Hefei, Feb. 16 (Xinhua) -- Small pumpkins in Dabie Mountain grow a new year of rural revitalization.
Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhu Qing.
Golden and full, glutinous and sweet, on the Spring Festival table in Hefei City, Anhui Province, small pumpkin is a "health dish" suitable for all ages. In Shuanghong Village, Yaoli Town, Yeji District, Lu'an City, Anhui Province, 150 kilometers away from Hefei, the villagers have been energetically preparing for the New Year of small pumpkin production and income increase in the bustle of the New Year.
Point seeds, raise seedlings, and fertilize, and the 'little gourd' will 'move' in spring! Gao Xingping, secretary of the "post-85" party branch of Shuanghong Village, said with anticipation. The "little pumpkin" she refers to is the small pumpkin introduced and planted in the village two years ago.
In 2022, taking a fancy to the small pumpkin that grows gratifying in the climate and fertile soil of Dabie Mountain, Shuanghong Village decided to test the water to establish a whole industry chain agricultural company and use one industry to drive the economy of the whole village. "The small pumpkin planting technology is not difficult, the labor intensity is not large, the investment is small, the cost is low, the yield is high, and the economic benefits are good. Gao Xingping said.
However, Shuanghong Village, which has more than 6,700 acres of cultivated land, basically has no available construction land, and the construction of production and storage sites has become a problem. In order to make this industry, which may become the "new head" of agriculture in Shuanghong Village, take root, with the support and coordination of the Anhui Provincial Department of Commerce and the district and town, the land that has been idle in Shuanghong Village for many years has been revitalized. In March 2022, Anhui Xianbida Fruit and Vegetable Center was established, and the construction of the "Safe and High-quality Fruit and Vegetable Ecological Chain Matching Center" was started here, with a total investment of more than 10 million yuan in the first phase of the first phase of the first phase of the first phase of the project and supporting investment.
Since then, the little pumpkin has started a journey from the Dabie Mountains to the whole country and then overseas, and has also led to a new story of increasing income and getting rich and rural revitalization.
Under the guidance of agricultural technology experts, high-quality small pumpkin varieties are selected and cultivated, standardized planting and cultivation have a good taste, and market-oriented operation sells well....Shuanghong Village's "Safe and High-quality Fruit and Vegetable Ecological Chain Matching Center" has sent high-quality agricultural products from the Dabie Mountains to the tables of the Yangtze River Delta and even the whole country through sorting, warehousing and cold chain. Gao Xingping still remembers that in October 2022, less than a week after the "Xianbida" fruit and vegetable processing base started online platform sales, the sales of small pumpkins exceeded 10,000 orders.
The villagers of Shuanghong Village did not expect that the little pumpkin had broken out of a new way to get rich and became a veritable "little golden melon". Led by the village industrial cooperative, the scale of pumpkin seedlings has expanded rapidly, and in 2023, more than 80,000 pumpkin seedlings have been cultivated in Shuanghong Village. Villagers are also working in the processing base, and they can find a stable job at their doorstep.
In the past, we had nothing to do in the farm, and there was no way to make money, but now we can earn a lot of money at the door of our home, and our lives are very energetic! Chen Yejie, a villager who works in the "Xian Bida" processing base, said. Zheng Jiaping, a villager, also said with a smile: "I really didn't expect that the little pumpkin could bring me an income of 20,000 yuan or 30,000 yuan a year." ”
The implementation of the 'Xianbida' project not only revitalizes the idle assets in the village, but also drives the development of the industry, and also solves the problem of employment, which can be said to kill three birds with one stone. Gao Xingping said that in 2023, the turnover of "Xian Bida" company will reach 60 million yuan, and the village collective economic income will increase by 200,000 yuan.
Before the Spring Festival this year, the "Xian Bida" processing base in Shuanghong Village ushered in a new start for the second phase of the project. In order to expand the scale of the cold chain base, Shuanghong Village invested 1.2 million yuan to expand the storage capacity of cold chain warehousing and packaging workshops.
The second phase of the project has expanded the scale of sorting, warehousing and cold chain of agricultural products such as pumpkin, and sold them through a number of network platforms, not only radiating from Dabie Mountain to the Yangtze River Delta and even the whole country, but also sending high-quality agricultural products to Singapore and Malaysia. Zhang Jinglei, a technician of the "Xian Bida" processing base, introduced.
Gao Xingping introduced that it is expected that after the expansion of the second phase of the project, it can directly drive the income of more than 5,000 farmers around Yaoli Town, pull the cold chain, packaging, transportation, product deep processing and other related industrial chains, and indirectly place more than 3,000 rural surplus laborers.
In the new year, we are not only planning the preparation of small pumpkin seedlings in plastic greenhouses, but also providing small pumpkins, peppers, peas and other high-quality seedlings for more farmers in the town, hoping to send the small pumpkin to a farther and broader international market, so that everyone can have a prosperous life! Gao Xingping said. (ENDS).