Original title: Motuo's loquat is ripe.
Reporter Xie Xiaochun Wang Shan.
As the saying goes, people are diligent and spring comes early. The spring of 2024 in Metuo County, Nyingchi City has already arrived - the white-fleshed loquat here is ripe.
Before Luo Buyangzong, a deputy to the 14th National People's Congress and deputy director of the Villagers Committee of Motuo Village, Motuo County, left for Beijing to attend the National People's Congress and the National People's Congress, he decided to bring some local specialties such as white meat loquat and tea.
Let more people know about our beautiful hometown. Luo Buyangzong said as he packed his bags.
Today, loquat planting has become a new bright spot in increasing the income of the people in Motuo County.
Walking in the tea garden of Dexing Village, Dexing Township, Jiang Fan, deputy director of the Agriculture and Rural Bureau of Motuo County, introduced to reporters the new variety of white-fleshed loquat fruit trees interplanted with tea trees, "The 'March White' loquat planted here can be ripe in early spring, the fruit is sweet and delicious, the leaves can be boiled loquat paste, and the flowers can also make tea." ”
This white-fleshed loquat tree is full of treasures, but the villagers were not optimistic about it at first.
Previously, there was not only an ancient tree community of the wild species of oval loquat in Metuo County, but also the introduction of the "big five-star" variety of red-fleshed loquat. Although loquat trees are planted in front of and behind every house, due to the negligence of the masses, the fruits produced are small, sour, and not good-looking, so they are left out in the cold.
In November 2021, Motuo County** signed a cooperation agreement with the Fujian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, deciding to introduce white-fleshed loquat varieties and technical resources. In January 2022, a white-fleshed loquat took root in Motuo County.
When I first started planting, I really had to take a ruler to measure the loquat tree pit every day. Jiang Fan joked and introduced to reporters. It turned out that in order for the white-fleshed loquat tree to thrive, 60 catties of fertilizer had to be buried under a tree, and at least 80 centimeters by 80 centimeters of pit needed to be dug.
But at that time, everyone wanted to save trouble, and the pits were dug smaller than one by one, and some people reluctantly dug a 50-centimeter pit, and even a 30-centimeter one. Under supervision, many people reworked several times before digging the pit to standard. Wang Zha, a villager in Dexing Village, Dexing Township, said.
In 2023, the first batch of white-fleshed loquat planted will bear fruit for the first time. "At that time, 14 bunches of loquat fruits were hung on seven trees in Didong Village, adding up to only a dozen fruits, and more than 40 people shared them together, and everyone could only taste a little. In the tea fruit interplanting garden in the east village of Beibang Township, Jiang Fan told reporters.
Although the quantity is small, those who have tasted the fruit feel that it is large, sweet, and tasteful, and that it is a new variety, and it should be very marketable in the future. But even so, there are still few people who are willing to take the initiative to learn the technique of planting white-fleshed loquat fruit trees. Every time the village sent a message to inform everyone to come to the tea garden to learn how to plant and how to manage it, few people responded. Gao Rong, secretary of the party branch of Didong Village, said.
What should I do if I don't plant well? What should I do if I can't sell like the previous red meat loquat? What if you don't see the benefits of the waiting time between planting and a large number of fruits? With doubts and uneasiness, even if the masses saw the potential of the white-fleshed loquat, they still lacked confidence and held a wait-and-see attitude.
Look at Wangza, he now has a lot of experience in white-fleshed loquat cultivation techniques. In addition to him, there are currently 15 local white-fleshed loquat planting technicians in the county. We should not only plant trees, but also cultivate people, and leave talents that cannot be taken away from Motuo County, so that they can lead other people to become rich through scientific planting. Thanks to their efforts, the masses have been mobilized. Moreover, in the future, there will be ** bottom of white meat loquat. Jiang Fan said.
At the beginning of this year, our village earned nearly 100,000 yuan by developing more than 1,900 branches of white-fleshed loquat trees to the border city. Regarding the benefits of planting to fruiting in large quantities, Gao Rong added that the branches of new varieties such as March White can be used to graft or propagate new loquat plants, so some horticultural companies and growers will deliberately buy them. The villagers of Dexing Village and Hezha Village in Dexing Township have recently earned more than 100,000 yuan according to the branches of the 50 yuan white flesh loquat fruit tree.
You can make money without worrying about technology, without worrying about sales, or even by selling fruits and branches, and the enthusiasm of the masses will rise all at once. "Now, as long as the group says that they want to go to the field to see the fruit trees, and when they say they want to train planting techniques, the people who sign up are one after another. Gao Rong said with a smile.
The "spring feeling" that the reporter felt in Motuo came from the vigorous enthusiasm in the hearts of the cadres and the spirit of the masses to get rich through hard work.
From "bargaining" for planting trees and digging pits, to "responding to all calls" for the management and protection of fruit trees, behind this is the change of the masses. Under the moistening of "Fu Zhi" and "Fu Zhi", the thinking of the masses gradually matured, just like the white meat loquat in Motuo County at this time, which was sweet.