Wang Hailong is famous for growing sweet potatoes.

At the beginning of spring, Wang Hailong, a famous "sweet potato king" in Mengzhai Village, Zhouying Township, Shenqiu County, Henan Province, began to prepare land, buy agricultural film, and select sweet potato seed blocks. The new year of farming is about to begin again.

"the sweet potatoes we have grown in recent years are all high-quality varieties, with no ecological pollution, high yield, good appearance, symmetrical and full size." Wang Hailong said that for this alone, his annual sales revenue is more than 200000 yuan. The family made a fortune by growing sweet potatoes, and at the same time, they also led the villagers to shake off poverty and become rich, leading a good life that they could not have imagined before.

The soil in Shenqiu County is mostly sandy, which is suitable for the growth of sweet potato. Wang Hailong began to try to grow sweet potatoes on a large scale.

"traditional labor depends on experience. As the saying goes, there is no need to learn about crop work. In fact, it is not. Farming is a technical task. " Wang Hailong said.

In order to introduce improved varieties and learn skills, Wang Hailong went to agricultural institutes in Zhengzhou and Beijing to worship large sweet potato growers to exchange lessons for teachers. He has successfully introduced six kinds of new sweet potato varieties with high quality and high yield, some of which have a yield of nearly 10,000 jin per mu. In the process of planting management, he does not apply chemical fertilizers or pesticides, he uses farm manure and organic fertilizers, and uses biological pesticides special for sweet potatoes to control diseases and insect pests. For this reason, many people in the village did not understand and said that he could not do accounts. Wang Hailong said: "how can we only calculate the current account, not the long-term account?" It is only an economic account, not a social benefit account? "

In order to develop the sweet potato planting industry on a large scale, and drive the people around to increase their income and become rich by planting sweet potatoes. The year before last, Wang Hailong took the initiative to recruit more than 20 poor families in the village to join the agricultural planting cooperatives he founded, planting more than 800 mu of sweet potatoes every year, producing more than 2400 tons of fresh sweet potatoes, and the products were sold to Beijing, Shanghai, Changsha, Wuhan and other places.

Wang Hailong also won a training course for city and county agricultural experts to promote and popularize the advanced concept of sweet potato cultivation. Because the sweet potato planted by Wang Hailong tastes good and looks good, it is especially popular with consumers. Wang Hailong said, "as long as you grow good sweet potatoes, you don't have to worry about not being able to sell them."

Entering the new year, Wang Hailong is full of confidence. This is not, while the cooperative is booming, he also plans to build a green tourism agriculture. "in the near future, I will continue to expand and strengthen the sweet potato industry, strive to win financial support from national projects, and build here into a vegetable planting, forest and fruit picking, animal husbandry, fish pond fishing and sweet potato planting, and deep processing industrial park, to form a perfect green agricultural tourism park." Wang Hailong said that he is a native and out-and-out farmer, and his biggest dream is to grow a bigger "name" of sweet potatoes, lead the villagers to become rich and well-off together, and become a veritable "sweet potato king."