[Explanation] Wang Yonggen was overjoyed that the prickly shoots of wild wild vegetables became a popular item in the New Year's market.
In order to replenish the market as soon as possible, he goes to the surrounding large merchants to distribute the goods more than a dozen times a day.
On the eve of the Lunar New Year, the folks working at the production base were all smiles when they saw the increasing orders. This year they achieved a "bountiful harvest and an increase in income".
39-year-old Wang Yonggen lives in Huadian City, Jilin Province, which is an important base of wild vegetables in Northeast China.
The high mountains, dense forests, and fertile land make the mountain and forest specialties here sell to Chinese and foreign markets.
A few years ago, Wang Yonggen, who was working abroad, returned to his hometown to start a business of planting prickly shoots of wild wild vegetables, and led his fellow villagers to engage in this industry together.
[Concurrent] Wang Yonggen, a new farmer
In fact, I am not rich if I am rich. I want to mobilize the people around my hometown to participate (in) together in the follow-up.
Make full use of the stopped (returned) farmland for forest land in this hometown.
[Explanation] Wang Yonggen believes that prickly buds are not only economically beneficial, but also beneficial to the natural environment.
After years of exploration, he is quite familiar with the cultivation and sales of thorn buds.
After summarizing and improving, his production base inserts the roots of the thorny shoots into the water, and they can "stagger peaks" every year to go on the market in winter.
In November last year, Wang Yonggen and fellow villagers made preparations for the Spring Festival sales in advance, but the strong market demand still exceeded their expectations.
Replenishment calls kept coming, and the folks worked efficiently, cutting, bundling, and packing, making the production base lively.
In fact, Wang Yonggen was interested in wild vegetables when he was working outside.
He found that customers who favor wild vegetables are particularly fascinated by this "magical taste".
[Concurrent] Wang Yonggen, a new farmer
In our local area, more than 1,000 villagers followed up with us to start the wild vegetable industry.
[Explanation] In recent years, the wild vegetables in Huadian, Jilin have become "famous", and growers from Heilongjiang, Yunnan, Sichuan, Shandong and other places have come to learn the cultivation techniques here.
The local people are also very generous and do their best to help more villagers get rich as soon as possible.
[Concurrent] Villager Huang Yongzhen
I plan to continue to expand investment in the new year and 2023, and then increase it a bit.
Because its good (advantage) is that it is planted in the converted farmland to forest land, and it does not occupy good land (cultivated land).
Reporter Shi Hongyu reports from Jilin City
Editor in charge: [Ji Xiang]