Walking into the section of Dongba Town on the S235 line in Minqin County, the solar greenhouses are scattered, and the ginseng fruit flowers are blooming. Fruit growers are busy thinning flowers and pollinating, presenting a busy scene.
Ginseng fruit flowers are blooming Photo by Zhou Dan
One side of the water and soil produces one side of the goods. Dongba Town is the main production area of ginseng fruit planted in sunlight greenhouse in Minqin County, and the water and soil of Dongba Town have bred ginseng fruits with rich aroma, juicy and sweet flavor. In recent years, Dongba Town has continued to polish the golden signboard of ginseng fruit, expand and strengthen the characteristic advantageous industry of ginseng fruit, and help rural revitalization.
"The development of solar greenhouses has undergone three generations of evolution, and the masses have grown ginseng fruit from 'passive' to 'active', which is an important way for Dongba Town to adjust the structure of agricultural industry, cultivate new agricultural business entities, promote the integration of primary, secondary and tertiary industries, improve the quality, efficiency and competitiveness of agricultural development, realize sustainable agricultural development, and promote farmers to get rich and increase income." Lu Decheng, chairman of the Dongba Town People's Congress, introduced.
A town, see the vicissitudes of life; A shed, witnessing the leadership of science and technology. In 2018, based on its development advantages, Dongba Town focused on the two goals of saving water and increasing income, and began to vigorously develop the cultivation of ginseng fruit in solar greenhouses in accordance with the industrial layout of "one axis string, base leading, group development, and comprehensive improvement". With the S235 highway as the axis, three ginseng fruit industrial parks have been built successively, including Dongyi, Guaiwan and Lianfeng, and the radiation has driven the development of 1,606 solar greenhouses and ginseng fruits in the town, with a total area of more than 5,000 mu and an annual output value of more than 130 million yuan.
The development of the ginseng fruit industry has brought 80% of Dongyi villagers in Dongba Town to the "golden rice bowl" of the industrial chain. Huang Chaowei, secretary of the party branch of Dongyi Village, told reporters that in the past, the village mainly planted wheat and corn, with a single economic source and low income, and was a veritable industrial "blank village" in Dongba Town. In 2019, Dongyi Village developed a greenhouse ginseng fruit industry. After years of exploration and development, a village-level farmer cooperative has been established, a product sorting and packaging workshop and a constant temperature fresh-keeping warehouse have been built simultaneously, a product traceability mechanism has been established, and the annual output value of ginseng fruit has reached more than 26 million yuan, and the village collective economy has reached more than 200,000 yuan per year. In 2023, the ginseng fruit industry in Dongyi Village will be selected as the 12th batch of national "one village, one product" demonstration villages and towns.
Fruit blossoms bear fruit Photo by Zhou Dan
Taking advantage of the development of the ginseng fruit industry in Dongba Town, the fruit farmers have adopted modern agricultural technology and introduced advanced planting technology and management mode to grow the ginseng fruit industry into a "golden fruit" on this land.
Walking into the Ginseng Fruit Industrial Park in Guaiwan Village, Dongba Town, villager Gao Xiaoliang and the migrant farmers were busy pollinating ginseng seedlings, thinning flowers, improving fruit setting rate and fruit quality, and promoting increased production and income. In 2020, Gao Xiaoliang, driven by the Ginseng Fruit Industrial Park in Guaiwan Village, built two solar greenhouses, all of which used drip irrigation facilities integrating water and fertilizer to plant ginseng fruits, with an average annual income of more than 100,000 yuan.
"In mid-December this year, the first crop of ginseng fruits will be on the market, and looking at the current growth, this year is another bumper harvest year." Talking about ginseng fruit, Gao Xiaoliang is quite confident.
Technical training photo by Zhou Dan
In order to build a modern Silk Road cold and drought agricultural advantage area, Dongba Town innovates service supply, and builds a characteristic agricultural brand through expert technical training, field guidance, technical regulation formulation, implementation of standardized production, and unified product quality control, so as to realize the sustainable development of the ginseng fruit industry.
"While we provide seedlings, we also carry out technical guidance and whole-process tracking services such as fertilization management and pest control." Gan Yi, a special technician of Gansu Zenong Jinguo Agricultural Development Co., Ltd., said that the company also organized professional sales personnel to purchase high-quality ginseng fruits from farmers at a slightly higher price than the market price to improve farmers' enthusiasm for planting.
Ginseng fruit holds up the dream of getting rich, and the life of fruit farmers is getting more and more prosperous.
"In the past, we planted uneven ginseng fruits, but since we have an industrial park, we have standardized technical guidance from planting to harvesting, and the quality of ginseng fruits has improved, the yield has increased, and the income has also increased significantly." Gao Xiaoliang said.
Photo by Zhou Dan among migrant workers
One fruit prospers one industry. Today, in Dongba Town, more and more farmers have relied on the ginseng fruit industry to get rich, driving more than 2,000 people to work nearby. Through the combination of "online + offline" sales model, Dongba Town actively "matchmaking", with the help of "e-commerce + live broadcast" platform, direct supply and direct sales, etc., to broaden the market sales of ginseng fruit products and enhance the popularity and market share of the ginseng fruit industry. At the same time, the research and development and production of ginseng fruit juice fills the shortcomings of ginseng fruit deep processing.
"If you want to be out of the circle, you must first iterate and upgrade." Lu Decheng said that Dongba Town will take the goal of becoming an industrial strong town, continuously expand the advantages of brand characteristics, lead by brand, enhance market competitiveness, and strive to increase agricultural efficiency and farmers' income, and inject new vitality into the county's economic development.