Zhu Liangen, the leader of Pingshan farmers getting rich.

Zhu Liangen, a member of the general party branch of Pingshan Village, Guantangqiao Street, is a village cadre over 60 years old, and he has another identity, director of the Runzhou "poinsettia" strawberry professional cooperative.

Since graduating from high school, Zhu Liangen has been engaged in agricultural work for more than 40 years. "in the past, wheat, rice and rape were mainly planted in the village, with a single agricultural structure, low economic benefits, low income and low enthusiasm." From the initial planting of hybrid rice to increase yield per mu, to later planting fruits and greenhouse vegetables to increase net income, with his dedication to agriculture, Zhu Liangen never stopped looking for ways for farmers to get rich.

In 2003, the unit sent Zhu Liangen to Jurong to study and study. "I was excited at that time. How did their strawberries bring such a big profit?" Zhu Liangen found that strawberries in Jurong greenhouse are delicious, and the annual net income of strawberry farmers can reach 8000 yuan per mu! "that's more than ten times more than ours!" This time, Lao Zhu is tempted, he wants to carry out reform!

After defining the direction, Zhu Liangen visited everywhere. By chance, he met strawberry planting experts from Zhejiang. The new strawberry varieties they planted have high yield, large fruit shape, bright color, good taste and broad market prospects, but the "lack of land" has become a deficiency. Lao Zhu thought, there is land in the village, why not invite them in?

fit in easily with! A year later, these new varieties of strawberries sold out as soon as they were on the market. Lao Zhu calculated that the net income per mu was 15000 yuan! This made him so happy that he called the growers around him to a meeting and took advantage of the opportunity to set up a professional cooperative of red strawberries in Runzhou.

"the first crop of strawberries is the best and the most profitable, selling for 40 yuan a jin!" Zhu Liangen said: through technological innovation, the yield of strawberries per mu has reached 3500 jin, of which the yield of strawberries per mu in the first crop is about 800 jin to 900 jin. What makes Lao Zhu even happier is that the fixed income of the local villagers has increased. "now the rent per mu of land has risen from the initial 1200 yuan to 2000 yuan, and the liberated labor force can still go out to work." At present, the average annual income of farmers in Pingshan Village has reached 28000 yuan.

According to Zhu Liangen, there are actually many ways to grow strawberries, and raising strawberry seedlings is a good way to increase income. "after strawberries went off the market, many growers began to raise seedlings, and the proceeds from selling seedlings were also good. Now the price is 0.8 yuan to 1 yuan per plant, and one mu of land can plant about 6000 plants, which is worth a lot of money."

At present, the strawberry cooperative has won more than 20 honors at the national, provincial, municipal and regional levels, with a planting area of more than 120mu and an annual net income of 35000 yuan per mu. Although he has made such good achievements, Lao Zhu is still not satisfied. He intends to further standardize the construction of cooperatives and move towards the goal of "unified management, unified seed supply, unified planting, and unified marketing," so as to help more farmers increase their income and become rich.