acres of land to plant ecological strawberries, grapes and peach trees.
Lu Aifeng said that she and her husband learn while working, and rely on scientific research institutes to update varieties, the whole process from fertilization, seedlings, weeding, insect control to flowering, fruit, do not use any hormones and insecticides, bulking agents, ripening agents, the application of sheep manure and other organic fertilizers, artificial weeding, yellow board insect removal, bee pollination, natural maturity, each strawberry has been carefully cared for and grown.
The new strawberries such as red face, cream and Snow White grown in the greenhouse are not only bright in color, but also full and juicy flesh, and the sweetness is above other strawberries. Lu Aifeng displayed a pot of "Snow White" strawberries, the appearance is white and transparent, the flesh is as fine as white powder, and it melts in the mouth.
"A strawberry develops into an industry, and an industry drives a farmer." Jiang Hua told reporters while moving goods to the car that there are more than 10 strawberry growers in Yangli Village, each of which is "staggered peak" planting, forming an ecological strawberry base of 450 mu, absorbing more than 100 idle laborers to work in the "greenhouse factory", working easily, removing leaves and grass, picking fruits. The strawberry hanging period from October to May of the following year catches up with the market demand of the Spring Festival and Lantern Festival, with a price of up to 70 to 80 yuan per kilogram, and the net income of growers per mu is about 20,000 yuan, and nearly 1,000 tourists are received for a long time. Even during the Spring Festival holiday, people order strawberries every day.
Ji Xiaobin, secretary of the Party Committee of Louzhuang Town, said that in the next step, Louzhuang Town will continue to implement the "party branch + cooperative (planting and picking garden) + farmer" model of enrichment, amplify the demonstration effect of the ecological strawberry base, and at the same time build an advanced village 165 mu dragon fruit base and a greenhouse fruit and vegetable base in Loudong Village, form a thousand mu of ecological strawberry and dragon fruit base, cultivate a "red fruit economy" with the characteristics of Louzhuang, and lead more villagers to embark on the road to prosperity and live a happy life of "red fire".