"God help the worker" to increase the benefit of tomato

On the 15th, when tomato pollination was busy, the couple of Wang Quan Tang, a vegetable farmer in Guojiawu Village, Beiwu Town, Shunyi District, took a rest in the shade of the trees beside the shed. It turned out that they had hired mysterious helpers in their shed to contract pollination, the most arduous task. With these capable players, the average income per mu of tomatoes in his family has increased by at least 4000 yuan.

Guojiawu Village is a well-known professional tomato village. Wang Quantang has been growing vegetables in the village for 18 years. As they get older, the couple become more and more worried about pollination of tomatoes. The current few days is also the busiest time for autumn stubble tomato pollination, the greenhouse is like a sauna, most people go in and stand still, and they will be drenched in less than 10 minutes.

Wang Quantang said that in the past, all tomatoes in his family were pollinated artificially. It takes more than half a day to pollinate flowers in a greenhouse, and the whole pollination period takes 15 times, which takes a total of eight or nine days. Local short-term workers are paid 120 yuan a day, and the labor cost alone amounts to about 1000 yuan. Because of this, many families in the village have changed to grow lettuce and other crops.

"Last year, the city plant protection station sent us bumblebees free of charge, covering all the pollination work, which not only saved labor costs, but also significantly improved the output and quality of tomatoes. There were basically no abnormal fruits, and on average each seedling could bear six more tomatoes." Speaking of which, Wang Quantang was overjoyed. "this year, the number of tomato greenhouses in the village has increased from more than 300 to 500. The average price per kilogram of tomatoes in our family is 40 cents more than that in other villages, and vendors are still lining up to buy them. I don't worry about selling at all." Speaking of the low price and unsalable phenomenon of tomatoes in other provinces and cities, Lao Wang thinks that it is still necessary to add some outstanding technical content to this agricultural product before vendors will compete for it.

According to the person in charge of the plant protection station of the Municipal Bureau of Agriculture, the investigation results of tomato bumblebee pollination show that the rate of abnormal fruit pollinated by bumblebee pollination is 10% lower than that of artificial pollination, with an average yield of 20.4% per mu, and bumblebee pollinated tomato has a positive shape, uniform color and high quality. the price per kilogram is about 0.4 yuan higher than that of the surrounding artificial dipping tomatoes, and the average income per mu of one crop tomato is at least 4000 yuan. At the same time, the station also joined hands with Shunyi District Plant Protection Station and Beiwu Town Government to set up a demonstration base for bumblebee pollination and green prevention and control of diseases and insect pests throughout the whole process of green tomato production in Guojiawu Village, helping Guojiawu Village to set up a new green source tomato planting professional cooperative and apply for registration of the "Guo housework" high-quality tomato trademark, which not only increases farmers' income, but also allows more citizens to eat safe and high-quality tomatoes.