Zhou Weiqiang, a farmer in Lintong: agricultural products, the key is to speak with quality.

Strawberry planting expert Li Junjian is technically instructing Zhou Weiqiang (second from left) to make strawberries in greenhouses.

On March 26, in Xi'an City Lintong District urban agriculture demonstration area, Qin Xin planting professional cooperative strawberry garden is very lively, come to pick and buy tourists in an endless stream. "On weekends, many Xi'an citizens and tourists from other places come to pick fresh strawberries." Zhou Weiqiang, head of the cooperative, said,"Our strawberries speak with quality, using high-quality water and organic fertilizer throughout the process, healthy, high-quality and reassuring."

Zhou Weiqiang is from Jiaokou Village, Jiaokou Town, Lintong District. His planting base is in the village. At the beginning of 2015, he built more than 110 mu strawberry, cherry and grape plantations in the first phase through land circulation. "We are an out-and-out farmer. For more than 20 years of farming, we have recognized a truth that 'agricultural products' must ensure quality, and the key is to speak with quality." For this reason, he invited strawberry planting expert, Xi'an City plant protection station director Li Junjian the whole process of technical guidance and control.

In order to meet the high temperature requirements for strawberry planting, Zhou Weiqiang built a three-layer insulation shed, with an investment of nearly 30,000 yuan for each greenhouse. In order to ensure the quality of planting water source, he successively invested more than 200,000 yuan to drill two wells, and the water quality reached the high quality standard after expert test. In the planting process, he uses chicken manure, oil residue and other organic fertilizers to realize green pollution-free cultivation. In order to ensure the quality and taste of strawberries, Zhou Weiqiang, under the guidance of experts, adopted thinning flowers and fruits to control the yield per mu at 500 kg, and a growth period should not exceed 1500 kg. Compared with the average farmer's yield of 2000 kg per mu and the yield of more than 5000 kg in a growth period, Zhou Weiqiang can be described as refined and high-standard "home". His production of "Qin Xin" strawberries, since the market supply exceeds demand, door-to-door picking and purchase prices reached sixty or seventy yuan per kilogram.

"Xiao Zhou is a new type of farmer. He not only keeps up with the trend of development, but also drives the villagers to become rich and prosperous together." Jiaokou village old branch Wang Huanchao said, Zhou Weiqiang was originally a kind of facility vegetables, In recent years the market demand is unstable, He timely transformation, Into the fresh fruit planting industry, Led a group of original and he planted vegetables farmers, Planting strawberries, cherries, grapes. According to the "high price" of 1300 yuan per mu for the first phase of construction, more than 110 mu of land will be transferred in the village. After land leveling and greenhouse construction, more than 20 left-behind women will be employed daily for field management.

"He manages two meals a day and has a salary of 60-80 yuan. He can earn money and take care of his family. We are all willing to work here at Weiqiang." Sister Song, who is picking strawberries in the greenhouse, said happily.

Since last year, Zhou Weiqiang has visited Shandong, Henan and other places successively and introduced the latest varieties such as dwarf cherry. Talking about future plans, Zhou Weiqiang confidently said: "Qin Xin's goal is to build Lintong No.1 and Xi'an's famous sightseeing agricultural park." This year, we will expand the planting scale, build steel structure greenhouses, plant dwarf cherries, integrate with tourism, build leisure experience farms, and lead villagers to become rich and well-off together."