Put eco-agriculture into the "vegetable basket"

Cucumbers hang under vines, chili peppers among leaves, spinach, broccoli and celery are green in the greenhouse of Sunjia vegetable growing Co-operative Society in Panzhai Community, West Street, Woyang County, on December 10. Five or six vegetable pickers are busy harvesting and bundling vegetables in the shed. These greenhouses not only let the poor families in the village realize the dream of getting rid of poverty, but also let the citizens enjoy the green products brought by ecological agriculture.

Workers are harvesting celery in the greenhouse of the Sunjia vegetable planting Cooperative in Woyang County.

Workers are harvesting spinach in the greenhouse of the Sunjia vegetable planting Cooperative in Woyang County.

The net profit of more than 100 vegetable greenhouses is more than one million yuan.

Sun Chenghong is the person in charge of the Sun Family vegetable planting Cooperative, which is in charge of more than 100 greenhouses and more than 300 mu of vegetable gardens. When the reporter came to his vegetable greenhouse planting base, he was busy contacting sales and transportation, and his wife was scrambling to harvest with the workers in the shed.

Most of the vegetables grown in the cooperative are out-of-season vegetables, focusing on six major varieties: zucchini, tomato, eggplant, chili, balsam pear and cucumber. Currently entering the harvest season are spinach, celery and broccoli. Sun Chenghong told reporters that so far, his vegetable sales have exceeded 11 million yuan, with a net profit of about 1.1 million yuan.

Just five years ago, Sun Chenghong was just an ordinary wage earner. In 2011, Sun Chenghong, who returned home for the Spring Festival, found that out-of-season vegetables were surprisingly expensive when buying New year goods. After eyeing this market, he contracted 60 mu of land in the village that year. Limited by funds, he only built two sunshades, and all the others were vegetables in the open field.

"without any experience and technology, the business situation in the first year was not good. Even so, I didn't lose money and made a small profit, which is much better than working outside." Sun Chenghong said that this also increased his confidence to continue to expand the scale of planting.

Later, Sun Chenghong sought advice from agrotechnical experts many times and went to Shangqiu in Henan and Xuzhou in Jiangsu to study other people's planting techniques. In 2013, Sun Chenghong established a family farm on the basis of the cooperative, the planting scale is expanding, and the variety is increasing year by year.

Affix the label of "ecological environmental protection" to the vegetables in the greenhouse

The reporter noticed that some mesh equipment and lamps were installed in the vegetable greenhouse, Sun Chenghong said. They are anti-insect nets and insecticidal lamps, which are used to kill insects. In addition, there are many armyworm boards in each shed, no matter what kind of pests, as long as they encounter these things, they will definitely die.

The setting of pest control tools is one of the physical methods adopted by Sun Chenghong to control diseases and insect pests. Sun Chenghong told reporters that since its large-scale operation, his vegetable greenhouse has been adhering to the concept of ecological and environmental protection and striving to provide the public with pure green, natural and organic vegetables. To this end, he also hired a technical expert from Shouguang, Shandong Province, with a high salary.

"vegetables are most afraid of diseases and insect pests. once they encounter these, farmers usually use pesticides to solve them, but I have many methods, but they have nothing to do with pesticides." Sun Chenghong said that in addition to equipment killing insects, high temperature killing is also the most commonly used method in summer. This method uses the "stuffy shed" method, so that the temperature in the shed reaches about 70 or 80 degrees Celsius. In this case, insects and various germs can be killed.

In order to make vegetables more "green", Sun Chenghong did not hesitate to invest in the purchase of integrated fertilizer and water equipment to apply organic fertilizer to vegetables. This method can not only save fertilizer and moisturize the land, but also make the vegetables more delicious.

Today, the Sunjia vegetable planting professional cooperative has been rated as "National vegetable Standard Garden", "Anhui Provincial Farmers' Professional Cooperative demonstration Society" and so on. Six kinds of vegetables planted by Sun Chenghong have also passed the national green food certification, and it is because of this label that his vegetables have been recognized by more people and their sales have become popular all the way.

The annual income of poor families coming to work is not less than 15000.

When chatting with the workers, the reporter learned that most of the people who cut and bundle vegetables in the greenhouse were idle laborers from poor families in the village. They work no more than eight hours a day, they work when they have work, and they are idle when they have no work. Their labor intensity is not great, but their annual wage income is more than 15000 yuan.

"as long as they are poor households who come to work in the vegetable greenhouse, we will give priority to hiring. For poor households who want to grow in the greenhouse, the cooperative will provide about 30,000 yuan of vegetable seedlings free of charge every year, and the later technical guidance and contact sales will also be 'paid for' by the cooperative." That's what Sun Chenghong said.

It turned out that in 2014, Woyang County Poverty Alleviation Office invested nearly 100000 yuan in financial aid-the-poor funds to support the development of Sunjia vegetable cultivation professional cooperatives, and established the society as a demonstration base for poverty alleviation and development, attracting poor households to participate in operation, and adopting the "four-unified" management model of unified seed supply, unified technology, unified management and unified sales to broaden the income increase channels of poor households.

"when we get rich, we do not forget to help the poor, and our co-operatives have the responsibility to help more poor families out of poverty." Sun Chenghong said: the cooperative has successively adopted such ways as absorbing the employment of poor people and the development of bases plus poor households.At present, it has solved the employment of more than 200 poor people, docked more than 20 poor households, and led five large vegetable growers.