"This basket is a small bayberry, this basket is Dongkui bayberry" "How much do you want, there are still on my mountain, you can also go to the tree to pick it yourself, and experience the fun of picking......"
As soon as I arrived at the entrance of Edong Village, Maogong Town, I heard the shouts of the masses and the bargaining of customers, and many villagers were busy picking fresh bayberry on the mountain with baskets, and the village presented a busy scene of a bumper harvest.
"According to preliminary estimates, this year's Edong is expected to produce about 300,000 catties of high-quality commodity fruit bayberry, and the current market sales price is 4-8 yuan per catty; The factory fruit is about 120,000 catties, and the market price is 1-1.5 yuan per catty. The annual output value is about 1.8 million yuan, and the average household income increases by more than 7,000 yuan, driving the income of 285 households. Wu Legend, secretary of the Party branch of Edong Village, introduced.
"My family grows bayberry with 7 points of land, and this year's output is about 1,000 catties, and the income is 7,000 yuan." Shi Sigui, a villager who was shouting and selling bayberry, said.
"The temperature in the Maogong area is 2-3 degrees lower than that of other surrounding areas, and the bayberry has a relatively long ripening period.......
In 2001, Edong Village seized the opportunity of "returning farmland to forest", combined with the actual situation of the village, and put forward the industrial development idea of "not planting Nanzhu, but planting bayberry". Actively integrate idle land, revitalize funds, encourage returnee workers and planting experts to develop bayberry planting, and build a bayberry boutique fruit industry demonstration park, which has now become a "green bank" for the local people.
With the support of the town party committee and government, technical improvements were implemented to improve the fruit bearing rate of bayberry and improve the quality of bayberry. At the same time, the "two committees" of the village established the Edong bayberry industry cooperative, established the development model of "party branch + cooperative + farmer", established a unified sales brand of Edong bayberry, and expanded the economic benefits of the Edong bayberry base. At present, 285 households in the village participate in bayberry planting, forming more than 1,000 acres of bayberry planting base.
In recent years, Edong Village, Maogong Town, has adhered to the guidance of party building, vigorously developed the bayberry industry, introduced Dongkui bayberry, and focused on improving product quality, incrementing, expanding sales, and promoting income, successfully transforming resource advantages into industrial and economic advantages, promoting the transformation of traditional agriculture to modern agriculture, broadening the development path of rural industries, and effectively consolidating the achievements of poverty alleviation.
(Wu Liutao, Yao Jinzhong)