Original title: Liu Zichao: Planting red leaf heather to make the days red
"These seedlings are over 40 centimeters old and are ready for sale." On January 19, at the Yexian Youshun Agricultural Planting Cooperative in Wuliu Village, Shuizhai Township, Yexian County, the reporter saw a large area of red leaf heather full of vitality, and the person who spoke was Liu Zichao, the founder of the cooperative.
Liu Zichao, 46 years old, a native of Wuliu Village, Shuizhai Township, Ye County, taught peripheral growers free of charge techniques such as cuttings and pruning of ornamental trees such as red-leaved heather, and was rated as an excellent science and technology commissioner in Henan Province and a leader in YeXian to get rich.
Liu has been working in Guangzhou since his early years, considering that working outside the home is not a long-term thing, he decided to return to his hometown to start a business, but has not found a suitable project. After being introduced by his brother who was engaged in engineering, Liu Zichao came into contact with red leaf heather. In the beginning, he only planted two acres, and due to the lack of planting technology, there was no income in the previous years.
To this end, he successively went to Xuchang Yanling, Kaifeng, Xinxiang and Jiangsu Changzhou, Hubei and other places to learn planting technology and open up markets. With technology and market, he tasted the sweetness of planting red leaf heather, and earned tens of thousands of yuan from 10 acres of land.
"The cold tolerance of red leaf heather is relatively strong, mainly used for landscaping, planted without worrying about selling, the market is in short supply." The greenhouse disc seedling technology we have developed can shorten the cycle by 2 months, save 1/3 of the cost, and the survival rate of the seedling plant is more than 90%. Liu Zichao proudly said that he was "unique" in this technology. Using this planting technique, red-leaved heather can be cut and raised for two seasons a year, once in May and once in December to January.
Whether you are rich yourself is not rich, you must be rich on the road to a well-off life. At present, Yexian Youshun Agricultural Planting Cooperative has led 13 farmers to plant red leaf heather, and the planting area has reached more than 800 mu and more than 10 million trees, and it is expected to have an income of 5 million yuan.
Liu Yingnian, a 56-year-old grower in Wuliu Village, used to get up early every day to plant crops in the dark, and his income was only enough to eat and drink in a year, so he joined the ranks of planting red leaf heather through the Youshun Agricultural Planting Cooperative. "Now I plant a total of 150 acres of red leaf heather, and I expect to earn about 10,000 yuan per mu of land per year." Liu Yingnian smiled and said, "This is much stronger than before." ”
Liu Shichao, secretary of the party branch of Wuliu Village, said: "Only when talents are prosperous can industries prosper, and now the rural areas are developing very well, and I hope that more outstanding talents from abroad will return to their hometowns to start businesses." ”
"As a science and technology commissioner, I will take root in my hometown, base myself on seedling planting, pass on the technology and experience I have explored and summarized to the villagers, and lead everyone to embark on a more prosperous road together." Liu Zichao said. (Cai Changwei, Liu Bei, Wang Mengqi)