"This greenhouse is grown with tin tomatoes, which are listed around New Year's Day, with an estimated yield of 1,800 kilograms, and now half of them have been booked." On October 19, in Lijia house village in Caofeidian District, Li Wenxia, head of the Mulberry Garden Family Farm, looked at the tomato seedlings that had bloomed and grew small green fruits in the garden, and her smile overflowed her face.
Li Wenxia, 49 years old this year, was originally engaged in the emergency removal of pollutants from freighters. When she returned to her hometown to visit her relatives, she found that the villagers had a considerable income from planting greenhouse fruits, so in 2017, she took out 12 million yuan to set up a family farm, and planted peaches, grapes, tin tomatoes and other fruits on the contracted 135 acres of land.
"At the end of 2018, I introduced 500 tin tomatoes during my inspection in Shandong province with the psychology of trial planting. This variety is particularly suitable for saline and alkali land cultivation, with a sweet and sour taste, 80 yuan a kilogram, and is quickly sold out after maturity. When it came to planting, Li Wenxia and the reporter opened the conversation box.
"Tin tomatoes produce two stubbles a year, 8 sheds produce 15,000 kilograms, and can earn 480,000 yuan." I have a total of 32 sheds, in addition to tomatoes, but also peaches and grapes, this year's income is more than 1 million yuan. ”
While bringing economic benefits to herself, Li Wenxia's family farm also provides migrant work opportunities for the surrounding people, driving more than 20 villagers to develop the fruit industry.
"After the farm was built, I came here to work, fertilizing and pruning these tasks, and I can earn more than 30,000 yuan a year." Zhang Hanlin, a villager, said, "Working on a farm not only increases income, but also learns planting management techniques." ”
Lijia house village is a well-known Taotaoshui town. Due to the high organic matter of the soil here and its abundance of magnesium oxide, the fruit produced is particularly delicious. At present, there are 215 farmers engaged in the greenhouse cultivation industry in the village. The "two committees" of the village actively explored new models, successively introduced 15 new varieties such as peaches and grapes, and 3 new technologies such as water and fertilizer integration, and covered the industrial development of the whole village. Cooperatives, agricultural science and technology companies, etc., and with enterprises, cooperatives, family farms and other business entities to establish rent, share capital, commission and other joint agricultural belt farming mechanism. Through the agricultural industrialization consortium, around the leading industries, an industrial system of coordinated development of the first, second and third industries is established. In 2020, the output value of greenhouse planting in the village was 53.9 million yuan, and the per capita income was 42,000 yuan.
Taotaoshui Town has extended the planting, production, transportation, primary processing and other links of fruits, and promoted the diversified development of agricultural products and the multi-link value-added. The village has established Hechuan Agricultural Technology Co., Ltd., which has established cooperative relations with Beijing Xinfadi Agricultural Products Wholesale Market and Gaobeidian Agricultural Products Wholesale Market, helping farmers' cooperatives and family farms to dock storage and preservation cold chain facilities, and realizing online and offline sales of insurance warehousing. This year, Lijia house village nectarines, grapes to achieve e-commerce sales of 10 million yuan.
"In recent years, we have strongly encouraged large-scale planting, and have now cultivated 3 cooperatives, 5 agricultural industry technology co-operatives and 4 family farms. In terms of technology, experts are regularly hired to train farmers; in terms of branding, brands such as Taotaoshui Town and Qiu Li Nectarine have been created, driving the growth of nectarines, grapes and other agricultural products in the village. Du Jiansheng, secretary of the village party branch, said.
One family farm after another has developed and grown, and the lives of the people in Lijia house village have become more and more sweet. (Hui Jiajia)