People come early in spring, and people are more diligent in spring. There is such a group of people in our county, accompanied by melon seedlings around the Spring Festival, exerting hard sweat in the fields, sowing the seeds of hope for this year's agricultural harvest.
In the greenhouse of Xiaozhangzhuang White Pear Melon Professional Cooperative, you will be greeted by verdant pear and melon seedlings, and the greenhouse is a scene of greenery and vitality. Workers shuttled back and forth between the melon seedling racks, busy in the heat, wrapping seedlings and removing branches, and their movements were skilled. According to the person in charge of the cooperative, they began to plant melon seedlings a few years ago, and all of them have been planted after the festival, and on the basis of maintaining and upgrading the original white pear melon varieties, according to market demand, they introduced excellent new varieties and screened out excellent varieties suitable for local planting for promotion.
Li Yanan, head of the Xiaozhangzhuang White Pear Melon Professional Cooperative in Jinxiang County: From the beginning of New Year's Day to before the Spring Festival, the melon seedlings have been planted in batches, and the early melon can be listed in March, and then listed from March to July, so that consumers can eat fresh white pear melon at any time. On the basis of our previous years of planting Jingtian 208 white pear melon, we have introduced emerald No. 2 cucumber, Boyang series, Boyang 9, Boyang 61, Xizhou honey and thick-skinned melon and other varieties, and then the varieties reached more than a dozen, such as Boyang Nine, Boyang series of melon skin is thin and crisp, crispy, the taste is particularly good, like thick-skinned melon, Xizhou honey 25, its taste is particularly good, particularly crisp, crisp and sweet, sugar can reach 18 19, can meet the needs of different consumers.
It is understood that the cooperative mainly breeds seedlings, planting, processing and selling white pear melon, forming a pattern of integrated development of the first, second and third industries of white pear melon planting, processing and sales, and has played an important role in intensive seedling breeding, standardized planting, variety structure optimization, brand creation, building a market system, and driving farmers to increase income. At the same time, the organizational operation mode of "cooperative + base + farmer" is implemented, and the planting and recycling contract is signed between the cooperative and the member farmers, and the surplus is returned according to the proportion of the transaction volume between the members and the cooperative. Up to now, the cooperative has 29 managers, 3 agricultural technicians, 2 assistant agricultural technicians, 5 technicians, 144 members, the per capita net income of cooperative members is 36,800 yuan, driving nearly 2,000 non-member farmers in the surrounding areas, and at the same time hiring hundreds of left-behind family women in the surrounding areas to work in the base, helping farmers to double their income.
Li Huanyun, a nearby villager: I work here, I don't delay the family, the family has children who can't go out or anything, do some work here, get more than 100 yuan a day, work for seven or eight hours, the family does not delay anything, and when I go home in the morning, I can also see the children, which is extra income.
At present, Jinxiang County Xiaozhangzhuang White Pear Melon Professional Cooperative has more than 60 greenhouses, planting area of about 260 acres, in accordance with the "green, organic, ecological" and promote rural revitalization, the development of modern agriculture requirements, adhere to the ecological planting management, high-quality fruit quality of this magic weapon, and actively explore the road of integrated development of one, two and three production, to achieve agricultural development "one after another". The cooperative baili melon has passed the "agricultural product geographical indication certification" of the Ministry of Agriculture; the cooperative has also been rated as "farmers' cooperative municipal demonstration society" and "farmers' cooperative provincial demonstration society"; the white pear melon base has been rated as "Shandong Provincial Agricultural Standardization Production Base"; and the cooperative "Huji Xiaozhangzhuang" brand has been selected as a well-known agricultural product enterprise brand in Shandong Province.
Li Yanan, head of the Bai pear melon professional cooperative in Xiaozhangzhuang, Jinxiang County: Our cooperative will continue to play the leading role of our cooperative' demonstration, promote the efficient cultivation technology of white pear melon, lead the masses to increase income and become rich, and contribute to the development of Jinxiang characteristic agriculture.
Source: Jinxiang mobile phone client
Reporter: Chen Heng
Editor: Li Yange
Review: Li Zhen Zhou Hongbo
Final Judge: Acting Shuai