China News Service, Hefei, February 27th, title: Taiwan "flower farmers" deeply cultivate Anhui: full of confidence in the mainland market
China News Agency reporter Zhang Qiang
"The sales of orchids this year increased by nearly 20% year-on-year, and they were mainly sold to the Yangtze River Delta." Zhou Yumei, the head of Taiwan Green House Agriculture Group, said in an interview with reporters on the 26th.
That day, it was the Lantern Festival of the Lunar New Year, and Zhou Yumei's store was still doing well.
During the Spring Festival, she increased sales through measures such as quality improvement, jet lag, and nearby delivery.
Zhou Yumei said: "This year the number of large customers has decreased, but retail investors and retail have skyrocketed. They often use orchids as souvenirs for visiting relatives and friends."
In 2012, Zhou Yumei and her husband established an orchid planting base in Anhui Lujiang Taiwan Farmers Pioneer Park.
At present, the base covers an area of 100 mu, with an annual output of 800,000 orchids in a normal year and more than 4,000 orchid varieties. It has become the largest orchid planting base in Anhui.
In the summer of 2020, Anhui suffered from floods. All 52 square kilometers of Lujiangtai Innovation Park was flooded with an average water depth of 5 meters. Zhou Yumei’s orchid base was not spared and economic losses were nearly 30 million yuan (RMB, the same below).
Zhou Yumei said: "Every Spring Festival is the peak season for orchid sales, so this year I transferred some orchids from the company's bases in Guangzhou and Taiwan in advance to "prepare for war", and relieve the dilemma of supply cut-off caused by the destruction of the Anhui orchid base due to flooding."
A flood did not make Zhou Yumei lose confidence in the development of Anhui.
She said: "I will continue to take root in Anhui and make this the company's base camp. I will add additional investment next year to expand the scale of production."
Anhui Lanzhizhou Agricultural Ecological Park Co., Ltd., also located in the Lujiang Taiwan Farmers Pioneer Park in Anhui, has been busy with post-disaster reconstruction during the Spring Festival, striving to get production and sales on track as soon as possible.
The company mainly cultivates and produces high-end orchids. The varieties include Phalaenopsis, Guolan, Cattleya, etc., with an annual output of about 500,000 orchids of various types, which are mainly sold to Hefei and Nanjing.
In the future, the company plans to develop into the largest-scale and characteristic orchid production base and orchid leisure, cultural and holiday base in East China.
According to Xing Yinsheng of Anhui Lanzhizhou Agricultural Ecological Park Co., Ltd., starting from October 2020, the company has recruited 60 employees and did not rest during the Spring Festival. It has basically completed the post-disaster reconstruction. When the spring flowers bloom, production and sales can start. On the right track.
Xing Yinsheng said that while rebuilding, we imported seedlings and finished orchids from our partners and stored them in the restored greenhouse.
"Cultivating seedlings can realize seamless connection to the market after the reconstruction is completed. The purchase of finished orchids is mainly to satisfy large customers during the Spring Festival."
Zheng Minghong, the head of Taiwan Xinhejie Flower Co., Ltd., is a newcomer to Anhui. His orchids are also very popular during the Spring Festival this year.
In April 2020, he landed in Wuhu City, Anhui Province with capital, technology and the development concept of Taiwanese seedlings and flowers through investment promotion.
"I decided to land in Wuhu because the local government gave me great policy support. At the same time, Wuhu is close to Nanjing and Hefei, with convenient transportation and lower production costs compared to coastal cities."
Zheng Minghong said: "Now the orchid sales market is very competitive. Our advantage is that we have mastered the core technology to reduce costs and increase the competitiveness of the product market." He said that with the continuous improvement of people's living standards, the sales of orchids have increased year by year. .
"I have full confidence in Anhui and the entire mainland market." Zheng Minghong's goal is to build an orchid industry with upstream and downstream industrial chains in Wuhu and become a new model for the development of modern agriculture in Anhui.
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