Chongyang County Quan** reporter Wang Bo correspondent Huang Shuangshuang) is the most beneficial spring of the year, and everything is coming back to life. In the past few days, in Chongyang County, Tiancheng Town, Huashan Village is everywhere is a bumper harvest scene, the current morel mushroom ripening picking period, the greenhouse is busy, farmers are immersed in the joy of harvest, picked the first "golden umbrella" of the new year.
On February 28, the reporter saw in the morel greenhouse planting base on the bank of the Junshui River in Huashan Village, Tiancheng Town, that the morel mushrooms were like a "small umbrella" and "standing" in the fungus ridge, with the white stipe on the top of the gray-brown mushroom cap, which was tender and thick, and the fungus was fragrant. The villagers working at the base are carrying baskets and knives, and are busy picking ripe morel mushrooms, their faces filled with the joy of a good harvest.
Wu Jinqiang, the person in charge of the base, said: "The output of one mu of land is about 500 catties, which is generally sold to Sichuan and Guangzhou, and there are special buyers to buy. ”
The reporter learned that morel mushrooms are harvested in winter and spring, with the characteristics of short growth cycle and high yield, and have the reputation of "the king of fungi" because of their rich nutrients and high value. Morel mushrooms can be planted and harvested within 3 to 4 months, and the base can pick 1500 to 2000 kg of fresh morels every day during the picking period.
Fresh goods are 150 yuan a catty, which is easy to store if dried, and has also been improved, and a pound of dry goods is generally 600 to 800 yuan. Wu Jinqiang, the person in charge of the base, said.
Wu Jinqiang, 40 years old this year, is a native of Dongshan Village, Qingshan Town, Chongyang County, and in his own words, he is a "restless" and "tossing" new farmer. As early as 2019, Wu Jinqiang went to Mianyang City, Sichuan Province, the birthplace of morel mushroom cultivation in China, for 4 times for field investigation and study.
Wu Jinqiang, the person in charge of the base, said: "In the first year of planting morels, I only tried to plant two sheds, but the income of the first year, two acres of land had more than 20,000 yuan. Since the second year, it has slowly expanded its scale, and now it has 105 acres of land and 102 acres of planting area, with an annual output value of about 80 to 1 million. ”
As the morel mushroom industry in Huashan Village became more and more prosperous, it also drove the local villagers to increase their income and become rich at their doorsteps.
Because we have to take our children and can't go out to work, we do odd jobs at the base at our doorstep, and we have an income of several thousand yuan a year, which also helps us a lot in life. Ms. Wang, a villager in Huashan Village, Tiancheng Town, said.
Today, the small morel mushroom has become a new bright spot on the road to rural revitalization in Huashan Village. Wu Jinqiang told reporters that he will guide more villagers to join the planting team and drive more villagers to increase their income and become rich through diversified agricultural planting.