Farmer Wang Yulan (right) goes online with the help of her neice Liu Hairong (left) to sell the produce she and her husband grow in their home in rural Beijing. -- PHOTO: AFP
BEIJING - FOR years, Wang Yulan and her husband drove their three-wheeled vehicle to an outdoor market near Beijing to sell broccoli, peppers, eggplants and tomatoes grown on their small plot of land.
Now, thanks to the web, they don't even have to leave their living room.
Two years ago the couple bought a computer and joined a growing number of Chinese farmers selling their produce online, giving them access to customers around the country and boosting their meagre income.
'A broad market is opened once you get on the computer,' Ms Wang, 55, told AFP as she logged on to agricultural trading website aptc.cn with the help of her niece.
'The Internet is convenient. The customers first place an order, we prepare the items, and they then send a van to pick them up.' Since Wang and her husband Liu Shujin, 66, started trading their vegetables online, the couple's income has more than doubled to between 20,000 and 30,000 yuan (S$3,814-5,721) a year and life has become easier. -- AFP
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