Old man Ding reaped a bumper harvest by planting lotus in "pattern".

After a busy early morning, Ding Fengmin, a 65-year-old farmer, finally put the newly picked more than 400 kilograms of lotus pod into a truck and transported it to Yiwu. As a professional lotus seed, he let more people in Jiaxing taste the delicacy of fresh lotus pods, and bulged the "money bag" with his industrious hands.

Ding Fengmin and his wife are traditional lotus pickers in the town of Yiwu Fotang. After his daughter brought the old couple to Jiaxing, he found that few people in Jiaxing planted lotus. "there are many lotus growers in Yiwu. When fresh lotus pods are on the market, local hotels and hotels use lotus pods as a special fruit and put them in every room for guests to taste free of charge." Ding Fengmin told the reporter that the fresh lotus is sweet and delicious. Since last year, he has contracted the land in Huayuan Village to start planting lotus. This year, the planting area has reached 32 mu.

Patches of lotus fields painted green bottom makeup to the farmland, some pink lotus flowers are in full bloom, some are in full bloom, some show sharp corners, various shapes, one by one lotus pods reveal green heads, playful and lovely, a beautiful real picture of the countryside appears in front of us. Ding Fengmin, the creator of this beautiful scene, and his wife began to sow seeds before the Qingming Festival. After three months of careful care, they achieved this pool view.

The lotus pod was picked in July and lasted until 12:00 at midnight every day. Wearing lights and stepping on a mud field 40 centimeters deep, the old man and his wife drilled into the lotus field more than two meters high and began to pick fresh lotus pods. As the lights swayed in the lotus bushes, the lotus flowers and lotus pods were picked and landed one by one.

Ding Fengmin said: "the most important thing to eat lotus pod is freshness." Every day at about 03:30 in the morning, he and his wife began to sort out the sub-packages and began to deliver the goods at about 8 o'clock. "the old ones are picked out a little bitterly, and we dry the lotus seeds, while the tender ones are singled out and sold as fruit." As the fresh lotus seeds are kept fresh for about 10 hours, the lotus pods of Ding Lao Han's family are usually booked in advance.

"most of the lotus pods are still sold to regular customers such as hotels and hotels in Yiwu, and a few are sold to local residents in Jiaxing through platforms such as Wechat." Ding Fengmin told reporters that there are not many people in Jiaxing who eat fresh lotus pods, which are sold and tasted through the Internet, and now more and more people are eating. It is estimated that the network sales of lotus pods will reach 50,000 yuan this year.

"planting lotus pods and watching the sky to eat." Ding Fengmin said that rain and temperature changes will directly affect the yield of lotus canopy. If it rains during the picking period, it will affect the pollination of lotus flowers by bees, and the number of lotus canopies will be reduced. For example, the temperature is higher this summer, the lotus canopy grows faster, the lotus fields that were originally picked once every 5 days need to be picked once every 2 days, and the output increases with a stable customer base, and the output value per mu is also more stable. Ding Fengmin estimates that the output value of this year's mu will be about 4000 yuan, and the total income of 32 mu will exceed 100000 yuan.