Three-dimensional planting and cultivation of honeysuckle opens the way to ecological prosperity

Zhou Qinghua, Shuiping Town, Zhuxi County, Hubei Province, gave up his profession as a doctor and resolutely returned to his hometown to engage in honeysuckle planting, network sales, scientific and technological research and development, etc., relying on honeysuckle to walk out an ecological road of combination of planting and breeding and three-dimensional development.

In 2012, Zhou Qinghua invested more than 2 million yuan to register and establish Huayu Honeysuckle Professional Cooperative in Zhuxi County, transferring more than 500 mu of land in Daxianyu Village, Shuiping Town, innovating planting mode and developing three-dimensional. Localized cultivation and planting of introduced varieties, using the characteristics of developed and juicy root system of honeysuckle, breeding medicinal insects golden cicada in the base, collecting cicada slough and processing cicada pupae, increasing economic income of more than 6000 yuan per mu every year; making full use of the remarkable characteristics of large flower quantity and many flowering times of honeysuckle to carry out bee breeding in the base to obtain natural honeysuckle honey, increasing income of 2000 yuan per mu every year; In addition to the income from picking honeysuckle, the total income per mu of honeysuckle under the three-dimensional planting mode reaches more than 20,000 yuan every year.

After years of research and development, the processed honeysuckle tea tastes sweet and cool, smells fragrant, and the soup color is green and transparent. Zhou Qinghua opened an online store and signed long-term supply contracts with Wanglaoji beverage enterprise raw material purchasers, Jiuzhoutong Traditional Chinese Medicine Company, Hebei Honeysuckle Trading Center and other units to ensure the sales channels of gold and silver scented tea. At present, the cooperative has absorbed 106 members, radiating and driving more than 3000 farmers in surrounding towns and villages to plant more than 15000 mu of honeysuckle.