The development of facility agriculture is an effective way to readjust the agricultural structure and achieve a sustained increase in peasants' income. In recent years, based on the advantages of local resources, Hehou Village, Xifeng Town, Xifeng County, has actively adjusted the industrial structure, actively guided the villagers to develop the greenhouse cucumber planting industry, and helped the villagers increase their income and become rich.
Walking into the Hehou Village Jinhui Flower Planting Cooperative, rows of vines full of cucumbers come into view, and cucumbers with thorns on the top flowers are hanging on the branches, and there is a green scenery everywhere. Workers are busy picking and loading baskets, and the scene is a bumper harvest. Xifeng Town and Houcun Jinhui Flower Planting Cooperative was established in 2019, began to plant cucumbers in May this year, and there are 10 greenhouses for planting water cucumbers and dry cucumbers, each shed can produce about 3,000 catties per day, and two kinds of cucumbers are wholesale ** about 2 yuan per catty, and the annual income is expected to be 70,000 yuan, and the economic benefits are very considerable. "We plant a crop of cucumbers in the greenhouse a year, and after the cucumbers come out of the shed at the end of December, we will continue to plant tulips and other flowers, and go on the market before the Spring Festival. Yin Hua, the head of the cooperative, said.
Interior view of the cucumber greenhouse.
Yin Hua used to be a teacher, because of his strong interest in agriculture, devoted himself to the development of the agricultural industry, and established a cooperative, the current cooperative contracted 20 greenhouses, in addition to planting cucumbers, but also to develop flower planting, but also drive the surrounding villagers to work with him. After the establishment of Jinhui Flower Planting Cooperative, it directly drove the surrounding villagers to come to work, and the villagers increased their income by about 3,000 yuan per person per month, realizing employment at their doorstep. "I have been working here since the establishment of the cooperative, and I can earn about 20,000 yuan a year. Liu Rong, a 63-year-old villager, said.
Interior view of the cucumber greenhouse.
For a long time, Xifeng Town, Xifeng County, has emphasized characteristics and strong foundations, vigorously developed facility agriculture, and took the lead in building three industries: leisure picking of large cherries in the north, flowers in the central part and Junzi orchid planting in the south, forming a green development industrial project. At the same time, Xifeng Town adheres to the principle of "grasping the big and not letting go of the small", develops traditional advantageous industries such as sika deer and cattle, and realizes the "from scratch, from there to excellent" in the fields of silkworms, edible fungi, Chinese medicinal materials and fruit and vegetable facility agriculture, and the town has basically realized the good situation of "three strong leading, multi-point flowering, and coordinated development", which provides a "starting point" for building an industrial chain and extending the industrial chain.
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