“Wufeng Blue” Sells 10000kg Gingers for Poor Households
2016-11-11 17:12:30
(Reporters Tang Tingting, Zheng Yi) On October 28th, in Meierchong village of Yugangguan town of Wufeng County, poverty-stricken household, Wang Dehui, was busy removing dirt of the gingers, and then packed. At the entrance of the village, the staffs of "Wufeng Blue" e-commerce platform were waiting at the purchasing station to weigh and then settled the accounts "Recently, the ginger sales were tough due to the bad weather and gingers should have been rotted in farms.We did not expect that staffs of "Wufeng Blue" could help us sell gingers on the Internet but now it was indeed a great help." said Wang Dehui with a smile, while checking the bills. Wang Dehui’s son has long been suffering from illness, and their family is very poor. The whole family could only live off the 5 acres of land. Thus, he was overjoyed when more than 250 kilograms of his gingers were sold out .
This year, many villagers have planted a large area of gingers, and they are looking forward to a good sale at the end of the year. It was the selling season of ginger, but the unending rainy days, which resulted in the failure of drying gingers worried villagers a lot. Liu Zhifeng, who has been engaged in the purchase of vegetables in the villager for many years, realized their difficulty, and then quickly asked friends for help.
Liu Zhifeng heard that there was an e-commerce industrial park in the county by chance, where agricultural products can be sold and sales are not bad, and then he went to contact with people there. After learning villagers’ predicament, Wufeng e--commerce poverty alleviation project office and Wufeng Impression Network Technology Limited Company quickly set up a group to study on selling plan.
After many twists and turns, the China Pacific Insurance Company Ltd Hubei branch agreed to cooperate with Wufeng e-commerce business platform. The e-commerce accurate poverty alleviation working group of the company's Jinyulan wealth management department and the "Wufeng Blue" business platform reached a strategic cooperation and decided to sell gingers of Wufeng to Wuhan.
After finding the market, "Wufeng Blue" platform quickly arranged people, together with Liu Zhifeng, to the Meierchong village for the collection of gingers. At the same time, the working group expanded the scope of procurement to the western mountains, and purchased a large number of unsalable gingers in the homes of poor households through major cooperatives. Through two days’ contact, acquisition and cleaning, a total of more than 5000 kilograms gingers were collected and packed in a truck. Hearing that they sell gingers for the poor households, Wufeng Yunda express company got in touch with the working group actively and provided free delivery service. Soon, the first batch of gingers arrived in Wuhan, and was sold out.
Later, "Jinyulan" placed another order of 5000 kg gingers, to ensure that all unmarketable gingers were sold out and accelerate the sale with the help of the e-commerce. At present, the purchase of second batch of gingers has completed waiting for delivery. "Through our e- business platform, not only gingers, but also other agricultural products can be easily delivered out of the mountainous areas so as to help farmers shake off poverty and become prosperous. Recently, we have received an order of wild kiwi fruits of 1500 kg in total and we will them ready after the ginger business, ", Zhao Peng, people in charge of Wufeng Impression Network Technology Co., Ltd., said.
It is understood that since the operation of "Wufeng Blue" business platform, 7500 kg of dry toona sinensis, 20 tons of high mountain potatoes, 10000 kg plums and 3000 kg of smoked pork were sold out successively, making it possible for farmers in Wufeng to sell their agricultural products all over the country at home.