The big growers in Tunchang plant pomelo to taste the sweetness and drive the farmers to get rich.

Recently, the golden pomelo orchard of Luo Zhangqiang, a big grower in Nankun Town, Tunchang County, was bustling. More than a dozen Fujian workers picked fruit at the same time and kept loading pomelo on a truck that could carry 50,000 jin. The output of 100mu honey pomelo garden is about 160000 jin. After picking it in 3 days, Sichuan buyers bring big trucks to the door to buy, all to be finished. Selling golden pomelo made more than 400,000 yuan this year.

Luo Zhangqiang tasted the benefits by adjusting the planting varieties in time according to the market demand.

The loss of growing litchi is more than 2 million yuan.

Speaking of this 100 mu of land, Luo Zhangqiang can not help but filled with emotion. On the same piece of land, he has planted litchi for more than 10 years and lost money almost every year.

Since 1996, he has taken the lead in contracting 100 mu of sloping land to build litchi orchards in Tunchang. The shelf life of litchi is short, and the fruit is obviously affected by the weather in Tunchang. Every day, labor costs have increased year by year. For more than 10 years, he has lost money almost every year. He has to invest at least more than 100,000 yuan every year, and the litchi orchard makes him sink deeper and deeper, and the more he invests, the more he loses.

By the time Luo Zhangqiang decided to stop running the litchi garden in 2008, he was already in debt of more than 2 million yuan.

"usually my son and daughter-in-law go out to make money by doing business and invest in this' bottomless pit'. At that time, this 100mu litchi orchard was really a chicken rib." Luo Zhangqiang sighed.

Replanting honey pomelo to increase income quickly

Seeing more and more losses, Luo Zhangqiang decided to get out in time and cut down all 100 mu of litchi trees. Considering the reason why litchi lost money, he chose Golden Honey Pomelo, a fruit tree whose fruit is easy to preserve. Each honey pomelo seedling 16 yuan, he bought more than 2000 in 2008, re-planted hope on this land, but this time the golden pomelo did not let him down.

Pomelo trees only invested in the first three years, with no harvest, with an average investment of 10,000 yuan per mu of land in these three years. But from the fourth year, pomelo begins to bear fruit, and it gets better and better year by year, which makes the reward of hard work more and more abundant. "Last year, the output of 100 mu was more than 90,000 jin, this year it is about 160000 jin, and it is expected to reach 250, 000 or 60, 000 jin next year." Luo Zhangqiang said happily.

The output of honey pomelo is getting higher and higher, Luo Zhangqiang is not worried about the market at all. Due to Hainan's climate advantage, pomelo generally went to market 10 to 40 days earlier than in the mainland, which has made Hainan's pomelo sales popular. He Lin, a pomelo dealer from Sichuan, comes to Hainan to buy golden pomelo every year. "I have been working with Lao Luo for three years, and Lao Luo people are kind and dare to try new things. Pomelo is the right choice. Lao Luo has really planted a 'cash cow' all over the garden this time." He Lin said with a smile.

Big growers drive farmers to get rich

More than 10 years ago, many farmers lost money when they planted a large number of litchi trees in Tunchang. Now, Luo Zhangqiang is the first to find the right way, with a new way to get rich, his honey pomelo has been recognized by the Tunchang county government, and the Tunchang County Development and Reform Commission has set up a project to build his pomelo garden into a golden pomelo demonstration base in Tunchang County.

Luo Zhangqiang will open up a new 50-mu pomelo demonstration site this year. From seedling raising to management, one-stop guidance will lead nearby farmers to plant grapefruit trees to get rich. The reporter saw that there are already 50,000 grapefruit seedlings in Luo Zhangqiang's honey pomelo field. "I plan to graft mountain red pomelo after a period of time. The price of mountain red pomelo is higher than that of golden honey pomelo, which can bring more benefits." Luo Zhangqiang said that Hainan's time and climate advantages in growing honey pomelo are unattainable in the mainland. Seize these time advantages and let nearby farmers also plant them together, so that we can take the road to prosperity together.