1994: Vegetable farmers strike back

Chapter 75: The Perfect Handover (Please Read!)
"Jiazhi, Lixiu, come over for breakfast."

It was not until Chen Jiafang's call was heard that Li Xiucai put the sorted money away and went over to eat together.

Breakfast was pickled mustard greens with porridge and steamed buns. The mustard greens were grown by Yi Dinggan before, and they tasted sour, crispy and refreshing.

Chen Jiazhi was upset about not being able to buy mustard seeds and said, "This pickled mustard greens are good, Brother Yi, what kind of seeds did you use? I'll plant some if they're suitable, to enrich my vegetable variety."

Yi Dinggan replied, "The climate may not be suitable for growing water mustard now."

Chen Jiazhi: "Forget it, I'll buy some more when I have time."

Mustard is also an important leafy vegetable crop in the Pearl River Delta, probably second only to Chinese cabbage and Chinese cabbage.

The main varieties include water mustard, large-leaf mustard and mustard variant Meicai.

Water mustard has the best taste and is the main variety in the high-end market, while large-leaf mustard is more heat-resistant and is the main crop grown in summer.

Meicai, a variant of mustard greens, is the Meicai in "Meicai Kourou".

The demand for mustard greens in the consumer market is very stable, and it can also be used as one of the main varieties in the vegetable market in the future.

Yi Dinggan said, "You have a bad eye for seeds. Please bring some for me when you buy them. I am also planning to plant some more mustard greens."

"Okay." After a pause, Chen Jiazhi continued, "Brother Yi, do you feel that the vegetables in your field are too diverse now? Instead of planting everything, why not focus on a few varieties? Stability is everything."

Yi Dinggan: "If you plant too much of the same variety on too large an area, it will be difficult to sell the vegetables when they are hard to sell."

Chen Jiazhi: "In recent years, the country has been carrying out reforms and the economy has developed rapidly. The demand for vegetables for hotel and catering and daily consumption is very strong, especially in restaurants, hotels and various factories. As long as we can steadily supply a few major customers, we don't have to worry about sales at all."

Yi Dinggan: "It's not that easy to get orders from restaurants, hotels, and factories."

Chen Jiazhi put down his chopsticks and pointed at himself: "You can see with your own eyes that among my current group of customers, there are probably several who are delivering to restaurants, hotels and factories.

The key to gaining their trust is to maintain a stable supply.

If you sell vegetables for a few days or half a month and then they run out, or if you change the category, people won’t feel comfortable buying from you.”

Chen Jiazhi then gave several examples from the market and shared his own experience with Yi Dinggan.

While the two were talking, Li Xiu and Chen Jiafang ate quietly, listening to Chen Jiazhi listing the information of each client one by one.

It has a bit of the flavor of pointing out the way forward and expressing one's power.

These are the experiences of small vegetable farmers in survival and development, and they are very powerful in this era.

The vegetable basket project and market reform have only been in place for a few years, and the number of small professional vegetable farmers is not much more than that of large vegetable markets.

Moreover, many professional small vegetable farmers in the south have left their hometowns. Not only do they lack knowledge of technology, seeds, agricultural materials, etc., they also lack understanding of the vegetable supply market in big cities.

Large vegetable markets alone cannot meet the needs of the existing market, and there are plenty of development opportunities.

In his previous life, it was his second sister and brother-in-law who took him through life, and he walked with difficulty.

Regardless of whether Yi Dinggan would work for him this time, he was willing to share some experience based on their relationship.

Yi Dinggan is not a fool either.

Chen Jiazhi has proved everything with his strength. Last night, Yi Dinggan didn't even dare to face his fiery victory and slipped back home early.

And now every word and sentence he says is valuable.

Yi Dinggan pondered and said, "Brother, what kind of crops do you think I should plant?"

Chen Jiazhi: "Like me, I mainly grow Chinese cabbage, kale, and mustard greens. I want to keep a stable supply of them over the long term, and if I have extra land, I'll plant other vegetables."

Yi Dinggan: "Will there be a business conflict with you? Also, if we continue to crop crops for a long time, pests and diseases will increase."

Chen Jiazhi smiled and said, "Don't worry at all. When you have more vegetables, we can separate them into two markets. The vegetable market in Flower City is huge, and there are many wholesale markets. Besides Flower City, there are also Shenzhen, Hong Kong and Macau, other major cities in China, and even other countries.
As for re-cultivation, we can't worry too much about it for the time being. We are a migrant population, and we move from place to place after each job. It is normal to change land every three years.

When we become bigger, we will consider a long-term base.

What we need to do now is to make money, make money, and make money!"

Looking at the ambitious Chen Jiazhi, Yi Dinggan and Chen Jiafang were both stunned. They didn't expect him to think so far ahead.

Li Xiu was also stunned and stared at him blankly.

Yi Dinggan recovered and asked, "Brother, how much did you sell last night?"

Chen Jiazhi smiled calmly: "2754 yuan."

Chen Jiafang froze for two seconds as she picked up the food with her chopsticks. Yi Dinggan seemed relieved: "Actually, I roughly guessed it." Chen Jiazhi smiled: "But this is just the beginning. Have you seen the vegetables in my field?"

"Stop talking, I don't want to see you showing off anymore." Yi Dinggan waved his hands and stood up: "I'm going to work. Damn, how can you sell so much money!"

at the same time,

Li Mingkun and Bai Yan next door were also feeling uneasy.

Qi Yongfeng vividly described the scene of buyers scrambling for vegetables.

Other vegetable farmers also gradually learned about Chen Jiazhi's achievements.

2700 yuan a night!
An unimaginable number.

Most vegetable farming couples cannot save this amount in a year, but he only took one night.

While Zhou Shijun and his wife were working in the fields, they kept looking at the Chinese cabbage under the shade net next door.

When Ao Dehai and others lifted the sunshade net to water the plants, patches of tender green cabbage came into view. Zhou Shijun's eyes widened, and he wished all the cabbage could be his.

Unfortunately, he has been closely watched by Ao Dehai and Qi Yongfeng recently.

Everyone is on guard against him.

Even if you want to pick a few vegetables to eat yourself, you won't have the chance to do so, let alone steal and sell them.

He felt that Chen Jiazhi had noticed his previous deliberate blocking of the dam.

He didn't have many vegetables in his field at the time, so he decided to die together with his family.
Now, not only can I not do anything, there are no vegetables to harvest in the fields. What’s more, I have to watch others have a bumper harvest every day. I can’t help but watch. Every day is a living torture.

Chen Jiazhi has no time to care about other people's feelings.

In the morning, he watered the seedlings in the tray and cowpea seedlings as usual. The first batch of Chinese kale seeds had germinated with a good germination rate, and the broccoli seeds were still breaking through the soil.

At the same time, another crop of Chinese cabbage was sown.

目前6月的菜心播种时间依次是2日、5和6日、7日、10和11日，面积也各不相同。

He divided plots of land No. 7 and No. 8 into 1-acre plots and sowed the seeds in 1-acre plots over two days.

The general principle is to ensure that the output of basic Chinese cabbage is 500~700 kilograms per day.

The pace of sowing Chinese cabbage is going smoothly now.

As long as the seedlings do not die accidentally during the process, the supply of cabbage hearts will not be interrupted.

At noon, Chen Jiazhi took the time to take stock of the last crop of water spinach.

1.05亩鸡心白，一共产出了4087斤空心菜，从5.29日卖到6月11日。

The output is lower than the previous batch of Daguqing, but the price started at 1.6 yuan/jin, soared all the way, and finally ended at 2.7 yuan/jin.

The income is actually much higher.

A perfect crop of water spinach.

Thanks to the heavy rain at the end of May, he earned a total income of nearly 5 yuan, which enabled him to further expand his stall.

and,

Connected with the more ferocious Chinese cabbage.

There are only two days left until the Dragon Boat Festival. Various grand banquets are held every day in the village outside the vegetable market, dragon boats are ready to go in the river, restaurants and hotels are packed, and the festive atmosphere is everywhere.

They were busy eating and drinking.

Chen Jiazhi is busy making money.

Another day passed by in a busy manner.

The water spinach was cleared out, but the gap was filled with more Chinese cabbage.

Under the moonlight and lights, the Chinese cabbage filled in plastic baskets, bamboo baskets and iron frames occupied more than ten to twenty square meters, which was extremely spectacular.

In the 100-meter sprint, this is the perfect baton pass.

(End of this chapter)