Henan's factory-grown vegetables supplied directly to Hong Kong, delivered next day

Original headline: Sheqi: Factory-style vegetable cultivation supplied directly to Hong Kong, delivered next day

Carefully trimmed and neatly packed into boxes

Barcodes make traceability easy

Carefully inspected and weighed box by box

On May 5, the Hong Kong-supplied vegetable base at the Sheqi Demonstration Park of Nanyang Zhongde Agricultural Technology was a scene of bustling activity.

The demonstration park is planned to cover 15,000 mu, with a total investment of 120 million yuan. The first phase, a 2,000-mu Hong Kong-supplied vegetable base, was completed and put into operation in January last year in the Sheqi County Modern Agriculture Pilot Zone. The base has introduced high-tech methods, implements full factory-style management, all-weather production and rotational cropping, and can grow and harvest 9 crops of choy sum and 5 crops of Chinese kale each year, producing 9,500 tons of Hong Kong-supplied vegetables annually, with sales revenue of 76 million yuan.

According to the company's person in charge, the demonstration park employs more than 400 workers year-round, with 35,000 seasonal workdays, and can help hundreds of farmers find employment and prosper at their doorsteps; every day, after the vegetables are inspected and loaded onto trucks, they depart at 8 a.m. and can reach the Hong Kong market by 10 a.m. the next day. Photo by Shen Honghao