Greenhouses Support Farmers' Dream of Becoming Wealthy Through Green Farming

In early spring, Xu Junying, a greenhouse grower in Dengzhuang Town, Taocheng District, Hengshui City, is busy, making several trips to the greenhouses every day to roll up the curtains, ventilate, regulate the greenhouse temperature, and pick tomatoes and strawberries. Outside the greenhouses there is still a trace of chill, but inside it is as warm as spring. In the tomato greenhouse hang clusters of mini tomatoes: red cherry tomatoes, green "Zei Butou", yellow "Jin Shengnv", and black "Black Pearl" tomatoes, so colorful and beautiful; in the strawberry greenhouse, each strawberry is like red agate, growing very promisingly under the cover of green leaves. "The tomatoes and strawberries grown in greenhouses come to market one to two months earlier than those on the market, so naturally the price is higher. Making 40,000 to 50,000 yuan per greenhouse is no problem! This is relying on high technology and boosting the agricultural supply side," said Xu Junying, a greenhouse grower in Dengzhuang Town, happily.

In recent years, the town has vigorously developed facility agriculture, with the planting scope involving 25 villages across the town, forming a new pattern of large-scale and industrialized facility agriculture planting. Growers use solar greenhouses to grow green agricultural products out of season, skillfully playing the "off-season listing" card, which while meeting the needs of consumers also raises the prices of agricultural products and greatly increases farmers' income. To further increase the output of facility agriculture and achieve the goals of improving agricultural efficiency and increasing farmers' income, the town has strengthened technical services for facility agriculture. The whole town has hired 10 professional and technical personnel to go deep into the fields of facility agriculture growers, providing technical guidance and services to farming households and increasing growers' economic income. It is precisely with the help of this platform that Xu Junying's greenhouse planting has also become increasingly prosperous. Now all her greenhouses are covered with imported solar film, using temperature control to kill insects and bacteria, without using any insecticides, achieving green and pollution-free production, and also advancing the listing time, reducing weed damage, while saving water, preserving heat, and preserving soil moisture, ensuring the quality and yield of vegetable products. Supplemental lighting lamps are installed in the greenhouses. By regulating the greenhouse room temperature, tomatoes and strawberries can bloom earlier, bear fruit earlier, and come to market earlier. Instead of chemical fertilizers, crushed soybeans are applied to replace organic fertilizers, which not only prevents the large amount of harmful bacteria and antibiotics brought by organic fertilizers such as chicken manure and pig manure, but also increases the sugar content and firmness of cherry tomatoes and cream strawberries, enhancing the sweet and fragrant taste, and has been well received by consumers. At present, after the Spring Festival, it is exactly the listing season for small tomatoes and strawberries, and the fruits have one after another "traveled north and south", so the economic benefits can be imagined.

Xu Junying is not satisfied with this. Using the existing greenhouse resources and through the tourism platform built by the town, she vigorously develops a rural tourism industry integrating picking, visiting, leisure, and entertainment. Attracting tourists to the greenhouses for picking in the form of rural tourism allows them to enjoy the wonderful pastoral scenery and also experience the fun of picking. The picking price is 2 times higher than the market price, greatly improving economic benefits and realizing the wish of growing money trees in greenhouses.