Ningxia Hongsibao: The Gobi Desert's "yellow flowers" are particularly fragrant
2024-07-30
It is the season for picking yellow cauliflower. At 4 o'clock in the morning, villagers in the yellow cauliflower fields of Hongsibao District, Wuzhong City, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, began their day's work wearing searchlights. Guided by beams of lights, everyone quickly and skillfully picked fresh vegetables until the scorching sun shone brightly. At noon, after several hours of picking, villagers gathered on the ground waiting to be weighed. Zhou Yuchun, a 48 year old villager from Liuquan Village in Liuquan Township, told reporters that he used to work in another city, but now he has work to do at his doorstep. I started picking yellow flowers in mid June and can earn over 100 yuan a day, "he said. In over 40 days, we will hire more than 400 people from surrounding villages to pick yellow flowers, and each person can earn at least three to four thousand yuan. If farmers transfer their land to cooperatives, there is still a transfer fee of 700 yuan per mu of land per year When it comes to the benefits that the development of the yellow flowered vegetable industry brings to the local people, Miao Jun, the head of the crop planting professional cooperative in Liuquanyuan (Hongsibao District, Wuzhong City), calculated a sum of money for the reporter while holding his fingers. Under the guidance of the cooperative, some local villagers have also started to experiment with planting yellow flowers in their own fields, with the cooperative providing them with full technical guidance. I don't worry about planting or selling, "Zhou Yuchun said. Recently, foreign merchants contacted us proactively to purchase dried yellow cabbage, and the product has been successfully exported Miao Jun said that the market price is good this year, with one kilogram of dried vegetables selling for 26 or 7 yuan, and the export price is even higher. Hongsibao District is the largest centralized resettlement area for relocated ecological immigrants in China, inhabited by over 200000 relocated residents from Xihai Gu. After years of development, Hongsi Fort, which was originally a Gobi Desert, has become a new home for people to live and work in peace and contentment. Goji berries, yellow flowers, Chinese medicinal herbs, beef cattle, Tan sheep and other characteristic agricultural products have been improved in quality and efficiency, allowing relocated residents to live a good life. Our yellow cauliflower has formed an advantageous industry that integrates the entire industry chain of planting, purchasing, processing, and sales, which cannot be achieved without the support of a series of innovative policies and mechanisms that benefit agriculture Wang Rui, Deputy Director of the Agricultural Technology Extension Service Center in Hongsibao District, said. According to Wang Rui, in recent years, the government has introduced multiple policies to support the yellow flowered vegetable industry: a subsidy of 200 yuan per mu is provided to farmers, cooperatives, etc. who newly plant yellow flowered vegetables; Continuously investing special funds to build public drying plants, cold storage facilities, and finishing rooms; Encourage cooperatives and other organizations to process frozen yellow flowers, with a subsidy of 0.5 yuan per kilogram... Zhang Yamei, the secretary of the Liuquan Village Party Branch in Liuquan Township, said that in the past, villagers used small boilers to steam yellow flowers themselves, often resulting in the loss of a large amount of fresh vegetables due to poor control of the heat. Now that there is a finishing house, the cooperative actively purchases fresh vegetables for unified processing and sales, while the villagers are only responsible for planting and harvesting, which not only improves production efficiency but also reduces losses. In 2023, the yellow flowered vegetable industry in Hongsibao District will drive employment for over 30000 people and generate a labor income of 95.5 million yuan. This year, the local production of fresh yellow cabbage is expected to reach 73000 tons, and the comprehensive output value is expected to reach 400 million yuan. Embroidered buds are vegetables, while blooming buds are flowers. The small yellow lily not only enriches the people, but also beautifies the countryside. Zhang Yamei told reporters that the soil planted with yellow flowers often has a darker color because it locks in the moisture in the soil, making the once yellow sand filled Gobi Desert look different. Focusing on improving the support system for strengthening, benefiting, and enriching agriculture, the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China decided to propose measures such as "strengthening county-level industries for enriching the people," "cultivating new industries and business models in rural areas," and "improving long-term mechanisms for promoting comprehensive rural revitalization. It is reported that Hongsibao is actively promoting the development of characteristic agriculture, building a sorting and packaging center for agricultural special products and an e-commerce incubation center, cultivating leading enterprises and new business entities, strengthening the mechanism of linking the interests of goji berry bases and yellow flowered vegetable cooperatives with agriculture, and empowering rural revitalization. New industries and formats in rural areas are important driving forces for rural revitalization and promoting integrated urban-rural development. Next, on the basis of building distinctive brands and leveraging platform advantages to expand sales, Hongsibao will plan to construct a yellow flowered vegetable culture themed leisure agriculture demonstration park, exploring a cultural and tourism development path of 'promoting tourism with flowers, leading flowers with tourism, and integrating flowers and tourism' Wang Rui said. (New Society)
Edit：He Chuanning Responsible editor：Su Suiyue
Source：Xinhua
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