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Original title: planting purple yam realized the dream of becoming rich.

Zhang Hong shows his purple yam (photo)

Comprehensive report on three Rural Express: on November 9, Zhang Hong received the fifth call to order purple yam in a week. As a returning migrant worker in Wuyang Town, Pengshan District, Meishan City, Zhang Hong used more than 200 mu of purple yam planting base to drive more than 100 people to work, paying workers 100000 yuan a month.

Zhang Hong, 40, who lives in Wuyang Town, Pengshan District, began to learn citrus planting techniques under the guidance of his parents at the age of 15. Because he was conscientious and self-motivated, he was chosen as the production leader by the masses at the age of 17.

In order to improve his family's life, apart from growing oranges, Zhang Hong repaired and sold motorcycles successively, worked in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and contracted high-speed rail construction projects, with an annual income of 200000 yuan.

Although his income is good, his working life abroad for more than 10 years has made Zhang Hong particularly homesick. He has always wanted to reunite with his family for a long time by returning to his hometown to start a business. In 2013, he found an opportunity.

"at that time, I found purple yam in a big supermarket in Shanghai and was immediately attracted by it. I was startled when I saw that the price of purple yam was 40 yuan per kilogram. Since I have never seen this kind of yam before, I am very interested. " Zhang Hong said that after he learned about the planting characteristics and market prospects of purple yam through the Internet, he had a plan to return to his hometown to grow it.

At the end of 2013, after some inspection, Zhang Hong returned to his hometown in Wuyang Town, Pengshan District, and went to an agricultural company in Guang'an to learn the planting technology of purple yam for three months. When he learned that there were still few people growing purple yam in Sichuan province, he immediately decided to start a business.

In 2014, Zhang Hong earned an income of nearly 20,000 yuan per mu by planting 2 mu of purple yam. At the beginning of this year, he transferred to more than 260 mu of land and planted more than 260 mu of purple yam through town and village land transfer companies.

"these days, it is the time for purple yam to go on the market, and I organize workers to harvest purple yam for 'ordering customers' in time." Zhang Hong said that the more than 260 mu of purple yam he planted can produce about 2000 kilograms per mu, the wholesale price per kilogram is 6 MUE 8 yuan, and the income per mu can reach about 15000 yuan. "I can earn more money from these 260 mu of land than working outside, and the folks can also earn a sum of money from me." Zhang Hong told me that in his garden, at most, more than 100 local people work every day, and he pays them more than 100,000 yuan a month. "when I go back to my hometown to plant purple yam Bashi, I can make money, and so can the masses." Zhang Hong said happily.

Zhang Hong plans to expand the planting area of purple yam to 1000 mu next year, and build an air-conditioned warehouse and factory to deeply process purple yam to make purple yam powder and purple yam cakes and then push them to the national market.