"Love Flower" becomes "Wealth Flower"

In the early morning of April 27th, it was drizzling. Gradually, a bright red color came into view. 500 mu of roses in Jianlong Town, Bishan District, Chongqing, competed to be in full bloom, just like a sea of flowers. It is understood that Jianglong Town Baiguo Village rose cultivation has a long history, there are 500mu of roses, direct economic income reached 4 million yuan, and led more than 200 surrounding villagers to become rich.

Zhu Yunfen is a member of two groups of villagers in ginkgo village. the 60-year-old she and her husband have grown roses for more than a decade and have relied on roses to become rich. The roses in ginkgo village are not ordinary ornamental roses, but edible roses, which smell fragrant and can be made into rose tea, rose drinks and so on.

At first, Zhu Yunfen, like many growers in the village, was inexperienced and waited for the vendors to come to buy. "A single sales channel is easily restricted by vendors." Zhu Yunfen said that in 2012, the merchants who collected flowers at home had collected enough goods and were unwilling to buy any more. Several acres of roses planted by her family were rotten in the field, and the family was deeply distressed. Like Zhu Yunfen's family, there are hundreds of growers in the village. For a moment, the sighs of the villagers could be heard when walking in the village. But Zhu Yunfen and Zeng Youxin are unwilling to admit defeat. Lao Zeng, who has worked hard all his life, said that one can never be stumped by difficulties.

Zhu Yunfen and her husband Zeng Youxin chose to turn on a flashlight to pick roses in the fields in the evening, and carried roses through the streets early the next morning, hoping that all the more than ten mu of roses would not rot in the field. It was in this year that Zeng Youxin chose to pick roses from street to street to sell his roses. Laifeng, Qingba, Bishan City, the two even sold roses to the main city of Chongqing. This year, under the circumstances that more than 200 households in the village suffered heavy losses, Zhu Yunfen and his family recovered the cost.

By chance, Zhu Yunfen saw a message on TV, saying that eating roses can also be made into scented tea, which has the effect of beauty and beauty. As a result, Zhu Yunfen sold roses and flowers from March to May wholesale at 7 yuan per jin to vendors, and sold them for 15 yuan per jin. The roses after June could not sell at a good price. Zhu Yunfen dried them into scented tea, or crushed the petals and pickled them with white sugar or propolis to make a rose drink to relieve summer heat and quench thirst. Not only that, Zhu Yunfen also chose to cut off the flower branches in September and insert them into the field for cultivation. Five months later, each plant could be sold for 5 to 15 yuan. In 2016, Zhu Yunfen sold more than 30,000 rose seedlings. Although he earns 80,000 to 90,000 yuan a year from roses, Zhu Yunfen still hopes to make a bigger difference. "if we can attract leading enterprises to introduce advanced technology and open up a new business of extracting rose essential oil, I would like to plant a few more mu of land." Zhu Yunfen said: the technical requirements for rose planting are not high, and there are no potential risks such as insect pests, droughts and floods. As long as you work hard, you can have a considerable income. However, because there are no leading enterprises at present, and the businessmen who come to Jiangjin to buy are also quantitative, they are afraid of planting too much and are unsalable.

If there are leading enterprises to settle in, it will add another amount of income to the flower farmers in the village. Zhu Yunfen is looking forward to the future.