To revitalize the countryside, industry must go first. In recent years, Qingshui County has focused on building a modern mountainous characteristic agricultural demonstration area, and in accordance with the industrial development layout of "eastern mushrooms and western fruits, southern medicine and northern grains, and facility agriculture along Sichuan", it has focused on expanding and strengthening edible fungi and wheat breeding, consolidating and upgrading dried and fresh fruits and Chinese medicinal materials, steadily developing hemp and small grains, building a modern agricultural industrial system, promoting agricultural efficiency, increasing farmers' income, and helping rural revitalization.
Walking into the edible mushroom greenhouse in Sangyuan Village, Baisha Town, Qingshui County, there is a modern mushroom room, intelligent temperature control, and 365-day circulation of mushrooms...... In the "mushroom factory", a steady stream of plump elm mushrooms are "born" from the production line. At present, the elm mushroom has entered the peak picking season, and the growers are busy picking, cutting roots, and sorting, and the joy of harvest is everywhere. The small elm mushroom has become an emerging industry for the people in Sangyuan Village to increase their income, and it has also allowed the people here to hold up the "wealth bowl" and eat the "industrial rice".
"Our greenhouse was completed in July and put into production in August, and the planted elm mushrooms are now in the second harvest period. The cultivation of elm mushroom has the advantages of short cycle and quick effect, which is suitable for our rural planting. Now fresh mushrooms are 4 yuan per catty, and dried mushrooms are 40 yuan per catty, and they are sent to Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Tianjin and other places. Zheng Yongfeng, head of the modern agricultural industrial park for edible fungus planting in Sangyuan Village, Baisha Town, said.
In recent years, Qingshui County has adapted measures to local conditions, highlighted characteristics, relied on natural endowments such as lucid waters and lush mountains, pastoral scenery and local culture, innovated the development model of "party branch + base + cooperative + masses", built an edible fungus planting industrial park, and guided and encouraged the villagers to use land and labor resources as share capital to participate in the production and operation of the village collective economy, so as to provide employment and industrial support, so that the villagers can share the fruits of collective economic development.
"Baisha Town, Sangyuan Village, edible mushroom planting modern agricultural industrial park in March this year began to plant black fungus, after the harvest in July, in order to improve the utilization rate of greenhouses, we introduced 250,000 sticks of elm mushroom, the second crop of elm mushroom has been picked. According to this year's growth, the dried mushrooms of Yuhuang mushrooms are expected to reach 35,000 catties, increasing income by 900,000 yuan. At the same time, it can drive about 40 people to work nearby, increase the monthly income of the masses by more than 2,400 yuan, truly stimulate the momentum of rural development, and broaden the channels for the masses to increase income. Cao Xiuhong, secretary of the Party branch of Baisha Sangyuan Village, said.
At the same time, Qingshui County continues to expand the sales channels of special agricultural products, continuously improve the upward system of special agricultural products, drive the masses to increase their income and get rich, and help the agricultural industry improve quality and efficiency through various measures such as joint promotion of "enterprises + cooperatives + farmers", docking buyers inside and outside the province to sign orders for sales, organizing enterprises to participate in various festivals and exhibitions, and relying on new media live broadcast platforms for online sales.
In the e-commerce center of Qingshui County Xinguo Planting Farmers' Professional Cooperative Association, Jin Wenli, chairman of the board of directors, is promoting Qingshui apples to netizens in the form of live broadcast in front of her mobile phone, which not only opens up a new channel for e-commerce sales of local agricultural products "going out", but also adds a "prosperous fire" to rural revitalization.
"In the past few days, apples have entered the harvest period, and our cooperative has now collected and stored 1 million catties of apples, which are mainly sold through supermarkets and market supply. At the same time, we also sell goods through online platforms and live broadcasts, with an estimated annual sales of 15,000 tons and sales revenue of more than 900 yuan. Jin Wenli told reporters.
In order to further expand the apple industry and expand sales channels. In recent years, Guochuan Town has built 9 fruit and vegetable preservation warehouses, introduced 1 fruit Co., Ltd., established 24 fruit professional cooperatives, 2 cooperatives, 1 agricultural supply and marketing cooperative, and built 18 e-commerce service points.
"Guochuan Town focuses on the development goal of 'large-scale planting, standardized production, intensive management, industrialized management, and brand marketing', and promotes the iterative upgrading of orchards through the implementation of orchard transformation, so as to continuously expand the apple industry. At present, the town has an orchard area of 46,575 acres, of which the apple planting area is 35,159 acres, the annual output value of the town's fruits is about 300 million yuan, and the per capita net fruit income is 10,200 yuan. Zhang Xiangdong, director of the Agricultural and Rural Comprehensive Service Center of Guochuan Town, said.
At present, Qingshui County has built a total of 44 standardized production bases for edible fungi, with a planting scale of 20 million sticks. Five wheat drying and storage centers have been built, and the industrial system of "breeding, multiplying, processing and marketing" of wheat varieties has been initially formed. A total of 480,000 acres of dried and fresh fruits have been developed, 120,000 acres of apples have been planted annually, the output value of apples has reached more than 1 billion yuan, 380,000 acres of characteristic industries such as Chinese medicinal materials, vegetables, hemp and small grains have been planted, and the number of livestock and poultry has reached 1,417,800 heads. Jinji Town was selected as a national strong agricultural industry town, and Songchuan Village and Guoshan Village of Guochuan Town were rated as national one-village-one-product specialized demonstration villages. In 2023, the county's total agricultural output value will reach 3.018 billion yuan, an increase of 104.19% over 2012. The per capita disposable income of rural residents reached 10,488 yuan, an increase of 6,718 yuan over 2012, truly realizing agricultural efficiency, farmers' income and rural development.
Source: Qingshui County Rong Media Center