Dare to say that his peaches are the second best in the country. 35 yuan per jin, "Peach King" 88.

He openly called his peaches "the second best mountain peach in China". Ordinary peaches cost 35 yuan per jin, and the highest quality "Peach King" costs 88 yuan. He is Liu Yuanqiang, a former wage earner who left his hometown. In 2012, he returned to Ai Shandong Village and contracted for 300 mu of barren mountains in the village to grow peaches. What made him successful?

Yes, this is the Shandong big man, Liu Yuanqiang, who dares to openly claim that his peach is "the second best mountain peach in China". His peaches cost 35 yuan per jin, and the highest quality "Peach King" costs 88 yuan each.

Liu Yuanqiang's hometown is called Ai Shandong Village, which belongs to Linyi City, Shandong Province, surrounded by mountains on three sides and facing the river on one side, with the appearance of a paradise. It is close to the national 5A scenic spot-Mengshan National Forest Park and Meng Liangfu, which once started the Battle of Meng Liangfu. Despite the blessings of history and beauty, Ai Shandong Village is still beautiful and poor. There are more than 1000 villagers, and 90% of the young people choose to go out to work, leaving behind only children and the elderly.

In the poor Aishan East Village, most of the villagers are the left-behind elderly and children.

Liu Yuanqiang was also a wage earner who left his hometown.

Because of his poor family, after graduating from junior high school at the age of 16, he went to work in the city, traveled north and south, ran transportation for seven years, and worked as a furniture agent. In 2012, Liu Yuanqiang returned to Ai Shandong Village and contracted 300 mu of barren mountains in the village. A year later, the barren mountain with wild weeds became a peach orchard.

Although he and most local farmers choose to grow peaches, Liu Yuanqiang, who has done business, has a different idea. "I want to restore the original taste of the peaches I ate when I was a child." After studying and studying with his father-in-law who has planted peaches all his life, he set strict technical standards for the peach orchard planting model: "using the ancient method to plant five degrees" and "resolutely do not apply pesticides and chemical fertilizers." the strict standard of planting only 31 peach trees per mu in mountainous areas (a maximum of 200 trees per mu in similar peach orchards) has been set to ensure that the distance between trees is more than 4 meters.

Restore the "peach" of "the original taste of peach"

In 2015, Liu Yuanqiang's peach orchard officially hung fruit, the number is small, mainly through relatives and friends to promote. But by this time he had confidently priced his peaches at 10 yuan each, which was different from the ordinary peaches for a few yuan a jin. This year, peaches began to enter the ideal maturity period, officially introduced to the market.

Liu Yuanqiang planted with "peach original flavor"peach", why dare to sell 35 yuan per jin, peach king level or even 88 yuan each? What does this Shandong big man think and do?

Here are some of the questions that Mr. Tian put to him:

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Q: is there any difference between your peach tree and other peach trees?

A: our peach seedlings are grafted from "wild peach seedlings" in the mountains. Without the genetic modification of modern science and technology, the fruit retains the original taste of mountain peaches. What is now widely cultivated has been improved.

Q: what do you mean by the "five-degree theory of ancient planting"?

A: we use the ancient method of planting, which can be measured in five dimensions.

First of all, geographically, our natural oxygen chamber has a good environment, and the content of negative ions in the air in Yimeng Mountain area ranks first in the country.

Secondly, limit the distance and the fruit. We maintain a large plant distance between peach fruits, and we adhere to the practice of "hanging a single fruit from a single branch" to strictly limit fruit yield and enhance fruit quality.

Third, soil acidity and alkalinity. The soil quality of peach orchard has a PH value of about 6.5, brown soil, coarse texture and thick soil layer, which is suitable for the growth of acid-loving peach trees.

Fourth, Mengshan has a large temperature difference between day and night, so the fruit has high sweetness.

Finally, we cover the fruit trees with hay to provide nutrients for the peach trees. "raising grass between rows" is also an ecological insect repellent method, which provides a living environment for beneficial insects and microorganisms, and forms an ecological chain of resistance to diseases and insect pests in peach orchards.

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Q: if you don't apply pesticides, how can you deworm exactly?

A: it is ecological nature to kill insects. Their own ecological chain to maintain a balance, the orchard is full of grass, there are beneficial insects and pests in the grass, the two numbers complement each other, forming a natural ecological chain. To avoid the occurrence of insect pests. Some of our peaches are bitten by worms, but leave it alone. the bad peaches fall directly under the tree and form the nutrients of the peach tree.

Q: how did you get the saying "the second delicious mountain peach in China"?

A: last year, a client said, after eating your peaches, I suddenly remembered the taste of the peaches my mother bought when I was a child. So, the best in memory, and then we are the second best.

Q: what are the characteristics of the "Prince of Honey" variety? what is the difference between the "Prince of Honey" and the southern peach?

A: peaches in the south have thin skin and delicate flesh, while those in the north have thick skin and large pulp. Our ancient peach cultivation retains the fruit aroma of the peach itself, because if chemical fertilizers and pesticides or preservatives or environmental soil are not good, the fruit will not have fruit aroma. This is the biggest difference between our peaches and other products.

Q: has it brought any changes to your village?

A: our deeds have attracted the attention of the county. The village has built a road leading to the outside. Our fruit farmers are all poor families and left-behind elderly people in the village. They can earn more than 20,000 yuan a year working in the orchard, which is better than going out to work. And they can also take care of the left-behind children at home.