The business manager abandoned the high salary and went back to Linyi to start a business, "Apple balsam pear" sold for 8 yuan per jin.

Jiang Weichun, with the solid and capable nature of the Yimeng people, became the business manager of a cable group company in Anhui Province in Liaoning Province in his 30s with an annual salary of several hundred thousand yuan, and the company also provided him with a special car. As a result of a trip to Taiwan in 2013, the trajectory of his life took a turn: he returned to his hometown to start a business and grow vegetables.

Resign decisively and move the whole family back to their hometown

Jiang Weichun's trip to Taiwan in 2013 was an eye-opener. Many varieties of fruits and vegetables are unheard of, good-looking and delicious. When asked about the price, it was amazing. He is determined to bring these new varieties to his hometown for the benefit of the villagers. When he returned to Liaoning, he decisively quit his original well-paid job, moved his family back to Zhangzhuang Town, Yinan County, and established a professional cooperative for fruit and vegetable cultivation in Baodao, Yinan County.

Open up the market and seed companies offer olive branches.

If you want everyone to plant, you must first try to grow it and open up the market. The new varieties of vegetables from Taiwan are not satisfied with the soil and water, which makes Jiang Weichun, who is like a mountain away from each other, suffer a lot. In Taiwan, he saw with his own eyes the high price of taro wax gourd, which is poorly managed. Jiang Weichun planted it in the overwintering greenhouse and waited on it meticulously all winter. The vine grew seven or eight meters long, but it only blossomed and did not bear fruit. Others say, this is a tropical vegetable, it does not adapt to our growth here, you give up. Jiang Weichun insists on his own view that as long as the temperature and humidity created are similar to those in Taiwan, he will be successful. He checked the data every day and consulted agricultural experts in Yinan and Shouguang, and finally knew that this was due to the low temperature in the shed and the lack of pollen. After finding out the crux of the problem, the problem was easily solved, and soon the greenhouse was fruitful. Taro wax gourd with Lipu taro flavor was wholesale at 5 yuan per jin, several times that of ordinary wax gourd, and demand fell short of supply. After that, he tried to grow a successful bitter fruit balsam pear-apple balsam pear, wholesale 8 yuan per jin. People's Daily, Farmer Daily and other dozens of media have reported that, coupled with his network promotion, the products are all sold to Beijing, Shanghai and other places without much effort.

The seed company in Taiwan offered an olive branch and asked him to act as an agent to sell new varieties of vegetables. In order to make it convenient for customers from all over the country to buy seeds, he set up a website and opened a Taobao store. Now these new varieties blossom and bear fruit everywhere in the motherland, and taro wax gourd grown in Guangdong is also sold to Hong Kong and Macao.

Get rich together and successfully plant new pumpkin varieties

When outsiders saw Jiang Weichun, his business was booming and his business was a success. But he doesn't think so. Jiang Weichun, who came from a poor family, has had an ambition since childhood: to lead the villagers to become rich together. Although the two vegetables he introduced sell at a high price, they like water and fertilizer, so they are not suitable for growing in the mountainous areas of their hometown.

Because Yinan County is located in the hinterland of Yimeng Mountain area, there are many mountains and wide areas, and the ecological conditions are good. Because traditional crops have been planted in some mountainous areas, the economic benefit is low, which has become the bottleneck for local farmers to shake off poverty and become rich. He contacted Taiwan vegetable experts and began to experiment with Taiwan's golden melon in Shuangfeng Town, Yinan County, in 2014. during the two-year trial period, he ran many times, and even the seven-or eight-year-old children in the village knew him. Due to the special climate and environmental conditions, the quality of the pumpkins grown here is obviously higher than that of the country of origin in Taiwan. This strengthened his entrepreneurial thinking: large-scale planting, the development of industry, common prosperity. In 2016, with the support of the Yinan task force of the Provincial Department of Agriculture, the cooperative developed more than 1000 mu of Taiwan's golden melon in Shuangchuan Town.

Recently, Jiang Weichun, who returned from the e-commerce poverty alleviation class of the Provincial Department of Commerce, hurried to the pumpkin base to guide the management techniques for growers. He also brings you a piece of good news: reaching a certain planting scale, a Taiwanese company intends to set up a pumpkin powder processing and export project here.

Jiang Weichun said that he is confident that Yinan will be developed into the largest and highest quality pumpkin planting base in the country, because the pumpkins produced here are of the best quality, just like cantaloupe, which is not available elsewhere.

What is "apple balsam pear"?

Apple balsam pear is a new balsam pear variety cultivated by farmers in Taiwan, improved and bred in agricultural reform field. Apple balsam pear face dense bright white pearls, sugar content up to 6 degrees, taste crisp, sweet and juicy, fruit-shaped fat, shoulder-shaped beauty, early growth, strong growth, strong fruiting ability, long harvest time. In Taiwan, the fruiting period is as long as 180,210 days, and the yield per mu is more than 3000 kg.