Qinzhou District Rong Media Center, July 16 (Reporter Pang Guiqi) In midsummer July, walking into the Beishan area of Guanzi Town, Qinzhou District, the red peppercorns are all over the mountains, in front of the house and behind the house, and the ditches and ditches are forked, the red and gorgeous peppercorns reflect the red slopes, and the mountains are filled with a rich pepper fragrance, and the small pepper fruits usher in the picking season.
In Liujiashan Village, Guanzi Town, early in the morning, villager Gao Aixia came to the pepper field to start this year's picking season. According to her, her family's more than 5 acres of land are all planted with peppercorns, and the growth is gratifying, and a bumper harvest is in sight.
"Today, on the first day, I started to pick peppercorns, this year's peppercorns are also growing well, very prosperous, we also planted four or five acres, it is not easy to pick down, we have to call people to pick, and this year it seems that the yield is also high." Gao Aixia, a villager in Liujiashan Village, Guanzi Town, said.
Liujiashan Village is the central production area of Zanthoxylum pepper in Guanzi Town, with sufficient sunshine and large temperature difference, and the flesh of Zanthoxylum pepper growing is thick and bright. The cultivated area of the village is more than 1,600 acres, of which the planting area of Zanthoxylum is more than 1,200 acres, and the pepper industry is a veritable pillar industry in Liujiashan Village.
"The average household should occupy 10 acres, now it looks like the pepper is red, the low part of the mountain has begun to pick, it is estimated that there is another week, it will be time to pick a large area, the pepper picking needs a lot of labor, we use a month of time, to pick a large area of pepper." Gao Zhiqiang, deputy director of the village committee of Liujiashan Village, Guanzi Town, said.
The good growth of Zanthoxylum pepper in Liujiashan Village is inseparable from the implementation of the national Zanthoxylum pepper quality and efficiency improvement project in the village.
"It's all because of the anti-weed cloth given to us by the state, as well as the sticky insect board, we planted pepper this year easily, and the grass grew less, and it still kept moisture." Gao Aixia, a villager in Liujiashan Village, Guanzi Town, said.
"The national project of improving the quality and efficiency of Zanthoxylum pepper, the weed-proof cloth is paved and the moisture is protected, and the rain is sufficient this year, the growth of the pepper is good, and the particles are very large, and the picking requires a large number of picking workers to come to our village to pick." Gao Zhiqiang, deputy director of the village committee of Liujiashan Village, Guanzi Town, said.
"More than 1,700 acres of pepper orchards have been laid with weed-proof cloth, the laying of insect control boards, agriculture, fertilizers, a total of more than 1 million have been invested, and this year's pepper production has increased income better, and the response of the masses is also better." Yang Hengyuan, mayor of Guanzi Town, said.
With the arrival of the picking period of Zanthoxylum bungeanum, the Guanzi Town Government also contacted and coordinated in advance to upgrade and repair the circuit in the main production area of Zanthoxylum bungeanum to prepare for the drying of Zanthoxylum bungeanum after picking, and mobilize the remaining labor force nearby to put into the picking team.
"In order to ensure the drying of the peppercorns after they are picked, now every house is a dryer, and we have called the electrician, and the transformer lines have been changed to be larger in advance to ensure that there is no power outage in the process of roasting the peppercorns." Gao Zhiqiang, deputy director of the village committee of Liujiashan Village, Guanzi Town, said.
"On the one hand, we are mobilizing the surplus labor force within the township to carry out centralized picking, on the other hand, it is to contact the surplus labor force in the surrounding counties, districts and towns, and also through our media, to carry out recruitment publicity, if there are people who need to pick and work, you can come to our Guanzi Town to pick and work." Yang Hengyuan, mayor of Guanzi Town, said.
Guanzi Town currently planted a total of 14,000 acres of pepper, through years of development and growth, the formation of Beishan area to Liujiashan Village as the center, involving Hougou, Liyao and other 11 villages of more than 7,000 acres of industrial belt, radiation driven by Shanghe Xigou area Xihua, Xigou and other 8 villages more than 4,000 acres of pepper industry continues to grow, pepper farmers per capita income of more than 50,000 yuan, pepper tree has become a veritable "cash cow".
"This year, we want to increase sales on the network through the network on the one hand, and then through our contact with neighboring counties, townships and towns relatively large cooperatives, and docking large enterprises, fixed-point procurement of our peppercorns, to ensure that we increase production and income this year, on the one hand, increase the income of the masses, on the other hand, to further expand our village-level collective economy." Yang Hengyuan, mayor of Guanzi Town, said.