The pear with the greatest development prospects: what is organic pear tree cultivation and management like?

These days everyone talks about wanting to be healthy, and that is how organic fruits and vegetables came about. Today let us first take a look at what makes organic pears different and how they are cultivated.

Arriving at "Risen Organic Shangjiang Pear Orchard" in Sanxing Township, Yilan, owner Liao Junqin is busy harvesting just-ripened pears. Liao Junqin tends the pear orchard starting from the soil underfoot, stressing that only good soil can nurture good fruit trees and fruit. During the growing period no pesticides are applied; he relies only on the natural ecological balance to maintain the orchard's vitality. His pears are not bigger than other people's, but the texture is crisp, the flesh is fine, and they are juicy and sweet. He has even twice won first prize in the Sanxing Township Shangjiang pear evaluation, and this year's harvest is on par with conventional cultivation.

When he first took over the 0.3-hectare pear orchard, Liao Junqin still treated it as a hobby and even tended the fruit trees conventionally, until he noticed that his daily contact with pesticides was making his body feel worse and worse, so from 2001 he switched back to organic cultivation. Liao Junqin uses the concept of "ecological balance" to maintain the orchard's biodiversity, activating the soil through earthworms and microorganisms; for fertilizer he uses black sesame meal to supplement the pears' nutrients, adds materials such as rice bran to improve the texture, and adds sugarcane bagasse to strengthen soil vitality, supplementing in a "small amounts, many meals" way according to the plants' condition. He believes that soil health is the key point and also the key to whether the cultivation results are good or poor.

⟦NL> "Organic and lazy are only a fine line apart." Liao Junqin believes that organic is by no means leaving the orchard unattended, but rather investing even more effort in caring for it. The orchard, which begins harvesting at the end of June, is not afraid of typhoons, only of encountering a cold snap during grafting at the end of last year. The quality of pear scion grafting technique determines whether the pear trees will flower or not. Ordinary farmers achieve a graft healing rate of at most fifty percent; after years of effort and deep study of the technique, Liao Junqin has raised the graft healing rate to over ninety percent. Having walked the organic path for a full 17 years, the changes in the orchard's yield resemble a "checkmark" curve, sinking at the start and then climbing straight up afterward, just like a smile on the fruit farmer's face, symbolizing heaven's affirmation of his years of effort.
Organic fruits and vegetables differ from ordinary fruits and vegetables by only two words, yet there is a great deal of hardship contained within them.