More than 200 acres of red orange orchards in Qingping sell happily every year

Recently, Lianjiang City Qingping Town red orange planter Tan Moutang through e-commerce express delivery and merchant orders, nearly 10,000 kilograms of red oranges into the "Fengmao Red" brand packaging, to seven or eight yuan 1 kilogram sent to all parts of the country, in the downturn of the fruit market, more than 200 acres of red oranges are still selling at high prices, to ensure a bumper harvest every year.

Low prices under the cold stream are also popular

As the red orange planting center of Lianjiang City, Qingping Town, has developed more than 30,000 acres of red oranges, and over the years, every new year's red orange market season, large and small orchards are bustling with traffic, and fruit farmers sell fruits and sell happy, earning laughter.

This season's fruit market "sudden change", due to the epidemic and other factors, Qingping red orange from the bottom of last year's 11 days on the market has encountered a "cold wave" of the reserve price that has not been encountered for many years, the price of the field head fell sharply from the lowest seven or eight yuan 1 kg in previous years to three or five yuan, the former lively orchard appeared deserted, and the cloud of slow sales hung over the orchard so that farmers were overwhelmed for a while.

The reporter recently walked into the more than 250 acres of orchards planted by Tan Moutang, a grower in Hengkeng Village, Qingping Town, who has been planting for many years, but saw a scene of a busy harvest, tourists from Guangxi, Wuchuan and other places parked their vehicles at the edge of the orchard, and then entered the garden to pick fruits and taste fresh fruits, and finally took away boxes of fresh fruits at a high price and laughed all the way. At the same time, there are more than 10 workers in the orchard who are constantly harvesting the fruit, with baskets of oranges sent to the greenhouse processing area of the orchard, screened and packed into brand cartons printed with the "Feng Mao Hong" trademark, and then supplied to the buyer according to the order. Tan Moutang laughed and said that it is an old customer everywhere who places an order and delivers every day, still seven or eight yuan and 1 pound. There are also e-commerce companies that come to Tiantou to ask for high-priced goods, and then package mail to all parts of the country.

The orchard is still full of fruit, and the trees are full of "golden armor", which paints a warm color on the ridge in this cold winter. Tan Moutang stood on a high place, overlooking the entire orchard, and then said with satisfaction that the more than 250 acres of red oranges adhere to green organic planting and develop high-quality fruits, and it is expected to harvest 500,000 catties this season. Although the price fluctuates, but there are many customers, the order is not reduced, are sold according to the price of seven or eight yuan and 1 kilogram in previous years, and more than 200,000 kilograms have been sold at present.

Brand red orange led fruit growers to riches

Tan Moutang, a native of Hengkeng Village, Qingping Town, began in 2010 to reclaim the land on the Banjiu Ridge behind the village, and has invested 1.5 million yuan to develop more than 250 acres of red oranges.

Tan Moutang is a new type of farmer with technology and funds. With the support of the government, he went up to the mountain to start a business, innovate the business model, develop and operate agriculture, plant red oranges with high standards, focus on the development of organic fruits and green orchards, strengthen field technical management, and operate carefully. After the harvest began in 2014, it has obtained a bumper harvest every year, and the registered "Fengmao Hong" brand is well-known, recognized by the market, and has become the symbol of Lianjiang's high-quality red oranges, and every year in the red orange harvest season, all kinds of orders have flown to the top of the mountain, high-priced best-selling, and outstanding benefits.

Moving through the rows of fruit groves, the fruit trees are hung with golden oranges, but under the fruit trees is green grass, with a wild ecological vitality. Tan Moutang said with a smile that the weeds in the orchard are harvested regularly by hand, and no herbicides are used to ensure that the garden is ecologically green. Fertilization and watering, all pay attention to technology and temperament, unified organic soil fertilizer, groundwater spraying, to ensure harmony with the entire mountain ecological environment, so there are few diseases and insect pests, fruit trees less disease, the orange flesh grown bright red, tender and smooth slag, sweet entrance, harvest every year.

Committed to green ecology, Tan Moutang has won the title of Lianjiang Red Orange Planting Expert, and more than 250 acres of red oranges have also won the Lianjiang Green Standard Orchard, a national famous and excellent agricultural product. In recent years, Tan Moutang has led more than 100 local villagers to establish the Fengmao Red Orange Planting Professional Cooperative, unified and high-standard development of "FengmaoHong" brand red orange, established a position in the market, and also picked up the AAA-level demonstration society of China's high-quality products in one fell swoop, with obvious planting benefits, and "FengmaoHong" red oranges have driven the majority of fruit farmers to become rich and prosperous.