Chunfeng Strawberries

Chunfeng Strawberries

　　The Chunfeng Fruit and Vegetable Professional Cooperative of Zhongmu County was established in April 2005. Over the years, the cooperative has grown to include 367 member households across three villages, cultivating strawberries on over 2,000 acres with an average net income of more than 20,000 yuan per acre. The cooperative has also helped spur the development of over 10,000 additional acres of strawberry farming in surrounding towns. The cooperative has been visited and guided by leaders from the Ministry of Agriculture, as well as provincial, municipal, and county authorities. It has been featured in reports by Xinhua News Agency, People’s Daily, China Central Television, Henan Television, and Henan Daily. The cooperative has been recognized as a Model Cooperative and Top 100 Cooperative by the Zhengzhou Municipal Commission of Agriculture, a Model Cooperative by the Henan Provincial Department of Agriculture, and designated as a Henan Provincial Demonstration Base for Standardized Agricultural Production. In 2013, it was honored as an Outstanding Cooperative by the Henan Provincial Party Committee Agricultural Office and other organizations, and has been repeatedly named an Advanced Unit of Farmer Cooperatives by the Zhongmu County Party Committee and County Government.

　　Since its establishment, the cooperative has strictly adhered to the principles of “run by the people, managed by the people, and benefiting the people,” providing services to its members and organizing them under a “six unifications” model for production and sales. It rigorously implements green food strawberry production technical regulations, completely prohibits the use of highly toxic and high-residue pesticides, bans artificial hormone pollination, and exclusively uses bee pollination. The strawberries are irrigated with unpolluted deep well water. As a result, the strawberries produced are free from pollution and are truly safe agricultural products. In January 2006, the “Chunfeng” brand trademark was registered with the State Administration for Industry and Commerce. In 2007, it was awarded the honorary title of “Henan Provincial Famous Brand Agricultural Product,” and in August of the same year, it obtained the pollution-free product certification from the Ministry of Agriculture’s Agricultural Product Quality Testing Center. Due to its standardized operation and significant benefits, the cooperative was named a Model Farmer Professional Cooperative in Zhengzhou. In 2006, it was designated by the Ministry of Agriculture as a pilot project unit for farmer professional cooperative organizations. In 2009, it was recognized as a Henan Provincial Model Farmer Professional Cooperative and certified by the Provincial Department of Agriculture as a Henan Provincial Pollution-Free Demonstration Base. In 2011, it was honored as an Advanced Science Popularization Demonstration Unit by the Zhengzhou Association for Science and Technology, and has been repeatedly named an Advanced Unit of Farmer Cooperatives by the Zhongmu County Party Committee and County Government. In April 2012, it obtained the Green Food Certification for strawberries, becoming the first cooperative in Henan Province to receive such certification.