Huangli trees become Guo Zuwen's road to prosperity

“This year my huangli pears are even more special because selenium has been added. All my pears are selenium-enriched huangli pears, delicious and health-promoting.” On the morning of September 1, in Guilin Village, Guilin Town, Linzhou City, Guo Zuwen stood proudly in his own orchard and introduced this to reporters. Guo Zuwen dares to think and act. As early as 6 years ago, he resolutely gave up growing plums and tried growing Shalite late-autumn huangli pears. From then on, he began his own distinctive path to prosperity.

The Xiaodian plums of Guilin Town are famous far and near, and there are more than 10 plum-growing households in Guilin Village alone. When Guo Zuwen was young, he made a living by growing fruit trees, and all 30 mu of his family's orchard was planted with plum trees. Because these plum trees had been planted for a long time, the trees had begun to age, and combined with the single variety, Guo Zuwen had been worrying about the orchard's future development.

One day in 2009, Guo Zuwen learned from the village Party branch secretary Guo Ziyu a piece of information about making money from fruit trees, namely the Shalite late-autumn huangli pear. This variety not only bears fruit early, but also has large fruit and excellent quality. A single pear weighs at least half a kilogram, and large ones can reach 1.5 kilograms, and it has a small core, no grit, and a sweet fragrance. Picked in late autumn, it can be stored at room temperature for 6 months to 8 months without changing color or flavor.

Guo Zuwen dares to think and act. He immediately went to Wuzhi to visit and learn from experience. After returning, he and his wife painfully cut down all the plum trees in the orchard. At the time, many people questioned his actions, but old Guo Zuwen had a stubborn temper. Facing pressure and doubts from all sides, in the spring of the following year, he bought more than 5,000 Shalite late-autumn huangli pear saplings at once for 15 yuan each. At first, because he had no experience growing huangli trees, the planted saplings did not sprout buds for a long time, and old Guo and his wife felt anxious and uneasy.

Guo Zuwen was not frightened by the difficulties. He collected information everywhere to study. After a period of exploration, old Guo and his wife not only mastered the cultivation techniques for huangli pears, but also explored the breeding techniques for Shalite late-autumn huangli pears. This meant applying farmyard manure and mineral fertilizer and spraying low-toxicity biological pesticides. The pears produced this way were not only golden, large, green and pollution-free, but also especially sweet and fragrant.

Although the late-autumn huangli pears he grew were large and tasted good, and were deeply loved by people, Guo Zuwen kept thinking about how to make his huangli pears distinctive, not only sweet and fragrant, but also good for people's health when eaten. To realize his dream, Guo Zuwen thought about it day and night and looked through materials everywhere. Hard work pays off. Just this spring, Guo Zuwen once again discovered a treasure for making money on television——selenium enrichment.

After making inquiries in many places, Guo Zuwen finally bought the selenium-enriched fertilizer and pesticide mentioned on television from Southwest University and Xinxiang Xinmin Technology Co., Ltd. After careful care, the selenium-enriched huangli pears were about to mature. Looking at the soon-to-be-ripe late-autumn huangli pears, Guo Zuwen was overjoyed.

After several years of planting, Guo Zuwen also gradually summed up his own set of cultivation experience. In the past, when bagging the fruit, he used plastic bags plus paper bags, which easily left plasticizers on the fruit and thus affected the fruit's quality. This year, old Guo put double-layer environmentally friendly paper bags on all the huangli pears and used only farmyard manure. The pears produced this way were not only golden, large, green and pollution-free, but also especially attractive.

As the season progressed, the late-autumn huangli pears reached harvest season again. Last year, Guo Zuwen's family harvested more than 10,000 kilograms of huangli pears, and this year's output is expected to be twice last year's. Because the flesh is delicate, the taste is good, and they are easy to store, old Guo is not worried about sales.

Seeing Guo Zuwen's family become better off by growing late-autumn huangli pears, many people in the village also came to ask him about cultivation experience. Facing everyone's questions, old Guo would answer in detail. Old Guo hopes that everyone in the village can, like him, embark on the road to moderate prosperity by growing late-autumn huangli pears. Speaking of the future, Guo Zuwen said that next he would plant high-quality apples, sweet persimmons and other fruit trees in the pear orchard to further broaden his channels to prosperity.