In midsummer July, it is the pepper harvesting season, the pepper in Jinji Town, Qingshui County has fully entered the picking period, the fields and mountains are filled with a rich pepper fragrance, and the local people are busy picking and enjoying the joy of harvest.
In recent years, based on the natural resource endowment, Jinji Town has cultivated endogenous power, adhered to local conditions, and carefully cultivated the four characteristic industries of large cherries, peppercorns, apples and peonies, so as to drive the masses to "doorstep" employment, broaden the road to prosperity, further optimize the industrial layout, and promote the revitalization and development of rural industries.
In the pepper planting base of Honghao Zanthoxylum Planting Farmers Cooperative in Qingshui County, at a glance, the growth of the pepper trees here is gratifying, clusters of full and shiny red peppercorns hang all over the branches, its unique "hemp fragrance" smell permeates the air, and the villagers can be seen everywhere busy, and everywhere is full of laughter.
"This year, our cooperatives planted a total of 500 acres of pepper, all varieties are 'Fu pepper', the growth is very good, now the pepper has basically entered the full fruit period, is expected to produce 26,000 pounds this year, the output value can reach 1.04 million yuan. The nearby people pick peppercorns in my place, and they can pick 40-90 catties of peppercorns every day, and the wages are 3 yuan per catty, and the income of the masses is very considerable. In terms of sales, we will also buy the local people's peppercorns after picking and drying, and the cooperatives will drive the masses to sell the peppercorns all over the country. Zhao Hongwei, chairman of the Honghao pepper planting farmer cooperative in Qingshui County, said.
Qingshui's unique geographical characteristics and suitable climatic conditions, coupled with the local people's use of traditional planting methods, scientific planning, reasonable layout, and actively promote the high branches and low transformation of pepper, pruning and shaping, scientific picking, drying and other "one-stop" management and harvesting technology, the planted pepper is not only delicious, pure hemp fragrance, and has a unique aroma, can effectively remove the fishy smell and peculiar smell of meat, and at the same time can stimulate saliva secretion, enhance appetite.
Jinji Town planted a total of 7,500 acres of pepper, the main varieties are Da Hong Pao, string of red, horse pepper, autumn pepper, etc., all have the excellent quality of "large meat thickness, bright color, heavy oil, long hemp flavor, strong aroma", especially the creation of the "Fu Jiaoxiang" brand, through the national green certification, geographical indication and organic conversion certification, by the China Enterprise Joint Development and Promotion Committee as "China's famous brand".
"Jinji Town has built four industrial demonstration villages of Panshan cherry, Shuiqing pepper, Caogou apple and Zhangshan peony through land transfer, absorption of migrant workers, technical training, and order acquisition, and promoted the construction of 9 industrial demonstration parks such as Wangritai honeysuckle and dwarf anvil dense plantation, so as to comprehensively form a good situation of agricultural efficiency, farmers' income increase, and rural harmony." Liu Yaping, mayor of Jinji Town, said.
In recent years, Qingshui has insisted that rural revitalization and industrial development are the key, based on the advantages of resource endowment and characteristic advantages, insisting on ecological priority, actively building a modern agricultural industrial system of "one village, one product", vigorously developing the pepper industry, establishing the development idea of the whole industrial chain, giving full play to the characteristics of "hemp" and "fragrance" of Qingshui pepper, and helping rural revitalization with industrial development.