Workers rummage through preserved sweet potatoes.
We have long changed the traditional bad habit of 'eating the New Year, playing February', and after the Spring Festival, the sisters took advantage of the fine weather to start processing ** preserved potatoes. In the Shaluoyuan Sweet Potato Industry Processing Factory in Renhe Village, Guanyang Town, Guanyang County, Fan Zhenyu, the person in charge, said. Recently, the production workshop of the sweet potato industry processing plant in Renhe Village, Guanyang Town, Guanyang County, presented a gratifying scene: the baking room was steaming, filled with the sweet smell of sweet potatoes, and the workers sent a sieve of steamed sweet potatoes into the oven, and processed the ones that had not been processed last winter.
Guanyang has a long history of planting sweet potatoes and has the reputation of "the hometown of China's big sweet potatoes". Guanyang sweet potato preserved fruit and sweet potato vermicelli processed from local sweet potatoes are well-known throughout the country, and are a good food and gift on the people's table. In order to strengthen the collective economy and drive farmers to get rid of poverty and become rich, Renhe Village, Guanyang Town, as early as 2016, established a company specializing in processing and making preserved sweet potatoes - Shaluoyuan Sweet Potato Industry Demonstration Site, planting, processing and selling special agricultural products such as sweet potato vermicelli and preserved sweet potatoes in the mode of "company + cooperative + farmer". In recent years, the village has continuously improved sweet potato varieties, maximized the benefits of planting sweet potatoes, and successfully cultivated and planted a new variety called "** potato".
On the eve of the Lantern Festival in the Year of the Dragon, Li Wen, secretary of the party branch and director of the village committee, and deputy to the Guanyang County People's Congress, said in an interview that this is the hometown of Fan Guojia, the famous "sweet potato king" in the country, and in the 70s of the 20th century, the highest yield of the "big sweet potato" he cultivated per plant reached 1875 kg, with a yield of over 10,000 catties per mu, it is known as the "king of sweet potatoes", and Guanyang is also known as the "hometown of big sweet potatoes". Today, the village relies on the two beautiful business cards of "Sweet Potato King" and "Sweet Potato Township", digs deep into the potential of sweet potatoes, continues to do a good job in the deep processing of the sweet potato industry, maximizes its value, and invites the elderly Fan Lao as a consultant to lead the villagers of the Shaluoyuan Basin and the villagers and large planters in the nearby Xishan, Dongjing, Guanyinge, Huangguan, Xinjie and other townships to plant new varieties of "** potato". According to statistics, Renhe Village alone has more than 1,000 acres of "** potatoes", with an annual output of more than 30 million catties of sweet potatoes and more than 100,000 catties of sweet potato vermicelli and preserved fruits.
It is understood that in recent years, Guanyang County has taken the implementation of the "Guilin Rural Revitalization Talent Evaluation and Management Measures (Trial)" as the starting point, giving full play to the active role of local talents in supporting rural economic and social development and helping rural revitalization, and has introduced relevant incentive measures to reward outstanding talents such as planting, breeding, agricultural product processing, sales and traditional craftsmen who have made outstanding contributions to each township and township. At the same time, the county established a sweet potato association in 2023 to be responsible for the development of the sweet potato industry.
Fan Kaishun, the first secretary of the Guanyang County Natural Resources Bureau stationed in Renhe Village, said with deep experience: "Let the experts who 'have unique skills, skills, and know how to operate' go from the 'behind the scenes' to the 'front of the stage', actively play the role of 'head goose', show their talents and contribute their talents on the broad stage of the countryside, and the sweet potato planting technology of Renhe Village has also radiated to the whole county and benefited the people." ”
According to incomplete statistics, the county has a sweet potato planting area of more than 20,000 mu, and the annual sweet potato output reaches more than 100,000 tons; There are more than 10 leading enterprises and more than 220 small workshops in Guanyang sweet potato powder, sweet potato preserved fruit processing and sweet potato wine brewing, which can produce more than 7,000 tons of Guanyang sweet potato powder and sweet potato preserved fruit throughout the year, solve more than 7,000 employees, and the products are "fragrant" all over the country and even Southeast Asia.
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