When the Xinfeng Town of Yancheng’s Dafeng was planning to set up a Holland-style eco village, which covers an area of 2.46 square kilometers, Nicolas was believed as the perfect flower expert for the Dafeng Holland Flower Park in the eco village. When Nicolas received the offer, he decided to take a look at the city. On the arrival at Dafeng, he immediately fell in love with the fresh air in the clean city. He became an advisor for tulip cultivation at the park in 2013. Five years have passed by, and it was still the cleanness that attracted him the most in Dafeng.
The first few months in Dafeng was quite hard for him, since the flower park was not fully completed and there were few visitors in the spacious but deserted park, especially in winter days. What’s worse, the local tulip market was far less prosperous than it is now. He proposed to hold an indoor flower exhibition to attract visitors, which turned out to be a big success. Nicolas believes that the flower park is more than a tourist attraction. It can also be a business platform linking buyers and growers.
Nicolas is an advocator of modern agriculture. After modern tractors, planters and harvesters were brought in one by one, the working efficiency has been highly improved, scores or even hundreds of times than before. More and more workers like to work with modern agricultural machinery, and the tulip business in the park is also marching into an era of large-scale, automation and industrialization. Nicolas feels that everything now in China are becoming more modern and developed.