Beekeeping, jujube planting, jujube village, the leader of getting rich.

"hard-picking flowers will eventually turn into honey, which will be sweetly brewed and sent to thousands of families." Speaking of Jiang Zhutang, a beekeeper in Panjia Village, Huangsheng Town, Zhanhua District, people in all neighboring villages praised him. His honey was of high quality and reasonable price, and he also made use of his network of beekeeping to lead more than 20 families to set up a Zerunyuan Dongzao professional cooperative in Zhanhua District, Binzhou City.

Jiang Zhutang, 47, has worked as an architect and planted crops himself, but he has not developed well and his life has not improved. In 1998, he saw the rising honey market, and Jiang Zhutang finally set his sights on beekeeping. Jiang Zhutang, who saw the business opportunities, sold 1800 yuan for one big and one small cattle in his family, and bought five boxes of bees and other equipment. Because he was not skilled in technology, he was often stung that year, and he did not collect enough honey, and he basically did not make much money in the first year. The next year, when he subscribed to a magazine to study and went out to learn from the old beekeeper, he gradually got better. In the second year, there was a net income of five or six thousand, which was also very high in the rural areas at that time.

In recent years, the honey market is getting better and better, especially after more and more local winter jujube trees are planted, winter jujube honey has become a hot item in the market. At present, Jiang Zhutang keeps 14 cases of bees, and when it comes to why it is no longer larger and larger, Jiang Zhutang said that beekeeping is the same as planting winter jujube, which requires fine management to produce high-quality honey. Jiang Zhutang calculated that these 14 cases of bees can produce 2.8jin of propolis per jin per year. At present, 2000 yuan per jin, with an income of 5600 yuan, can produce 100 jin of pollen, 50 yuan per jin, can sell 5000 yuan, can produce 50 jin of royal jelly, 150 yuan per jin, can sell 7500 yuan, can produce more than 600 jin of honey, 30qu 50 yuan per jin, at least 20, 000 yuan, these 14 cases of bees can earn 38000 yuan a year. The main expenditure is that each box of bees needs 40 to 50 jin of sugar for overwintering and the withered blooming season in mid-late July (the least period for all kinds of flowers). Excluding all expenses, the annual net income of beekeeping alone can be more than 30,000 yuan.

In addition to beekeeping, Jiang Zhutang and his wife Zhou Shumei also planted eight mu of winter jujube trees, which can sell for more than 60,000 yuan a year. Due to a coincidence in selling honey, he met the boss Gong, who runs a supermarket chain in Zhejiang. Jiang Zhutang has been supplying winter dates to Zhejiang since 2015. Because of his high quality and good reputation, Boss Gong called cash before delivering the goods every time. Due to the demand for too many goods, Jiang Zhutang also sent the high-quality winter dates of his neighbors to Zhejiang and sold them to Boss Gong. The average unit price per kilogram is 1 yuan higher than the market. As everyone has received substantial benefits, these more than 20 jujube farmers, led by Jiang Zhutang, set up a Zerunyuan winter jujube professional cooperative in Zhanhua District, Binzhou City, with unified management and order planting, guaranteed to be one yuan higher than the market price per jin.

Speaking of future development, Jiang Zhutang hopes that members of the cooperative will also join in beekeeping, so that while planting winter dates, they can also increase their income and make everyone rich together.