Text/Peninsula all-media reporter Liu Xiaoxiao Photo/Peninsula all-media reporter He Yi
On the morning of April 5, in a strawberry planting greenhouse in Hexi Paper Fang Village, Jiudian Town, Pingdu City, Zhang Yongfeng and his wife picked and basketed sweet strawberries one by one.
Zhang Yongfeng and His wife Zhang Wei pick strawberries in the greenhouse
At present, their strawberry greenhouse has picked the third stubble, and the daily output is 400 to 500 catties. This is Zhang Wei's fourth year of planting strawberry greenhouses, a total of two greenhouses, and the yield has been good. "We planted the seedlings at the end of August last year, and they fell fruit in December last year, and we were able to pick them until around June 1st." Zhang Wei said. Every day the couple is busy in the greenhouse, just need to pick the strawberries and pack them to the village to buy the point. At present, the purchase price per catty is seven or eight yuan.
In Hexi Paper Fang Village, Xiu Zhongyi is one of the merchants who buy strawberries. In front of their homes, neatly stacked piles of foam boxes. At 3 p.m., Xiu Zhongyi loaded more than 1,000 kilograms of strawberries purchased that day into a truck and sent them away. "Our strawberries are all sent to Hebei, shipped through logistics, and can reach the wholesale market there in less than eight hours." Xiu Zhongyi has been in the strawberry acquisition business for more than 10 years, and as more and more residents grow strawberries in the surrounding areas, he can buy a large number of high-quality strawberries in the surrounding areas. Because of the flatness of the sweet treasure strawberry is large, color positive, sweet taste, well received by customers.
Stable market sales have also led to the prosperity of the villagers in the village. Xiu Shuping, village secretary of Hexi Paper Fang Village, said that in the past few years, most of the village's labor force was going out to work, and now more than 20 strawberry greenhouses have been built in the village, and some of the prime-age laborers no longer leave their hometowns, and they can get rich by their own labor in the village.
Xiu Zhongyi's wife is weighing the strawberries she bought
Zhang Yongfeng