Based on local characteristics and natural resource endowment, Mazui Village, Shizhu Town, Yaozhou District, adheres to local conditions, implements classified policies, cultivates agricultural characteristic industries in an all-round way, drives "industrialization" and "branding" with "characteristics", and creates a new situation of industrial integration and development. As July approaches, a large number of watermelons in the hanging baskets in the greenhouse of Mazuiyuan Agricultural Professional Cooperative are ripe, showing a busy scene of a bumper harvest.
Intern reporter Yang Yingying said: "This is the Ma Tsuiyuan Agricultural Professional Cooperative, Zheng Xiaojun's greenhouse hanging basket watermelon planting base, you can see the rows of neat and orderly vines behind me, the vines 'hanging' with heavy, round watermelons, attractive color." We found a small card next to each of the small unripe watermelons in the red net pockets. Can Boss Zheng tell us what these cards represent? ”
Zheng Xiaojun, chairman of the Mazuiyuan Agricultural Professional Cooperative in Mazui Village, said: "My small card represents the pollination time, and in order to facilitate customers to pick, calculate its maturity date. ”
Zheng Xiaojun in the watermelon planting process bold attempt, to explore the cultivation of hanging vines, a change in the past lying on the ground planting "tradition", so that watermelons in the air growth fruit, in the planting of watermelon in the past few years, from the initial one greenhouse to today's three greenhouses, more than 4,500 watermelons, he also insisted on the use of sheep manure and organic fertilizer, in the management of pests and diseases using biological control, to eliminate the use of pesticides, so that the quality and sales of hanging basket watermelon to a higher level.
Zheng Xiaojun, chairman of the Mazuiyuan Agricultural Professional Cooperative in Mazui Village, said: "Our watermelon was customized in February, and this garden can ripen a little earlier than that garden, and our customers also like to eat it, you see that this garden is almost sold out now." ”
Now Zheng Xiaojun has been planting hanging basket watermelon for 7 years, according to the market research and exploration in recent years, and constantly introduce new varieties, there are red watermelon, yellow watermelon, heart-shaped, square, whether it is the sweetness, quality, or taste of watermelon, have won unanimous praise from customers.
Zheng Xiaojun, chairman of the Mazui Yuan Agricultural Professional Cooperative in Mazui Village, said: "Every time this melon is installed, the workers have so many screws every day, and it is the most seven or eight watermelons a day for a worker, but in our usual management, because of its different geographical location, sometimes the management is different, and the success rate is about eight watermelons, and at most four can be successful, which is very precious." ”
In recent years, Zheng Xiaojun has been planting melons with all his heart, while also broadening his sales channels, through the online sales platform of agricultural and sideline products in poverty alleviation areas, the release of videos on Douyin, and live broadcasts, etc., so that he has countless "fans". Watermelons are exported to Beijing, Shanghai and other regions, and the benefits are quite rich, which makes the hanging basket watermelons in Mazui Village become a resounding business card in the middle of summer.
Zheng Xiaojun, chairman of the Mazuiyuan Agricultural Professional Cooperative in Mazui Village, said: "In the next step, by next year, we will add another garden to grow watermelons, and I also want my surrounding farmers to grow watermelons and sell this small gift watermelon in Tongchuan to all parts of the country." (Reporter: Wu Yinan, Yang Yingying (intern) report)