At present, it is the season of cowpea ripening, walking into Zhongba Village, Longtan Town, looking from afar, the green and crisp cowpeas are growing gratifyingly, the rows of emerald green and slender cowpeas are hung full of supports, and the villagers in the fields are shuttling among the green, busy picking, sorting, and shipping, and there is a busy harvest scene everywhere.
It is understood that this piece of cowpea is mainly planted by Zou Bin, the leader of Zhongba Village, who revitalized more than 100 acres of idle abandoned land to realize cowpeas, peppers, corn, cucumbers, cauliflower and other vegetables in rotation, which can directly drive more than 20 people around to achieve doorstep employment and increase income for the local people.
Hao Deqiong, a worker who was picking beans in the field, said as she was busy: "We have been harvesting for about a month, and each person has an income of 100 yuan a day, and we get up at 5 a.m. to pick cowpeas. ”
Zou Bin not only grows vegetables, but is also a vegetable buyer in Longtan Township, during this time, he drives his truck around 10 a.m. to various villages in Longtan Township to buy freshly picked cowpeas.
Zou Bin, who was carrying fresh cowpeas to the car, said: "We mainly sell them to vegetable wholesale markets in Zigong, Yibin, Luzhou and other places, and after entering the peak picking season, we can buy 10,000 to 20,000 catties a day." ”
It is understood that cowpea has the characteristics of short growth cycle, high yield, stable market price and fast economic returns, and is a "short, stable and fast" crop, which is recognized and loved by the majority of farmers.
Zou Bin said: "The growth cycle of cowpeas is relatively short, the harvest time is long, and my more than 8 acres of cowpeas can harvest more than 3,000 catties a day during the peak harvest period. ”
Prosper an industry and enrich the people. Not only cowpea, in recent years, Longtan Town has fully based on its resource endowment and location advantages, encouraged the local people to vigorously develop the vegetable planting industry, driven the villagers to achieve employment and income increase at their doorstep, and embarked on a unique development path, opening an "acceleration" for industrial development and rural revitalization. (Kong Yun, Luo Hugo)
Editor: Peng Yanzhang
Editor: Yu Jia