China News Service, Langfang, April 30th (Song Mintao and Wang Manfeng) Holding scissors, carefully peeled off the leaves, and picked off the ripe melons... On the 30th, Wang Wenpeng, a villager in Songwangwu Village, Anci District, Langfang City, Hebei Province, as usual, Go into the greenhouse early to pick melons.
After weighing, packing, and loading, he delivered the 1,800-jin melons he ordered to a nearby wholesale market.
"Basically, they are all orders from old customers, and they can sell 2,000 catties a day." Wang Wenpeng said with a smile that in more than a month, 170,000 yuan has been sold.
While ensuring the quality, the melons in Songwangwu Village have gained popularity by relying on the brand, and the number of orders has increased year by year.
This year, when Wang Wenpeng's melons were just ripe, old customers in Beijing, Tianjin and Shandong called to order.
The picture shows a farmer in Wangwu Village of Song weighing and packing the melons they picked.
Photo by Zheng Chenzi
Wang Wenpeng is 33 years old this year. He started a small business in his early years and didn't earn much money far from home, so he started to grow melons at home in 2019.
"At that time, the price of melons was unstable, so I wanted to grow new varieties." In the first year of planting melons, Wang Wenpeng bought a batch of Boyang No. 9 melon seedlings from Shandong for trial planting. lover.
Today, the seven greenhouses of his family can earn more than 200,000 yuan a year just by growing melons.
"Our village has less arable land per capita. In the past, we planted simple crops and made no money for a year." Wei Zhide, secretary of the Party branch of Songwangwu Village, said that now the village's greenhouse planting area has reached 600 mu, with an annual output value of more than 9 million yuan. In the form of a cooperative, it radiates many surrounding villages and streets to jointly build a greenhouse planting area.
The picture shows the secretary of the Party branch of Songwangwu Village helping farmers sell melons through live broadcast.
Photo by Zheng Chenzi
Affected by the epidemic this year, some melons could not be shipped out when they were ripe. Wei Zhide led the villagers to adopt an "online + offline" sales model to further expand the brand effect. Excellent varieties of melons such as Yangjiao Cui and Bo Yang No. 9 were better promoted.
As the 100 acres of melons entered the mature picking period, orders from various places came one after another. Two-thirds of the 300,000 catties of melons in Songwangwu Village have been sold.
Anci District has been planting melons for more than 30 years. In 2011, "Anci Melon" was certified by the Ministry of Agriculture as a geographical indication of agricultural products. "Top 20" regional public brands of famous and high-quality agricultural products.
Today, the planting area of melons in Anci District reaches 30,000 mu, with more than 20 varieties and an annual output of more than 90,000 tons, which has become an important source of income for local farmers.
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