Li Tongbin in Lizhuang Village: dare to dare to plant nectarines to get rich

In the half-acre nectarine shed of Li Tongbin in Lizhuang Village, Nanhe County, 200 not-tall nectarine trees have already grown bright green leaves and staggered branches blooming trumpet-like flowers. Li Tongbin, the owner of the shed, said that with so many flowers and exuberant growth, the output of nectarines this year will be much higher than last year, and it will not be a problem to increase the income by a thousand yuan.

Li Tongbin, 55, can be regarded as an aggressive grower in the village. Ten years ago, when the county called for readjusting the agricultural structure and vigorously developing facility vegetables, Li Tongbin was the first to report to the village committee compound and planted two greenhouses. In a few years, Lao Li made a fortune by growing vegetables. But he felt that although growing vegetables could make money, he needed at least four people in his two vegetable sheds and spent five or six hours a day in the shed, which made it difficult for the old couple who lacked labor. Is there a way to save labor, time and money to get rich? Lao Li has been thinking. By chance in 2004, Lao Li learned from Zhang Keyu, a technician in Shandong Province, that growing nectarines in a greenhouse could manage a greenhouse by one person, with a small amount of labor, little technical difficulty, good market prospects, and saving a lot of water and fertilizer money. After agreeing with his wife, this winter, Li Tongbin bought 200 nectarine saplings from Shandong at a price of 7 yuan each, becoming the first nectarine farmer in the village and the county. The next year, Lao Li's nectarines were happy to bear fruit, and 200 fruit trees picked 300 kilograms of fresh and tender nectarines. On the day he picked the nectarines, Lao Li got on the bus and took a basket of fresh nectarines to the supermarket in the city. To Lao Li's surprise, the supermarket stayed at the price of 3.5 yuan per jin and promised to buy all his nectarines in the future. That year, Lao Li pinched and calculated that he not only recovered the investment of that year, but also made a net profit of more than 1500 yuan.

After tasting the sweetness of nectarine for the first time, Lao Li went to a nectarine greenhouse of the same size the next year. He said that it is not a problem for the two nectarine greenhouses to earn more than 10,000 yuan a year. He also wants to build another shed, get some seedlings, and expand the scale.