Red Net Moment News on February 27(Linwu County Rong ** Center Reporter He Chengji Hu Henghui) taro button meat, also called "reunion vegetables", is a home-cooked dish on the Chinese New Year's Eve table of many families, Linwu fragrant taro has a rich fragrance and delicate powder, which is not only the best ingredient for making "reunion vegetables", but also the "code to get rich" for farmers, and it is an effective way for Linwu County to adjust the agricultural industrial structure and help rural revitalization.
In the first month, Hu Fuhong, a villager in Jinpen Village, Shunfeng Town, Linwu County, and his family are busy nervously, and now he is making the most critical dish for the family dinner - taro button pork. Fresh taro is washed, peeled, cut into thick slices and oiled, and the kitchen is filled with aroma.
Hu Fuhong is making button meat.
The taro is fried until slightly yellow and foamy, and then superimposed with the pork belly, steamed for 40 minutes, then poured into a bowl, poured with juice, and a taro button meat with full color and flavor is made. Because of its mellow shape, the villagers named it "Reunion Dish", which means happiness and reunion.
Taro button meat. Taro is our Linwu specialty, dad made taro button meat we from snacks to big, now working outside often miss this taste. Hu Fuhong is one of the earliest taro growers in Shunfeng Town, relying on planting taro, Hu Fuhong and his wife pulled their sons up and built a new building, taro not only let the diners "taro" see the delicacies, but also let the villagers "taro" see the opportunity.
Chen Hongfa, secretary of the party branch and director of the village committee of Jinpen Village, said that taro, as a leading industry in the village, has brought income to the villagers. This year, the output value of taro can reach more than 7,000 yuan per mu, planting taro, pulling taro, selling, etc., only in these few months, workers can earn more than 10,000 yuan.
Villagers digging taro.
During the Spring Festival, walking into the fields, there are busy growers everywhere, and in the Shunxi taro storage and marketing center in Beixi Village, Shunfeng Town, the villagers began to sort and pack the freshly picked taro at seven o'clock in the morning.
Luo Jin, a post-90s grower, contracted 700 acres of land to plant taro, and with a yield of 4,000 catties per mu, it is expected that 2.8 million catties of taro can be harvested this year. During the Spring Festival, the ** of taro rose from less than 2 yuan a year ago to 2About 5 yuan catty, in order to catch up with the goods, Luo Jin began to hire workers to harvest from the second year of junior high school, although he was busy, but he was not tired of it.
Growers hire villagers to pack taro.
Not only do we sell it ourselves, but we also help farmers sell it and push their taro out. In terms of catties, we can walk almost 150,000 catties in this place every day. Luo Jin said.
Walking into the large and small villages of Shunfeng Town, rows of taro on both sides of the road are covered with mulch, and the breeze blows, and the sparkling waves shine in the sun. Beixi Village, Shunfeng Town, began to plant taro in the 80s of the 20th century, and after 40 years of development, it has formed a taro industry chain integrating agricultural materials, management, transportation and sales.
Chen Dexing, founder of Shunxi Taro Farmers' Cooperative in Linwu County, told reporters that because the village has limited land, only more than 2,000 acres, they later took the technology to the field to plant taro.
In order to better carry out technical research and promotion, Linwu County set up a taro association, later renamed Shunxi taro farmer cooperative, according to the founder Chen Dexing recalled, in the past, Linwu taro was covered with sand to keep fresh, taro often rotted in the ground, the villagers summed up the film preservation technology through technical improvement, the taro sales period was extended to 6 months, and the taro kept fresh on the spot is not only of better quality, but also higher due to the "staggered" sales. The younger generation of growers also relied on "Internet +" to promote the brand of Linwu taro to the Southeast Asian market, making the fragrance of "taro" float for thousands of miles.
In the past, growers needed to load their own goods and sell them to other places, but now, bosses from all over the country come to us to find goods, and the goods don't need to go out, others come to find them. Luo Jin said.
The truck of the taro sorting center in Shunfeng Town, Linwu County is loading.
In 2021, Linwu County Shunxi Taro Farmer Professional Cooperative was selected into the eighth batch of "vegetable basket" production bases in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. Shunxi taro won the famous trademark of Hunan Province. In order to enrich the supply of high-quality agricultural products during the Spring Festival and promote the brand effect of Linwu taro, the growers also put on "new clothes" for the taro to make New Year's "souvenirs".
If the industry is prosperous, the countryside will be prosperous. "At present, a total of 30,000 farmers in Linwu County plant taro, with a planting area of 100,000 mu, and the small taro industry has enabled tens of thousands of farmers to achieve a well-off life.