Plant roses and extract essential oils to find a way to get rich

In Qiantan Town, Jiande City, there is an Ellis Rose Garden. Ren Shengyuan is the owner of this place.

Over the past five years, from producing crystal bottles filled with essential oils to producing essential oils in bottles, Ren Shengyuan has walked out of a road to prosperity: the roar of machines and the cross-flow of sewage no longer exist, and the fragrance of hundreds of mu of flowers is overflowing. In Jiangsu, Henan and other places, the "Ellis Rose Garden" model is also being copied, covering a total area of nearly 6000 mu, with an annual revenue of more than 30 million yuan.

Ren Shengyuan is a well-known local crystal tycoon. Since the 1980s, he has set up crystal processing plants in Jiande, Pujiang and other places, specializing in the production of perfume packaging crystal bottles. Since 2010, the factory has accepted a large number of overseas orders with an annual output value of more than 20 million yuan.

Beautiful figures, but brought harm to the environment, the factory side of the "Milk River". Soon after, a special crystal renovation office was set up locally, and Ren Shengyuan's crystal factory had to shoulder the important task of taking the lead in the transformation because of its large scale. He asked a crystal client in Dubai for advice, an old friend on the other side of the ocean: try making rose essential oil. The reason is simple: according to the international market price, rose essential oil can be sold for 300000 yuan per kilogram, comparable to gold.

Accustomed to taking the crystal bottle, now to ponder the essential oil in the bottle, Ren Shengyuan makes a lot of detours.

In order to choose the right variety of roses, the couple drove north and south by themselves. After returning to Jiande, the couple packed an experimental plot and planted 200000 roses. As soon as the petals were removed and the essential oil was extracted, the two people were dumbfounded: on the index of essential oil, the value was zero. It turns out that these 200000 plants are fresh cut flowers, that is, flowers sent on Valentine's Day, which can only be used as ornamental.

The two people, unable to laugh or cry, went around to consult the rose expert and plunged into the sea of books. Damascus, West Lake ink red, bitter rose. Two "laymen" finally found a reliable rose species.

In a valley in Pailou Village, the couple planted nearly 300 varieties of roses on 420 mu of land. "the climate here is very similar to another place in the world where roses are grown, and that is the Rose Valley in Bulgaria." His wife Wang Jianyu said that roses are like delicate little princesses. They are afraid of heat in summer and cold in winter.

Shanao, once overgrown with weeds, has become a romantic rose garden with mountain flowers, producing nearly 20 kilograms of rose essential oil every year. And the previous crystal customers have also come to the door to seek second cooperation. Customers in Dubai bought the first rose essential oils from the rose garden, a partnership that continues to this day.

Over the past five years, Ren Shengyuan has gone from the crystal processing industry that pollutes the environment to the rose planting industry that beautifies the environment. Ecological changes have also led to changes in the lives of villagers: the rose garden has mobilized rural surplus labor, driven 200 surrounding farmers, and created more than 500 temporary jobs. Every year, the rose garden leases land from the villagers at a rent of nearly 600 yuan per mu.

Last weekend, a large number of young men and women came to the rose garden with laughter. Although the sun is shining outside and the greenhouse of nearly 2000 square meters is fully water-conditioned, young couples are playing matchmaking games here. Ren Shengyuan told reporters that Ellis Rose Garden will develop tourism, leisure and tourism, and will build an agricultural industrial park with science and technology industry and tourism and leisure tourism in one.

Walking in the park, you can find ideas related to roses everywhere: rose swimming pool, rose dating garden, rose playground. The Sunshine greenhouse in the park is transformed from a greenhouse of 3000 square meters. There are not only handmade workshops such as rose soap, but also a special rose restaurant that can receive more than 300 people at the same time.

Every weekend, the place is full of diners. Tasting rose tea, looking forward to the upcoming "Rose Chicken", "Rose Chicken", "Rose Fish" …

Nowadays, non-local tourists do not hesitate to drive thousands of miles to dismount in the rose garden, make friends, enjoy, board and lodge. A sea of roses has opened the modern agricultural journey of the "sixth industry".