Yueyang Evening News (correspondent Fu Jiesheng)."Now is the critical time for winter management of the forest and fruit industry, first of all, we need to prune the fruit trees, and secondly, we need to whiten the trunks to resist frost and prevent pests and diseases. In December, we will also do a good job in the management and protection of the forest and fruit industry, hoping to have a good harvest next year. It was early winter, and as the temperature gradually decreased, Liu Shuangqiu of Qingshui Village, Xinqiang Town, Yueyang County, was carrying out grape pruning and soil burial, putting on thick "winter clothes" for the grapes, and laying a good foundation for a bumper harvest in the coming year.
The winter management of the grapes has a direct impact on the normal growth and fruit setting of the grapes in the following year. In order to ensure the safe wintering of grapes and the fruit setting rate of grapes next year, in the past few days, the village "two committees" and work teams and agricultural technicians of Qingshui Village, Xinqiang Town, have gone deep into the fields to actively guide the villagers to seize time, grasp the progress, ensure quality, and guide the management of the forest and fruit industry such as grape overwintering and burying vines, so as to avoid the grapes from being affected by frost and the yield.
In the Seven Fairies Grape Cooperative not far away, Tao Wei, the person in charge of the cooperative, removed the pruned grape branches from the shelves, bundled, mulched, and buried fertilizer in one go. In 2022, Tao Wei planted 4 varieties of grapes including sapphire, beauty finger and sunshine rose in his 50 acres of land, and next year he will gradually enter the fruiting period, which makes him more confident.
Qingshui Village is located on the bank of the Xinqiang River, close to Yueyang city and the county seat, close to the Beijing-Zhuhai Expressway, and National Highway 107 runs through the whole territory. In recent years, Qingshui Village has been guided by party building and actively explored the rural governance model of "party members helping members, gathering the hearts of the people with the party heart, and bringing the people's customs with the party style", and has become a "star village" with good industrial development, beautiful living environment and new civilization in northern Xiangbei. It has been awarded the honors of "National Civilized Village", "National Demonstration Village of Democracy and Rule of Law", "National Demonstration Village for Human Settlements Environment Improvement", "National Demonstration Village for Rural Governance", "Demonstration Village for New Rural Construction in Hunan Province" and "Famous Tourism Village with Characteristics in Hunan Province". In mid-September this year, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs announced the list of 256 villages in China's beautiful leisure villages in 2023, and Qingshui Village, Xinqiang Town, was among them.
In recent years, Xinqiang Town, Yueyang County, has actively guided farmers to adjust the structure of agricultural industry, optimize the layout of agricultural industry, vigorously develop the "sweet" industry, and vigorously develop modern characteristic industries through the construction of fruit demonstration bases, combined with leisure agriculture and sightseeing, and promote the formation of large-scale, branding and specialization of high-quality fruit bases, and further launch the agricultural brand of "one village, one product". After continuous development, Qingshui Village takes grape planting as its pillar industry, and has achieved good demonstration effects in planting technology, scale management, and brand building. At present, Qingshui Village, Xinqiang Town, has developed more than 10,000 acres of fruit base, melons and fruits are fragrant all year round, and various fruits such as grapefruit, summer orange, dragon fruit, grapes and so on are famous far and wide, and the people have tasted the sweetness from them.