Workers rake the cut bamboo shoots into bags and pack them for weighing.
Xie Shaochun cut off the old roots of hemp and bamboo shoots, and only kept forty percent of the tender bamboo shoots.
Chopped young bamboo shoots.
The "smelly" and fragrant snail noodles are the favorite of many diners, and the spicy and crispy sour bamboo shoots are one of the "soul side dishes" of the noodles. However, many people may not know that a large part of the sour bamboo shoots you eat actually come from hemp bamboo shoots in Qingyuan Yingde.
Yingde, which is famous for its black tea, is also the "hometown of hemp and bamboo shoots in China", and the planting area, output and trading volume of hemp and bamboo shoots rank first in the country. Located in the southwest of Yingde City, Xiniu Town is the core production area of hemp and bamboo shoots, because of the rich nutrition and high economic benefits, the hemp bamboo shoots are called "peeling gold" by the locals, almost every family grows bamboo shoots, and every household is a bamboo shoot farmer.
Nowadays, it is the harvest season of hemp bamboo shoots, and fresh bamboo shoots can be seen everywhere in the bamboo forest. In the afternoon, Xie Shaochun, a villager from Jinzhu Village, Xiniu Town, carried a basket to the dense hemp and bamboo forest to pick bamboo shoots. I saw him take the bamboo shoot knife from the knife tied to his waist, swing the knife at the bottom of a bamboo shoot in front of him that exposed two green tubes, and then kick it with his foot, and the bamboo shoot fell down in response.
Fresh hemp bamboo shoots can be seen everywhere in the bamboo forest.
The collected hemp and bamboo shoots should first be poured into the pool for cleaning.
A cart of newly harvested bamboo shoots.
The harvested hemp bamboo shoots are very easy to dehydrate, and in order to maintain the crisp and sweet taste, bamboo shoot farmers have to race against time. In the bamboo forest, Xie Shaochun quickly used a bamboo shoot knife to peel off the skin of the bamboo shoots on the outside, and after cutting the tender bamboo shoot meat on the spot, he immediately transported a basket of bamboo shoots to the nearby hemp and bamboo shoot processing factory on a tricycle.
The new and tender hemp bamboo shoots are then poured into the pool to be cleaned, and then salvaged by the workers and put them on the bamboo shoot cutting machine, and the bamboo shoots are automatically cut into bamboo shoots with chopsticks thickness by the machine, and then transmitted to the workers at the back end through the conveyor belt for packing and weighing, each package of 70 catties of bamboo shoot meat, sealed and placed for two days after packing and tied, and two days later adding about 20 catties of mountain spring water for sealing and fermentation, and after about a month, it becomes a finished product of sour bamboo shoots.
Cooked bamboo shoots.
The packed dried bamboo shoots are sealed and fermented after being added to the mountain spring water.
It is reported that these sour bamboo shoots are mainly supplied with Liuzhou snail noodles, Nanning Laoyou noodles and Guilin rice noodles. The other part of the fresh bamboo shoots is cooked and then wholesaled to the market and deep processing factories to make clear water bamboo shoots or used to dry the bamboo shoots.
In the production workshop of Yingdehua Bamboo Shoot Food Co., Ltd., several modern bamboo shoot processing equipment are running non-stop, covering multiple links from ingredients to sterilization to packaging. Wen Shaocong, the person in charge of the company, introduced that the company specializes in the deep processing and sales of hemp and bamboo shoots, and the ready-to-eat bamboo shoots (red oil bamboo shoots, pickled pepper bamboo shoots, etc.), clear water bamboo shoots and other flavors of hemp and bamboo shoot products are sold to the national market.
According to the data, in 2023, the output of fresh bamboo shoots in Qingyuan will reach 1.22 million tons, and the output value will reach 7.1 billion yuan. This year, the hemp and bamboo shoot industry is expected to take the lead in breaking through the output value of 10 billion yuan among the five major industries built by Qingyuan City.
With the development and growth of the hemp and bamboo shoot industry, now, more and more rural young people like Xie Shaochun who have worked outside have followed the boom and embarked on a journey to return to their hometowns to start a business, becoming the main force in the cultivation of hemp and bamboo shoots in their hometowns.
(Source: Southern Labor Daily Author: Photo/All-media reporter Lin Jingyu Text/All-media reporter Xu Jieying, correspondent Xu Xiaorong, Zhao Yang, Guo Yuanyuan)
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