"busy man" Liu Songnian: thirty calls a day.

Every year at the end of the year, Liu Songnian is the busiest time.

Liu Songnian, 42 years old, is the head of Nianfeng Vegetable Planting Farmers 'Professional Cooperative in Zhangdian Township, Qiaocheng District, and is also known as a "busy man" by the local people. He said he received an average of 30 calls a day, and by the end of the year, because of vegetable prices, he had to coordinate the relationship between sellers. At the same time, this period of time is the key period of seedling cultivation, but also answer the township vegetable farmers about vegetable planting telephone inquiries.

Liu Songnian is checking the growth of watermelon seedlings

One seedling in greenhouse can bear two or three melons

On the morning of January 10, several farmers were busy raising watermelon seedlings in the vegetable shed of Liu Songnian's Nianfeng Vegetable Farmers 'Professional Cooperative. In front of them was a black seedling tray with many grooves. They put watermelon seeds in grooves, sprinkle them with substrate soil, and put them in greenhouses to grow seedlings. "After a period of time, these watermelon seedlings and pumpkin seedlings are grafted. On average, one seedling can bear two or three large watermelons." A farmer told reporters.

Liu Songnian said, Through the development of modern intelligent greenhouse nursery shed, Unified centralized seedling cultivation, Fundamentally solved the vegetable farmers a family of traditional, backward, Dispersed seedling mode, Reduce seedling links, Not only save labor and time, At the same time avoid the occurrence of diseases, Increase yield, Increase income, Also improve the enthusiasm of members and other vegetable farmers to grow vegetables.

Training members training combined with practice

As the founder of the cooperative, Liu Songnian told reporters that in 2008, before the establishment of Nianfeng Vegetable Farmers Professional Cooperative, he was also an ordinary farmer. At present, the cooperative has grown to more than 1000 people. It has successively built 1000 mu pollution-free and green vegetable planting bases in Houlilou Village, Houyao Village and Zhangge Village of Zhangdian Township, with an annual output of more than 10 million catties of high-quality vegetables and more than 6 million high-quality seedlings, which can solve the problem of 4000 mu vegetable base seedlings for 3000 vegetable farmers.

In addition, the cooperative organizes 20 training activities for other young farmers every year, combining training with practice. "Through training and demonstration planting, more than 5000 vegetable farmers and rural youth in surrounding towns have been driven to engage in pollution-free vegetable cultivation."

Famed vegetable farmers from other places come to cooperate

In the reporter interview process, several Henan Shangqiu customers came to the cooperative, hoping to introduce some vegetable seedlings from Liu Songnian here. "Nianfeng Vegetable Planting Cooperative is quite famous in our place. I also heard from others and drove here from Shangqiu. I also want to learn planting and grafting techniques from the leaders here." A customer told reporters with a smile.

National Farmers Professional Cooperative Demonstration Society, National Vegetable Standard Garden, Anhui Province Modern Agricultural Science and Technology Demonstration Park... A series of honors did not stop Liu Songnian's progress. "At present, my planting base is relatively mature and has been developing steadily, so I am thinking about how to innovate my own products so that the land benefits can be maximized." Liu Songnian said. At present, watermelon, chili, eggplant and tomato seedlings are growing in the greenhouse. Seeing that these seedlings grow well, Liu Songnian is confident in leading the members and farmers to increase production.