The management of rural Niuren orchards does not use pesticides to control weeds and insects, and ducks and geese are responsible for their own responsibilities.

There is a village called Zhanqiantun in Linyi County, Shanxi Province. This is a small village with only more than 100 households. In recent years, farmers in the small village have mainly relied on the fruit industry to get rich, including apples, fresh dates, peaches, pears and so on. But in the past year, the orchards of the small village have become dominated by ducks and geese. If you want to know why, please listen to the editor. The protagonist of the story is the middle-aged man in the picture.

His name is Lu Yongqiang. He is 50 years old. His children are already working outside. Now he and his wife are planting 10 mu of jujube trees and 3 mu of cherry trees and 2 mu of fruit trees at home. Because jujube trees are managed throughout the year in the first half of the year, and the amount of labor is very large, Lu Yongqiang overheard others say that ducks can help eat weeds in the orchard, so he bought online from Sichuan and sent back 600 Cherry Valley ducks by plane. Last year, he began stocking experiments in his orchard.

Because the ducks of this breed ate a lot of food, ate miscellaneous food habits, and were easy to raise, the weeds in the 4 mu jujube orchard used in the experiment were soon eaten up by the duck army. Ducks not only eat weeds, but also have another skill, that is, they especially like to eat snails and all kinds of insects. The problem of fruit tree pests and snails, which used to be a big headache for fruit farmers, can be easily solved. The picture shows Lu Yongqiang whistling ducks for release.

With the passage of time, the weeds in his 15-mu orchard were always eaten naked and exposed to the ground, and neighbors and villagers began to learn his ecological recycling farming techniques. Villagers without ducks began to invite Lu Yongqiang's flock of ducks to remove weeds and pests. Lu Yongqiang is pictured leading his flock of ducks to weed the villagers' orchards at noon.

The big white goose has a high vigilance and fierce character in poultry, which can effectively prevent the duck's natural enemies, weasel and eagle, so he mixed 20 big white geese among the ducks, so that the safety of the ducks was guaranteed.

Led by Lu Yongqiang, there are about 20 farmers raising ducks in the orchard in Qiantun. It has basically satisfied the task of weeding and killing insects in the orchard of the whole village. For farmers to reduce both the labor intensity and the investment money of chemical fertilizer, the whole orchard formed a benign ecological cultivation cycle model of duck and goose eating Cordyceps sinensis, farm manure raising fruit trees and green fruit.

This is a jujube orchard without sheep, ducks and geese. The ground is overgrown with weeds and parasitic with harmful insects. The normal growth of jujube trees has been affected.

Lu Yongqiang also sells the breeding ducks and geese to farmers in neighboring villages to help them raise them in the orchard. At present, he still has more than 100 ducks, more than 20 geese, and receives about 60 duck eggs a day. Now selling ducks, geese and duck eggs is not a small income.

Lu Yongqiang invested 4000 yuan in the jujube garden to fence the ducks around to prevent them from running around. Under the jujube tree, there was a big wolf dog watching the garden.

Because the orchards where ducks and geese are released are organic fertilizers, chemical fertilizers and fungicides are hardly applied in the orchards every year, and peach and pear dates are produced with high sugar content and good taste. Customers from other places like the fruits from Zhanqiantun, and e-commerce and WeChat businesses also send goods frequently. The ducks and geese in the small village kill weeds and pests, and the ecological orchards have affected the farmers around to follow suit. If you want to see more stories about the people, please click on the upper right corner to follow, the rights protection knights sign the contract, plagiarism must be investigated.