yam loading (photo taken on November 5). Xinhuanet Posted (Photo by Guo Yi)
Xinhuanet Kunming, November 11 (Zhao Pufan, Guo Yi, Zhao Lianxi) In early winter, traditional crops such as rice and corn have been harvested and returned to the warehouse. In Shibalianshan Town, Fuyuan County, Qujing City, Yunnan Province, it is the season for agricultural special products to harvest, and the fields are still busy.
Digging yams and harvesting crabs
After several months of careful management, workers are busy digging, sorting and loading trucks in the 500-acre yam planting demonstration base of the Farmers’ Professional Cooperative in Shibalianshan Town.
Farmers carry yam (photo taken on November 5). Xinhuanet published (photo by Guo Yi)
"This year, through the cooperative planting demonstration base, more than 500 registered poor households have been planted in the surrounding area. According to the growth and purchase price this year, it is estimated that all growers can have good returns." Chen Pei, the legal person of the millet land planting farmers professional cooperative responsible for providing technical guidance and purchasing and sales to growers in the town, said.
Farmers are harvesting yam (photo taken on November 5). Xinhuanet published (photo by Guo Yi)
Since yam was promoted and planted as a key poverty alleviation industry in 2017, the town has adopted the "poverty alleviation and development branch + professional cooperative + village cooperative + base + poor households" mechanism. In three years, not only the cooperatives can make profits, but also drive more and more farmers, the planting area continues to expand, and the planting benefits are increasing year by year. So far, Shibalianshan Town has led 2,235 farmers to plant 3,100 acres of yam, and has promoted and planted it in Housuo, Fucun and other townships.
yam framed (photo taken on November 5). Xinhuanet published (photo by Guo Yi)
has the confidence to grow yam to drive the people's income. In 2019, the Farmers' Professional Cooperative for Planting Milli Land invested more than 2 million yuan to transfer 300 acres of idle paddy fields in the Buyang Village Committee and raised hairy crabs.
packed hairy crabs to be shipped (photo taken on November 5). Xinhuanet posted (photo by Guo Yi)
"In recent times, it is the season for hairy crabs to harvest. Almost every day, dozens of workers in the cooperative are busy collecting yams and catching crabs and selling crabs." Every day, the base manager Zhu Peng was very happy to watch the framed yams and hairy crabs transported away in trucks.
"Order" ginger is on the market to boost farmers' "pockets"
Except for the harvest of yam and crabs, on both sides of the road of the Dalajia Villagers Group of Lajia Village Committee, except for the corn fields that have been harvested and sorted out, the rest are slices of ginger.
Ginger to be dug (photo taken on November 5). Xinhuanet posted (photo by Guo Yi)
ginger has matured, and Fang Guangping, like other villagers, is busy digging. "A few years ago, I was worried that ginger could not be sold, so I planted less, so I planted 3 acres this year." Fang Guangping told reporters with a smile that the buyer has signed an order at home in advance, and it should be no problem to sell it for 30,000 yuan.
Farmers dig ginger (photo taken on November 5). Xinhuanet published (photo by Guo Yi)
It is understood that Shibalianshan Town has promoted ginger cultivation in the town in recent years in conjunction with the industrial support policies for poverty alleviation. It has now driven more than 6,000 farmers to plant more than 22,000 mu of ginger. This year, the output is expected to exceed 50,000 tons. Based on the current market purchase price and the buyer's order price, the estimated output value can reach more than 500 million yuan.
kiwi fruit is popular in the market and steadily increase income
html In November, kiwi fruit sales in Shibalianshan Town have entered the final stage. At the kiwi fruit planting base of the forest farm in the town, workers are packing and transporting the last batch of kiwi fruit, and other large-scale growers and farmers in the town have basically ended.Liu Hong, head of the kiwi fruit planting base of Shibalianshan Town Forest Farm, introduced that this year the base picked and sold 16 tons of fresh fruits, with an income of more than 300,000 yuan; the output of large households with more than 50 acres of planted are about 10 tons, with an income of more than 200,000 yuan; the average income of other farmers who have already grown fruits in the past few years was several thousand yuan.
In order to help villagers open up new roads to get rich and further consolidate the results of poverty alleviation, Shibalianshan Town relies on the advantages of cultivating fruit seedlings and providing technical support in the forest farm's 80-acre kiwi fruit planting demonstration park, this year, it has developed more than 700 mu of kiwi fruit in the town's continuous planting, and invested 230,000 yuan to pilot planting 1,060 kiwi fruit plants in the courtyards of 265 farmers to develop the "yard economy". In the next three years, it is planned to promote the planting of 3,000 mu of kiwi fruit in the town.
"When the kiwifruit in the town fully enters the fruit-bearing period, the kiwifruit industry will also become a local characteristic pillar industry, driving more farmers to achieve sustainable and stable income growth." Talking about future industrial planning, Geng Hui, director of the Industrial Development Office of Shibalianshan Town, is full of confidence. (End)
