Now
It is the season when the peppercorns are ripe and marketed
More than 300 acres of pepper in Wailang Township also ushered in a bumper harvest
In the pepper planting base of Wufeng Village, Wailang Township
The pepper trees in the mountains grow lush green
The smell of pepper comes to your face
Next to the pepper tree, seven or eight workers hold scissors in their hands
Hands and feet neatly cut clusters of green peppercorns
The sound of "clicking".
Accompanied by the chatting and laughter of the workers
Peppercorns picked unconsciously
And they formed a hill on the ground
in the base
A rail car winds its way along the mountain
After the pepper farmer cuts the peppercorns
These peppercorns take the "little train"
It only takes a few minutes
The "little train" full of peppercorns arrived at its destination
"Our rail car can pull about 250 kilograms in one trip, but it can only carry 25 kilograms in one trip manually, which is time-consuming and laborious to carry it down the mountain." Huang Daiqun, secretary of the party branch of Wufeng Village, Wailang Township, said that after installing the rail car, it not only saved labor, but also improved the harvesting efficiency.
Recently
Wufeng Village, Wailang Township, put the pepper industry
As one of the characteristic industries for the masses to get rich and increase income
Circulate 300 acres of local land to plant peppercorns
It covers 27 rural households
By adopting the model of "village collectives + cooperatives + rural households".
Drive the surrounding people to increase their income
this year
Wailang Township is expected to pick 20,000 kilograms of fresh peppers
After drying, there are about 3500 kilograms
At present, the dried peppercorns on the market are 36 yuan a kilogram
It is expected that the output value will be about 120,000 yuan this year
It is mainly sold to Jiangjin and Yichang