Now is the season of farming, but in Lujiangba, Longyang District, farmers are not only not "idle", but even busier, because since the beginning of winter, their out-of-season vegetables have ushered in the peak sales season.
Since the end of November last year, dozens of electric tricycles have been coming in and out every morning at the Mango Fruit and Vegetable Market, not far from Xinzhai Village, China's No. 1 coffee village, to sell lentils, gluten-free beans and green beans. Yang Chunyan, a villager in Xinzhai Village, came in the morning to sell more than 300 kilograms of lentils at an average price of 45 yuan a kilogram.
Yang Chunyan, a villager of Xinzhai Village
I planted two acres of lentils this year, and the income per mu was about 5,000 yuan.
In the mango stick fruit and vegetable trading market, people pull the beans to the buyer to inquire about the price, and after the negotiation, the buyer will inspect the goods, weigh the beans, keep accounts, and make money in one go, and they are very busy.
Acquirer: Hwa Cent
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Seven or eight yuan a kilogram, the lowest price in the first two days.
2. Three yuan a kilogram. After the acquisition, it was pulled to the cold storage and sold to the boss in other provinces.
It is understood that more than 60,000 acres of vegetables are planted in Lujiang Town, of which 45,000 acres are bean crops, 10,000 acres are cucumbers, and the rest are tomatoes. Phaseolus vulgaris is planted from mid-September every year, enters the picking period at the end of November, and ends at the end of picking in early February of the next year, with a high yield per mu.
Three or four tons, the low one is about two tons, and the income per mu can reach more than 5,000 yuan.
At the Bingbo vegetable purchase point, Ma Zhaohua, a buyer from Shandong, is organizing people to load tomatoes by hand, and this truck of tomatoes will weigh 30 tons when filled, and all of them will be sent to Beijing.
Acquirer: Ma Zhaohua
Our tomatoes are selling well in Beijing. Now more than a dozen trucks have been sent, and more than 1,000 tons are pulled from here to Beijing every year until the Chinese New Year.
This year's tomatoes are good, with an average price of 4 yuan to 4About 5 yuan a kilogram, the income of one mu is between 35,000 yuan and 42,000 yuan, and every farmer who comes to sell tomatoes has a smile on his face.
Yang Yaodong, a villager from Xinzhai Village
I planted two acres of tomatoes this year, with a yield of 5 tons per acre, and the total income was about 30,000 yuan. Sold 1 ton today, 15 yuan a pound, sold for 3,000 yuan.
Lujiangba is known as a natural greenhouse, in the planting of off-season vegetables have a unique advantage, off-season vegetables are the main income of farmers, the next step, Lujiang Town will firmly shoulder the responsibility of helping farmers to increase income, starting from the development of facility agriculture, to provide more convenient conditions for farmers to plant vegetables.
Liu Zhengyi, director of Lujiang Town Agricultural Service Center
First, in the traditional vegetable planting area, especially the old vegetable park to optimize the industrial model, for example, the original planting of two seasons of beans, and one season of cucumbers, like this case, we can use the way of water and drought rotation or the planting of crops to change, and strive to break the traditional planting model to improve his income; Second, we should vigorously develop facility agriculture, like the current facility agriculture, including our water and fertilizer integration, greenhouses, etc., which can effectively reduce production costs, and improve quality, thereby increasing farmers' income; Third, as a hot zone, the engineering water shortage is relatively serious, and we must fundamentally improve its water conservancy conditions, improve its irrigation conditions, and increase its output value.
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