Entrepreneurship is actually about being bold first. There are many bold and careful women who have succeeded in starting their own businesses. So here is what I have to share. Just follow me and have a look. I hope it will be helpful.
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A prodigal woman cut down all her fruit trees and took out a loan to grow morels
“Some morels are beginning to appear.” Early in the morning on March 30 , 38-year-old Balm was overjoyed. That day, as usual, she went to the 8-acre field of morels planted and prepared to water the morels. She was surprised to find that some black-headed and white-bodied morels had emerged from the soil. "With this growth trend, we can harvest in April." Balm said.
After trying to grow morels, she became a "prodigal daughter" in the eyes of her father
Balm, who only has a primary school education, is an ordinary villager in Jianbei Village, Dangba Township, Malkang City. In 2009, Balm's husband died of cerebral hemorrhage, leaving behind her and two children. The family's livelihood depends entirely on her income from selling fruits, growing vegetables and doing odd jobs.
One day in 2013, Balm accidentally saw an introduction on how to artificially grow morels on TV. “I picked up morels on the mountain before, but I didn’t expect that they could be cultivated artificially.” In addition, sheep The tripe mushrooms are rich in nutrients and can be grown at a high price without worrying about selling them, so she decided to try growing them.
After some thinking, in March of the next year, Balm cut down more than 3 acres of white cherry trees at home, took out one acre of land, and spent 5,000 yuan to bring them back from other places. Bacteria, try growing morels.
“Three acres of white cherry trees can be sold for a maximum of more than 2,000 yuan a year and a minimum of more than 600 yuan.” Balmu’s nearly 70-year-old father does not understand this very much and thinks that she is not doing her job properly. He even called her the "prodigal daughter" of the family.
Her old father’s incomprehension did not discourage her. She didn’t know how to manage it, so she asked her sister Zewangham to look up information online and find answers. At the same time, she also signed up for a morel cultivation training class in Mianyang to learn morel cultivation and management techniques.
Hard work paid off, and the morel mushrooms grown in Balmu were successful. She told reporters that she still remembers the smell of the morels she grew. They are very fragrant. In addition to giving it to some relatives and friends to taste, she also sold it for more than 4,000 yuan that year.
To support her children’s education, she took out a loan of 150,000 yuan to grow morels
Balm’s eldest son Sun Xiaohong is studying in vocational high school in Aba Prefecture Health School, and her youngest daughter Zelangham is studying in Malkang City. I am in the second year of junior high school in No. 2 Middle School. "Excluding tuition fees, the living expenses for two people are about 1,500 yuan a month." Balm said frankly that her annual income is only more than 4,000 yuan, which feels very stressful for a family like hers.
Balm also tried to persuade his two children to give up studying. However, the children did not agree. In order to support her children's education, she felt that the only way out was to "work hard" in the fields.
Growing one acre of vegetables only costs about 2,000 yuan a year. Selling fruits also cannot meet the family's expenses. To this end, in October last year, she cut down more than 3 acres of apple and pear trees at home and took out a loan of 150,000 yuan. In more than 50 days, she invited relatives and friends to build a black sunscreen greenhouse and install More than 400 sprinkler pipes were installed, and morels were planted on 8 acres.
However, Jianbei Village belongs to the inundation area of ??Jinchuan Power Station and will be completely submerged in the next 10 years. How to expand profits in a limited time? "At present, the market price of dried morels is more than 600 yuan per catty, and fresh mushrooms are about 60 yuan per catty." Balmu said that the climate in the village is suitable for growing morels two seasons a year. Bacteria, but it costs more than 5,000 yuan to buy back one acre of bacteria. She hopes that *** can give her some policy and financial support. She is also planning to rent more than 20 acres of land from her neighbor to expand the scale of morel cultivation and strive to achieve better benefits.
What makes Balmu happy is that within this year, Dangba Township *** has planned to build a 3-kilometer irrigation channel for her morel base to completely solve the irrigation problem.
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The village girl refused to admit defeat and sold eggs online
Sun Mei is 35 years old this year. She said that every Spring Festival, she sees many people from other places returning to their hometowns to celebrate the New Year. When they leave, they take away many free-range chickens and free-range eggs from their hometown and give them to friends from other places. Seeing this, her eyes lit up, and then she did a market research. She found that Northern Jiangsu grass chicken is pure and delicious, and is very popular in surrounding areas, especially in the big cities of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai. So, in 2012, she contracted more than 20 acres of forest land in the village and took the lead in setting up a free-range chicken farm. All chickens are scattered in the woods, mainly foraging for grass, vegetables, insects and other food, supplemented by corn, soybean meal, Wheat feeding.
With the cries of "clack", the first batch of grass chickens raised by Sun Mei began to lay eggs. How to sell the eggs has become a problem that often troubles her. It was summer at that time, and the eggs would go bad after only a few days.
An accidental Taobao shopping gave her the idea of ??opening a Taobao store. She worked during the day and searched for various agricultural product stores on Taobao at night to study. From the most basic online store registration, to the decoration of the new store, to the detailed description of each product, she carefully considered it. In this way, her local specialty Taobao store opened, selling grass-fed chickens, grass-fed eggs, Baoying rice, rapeseed oil and various specialty agricultural products from the Baoying region.
The first order was placed only 9 days after the store opened.
The store was opened, but a new store has no sales and no credibility, so naturally no one cares about it. Sun Mei takes photos, pictures and descriptions of the babies she sells. In order to take a photo of a chicken playing freely, she had to squat in the grass for half a day, and at night she had to sort and beautify the picture.
On the 9th day after the store officially opened, a Shanghai customer came to inquire about grass eggs. The "ding-dong" sound of the customer coming to the door made her blood boil. She carefully explained how free-range chickens are raised, how to prevent epidemics, and how eggs are packaged and transported. The customer was very satisfied and immediately placed an order for 30 eggs worth 48 yuan. The first business was concluded in this way, and she was so happy that she didn't sleep all night.
In the future, we plan to open a chain across the country
Because we need to work during the day, packaging eggs can only be completed at night. When customers need free-range chickens, she kills them at night and plucks the feathers one by one under the light. Slowly, the store's business has improved, and now it is about to get a diamond upgrade.
"The eggs are wrapped in four or five layers of foam bags, which are shock-proof and fall-proof, and are very safe to transport." Sun Mei was very excited to see the reporter. She told reporters that since selling eggs online, she has received constant praise and has not received a single complaint. She sells eggs worth tens of thousands of yuan every year. Next, her dream is to make her Taobao store a well-known brand across the country and promote ecological agricultural products nationwide.