The vegetable expo is not only presenting vegetables, but also telling mythological stories, feeling romanticism, collecting scientific and technological concepts... like a round-the-world tour, you could see the potato pyramid, the corn sphinx, the pumpkin macau sightseeing tower, the bean mazu and so on. These pioneer technology and art attracts a large number of domestic and foreign tourists and professionals every year.
The visual feast out of the ground
Since 2000, Shouguang holds vegetables fair from April 20 to May 30 regularly. At the 22nd vegetables fair, you'll see a lot of magic things —— the sweet potato grows in midair, Vegetables grow into trees, The tomatoes of one plant can accumulated more than 3000 kg annually, over 4kg of zucchini, more than 2kg of cucumber...a art show is also available in the fair, some famous Chinese scenery paintings are re-presented by mount various vegetables.
Shouguang can not low-key —— even if has never been, also must have eaten its vegetable. In Shouguang, no one suffers starve.
Astounded by Shandong’s scallion is high as a small tree, Shouguang chili, as a water bucket, Shouguang largest pumpkin, three strong men hardly carry it to walk.
Shouguang vegetables are dominating the market of domestic and even surrounding countries.——for example, Shouguang cabbage and radish, which has solved out South Korea's "pickle crisis ".
Nothing is Shouguang people can not grow out!
Shouguang started to plant vegetable probably since ancient times. More than 1500 years ago, the agronomist Jia Sixie, born in Shouguang, wrote the agricultural masterpiece "Qi Min Yao Shu ". Shouguang with fertile field and abundant water, can cultivate super-normal plants.
Shouguang vegetable seed takes a spacecraft to travel space, then returns to be selected and sowed, thus produce a large, high-value, nutritious "space vegetables ". Therefore, Shandong Weifang Shouguang, has been called "Cosmic Shouguang".
In the late 1980s, Shouguang Sanyuan Zhu Village first introduced greenhouse technology, which solved out the vegetable shortage in winter in the north and started the development of Chinese vegetable industry. Over the decades, Shouguang's vegetable planting area expanded from the initial 5 mu to more than 800,000 mu ,1/4 of the land was used to grow vegetables, and Shouguang also had more than 200000 vegetable sheds, becoming a veritable "hometown of Chinese vegetables ".
Shouguang is also the largest vegetable distribution center in China. In addition, Shouguang vegetables are exported to Japan, South Korea, Russia, the United States, Venezuela and other countries. Shouguang perennial vegetable trading varieties more than 300, the annual turnover of more than 10 billion yuan. Currently Shouguang, the United States of California, the Netherlands Lansing Gran, Spain's Almeria, are called "the world top four vegetables advantage center ".
Shouguang people always maintained the Yi spirit (loyal and faithful spirit). When SARS raging in 2003, Shouguang donated 225 tons of vegetables to Beijing; in 2020, the outbreak of the COVIN-19, half a month, Shouguang shipped 9000 tons of vegetables to Wuhan, and did not delay the delivery of vegetables to the whole country!
invite technical consultant earnestly
Shouguang vegetable cannot lead domestic market without the industrious Shouguang people and Shouguang leaders. there are several person, who cast the "golden key" of vegetable shed, and created and revitalized the "Shouguang model ".
Every economic change and social progress is associating with the development of science and technology. The origin of Shouguang Model started in the late 1980s. A Shouguang villager, Wang Xinmin, a peddler running in various vegetable bases in the country. He is quite good at detect the vegetable quality. Once he recognized a cucumber, which was planted by Han Yongshan, a villager in Taotun Village, Dalian City.He has a open mind and is good at studying. By referring to foreign agricultural books, he adopts the way of "deep nest" covering plastic film avoiding cold and absorbing solar heat and keeping warm.
Shouguang output more than 8000 technicians per year
Shandong Province vegetable production has been ranked first in China. Shandong produced 81.811 million tons of vegetables in 2019, accounting for 11.3 percent of Chinese vegetables. In fact, today's vegetables, has become a technology and equipment intensive exhibition.
Vegetable shed all over the country under the help of Shouguang people. 1991 on, Shouguang dispatched their most valuable wealth —— farmer technicians to support the outsides. more than 8000 Shouguang agricultural technicians guide vegetable production in 30 provinces. More than half of the country's new greenhouses marked "Shouguang elements ".
On average every four or five years, the vegetable shed upgraded from Shouguang and then gradually radiated the whole country. Vegetable facilities have developed from the "sun to winter" first generation shed, to the seventh generation: automatic rolling curtain, automatic sprinkler irrigation, night light, can be remote control with mobile phones, a shed is like an automation factory...... Intelligent vegetable planting has become a major feature of local agricultural ecology.
New agriculture, has turned farmers into industrial workers! In the smart glass greenhouse, a robot can take care 1500 square meters of vegetable land a day, from fertilization, pollination to picking, inspection ,22 robots perform their respective duties.
At present, Shouguang City a total of 173000 vegetable shed, the annual production of 4.5 million tons of vegetables. Last year, the per capita disposable income reached RMB22484. Most of them come from vegetables and related industries. Shouguang local young people take over the shed from their parents as a modern farmer.
Adhere to scientific and technological innovation to enhance the industrial development. At present, there are 69 new varieties of independent intellectual property vegetables in Weifang. This year ,71 varieties have been granted the new varieties of vegetables by the Ministry of Agriculture and Countryside. The market share of domestic vegetable varieties has increased from 40%10 years ago to 70% now. At the same time, with the Internet of things technology popularizing, the new greenhouse generally installed water and fertilizer integrated machine and other facilities to improve productivity greatly .
In 2020, facing the world pandemic, Weifang City, quickly organized agricultural technicians to go to the countryside to guide vegetable production. After the outbreak of the new land market in Beijing, it also organized to increase the supply of vegetables and reserve vegetables in the Beijing market, which ensured the local people's demand for vegetables.
Today, Shouguang is leading the intelligent trendy of vegetable development. The smart "Robot vegetable farmers" will fulfill our "basket ".
