Old flower farmers embark on the road to prosperity through science and technology

Even a row of greenhouses, a dazzling variety of flowers, busy florists with foot boots. On January 27, the reporter came to a flower park in Zhaochang Street, Cuiping District. The imaginary fragments in my mind gradually coincided with what I saw, and my heart began to be a little dull. Suddenly, a young figure appeared in the scene of the muddy path, "do you buy flowers?" The young man came up to us and asked with a smile.

"if we don't buy flowers, we are newspaper reporters. We have come to learn about the supply and marketing of flowers." An accompanying reporter replied. "Oh, if you go down this road, you can see the potted plants for the Spring Festival. Be careful, it's raining and the road is slippery. " The young man pointed to the path and said.

I couldn't help looking at this enthusiastic young man. In his twenty-seven or twenty-eight appearance, there were several Phalaenopsis and some unknown plant buds quietly in the bowl in his hand, and the signature pen on his chest stood out under the side support of a labor insurance suit. I inquired curiously about the usefulness of the things in the basin. "this is for tissue culture." The young man smiled. The young man's answer aroused our interest. At our request, the young man led us into an unremarkable building. As soon as I arrived at the door of the third floor, the smell of disinfectant began to float into my nose, and my female colleague began to cover her nose and get ready to enter the room. "wait, first change your clothes, change your shoes, and then wash your hands with the potion in that basin." The young man pointed to the white coat hanging on the wall and hurriedly stopped it.

After a series of procedures, we walked into a cabin full of petri dishes and chemical instruments. Here, the young man told us that his surname was Zeng and he graduated from Yibin College majoring in biological engineering. The owner of this flower base is an old flower farmer who has been engaged in flower cultivation for 30 years. In 2007, he decided to use science and technology to improve the quality and reproduction rate of flowers. Pointing to rows of petri dishes, Xiao Zeng said: "in traditional split propagation, a mother plant can only reproduce a few seedlings a year, but using tissue culture, using one leaf of the mother plant and one bud can breed at least 10,000 seedlings. Some varieties can even reach hundreds of thousands of plants, and there is no harm to the mother plant."

On the way back to the newspaper, the owner of the base called and apologized to the reporter, saying that he was not at the scene because he had to communicate with several other flower experts. He told reporters that since the use of tissue culture technology in 2007, the number of young flowers has doubled, and in four years, he has built more than 5000 square modern nursery sheds. "the output value per square meter is about 200 yuan. I never dared to think about this before, but I am going to build another 6000 square seedling sheds this year." On the phone, the old florist who had never met the reporter laughed loudly.