Strawberry top girls cultivate 10 million seedlings every year to drive more than 300 villagers to become rich.

Xinyi City, Jiangsu Province has four distinct seasons and fertile soil, which is extremely suitable for the growth of strawberries. Zhang Hongmei is a native of Xinyi City. In order to change the poverty of her family and hometown, Zhang Hongmei resolutely returned to her hometown to join agriculture, relying on superior local natural conditions and a tradition of strawberry cultivation for many years. Zhang Hongmei believes that growing strawberries is a way to shake off poverty and become rich.

After returning to her hometown, Zhang Hongmei contracted 100 mu of land in the first phase, established Lao Wu Strawberry Ecological Garden and began to grow strawberries. she insisted on scientific and ecological planting and management, and the ecological park quickly achieved good economic benefits.

In order to lead the villagers in her hometown to get rich together, she decided to absorb more than 50 villagers and set up the Lao Wu Strawberry Professional Cooperative in February 2010. over the past few years, she has made use of her professional knowledge and through her own unremitting efforts, the cooperative business is getting bigger and bigger, but also led the villagers in their hometown to increase their income. At present, not only does she earn more than one million yuan a year, but at the same time, under her guidance, the surrounding villagers have built more than 1000 strawberry planting sheds, indirectly bringing more than 300 villagers to become rich together, with an average household income of more than 40,000 yuan. She herself has been recognized and praised by the people in her hometown, and even known as the youngest leader in Xinyi City to get rich. Her deeds have been highly praised and praised by Vice Mayor Li Cheng of Xinyi City, and have also been widely publicized by the media in Jiangsu Province.

An accidental opportunity brought Zhang Hongmei into contact with a mu of farmland, a professional agricultural product e-commerce platform, which helped her to check the local market timely and quickly, get to know local buyers, and solve the sales problem of agricultural products.

Today, under the leadership of Zhang Hongmei, the development of Lao Wu Strawberry Professional Cooperative continues to climb. Among them, the nursery center is specially responsible for the introduction, cultivation and promotion of new varieties of strawberries, in which the seedling base is composed of more than 20 skilled strawberry growers, and the members of the community specialize in cultivating strawberry plants. high-quality virus-free seedlings were introduced from Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Hangzhou Academy of Agricultural Sciences, including Beauty, Zhang Ji, Frandi, Sweet Charlie, Banana Strawberry, Miaoxiang, White Strawberry (Beijing Xiaobai) and so on. This year, the Old Wu Strawberry Seedling Base cooperated with the Japanese Strawberry Research Institute to introduce varieties such as newly improved beauty, newly improved Zhang Ji, extra-large strawberries, first love (white strawberries), angel love (white strawberries), white Xiaocho (white strawberries), and introduced a new variety Christmas red from South Korea.