Yellow River News Network Xinzhou News (Reporter Liu Chunxiao, Correspondent Zhong Yuxing) In midsummer, melons and fruits are fragrant. In the past few days, the famous "hometown of big apricots" - the white water apricots in Zhaojiazhuang Village, Fanzhi County, have had a bumper harvest, and many people have come to buy and pick.
Villager Zhang Liancheng came to his apricot orchard early every day to pick apricots, and then selected and packed them, and was very busy. "I can receive a lot of orders every day, and in order to ensure the freshness of the apricots, I have to pick them on the same day." While talking with reporters, Zhang Liancheng skillfully wrapped the white water apricots one by one and packed the fruit nets for packing. "I planted 30 acres of white water apricots, and one acre of land can produce more than 1,000 catties, and according to the market over the years, I can earn almost seventy or eighty thousand." When it comes to income, Lao Zhang smiled from ear to ear.
Zhaojiazhuang Village is 8 kilometers away from Fanzhi County, surrounded by mountains on three sides, with a large temperature difference between day and night, long sunshine hours, excellent air and soil quality, and a unique climate that creates a green ecological environment for the natural growth of Baishui apricot. The white water apricots here are large and round, with thin skin and thick meat, fine and juicy quality, sweet and mellow taste, coupled with their rich nutritional value, they are deeply loved by consumers.
In recent years, Zhaojiazhuang Village has vigorously developed the construction of economic forests, cultivated the Baishui apricot rich peasant industry, strengthened the collective economy of the village, and gradually formed an industrial model integrating planting, production, processing and sales. Now, the planting area of Baishui apricot in the village has reached more than 5,200 acres, and the annual sales income can reach 400 million yuan.
Today, the white water apricots in Zhaojiazhuang Village have become the "golden signboard" of the village, leading the villagers out of a hopeful "apricot" blessing road. In order to let Baishui apricots go out of Zhaojiazhuang Village, with the support of the government, the villagers actively expand sales channels, sell apricots to all parts of the country through e-commerce platforms, and create a tourism industry integrating leisure sightseeing, farm tourism and characteristic picking in the form of Baishui apricot picking and farmhouse. In order to overcome the shortcomings of short cycle and difficult storage of fresh fruits, the village collective adopts the model of "cooperatives + farmers + intensive processing" to produce and sell preserved fruits, beverages and other products. In addition, the village has also invested more than 1,000 yuan to build an edible fungus processing plant, using the branches pruned by fruit farmers every spring as raw materials to produce fungus, mushrooms and other crops for planting, turning waste into treasure, and increasing annual income by more than 50 yuan.
Driven by the apricot industry, the economy of Zhaojiazhuang Village has developed rapidly, and the income of the villagers has increased year by year, and the living standard has been significantly improved. The villagers used their diligence and wisdom to write the story of "apricot" blessing belonging to Zhaojiazhuang Village.
In 2014, Zhaojiazhuang Village relied on the characteristic advantages of Baishui apricot and was successfully selected into the ranks of the national "one village, one product" demonstration villages and towns, and now, Zhaojiazhuang Village takes advantage of the strong east wind of rural revitalization, continues to develop and expand the Baishui apricot industry, and further extends the industrial chain.
