Zhang Li: a woman who falls in love with the yellow land

No matter how busy she is, Zhang Li takes the time to go to the vineyard to see her beloved "child".

In the hot summer, the grape trellis in the ecological picking garden of Wanglou Village, Li's hometown in Yucheng County shows the vitality of the whole summer, and the clusters of purple grapes are mouth-watering. In this bumper harvest scene, a woman in a sunhat is looking at the fruit trees one by one, as if every bunch of grapes are like their own children, pouring out the whole truth.

The woman with the scorching sun above her head is Zhang Li, who has been operating modern agriculture in Li's hometown in Yucheng County for more than five years. She has devoted all her time and energy to this yellow land, and her relatives and friends think that "she is possessed and has fallen in love with the yellow land."

Zhang Li started growing apples from her parents in Zhangji Town, Yucheng County, the hometown of Red Fuji in China. Like many farm girls, she has been exposed to the planting and management of fruit trees since she was a child and loves it from the bottom of her heart. But unexpectedly, as a "pretty girl" at home, she unexpectedly got out of control and fell deeply in love with this yellow land and agricultural cultivation abandoned by many people.

"I am sitting in the orchard now. The happiest thing is to look at the fruit trees. This is the most peaceful moment in my heart." Looking at hundreds of mu of orchards, Zhang Li said with a smile that the 200 to 300 mu of land she transferred had been planted with big cherries, grapes, apples, and so on.

Zhang Li's entrepreneurial road began in 2011. Before starting a business, she was the only daughter in the family, loved by her parents and taken care of by her brothers. However, Zhang Li is an unyielding person at heart, and she wants to control the trajectory of her own life.

Zhang Li, who lives in the hometown of apples, saw the predicament of the development of fruit tree planting. She innovated boldly and went to Li's hometown Wanglou Village in 2011. She contracted more than 200 mu of land at the price of 1200 jin of wheat per mu and began to develop tourism agriculture. At that time, many people thought that she was too impulsive and was bound to fail. Because, most people do not recognize this industry, they all feel that it is too far away from reality.

However, Zhang Li did not fight an unprepared battle. Before doing this industry, she had already inspected the cultivation of big cherries in Zhengzhou, Yantai, Shandong and other places, and thought that it was a promising industry. At that time, she spent more than 3 million yuan to build the Wanglou cherry picking garden project.

Reality is always ruthless. In the year of investment, 279 mu of cherries were planted when they encountered the waterlogging that they had not seen in many years. As cherries are most afraid of flooding, they did not do a good job in waterlogging prevention before planting, so they drowned more than 50 mu of cherries that year, resulting in a loss of nearly 200000 yuan.

At that time, looking at the cherry saplings soaked in the water, Zhang Li wanted to cry without tears and could not persuade anyone to go back. she stood in the orchard in the rain, guarding her child like a mother. This seemingly natural disaster of waterlogging has given Zhang Li a lot of warnings, not only the development of a single fruit tree, but also diversified to prevent natural and man-made disasters.

As a result, Zhang Li inspected the new project and developed more than 50 mu of vineyards under the guidance of the old horticultural expert father. According to the habits of each fruit tree, different planting and management methods are adopted to avoid loss to the maximum extent. At the same time, it also lengthens the opening time of the sightseeing picking garden, so that more people can enter the park to experience the fun of picking.

"you may not see that our grapes are not very good-looking, but our grapes taste good, and our management is based on biological control." On August 12, while picking ripe grapes, Zhang Li introduced to reporters that in line with the principle of starting a business with conscience, her orchards were built according to biological agriculture, fertilizers were all made of biological bacterial fertilizer, and biological control was used to control pests, so as to maximize the authenticity of the eco-agricultural picking garden and give the general public an ecological and natural orchard.

In the hot summer, people try to avoid exposure to the hot sun. Zhang Li is different. over the past five or six years, she has been shuttling back and forth in the orchard during heavy rain or hot sun, because she regards fruit trees as her own children and wants to protect them all the time.

"the first year I stood in the waist-deep water and watched helplessly as the grape saplings died. My heart was wrenching. I really wanted to give up at that time." Recalling the hardships of starting a business at that time, Zhang Li introduced that, but when she thought of her faith in starting a business, and thought of this vibrant orchard, she cheered up again. She wanted to advance and retreat together with the orchard and live and die together.

Based on this idea, Zhang Li stuck to it. However, the entire orchard is currently in a state of loss, so she has sold several properties in her family and subsidized them to her orchard. Although the family did not support it at first, seeing Zhang Li's firm confidence, everyone no longer opposed it and silently supported it.

This year is the first year for Zhang Li to hang the fruit in the ecological picking garden, and it is also the year to try the fruit. Although the benefit is not obvious, Zhang Li is the happiest at heart to see the joyful expression of the nearby citizens when they come to pick.

"now I really have a relationship with this orchard. Although my friends say that I have aged a lot in the past few years, I am happy to watch the orchard mature day by day." Looking at the lush orchard, Zhang Li said affectionately that she had fallen in love with this land and devoted all her energy to it. On this basis, she planned to develop forest farming and greenhouse agriculture, and turn her picking garden into the "back garden" of Shangqiu citizens.