In Diaoyazi Village, the village chief's wife was informing the villagers door to door.
"Xiaohong's mother, those turkish melons your family planted a few years ago, were all the melon vines frozen to death last year? Dig out the roots quickly. The Goddess of Wealth Company is buying them for five yuan a pound!"
"Don't spare me, who will eat all the Turkish melons!"
"Excuse me, I have enough sweets to eat? The people from the Goddess of Fortune Company are in my house and have collected hundreds of kilograms all morning. Your family lives farthest away and you were the last one to be notified. If you don't believe it, you can go to my house alone. Take a look!"
How can Xiaohong's mother care about the turkey melons that are being cultivated? Earning cash is more attractive, isn't it?
The fruit and vegetable company has done a thorough job in poverty alleviation. It plans to first purchase a wave of rhizomes from the mountains where the company cooperates with the company to grow asparagus, so as to give the villagers the confidence to grow asparagus.
After receiving the convincing news, Xiaohong's mother asked her husband and son to dig under the big tree behind the house.
The roots of the Turkish melons that have been planted for five years are buried in the soil more than one meter deep, so it is quite troublesome to dig them out.
Who makes the family so poor that they can’t open the pot after spring?
Fortunately, it took two hours to dig out a dozen roots of a turkey melon that were longer and larger than taro. When weighed, they weighed thirty kilograms!
"My father, thirty kilograms of baby can be sold for 150 yuan! According to the requirements of the fruit and vegetable company, our family can grow 300 nests on one acre of land, and we can sell asparagus for 10,000 yuan in a year!" Three years later, just 300 rhizomes can be sold for 45,000 yuan.”
Oh my God, my God! The door to a new world is opened to people who are crazy about poverty, and wealth is waving to them.
More than one Xiaohong family member in Diaoyazi Village was excited, and the whole village was trembling!
Even Director Feng couldn't help but call to confirm after hearing about it. He was afraid that only people in Hong Kong had the habit of eating this rhizome, so don't dig it out and no one would buy it.
You Yu, who had just eaten Turkish melon roots at noon, gave Director Feng reassurance after a phone call:
"Leader, after peeling off the outer skin of the Turkish melon rhizome, the inner flesh is white. Cut it into slices or shreds. You can eat it stir-fried or stewed in soup.
When stir-fried, it tastes fresh, silky, and crispy. The taste is somewhere between potatoes and yams. I personally think it tastes better than potatoes and yams.
Mr. Huang, a Hong Kong businessman, said that as long as the roots of Turkish melon are eaten in moderation, they can not only supplement nutrition, but also lower blood pressure, improve kidney function, and promote brain development. "
Okay, the medicine is working! How can a man endure it after hearing about the efficacy of improving kidney function?
Men know men better. Director Feng hung up the phone and smiled so hard that his eyes narrowed into a thin line.
After harvesting Turkish melon rhizomes from five villages, the harvest amounted to more than 3,000 kilograms, which made Mr. Huang, a Hong Kong businessman, extremely happy.
This amount is not enough for more than a dozen restaurants in his family to consume for a month, and these roots are quite durable in storage.
After calculating the cost of labor and freight, the profit is less than three yuan per pound. You Yu doesn't like this ant-like legs, but Jiang Wenmei does!
She drove the company's minivan all day long, wandering around the countryside in the county, and started working in her old profession.
Turkish melon rhizome became popular faster than asparagus
It’s only late April, and the temperature is already early summer, at least five degrees warmer than the same period in previous years.
All 600 acres of Turkish melon seedlings in five impoverished villages have been transplanted, and production manager You Dayou has been able to return.
The asparagus in You Yu's greenhouse has gone from being picked only once every other week to the peak period when it can be picked every day.
Although production volume has increased, the market is still in short supply.
Following closely behind is the 150 acres of rose-flavored cherry radish, which was snapped up by customers as soon as it was put on the market.
This year the price soared to six yuan per catty, and fruit and vegetable companies followed suit and gave growers a high price of four yuan per catty.
Vegetable farmers are on fire because they will see money in spring!
Before everyone could be happy for a few days, the tomato yellow leaf curl virus disease that originally occurred in southern areas in previous years spread rapidly north of the Yellow River and broke out at the end of the month.
Yellow leaf curl virus disease is a systemic disease.
In the early stage of tomato infection, the leaves first show yellowing mosaics, the leaf margins become broadly yellow, and roll up, and the leaves become smaller, thicker, and stiffer.
The growth of susceptible plants is slow or stagnant, the internodes become shorter, and there is an obvious tendency to become dwarfed.
The upper part of the stem becomes thicker, multi-branched, deformed, rod-shaped, brittle and hard arbuscules, the growth point becomes yellow, and the lower old leaves have no obvious symptoms.
In the later stage of the disease, the entire greenhouse tomato becomes dwarfed, growth and development stagnate, and it is difficult to set fruit after flowering. Even if fruit is set, the fruit cannot change color normally, resulting in large-scale yield reduction or even no harvest.
This virus has two transmission routes, one is transmitted by whitefly, and the other is transmitted by grafting.
The culprit responsible for the spread of the virus is whitefly.
The degree of disease in tomatoes is related to the insect population density. When the insect population density reaches 5 per plant, the plant's disease susceptibility rate reaches 60%. The greater the insect population density, the more serious the disease.
If it takes 30 to 35 days for B. tabaci to breed and produce 400 effective eggs for one female B. tabaci, in three months there will be hundreds of millions of B. tabaci causing damage!
Under conditions of 25 to 28°C, it takes about 3 weeks from infection to onset of tomato yellow leaf curl virus, while in winter (low temperature season) it takes 1 to 2 months.
How to prevent and how to kill?
Deputy County Magistrate Lu came back from a meeting in the city and was so anxious that his forehead was sweating.
In a major vegetable growing county, tens of thousands of acres of tomatoes are grown in greenhouses!
You Yu and other big growers were urgently called to the county for a meeting.
Which pesticides can be used to treat yellow leaf curl virus disease, and how to strengthen field management. If susceptible plants are found during the growth period of tomatoes, they must be promptly removed and buried, and other cleaning work must be done in the field.
The staff of the County Agriculture Bureau also recommended that growers who have the conditions to use insect-proof nets for physical isolation.
For a time, the growers changed their minds when they smelled the lice!
If there are conditions, we must prevent it to the end; if there are no conditions, we must keep up with it!
The temperature in the greenhouse now exceeds 30 degrees, and the plastic film has been removed during the day.
In order to prevent the invasion of whitefly, the fruit and vegetable company recommends that all new cooperative growers install insect-proof nets immediately.
Through centralized procurement by fruit and vegetable companies, the cost is within the acceptable range of new growers.
Don’t think that Bemisia tabaci only spreads to tomatoes. Bemisia tabaci likes to feed and live on crops with rich hairs on the backs of leaves, such as soybeans, cotton, melons, etc.
You Yu is not worried about her upgraded tomatoes, pumpkins, and honeydew melons.
The tomatoes and pumpkins that are the first to bear fruit are almost ripe, and the system previously said that the roots of the plants have their own insect repellent smell, so there should be no mistakes.
However, her uncle's Lianhe Village still has thousands of acres of open-air little Beibei pumpkins, so don't let them be wiped out by the gang when the time comes!
(End of chapter)
