Farmer Wu Jun of Biyang County earns 60,000 yuan per mu from growing mulberries

On May 2, the reporter saw in the mulberry orchard of Wu Jun, a villager of Xiaogang Group, Gaoxin Neighborhood Committee, Huayuan Subdistrict Office, Biyang County, several fashionably dressed young women weaving among the trees, picking purple-black mulberries with their own hands, their faces beaming with bright smiles.

Wu Jun told the reporter that last year he introduced new mulberry varieties such as Hongguo No. 2, Changguosang, White Pearl and Dashi from the Fruit Seedling Research Institute of Haining City, Hainan Province. He used only farmyard manure and no pesticides, and the mulberries produced were large and delicious. Because the early temperatures were suitable, rainfall was abundant and sunlight was sufficient, which was especially favorable for mulberry growth, his family's mulberries had a bumper harvest this year, with an average yield of more than 2,000 jin per mu and a market price of 30 yuan per jin, increasing income by more than 60,000 yuan per mu. They are mainly sold to large supermarkets in surrounding cities such as Zhumadian and Xinyang.