Yu Pengwu planted "green strawberries" on the road to prosperity

Yu Pengwu, a farmer from Yuyuhe Village, Heishi Township, Dunhua City, went out of the country to learn the new technology of growing green strawberries. after 9 years of learning "skills", he returned to his hometown to start a business and develop a "green strawberry" characteristic industry. During the three-month period from mid-November last year to February this year, Yu Pengwu earned more than 60,000 yuan from growing strawberries.

Yu Pengwu, 46, is an honest farmer in Qianyuhe village. More than ten years ago, Yu Pengwu and his family lived a tight life because of their large population, little arable land and weak foundation. Yu Pengwu was very worried when he saw that many villagers in the neighboring villages were on the road to getting rich. he understood: "it is very difficult to get rich just by growing traditional crops." In 2004, a relative working abroad revealed to Yu Pengwu that the off-season strawberries planted in Japan have high yield, good quality, fresh and delicious, and sell well in the market. Yu Pengwu immediately decided to work in Japan to learn from the advanced off-season strawberry planting techniques. In the following nine years, Yu Pengwu and his wife studied while working in Japan. They not only got the real scriptures, but also made money, earning a cumulative labor income of more than 1.2 million yuan over the past nine years.

In 2013, Yu Pengwu and his wife returned to Xiaoyuhe Village with the dream of returning to their hometown to start a business. After more than a year of market research and careful preparation, in early 2015, Yu Pengwu successively invested 1.1 million yuan to build two high-quality color steel greenhouses totaling 1500 square meters on his contracted land. More than 30, 000 strawberry seedlings with high yield, good quality and suitable for local climate characteristics were purchased from a strawberry industry technology research institute in Dandong, Liaoning Province, and pollution-free production technology was adopted to vigorously develop high-quality off-season green strawberry industry. Although many relatives have raised questions and attracted cynicism from some people, Yu Pengwu, who is competitive by nature, firmly believes: "now that you have identified this road to wealth, you should go on without hesitation!"

In strawberry cultivation, Yu Pengwu insisted on "adjusting measures to local conditions and putting science and technology first". Combined with the advanced strawberry planting technology learned abroad, Yu Pengwu adopted pollution-free production technology without chemical fertilizers or pesticides. Fresh strawberries were on the market from the middle of November to the first ten days of July of the following year. The strawberries produced are of high quality, delicious, sweet, fragrant, mellow, fresh and delicious, and are favored by farmers in the neighboring villages. Many townships and city residents made a special trip to the "strawberry greenhouse" in Yu Pengwu to pick and wholesale purchase. By the end of February this year, Yu Pengwu had achieved 60, 000 yuan in green strawberry income, and is expected to achieve 130000 yuan by the end of July.

On February 28, the reporter came to Yuhe Village. Although it was chilly in spring, it was full of spring in the "strawberry greenhouse" in Pengwu. More than a dozen villagers are picking ripe strawberries, some are thinning flowers and fruits, and some tourists are carefully picking delicate strawberries. Yu Pengwu's face was covered with joy. He told the reporter with his finger: "I used to grow 1 hectare of corn, but my net income was only more than 5000 yuan a year. Now, if I use a greenhouse to grow 0.15 hectares of strawberries, I will have a net income of 60,000 yuan in three months. After eight months of picking strawberries, at least I can achieve a net income of more than 120,000 to 30,000 yuan. I'm on the right path to getting rich by growing green strawberries!"