An exclusive interview with Tao Zhanzhu, a florist in Pingdingshan City, Henan Province-- planting Flowers Benfu Road

Tao Zhanzhu (first from right) is busy potting flowers in the nursery of Tao Zhanzhu, a villager in Xingpu Village, Caozhen Township, Zhanhe District, on December 1. Tao Zhanzhu, 64, said that in 2003, he planted 60 to 70 varieties of flowers and landscaping trees in more than 40 mu of land through land transfer. After more than a decade of exploration, the seedlings he cultivated have long been well-known and sold well. While getting rich, he also arranged for more than 10 villagers to work in the nursery for many years. In 2011, Tao Zhanzhu was named a farmer technician.

Agricultural Expo, Flower Fair, sales Aid-- A visit to the Flower Market in Baihua Village

The holding of this Agricultural Expo has not only gathered popularity, but also brought business opportunities. Yesterday, the reporter went to the flower trading market in Baihua Village, Jiuhu Town, and visited the flower merchants to understand the sales effect brought by the "Dongfeng" of the Expo.

Self-driving tourists become the "main force"

Early in the morning of the 21st, the merchants of the Baihua Village Flower Exchange Market in Jiuhu Town have opened for business, with all kinds of flowers and trees neatly placed in front of the shop, growing very vigorously, with a wide variety of bonsai flowers and plants, colorful and dizzying. The staff of Narcissus Garden in Baihua Village, Jiuhu Town, Longhai City are busy packing a batch of products for shipment to Hong Kong. "since the beginning of this year, the company has exported its products to all parts of the country, South Korea, Japan, the European Union and other regions. To this end, it has also expanded the base area to facilitate hoarding." The person in charge of the company told the reporter, "during the period of the Expo, the passenger flow in the store is obviously larger than usual, especially for many self-driving tourists, they usually buy a few pots of flowers to take away."

During the reporter's interview, I happened to meet Chen Yongqing, a businessman who came from Guangxi to participate in the Expo. "when I come back to participate in the Expo, on the one hand, I want to visit, and on the other hand, I want to learn about the experience of flower trade."

Succulent plants are popular

Succulent plant is one of the most popular potted plants. At present, more and more flower farmers have joined the army of selling succulent plants in Baihua Village Flower Market, and the succulent plant market continues to heat up. The reporter learned at the scene that many stall owners in the flower market sell hundreds of pots of succulent plants a day, and consumers are not only fashionable young people, but also some middle-aged flower lovers are attracted by these "interesting" plants. Ms. Liu, who lives in the urban area, chose left and right in front of the shelf and told the reporter: "I took my son to see the Expo at the weekend. When I passed by, I wanted to come in and have a look." The succulent plant has a good meaning and good appearance. I bought it for my child and put it in his bedroom. It's very cute.

In the Longhai Shangyi succulent plant production and marketing park, the reporter saw a variety of succulent plants on the shelves, rich in varieties, some glittering and translucent, small and exquisite, and some petals thick and large, naive. Zhu Jianzong, head of the production and marketing park, told reporters: "succulent plants are cute in the plant world. they are chubby, chubby, fleshy and round. It is a kind of ideal potted flowers in the house and is deeply loved by the public because of its strong adaptability, easy to reproduce and various posture. "

Tengzhou Lunan Flower Trading Center: flower Industry Yinghong Flower Farmer's Road to Wealth

Over the past few days, there has been an endless stream of citizens who went to the Lunan Flower Exchange Center to buy flowers, and the florists happily smiled from ear to ear. "if you want to add some green color to your home in winter, buy some pots of flowers to decorate at home, which is not only beautiful and environmentally friendly, but also makes people feel refreshed, not to mention how nice it is!" Citizen Wang Shaya said happily.

Lunan Flower Trading Center is only one of the bright spots in the development of seedling flower industry in our city (Tengzhou City). In recent years, our city has scientifically formulated the development plan of flower seedlings, integrated all kinds of resources, and actively expanded the planting area. it has successively built 18 large-scale seedling production bases, such as northern rare seedling base, Teng Guohong flower seedling breeding center, Ronghe flower seedling industrial park, and introduced 19 kinds of famous flower seedlings, such as rosemary, North American begonia, Yuanbao maple and so on. At present, the large-scale flower market in our city has developed to 3, the seedling breeding base has developed to 252, the flower and seedling planting and operation households have reached more than 1500, and the flower and seedling area has reached 65000 mu.

In addition, the municipal forestry department has repeatedly organized relevant production enterprises and individuals to go to other places to learn management technology, issued opinions on the development of the seedling and flower industry, and formulated a land transfer policy, allowing shares through leasing, transfer, subcontracting, inheritance and mortgage, and carrying out unified planning and adjustment of the flower and seedling areas to promote the rapid development of the seedling and flower industry, further promoting agricultural efficiency and increasing farmers' income. At present, our city has become an important flower seedling breeding base, north-south flower seedling logistics transfer station and domestication base in Jiangbei region, with an annual output value of 1.28 billion yuan and 56000 jobs.