"Caozhou papaya" opens Wang Youcai's "green" road to wealth

Autumn season, it is the time when Caozhou papaya ripens. A few days ago, the author came to Caozhou papaya base of Wangyoucai Cooperative in Wangtang Village, Rangu Town, Dingtao County. As soon as he stepped into the papaya garden, the fragrance of papaya came to his nose. The fragrance floated for four miles. The lush papaya branches were covered with huge papayas. Most of the papayas had already shown golden yellow. Wang Youcai, the person in charge, told the author that the papaya in the papaya garden has entered the harvest season, and now there is an endless stream of orders, and this year will be another bumper harvest.

"Caozhou papaya" has a long history and has been investigated for many times to determine suitable species.

Wang Youcai visited Heze, Linyi and other places for many times in 2005 to further understand the market prospect, current supply and marketing situation, profit space, etc. of papaya, and learned that papaya is a traditional cultivated tree species in Heze. According to records in Heze County Annals,"Heze papaya began in Yuan Dynasty, was wider than Ming and Qing Dynasties, and had a long cultivation history." Heze was called Caozhou in ancient times, so papaya was also called Caozhou papaya or Caozhou Guangpi papaya. Chaenomeles sinensis L. can be planted except in heavy saline soil. It is an excellent tree species for improving ecological environment in western China. It has broad development prospects and is the most precious economic and beautification tree species. Sales channels do not have to worry, characteristic benefits are high, far higher than planting crops, he also modestly learn from melon farmers planting papaya management methods, four times a year fertilization, about 10 times a year watering, bagging 4-5 times. Knowing that papaya is easy to manage, high yield, supply exceeds demand, and planting papaya is a win-win situation, he decided to return home and transfer 2 mu of land to plant 1200 papaya saplings of 2 cm, which is the first to plant papaya trees locally. At that time, some people said he was stupid, put a good land not to plant food, blind planting papaya trees. However, seeing is believing. Three years later, Wang Youcai sold the first batch of papaya trees with a net income of 60,000 yuan.

In an instant, the papaya tree grew into a cash cow.

It is understood that Caozhou papaya tree whole body is treasure, papaya leaves can be made into papaya tea, sales prospects are considerable; Caozhou papaya fruit has a large, melon shape correct, melon skin fine, good color, fragrance thick, melon meat thick and other advantages, mature fruit golden yellow, emitting a strong fragrance, and fragrance lasting, is an important traditional Chinese medicine, each sale is in short supply; Caozhou papaya fruit tree also has a good effect of beautifying the environment, flowering duration is long, red and green alternate, autumn yellow and green papaya full of branches, aroma beneficial, is the park, avenue, factory, family ideal greening seedlings, and can make bonsai. Papaya trees have high economic value and can earn high profits.

In a blink of an eye, ten years have passed. Wang Youcai travels no less than 20 times a year to study in papaya bases all over the country. His growing planting knowledge has also driven the surrounding villagers to become rich. In 2010, under the guidance of the local government, he established a professional cooperative for talented seedlings, encouraging villagers in his village and surrounding areas to join by means of secondary dividends and voluntary mutual assistance. In less than a month, the cooperative grew rapidly, with 220 farmers joining in as members one after another. The sales volume of seedlings in Rangu Town also exceeded 30 million yuan. Wang Youcai told the author that everyone earned money together. One person is not rich, but everyone is rich. At present, Wang Youcai's papaya base has grown from 2 mu of land to 300 mu. There are 10,000 papaya trees of 8-15 cm and 300,000 papaya seedlings in the base. According to Wang Youcai, guests have come to inspect the papaya here before it matures, and customers have placed orders when it matures. In recent years, papaya sales market has been expanding, most of the customers are from the surrounding areas to buy, in recent years all over the country have. His papaya base has an annual income of more than 2 million yuan, and Caozhou papaya trees have grown into "cash cows" in an instant.

Caozhou papaya has outstanding advantages and will vigorously develop papaya base

Caozhou papaya will become Heze's second characteristic industry after peony. At present, Heze initially proposes to plan and construct ten thousand mu of efficient characteristic papaya base. Heze is committed to creating a cultural brand of "one flower and one tree best in the world" and a new city name card, broadening the development outlet of papaya industry, increasing processing capacity, introducing preferential papaya fruit farmers policy, accelerating the pace of industrial development, and giving support in capital, land, technology, circulation and other aspects. This also brings good opportunities for fruit growers to develop papaya cultivation.

"Caozhou papaya" opened Wang Youcai's "green" road to prosperity, bringing him wealth, Wang Youcai told the author, next step, he will in 5-10 years, vigorously develop papaya base, his papaya base construction into the largest thousand mu papaya garden in Heze City, set picking, viewing, tourism as one, papaya processing, making papaya drinks, papaya soap, cosmetics, papaya cans, papaya wine and other products as Heze specialty.