Li Zhongguo: Days of Fragrance in Passion Fruit Garden

Recently, the author walked into the Tianba Group of Zhaiyang Village, Mengxi Town, Songtao Miao Autonomous County. Looking from the entrance of the village to Tianba, I saw a large area of green plants covering the whole dam like a green blanket. It was beautiful, although it was winter, but it was like summer. According to local people, that is the passion orchard planted by Li China, where the family is now harvesting. In addition, nine local households have also planted passion fruit.

There is a sand road of more than 1000 meters in Li China's passion orchard from the village entrance of Zhaiyang to Tianba, which is only a few minutes' walk. See the passion fruit vine on the shelf dense, lush, one by one passion fruit like a light bulb hanging from the middle of the grid on the shelf, mouth-watering. In the orchard, I saw Li China, his wife and several busy workers who were picking passion fruit. Li China said he had been working in the city, and when he returned home in 2014, he found large tracts of land idle in his hometown, coupled with the government's special support for the development of agriculture, so he decided to return to his hometown for development.

Li Zhonghua is busy in the orchard

According to Li Zhongguo, it was an accident to bond with passion fruit. On his birthday in 2014, his son, who works as far away as Nanchang, sent him a box of passion fruits for his birthday. After receiving the passion fruit, I was very moved and felt that my son was very filial. But when I made a fool of myself, I didn't know how to eat it. After opening it, I cut it with a knife and ate it directly. The fragrance was so strong that it was difficult to eat. Then my son called and told him how to eat. Say: add sugar, add boiled water before it tastes good. His son also told him that passion fruit can not only be eaten as a drink, but also has the effects of beauty and anti-aging, as well as traditional Chinese medicine, which can refresh the mind, increase appetite and help digestion. Li China thought that since passion fruit has so many benefits, I was worried that there was no way to develop it, so I paid attention to passion fruit.

In 2015, he discussed with Li Jiefeng, a local farmer, to work together. But I am afraid that passion fruit can not adapt to the local climatic conditions and soil and water. Through understanding, they found a fruit company in Guangxi, so they boarded the train in Liuzhou, Guangxi, and decided to make a field trip to inspect the plantations and processing plants of Guangxi Liuzhou Caiyuan Fruit Company. In that year, 5 mu of passion fruit bead seedlings were introduced from Guangxi for trial planting, and the effect of trial planting was very good. Therefore, Guangxi Liuzhou Caiyuan Fruit Industry Co., Ltd. was invited to make an on-the-spot visit to Mengxi Zhaiyang. After being recognized by Guangxi Liuzhou Caiyuan Fruit Industry Co., Ltd., he signed an acquisition contract with the company. He bought seedlings from the company, and the company was responsible for sending technicians to guide him to plant, and was responsible for recycling passion fruits planted by Li China and Li Jiefeng according to the market price.

With the company's technical guidance and acquisitions, Li Zhonghua seems to be reassured. In March 2016, he and Li Jiefeng and other nine families bought a batch of passion fruit seedlings from Caiyuan Fruit Industry Co., Ltd. at the price of 3 yuan each. He planted 150 mu, while the other 8 households planted 600 mu. According to the passion fruit planting requirements, to pour cement columns, each 2.6 meters long inserted next to each passion fruit, let the seedlings climb up the pillar. However, due to the lack of funds, all the shelves are made of bamboo poles this year, with rows of shelves carefully woven by Li China and his wife, and fruit seedlings and vines crisscross above these nets. As the passion fruit branches grow very luxuriantly, the fruit bears more. In September this year, a strong wind blew down all the shelves. Looking at the shelf blown, Li Zhonghua felt heartache. With the help of the government and the local people, now all the orchard shelves have been set up, and Li Zhonghua has a long-lost smile on his face. There is also a period of time, Li China found that the growing fruit is always withering and falling, looking distressing. What on earth is going on? After careful observation, he found that the original withered fruit was due to root rot. He immediately consulted the technical instructor, found the crux of the problem, and solved the problem according to the solution given by the instructor, which did not cost much and achieved very good results.

In August this year, Li China's passion fruit began to mature and can be picked in 2 to 3 days. Caiyuan Fruit Company is responsible for sending cars to Tianba orchard to buy. According to the market price, the purchase price of his passion fruit is as high as 7.6 yuan / kg. Until November, Li China's passion fruit has been constantly fruiting and harvesting. He calculated for us that about 1000 kilograms of passion fruit can be harvested per mu, the output value per mu is about 7000 yuan, and the total output value of the whole orchard is about 1 million yuan. Minus the input of about 2800 yuan per mu, the net profit is more than 600,000 yuan. Other growers who grow passion fruit with him have also earned a lot of money. As passion fruit can be harvested for many years after it has been planted and survived, Li China only needs to put in a little fertilizer and artificial care next year to wait for the harvest. Speaking of this, he said with a smile: "the villagers have seen that we have succeeded in growing passion fruit, and there are many people who want to grow along with us!"

Li Zhonghua said that because it was the first time for him to grow passion fruit, he had not taken some guidance from the company's technicians in mind, and there were some mistakes in the technical and nursing process. Now, Li China is thinking about how to plant passion fruit better, drive more people to plant it, and strive to work with the villagers to make the passion fruit industry bigger and stronger, and take the road out of poverty to a well-off society.