A chrysanthemum makes a peasant girl rich and capable.

African chrysanthemum, a common fresh cut flower in the flower market, is favored by flower farmers because of its large market consumption and high planting efficiency. Six years ago, Qin Yulian, a peasant girl from Haian, graduated from Nanjing Forestry University. after wandering abroad for two years, she returned to her hometown to start a business by raising gerbera seedlings and starting a beautiful career.

On the morning of August 9, the reporter walked into a small farmyard in Xinghua Village, Qutang Town, Haian. "African chrysanthemum seedlings were cultivated here." The village cadre led the reporter into the second floor, and through the window, there were rows of stacked shelves in which only glass bottles were inserted, as if they had entered the laboratory.

"the market for African chrysanthemum seedlings is good, and supply falls short of demand." The father of owner Qin Yulian interjected that the seedlings in the greenhouse had been sold out long ago, and the seedlings cultivated in glass bottles at home could be transplanted to the greenhouse in September, and the earliest batch of seedlings could be put on the market in January next year.

African chrysanthemum is a beneficial flower variety. About 4000 African chrysanthemum seedlings are planted in one mu, and each plant can collect 70 or 80 fresh cut flowers per year for 3 years. The huge economic benefits have led to the rise of the gerbera seedling industry, but this field has a high threshold and technical difficulty, which is not for ordinary investors to get involved in. As far as Qin Yulian knows, there are only more than 10 enterprises or individuals engaged in African chrysanthemum breeding in China, and only two in Jiangsu, including her. At present, Qin Yulian has 5 mu seedling constant temperature greenhouse, which can be planted according to 4000 plants per mu. Regardless of start-up or scale, it is a small generation in the industry.

"African chrysanthemum seedlings are very delicate in the process of cultivation." Qin Yulian said: once germs or viruses invade the glass bottle, the whole bottle will be scrapped. If the environmental disinfection work is not done properly, it will easily lead to the annihilation of a number of seedlings, and she has learned a profound lesson, losing more than 100,000 yuan at a time. I lost all the money my family spent on building buildings.

"the quality of African chrysanthemum seedlings is usually not known until two years." Qin Yulian said that in the eyes of flower farmers, their African chrysanthemum seedlings are basically imported from fixed channels, and generally reject nursery farmers who do not know or know them, which is also an important reason why ordinary people do not dare to set foot easily. In the first year, Qin Yulian and her father shipped 100000 African chrysanthemum seedlings cultivated hard to the Hangzhou flower market, but they were left out in the cold. Only 30, 000 plants were sold, and the remaining 70, 000 plants promised the flower farmers that they would "give money after the flowers bloomed." in fact, Qin Yulian knew that if she didn't gamble, these African chrysanthemum seedlings were completely scrapped. In that year, Qin Yulian lost more than 100,000 yuan. "in retrospect, that move was wise to let flower farmers understand and familiarize themselves with the quality of our African chrysanthemum seedlings, thus establishing a long-term supply relationship."

Taking a closer look at the glass bottle that raised the seedlings, the culture medium was gelatinous like jelly. "this solid nutrient solution contains dozens of medicines and nutrients." Qin Yulian said that through continuous exploration and accumulation, she has mastered the core technology of preparing gerbera culture medium, so that the cultivated gerbera seedlings have the characteristics of strong disease resistance and high rooting rate, attracting many businessmen from Zhejiang and Kunming who imported gerbera seedlings from Shanghai in the past. Over the past few years, Qin Yulian's customers have grown to more than 10, becoming a well-known rich woman.

"ready to expand the scale, the development of other varieties, such as strawberries, roses, Dendrobium and so on can be tissue culture, market demand is large, commercial value is high, but now can not recruit people." When it comes to the next step, Qin Yulian is a little distressed. Sun Dejuan, director of the village women on one side, interjected that now young people in the countryside either go out to work or work in factories in the town, leaving only the elderly. Many people who start businesses in rural areas have encountered labor shortage and can not find suitable people. Qin Yulian said she had an idea to move the bottle-filled seedling raising work of African chrysanthemum to the town. "organize the young women who accompany them to study in town, give them something to do, increase their income, and develop faster."