Zhong'an**, Zhong'an News Client NewsHow can a poor and backward small mountain village become a national 4A-level tourist attraction with a small pomegranate?On November 30, the interview group with the theme of "New Era, New Journey, New Cause" walked into the durian garden community of Lieshan Town, Lieshan District, Huaibei City, to explore the "code to get rich" in the mountains.
There are women who do not marry in Durian Village, and a well rope is eighteen catties. This proverb expresses the hardships of the villagers of Durian Village. Located in the eastern mountainous area of Lieshan Town, the community has an arid climate and poor soil, which the locals call "Stone Mountain". How to make the "stone mountain" bear the "fruit of getting rich"?
The geographical location of our village was relatively remote, the traffic was blocked, there were no township enterprises at that time, and the villagers lived in poverty. So we wanted to take advantage of the mountain and plant drought-tolerant pomegranates on a large scale. Song Jiji, a 70-year-old villager, began to lead villagers to plant pomegranates as early as the 90s of the last century, and now he is also the chairman of the Taxian Pomegranate Professional Cooperative.
In recent years, the pomegranate orchard community has adopted the model of "branch + cooperative + farmer" according to local conditions, vigorously developed the pomegranate industry, organized the establishment of Taxian pomegranate professional cooperative association, and served farmers with a pomegranate planting area of more than 20,000 mu. During the pomegranate fruiting period, the pomegranate is purchased, packaged and sold in a unified manner, and the Tashan National Geographical Indication and Green Food Mark are authorized to help farmers sell more than 10,000 tons of pomegranates every year. In 2023, the per capita net income of cooperative farmers will exceed 230,000 yuan.
The pomegranate area of our pomegranate orchard community is more than 20,000 acres, and the total output value of our pomegranate products has exceeded 1 this year200 million yuan, benefiting more than 800 households. Zhu Yongle, a member of the party committee and minister of armed forces in Lieshan Town, said that the pomegranate industry has not only helped villagers increase their income, but also beautified the environment and conserved water and soil, making it a "factory that does not smoke".
In addition, Durian Garden Village has a history of pomegranate cultivation for thousands of years, and the long-standing pomegranate culture has also become an important starting point for the local development of cultural tourism industry. As the core area of the Four Seasons Durian Garden Scenic Area, the Durian Garden community vigorously develops rural tourism, takes the scenic spot trusteeship operation as an opportunity, adopts the model of "branch + company", and invests in Hejia Scenic Area Management Company in two ways of capital and land, and participates in the dividend of the scenic spot management company at the end of the year, which can increase the income of the village collective by 150,000 yuan per year.
In the past, it was a "backward village", but now it has become a well-known "tourist village". In the future, the pomegranate community will continue to plan to broaden the pomegranate industry chain, build a comprehensive scenic spot integrating picking, play, sightseeing and leisure, promote the integrated development of the agricultural tourism industry, and let "pomegranate red" illuminate the "road to prosperity" of the villagers. (Reporter Lu Wenwei).