Zhang Shiyou Uses Greenhouse-Grown Off-Season Vegetables to Lead Border Farmers and Workers to Prosperity

    On March 2, it was still ice and snow outdoors, but inside Zhang Shiyou's off-season vegetable greenhouse at the 89th Regiment of the Fifth Agricultural Division of the **Production and Construction Corps, spring was in full swing. Pepper, cucumber, celery and other vegetable seedlings were growing steadily, and Zhang Shiyou was busy transplanting vegetable seedlings with his wife. Zhang Shiyou said happily that before long, these vegetables would be ready for sale.  

Zhang Shiyou has been growing off-season vegetables in greenhouses for 4 or 5 years. Encouraged by the preferential policies of the Regiment Party Committee, and as his growing skills improved, his income increased year by year, averaging around 40,000 to 50,000 each year. Off-season vegetable greenhouses have made him prosperous.  

The 89th Regiment of the Fifth Agricultural Division provides support through policies, technical assistance and information services, and adopts practical and effective measures to accelerate the pace of greenhouse vegetable cultivation, putting the regiment's greenhouse vegetable farming onto a fast track of development and making it a golden key for "developing and strengthening the regiment and bringing prosperity to the staff and masses."  

At present, the regiment has built greenhouses with an area of 120 mu, the number of households engaged in solar greenhouse cultivation has reached 42, the number of people employed has reached more than 80, the total output value of solar greenhouse cultivation has reached more than 1.6 million yuan, and the per capita net income exceeds 10,000 yuan.