Greenhouse vegetables help Chen Yun of the 136th Regiment get rich through hard work
Right now, it is freezing cold outside, yet warm and cozy indoors. Walking into the greenhouse of Chen Yun, a vegetable grower of the 136th Regiment of the Eighth Division of the **Production and Construction Corps, one sees the 100,000 vegetable seedlings of various kinds he cultivated in the greenhouse over the winter, lush and growing vigorously. Relying on greenhouse vegetable cultivation, he has embarked on the road to prosperity through hard work.
In the greenhouse, Chen Yun of the 136th Regiment, together with his wife and workers, is separating and transplanting tens of thousands of vegetable seedlings of various varieties, getting ready for the upcoming transplanting into the thousand-mu greenhouse complex of the regiment. Chen Yun told us that this winter the couple have not been idle. Many greenhouse growers of the regiment ordered seedlings from his greenhouse. Back in December last year, they began heating the greenhouse ahead of time and leveling the soil, and bought various high-quality seeds in advance from the Shihezi Vegetable Research Institute. They took on the task of raising off-season vegetable seedlings such as peppers, eggplants and tomatoes, and raised roughly more than 100,000 seedlings. It is estimated that seedling raising alone this year can increase his income by 50,000 yuan.
Speaking of the greenhouse grower Chen Yun, he is truly an expert in greenhouse cultivation at the 136th Regiment and has been engaged in vegetable growing for more than 20 years. As the regiment's greenhouse planting area has kept expanding, he seized the business opportunity to get rich, made full use of the greenhouse vegetable cultivation and management techniques he had learned, and every year starts early in the greenhouse to grow all kinds of seedlings needed for spring greenhouses, providing good seedling-raising services for the regiment's greenhouse growers.
"The 136th Regiment currently has a greenhouse planting area of 2,200 mu, and every spring these several hundred greenhouses have a huge demand for all kinds of vegetable seedlings," said the grower Chen Yun. "The growers also trust me and order all kinds of seedlings from me. I also guarantee the quality of the seedlings. According to the needs of the vegetable growers, every year I buy new, high-quality, high-yield vegetable varieties for seedling raising, so that all the regiment's vegetable growers can also earn a good income every year through vegetable growing."
Raising seedlings in the greenhouse not only makes things convenient for the workers and masses of the 136th Regiment, but also increased his income in spring. While doing a good job of winter greenhouse seedling raising, Chen Yun also makes clever use of the existing greenhouses to exploit the time gap and plant all kinds of off-season vegetables at the right time, achieving the goal of growing three crops of vegetables a year. This one greenhouse alone can increase his income by more than 120,000 yuan.
Greenhouse vegetable growing has set him on the road to prosperity through hard work. Today his family's living conditions have improved in every way: he bought a spacious, bright apartment in the regiment, and for convenience in getting to the greenhouse he also bought a family car. The family no longer worries about money, and the couple have truly tasted the benefits of growing vegetables in greenhouses.