Now it's time for the fruit to blossom and blossom. Recently, the agronomist came to the wild fruit farmer cooperatives in pomegranate town of Zhangpu to guide the farmers in daily management of the golden fruit tree.
"Because of the good quality and high yield of the co-operatives, many farmers around here are looking to join them voluntarily." Tian wild fruit cooperatives President Yu Tianshui said that since its inception early last year, the cooperatives have developed 16 members, planting area of 80 acres. Cooperatives also implement the "buy at the lowest price" approach to provide farmers with convenient acquisition services. "In accordance with the current market situation, this year the purchase price of gold 100 grams of fruit a pound 9 yuan, purple fragrance hundred fruit purchase price of a pound of about 5 yuan, is expected to be 80 acres of passion fruit output value of up to 2 million 400 thousand yuan."." Yu Tianshui smile. In the next stage, the cooperative plan will open up the leisure tourism market, support the farmhouse facilities, and introduce other fruit varieties to build sightseeing tourism agriculture.
It is understood that passion fruit as tropical and subtropical famous fruit, is still sporadic planting in Zhangpu County, did not scale development, the county planting area of only 320 acres. At present, the county has been the development of fruit industry in the year 2017 passion fruit industry focus, this year the county planning new passion fruit cultivation of 1000 acres, of which large scale planting area, four area, an area of 670 acres.
