She is a hot girl in Yongxing, Hunan, and fully possesses the personality characteristics of Hunan people who eat bitterly, bully and endure.
She graduated from college at the age of 20 and chose Torik.
In Beijing, she went to extract her teeth alone; ate hot pot alone; went to Houhai alone; and went to Qingba alone.
Such a wandering makes her completely unassigned.
After drifting north for half a year, she resolutely chose to resign and go home.
When she returned home, she took over the orchard her sister had invested in and became a decision-maker.
Fruit growers who have been planting fruit trees for many years, almost no one believes that a little girl can grow oranges well.
In three years, she devoted herself to her efforts, and finally changed the farmer's view of her, from questioning to actively following.
This little girl is Cao Lu, who was born in 1997.
From Cao Lu's entrepreneurial success story, I saw six words: intentions, innovation, and eagerness to learn.
attentively
Cao Lu of the university specializes in medical testing.
As soon as she graduated in 2016, she went to Beijing to join a medical company.
Alone in the field, there is no sense of belonging, so after half a year, she resigned.
I didn't have much planning to resign at the beginning, so I went straight home.
In 2016, Cao Lu's sister invested 2.3 million yuan in a local orchard in Yongxing County.
The sister is not in the local area and does not have more energy to manage the orchard.
In 2017, Cao Lu, who returned to her hometown, began to fully manage the 1,800 acres of rock sugar orange orchards for her sister.
Is it okay for a 20-year-old girl to manage such a large orchard?
Cao Lu took up his post in the midst of this kind of doubt.
Before Cao Lu's sister invested, the annual sales of the orchard were only 700,000.
She just started taking over, driving around the orchard almost every day, trying to generate money.
In the orchard, there is a single variety of rock sugar oranges, and it is difficult to generate income.
Cao Lu thought of doing tourism industry with the help of orchards.
However, the rock candy orange only bears fruit from November to February of that year. Other times, it seems monotonous.
Tourists come, can not only look at the scenery to eat and eat, guard the orchard without picking how to do.
Cao Lu began to plant four seasons of fruit, 13 kinds of fruit trees for planting, and hanging fruit that year.
Tourism in Cao Lu's orchards is booming, with more than 1 million yuan in 2017 alone from rose mandarins and American sugar oranges.
Cao Lu was not satisfied with the previous situation of the orchard, but carefully looked for a new model of increasing income.
In the first year of management, Cao Lu made the orchard income hit a new high.
As long as you treat everything with your heart, there will be gains, and even great gains.
Cao Lu's intentions have been rewarded.
innovation
There is a saying that the value of human beings lies in their ability to think creatively.
The young Cao Lu made bold innovations on the basis of the original planting technology.
She learned that there is a local fruit farmer who has been growing rock candy oranges for more than 30 years, named Liao Feimao.
The rock sugar oranges he grows are particularly high. Cao Lu went to the door to ask Liao Feimao.
It turned out that Liao Feimao used sheep manure to fertilize the rock sugar orange.
However, many growers believe that using sheep dung will change the taste of rock sugar oranges, and there will be sour taste.
After careful understanding, Cao Lu knew that Liao Feimao used not ordinary sheep manure, but fermented sheep manure.
This will not only not make the taste sour, but also increase the sweetness.
Cao Lu boldly borrowed Liao Feimao's cultivation method.
In early 2018, she set aside 1,000 trees, fertilized them with sheep manure, and then waited for the results.
In November of that year, the rock sugar orange began to bear fruit. This time, Cao Lu could finally laugh wildly.
Rock sugar oranges grown with sheep dung not only taste good, but also have a sweetness of 15-18, and some even reach 20.
This sweetness is so rare.
What makes Cao Lu even more pleased is that the yield per mu has also increased from the original 3200 jin to 4000 jin.
Such an innovative effect is naturally gratifying, but the torment of the process is only understood by Cao Lu.
From doubt to belief, Cao Lu proved herself step by step.
In the eyes of the locals, rock sugar orange is a fruit.
Cao Lu, who did not play cards according to common sense, made oranges into a table dish.
Cao Lu spent two months and developed 13 hot dishes and 6 cold dishes with the chef.
She also named this table the Orange Heart Orange Feast.
While cao lu challenged herself, she also refreshed the original understanding of the growers.
A 20-year-old girl can not only plant, but also market.
Dare to innovate and constantly challenge, this is Cao Lu.
Studious
The Analects say: Sensitive and studious, not ashamed to ask. Cao Lu is like this.
Rock sugar orange mu yield 4,000 catties. The average price of fine fruits is 3 yuan a catty, and the wind wound fruit is about 2 yuan a catty.
If they are all wind and wound fruits, an acre of land will lose 5,000 pieces.
In order to reduce the wounds of wind, Cao Lu began to study everywhere again.
She heard that Liao Feimao's wind wound fruit was very small, so she took the technicians in the orchard to Liao Feimao's fruit tree field.
In order to grow rock candy oranges, Liao Feimao spends money every year to go out to learn technology.
In his orchard, there are very few fruits hanging on the periphery of the tree, and when you open the branches, you will find that the fruits are all hidden inside.
Liao Feimao said that when pruning and leaving fruit, we must leave more inner fruits.
This minimizes wind damage.
If there are fewer wounds, the income will naturally be higher.
Cao Lu, constantly learning and teaching, and applying the knowledge and technology learned to the planting process.
The most popular rock sugar oranges in the local area are fruits of 60-65 size, and fruits that are too large cannot sell for a price.
Growers never thought of selling them in different sizes.
Because picking 10,000 pounds of local popular small fine fruits, there must be 90,000 pounds of squeeze, which cannot be sold for a long time, and will be sold at a low price.
Cao Lu did the opposite, deliberately picking out the 70 big fruits and selling them alone.
The original 1 yuan a rock candy orange, after selection, the price of 70 large fruits can be sold to 7 yuan a piece.
Selling in different specifications not only did not pull down the price, but also increased the price of rock sugar oranges by 7 times. A single tree can increase income by 1,000 to 2,000 yuan.
This is also Cao Lu's learning of business in the process of marketing the market.
Cao Lu is eager to learn and put into practice, which allows her to manage orchards with new sales.
Dare to trial and error, will be infinitely close to success
Cao Lu's orchard is recognized by many local customers, and when it comes to the harvest season, many consumers directly go to the orchard to buy.
Each person can buy a few hundred pounds at a time and eat it slowly at home.
In Cao Lu's view, these rock sugar oranges are golden fruits, and she wants to play the role of each fruit to the maximum value.
In three years, from annual sales of 700,000 to 46.15 million, Cao Lu proved herself with data.
Cao Lu said that others are not convinced, need time to prove, need to do some practical things to prove themselves, let others trust, and be convinced.
It is better to say than to do, and to do it is to do it with all our might.
Under the management of Cao Lu, the orchard has continuously upgraded the market, developed the industry, and the turnover has gradually increased.
This is all due to Cao Lu's intentions, innovation and eagerness to learn.
Sticking to your ideas and continuing to trial and error will bring you infinitely closer to success.
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Author: Moss