After dinner, Chen Baoli first went to see Zhang Fan's strawberries. He has always paid attention to Zhang Fan's strawberries. Like Wang Feihong, he was deeply shocked by the changes in Zhangjiazhai and secretly admired Zhang Fan.

Zhang Fan mentioned to the old village chief that on the other side of the valley, he wanted to contract the land on the other side of the creek and transform it into a vegetable and fruit orchard.

"With that large area, it's almost a hundred acres, right?" said the village party secretary in astonishment.

The rate of expansion is truly staggering. You must know that it has only been since Zhang Fan returned to his hometown? From nothing to the scale of hundreds of acres of plantations, it is a miracle.

The old village chief is supportive in principle, and the bigger Zhang Fan is, the stronger his driving ability will be, which will be beneficial and harmless to their Zhangjiazhai.

"Will the steps be too big, can you handle it?" this is what the old village chief was worried about.

At present, there are only five laborers in Zhang Fan's family who are busy, and Zhang Fan, this kid, is often lazy, and he rests for twelve hours during the day and ten hours of the day.

"No problem! Vegetables are going to be like this, the increased area, all the fruits and the like, the management is relatively loose. "Zhang Fan is not a brain-hot decision.

The village party secretary nodded, although Zhang Fan was not very old, he was quite reliable.

Nowadays, the mechanization of their village has become popular, and the whole village has laid sprinkler irrigation equipment, and no one says anything bad. It's the initial investment, which makes people a little unbearable, and they still grit their teeth and throw money into it.

The infrastructure of modern agriculture is almost all available in their village, and almost all villagers are increasing their planting area.

In addition to the sprinkler irrigation equipment, there are also people from other villages who drive agricultural machinery in, and the production efficiency is greatly improved. In the past, a family took care of five or six acres, but now it can increase to more than ten acres.

"I'll go to the town tomorrow to help you ask, the contract must be fine, I don't know the contract fee, and we don't have such a precedent. The village party secretary said to Zhang Fan.

The village party secretary is sure that the town leaders will definitely support it. They are eager to make Zhangjiazhai's vegetable planting bigger and stronger, and strive to build Zhangjiazhai into the largest vegetable planting base in the county.

For Zhang Fan's move of "sending it to the door", how can he not support it?

"The contract period should be as long as possible, and I also plan to contract the slopes on both sides of the valley. Zhang Fan simply revealed some future plans a little.

The old village chief was shocked again, the slopes on both sides of the hill are a lot of mountainous land, and the value of reclamation is not great, right?

"Are you planning to grow fruits, too?" said the village party secretary tentatively.

Zhang Fan shook his head: "It's not all about planting, I told the village chief before, agriculture is actually two aspects: planting and breeding." Next, I'm preparing to raise chickens and so on. ”

This step must be taken sooner or later. On the other side of his vegetable field, he relies more on chickens and ducks. At present, the scale of poultry is still a bit small, and the chickens and ducks, not to mention commercial use, are too few to eat and send to friends.

It is very popular to contract mountain farms to raise chickens outside, planting fruit trees above, raising chickens below, and opening farmhouses next to it, which is a model of combining agriculture and commerce.

Of course, they don't have the conditions to open a farmhouse here.

Zhang Fan just wants to splice the two modules of agriculture together to form a completed ecological agriculture.

The chickens and ducks raised are not worried that no one wants them. This point is not only clear to Zhang Fan, but also known to people in Zhangjiazhai. At the acquisition station, Manager Liang often persuaded Zhang Fan to raise more chickens and ducks.

"In that case, the contract fee may be very high!" The old village chief gave Zhang Fan a vaccination in advance.

If it is just another piece of land in the valley, only about forty acres, the contract fee will not be too much. But the area of the hillsides on both sides is really a bit large, almost covering half of the mountain.

"The cost of contracting is not an issue. ”

Since money is not a problem, there is really no problem.

The uncle was a little worried, his nephew had discussed this matter with him, but suddenly he was engaged in breeding again, do you have any experience? If you want to say that rural people don't know how to raise chickens, it will laugh to death. But everyone raises so many ten or eight, not hundreds, or even hundreds, so terrifying!

"What should I do if I have chicken plague?" The investment in raising chickens must be much higher than that of vegetable planting, and if there is chicken plague and a batch of people die, it will really cry.

"So, if you want to do a good job in epidemic prevention, don't worry too much about this. ”

"What about manpower?" asked the aunt as well.

Chickens and ducks have to be served every day, and it is not so easy. Inexplicably increasing the planting area by so much, a few of them are struggling.

"I will ask someone to help, preferably someone who has experience and knowledge in farming. ”

When it comes to experience, women in rural areas have it. In terms of knowledge, Zhang Fan is not lacking. Then, just find three or two women, with a little training, and they will be enough to do the job.

Chen Baoli, who came back from the strawberry field, was excited, and asked Zhang Fan to sell him all the strawberries.

That guy's eyes are also spicy, although the strawberries are not ripe yet, but judging from the current situation, the quality of the strawberries is definitely top-notch, the same as the previous guava.

Chen Baoli secretly said in his heart: Zhang Fan is really talented in planting.

In addition, he also had to admit that Zhangjiazhai is a good place for plants to grow, no wonder people want to build a vegetable base. He is a little hopeful that everyone can have a variety of fruits.

However, he does not have the ability to appeal, and the villagers may not bird him. After all, vegetables can be harvested several times a year, and if you want to harvest fruits, you have to wait at least two or three years.

"I can't give you an answer yet. However, it is definitely higher than the price of the regular market. Chen Baoli said to Zhang Fan.

The old village chief was curious: "How much can strawberries be sold for?"

His family also planted two acres of land, and it seems that the harvest is also good. However, strawberries are rarely sold in the town, and they don't know the market.

The yield of strawberries is definitely not as good as that of vegetables, and the harvest period is also long. They thought that in the future, they would only grow vegetables and not play with fruits.

"It depends on the quality, it's hard to say. The almost five or six yuan, the good one is more than ten yuan, and the top one is more than 20 yuan, and some places are even more outrageous. "Chen Baoli doesn't hide it from everyone.

He is a high-quality fruit, the basic price of strawberries in his store is more than 20 yuan, and those with top packaging reach 35 yuan a box, and each box is a standard kilogram.

Chen Baoli's words were undoubtedly a thunderbolt, which sounded in the minds of the old village chiefs, shaking their heads blank.

Even if they are considered to be poor, according to the unit price of five yuan, if one mu of land costs 5,000 catties, there will be more than 20,000 yuan.

Moreover, the old village chief estimated that the yield per mu was definitely more than 6,000 catties.

If you are lucky, you can make a profit of more than 30,000 yuan per acre of land, which seems to be no worse than vegetables! The main reason is that strawberries are not as hard as growing vegetables.

"Okay, we'll talk about the price in two weeks. Zhang Fan nodded.