With more than 2,000 years of planting history, Shatian grapefruit in Rong County, Yulin City, Guangxi Province, has won many honors such as National Geographical Indication Products, National Geographical Indication Certification Trademark, "Hometown of China's Shatian Grapefruit" and "National Characteristic Agricultural Product Advantage Zone". By 2020, the county's Shatian grapefruit planting area is 215,000 mu, with an output of 246,000 tons and a comprehensive output value of 3 billion yuan. The Shatian grapefruit industry has become a pillar industry to promote the revitalization of rongxian countryside.
"Sha Tin grapefruit is the most famous agricultural product in Rong County, and has the reputation of 'GongGuo'. Our village is very optimistic about the development of Sha tin grapefruit 'Qianjing', in 2020 invested 500,000 yuan of collective economic funds and Rongxian Gongguo Shatian grapefruit planting Co., Ltd. to cooperate in the development of Shatian grapefruit industry, and now increases the annual income for the collective economy by 40,000 yuan. Lin Shiqing, secretary of the party branch of Rudi Village in Songshan Town, said.
In recent years, Rong County has relied on the Shatian grapefruit characteristic industry and integrated more than 27 million yuan of funds for various development collective economic projects in accordance with the "ten hundred thousand" development ideas, directly driving the annual income of the village-level collective economy to increase by more than 2 million yuan.
"Ten hundred thousand" tree demonstration
In accordance with the overall development idea of "more than ten business entities participating, guaranteeing land use of more than 100 mu, and capital investment of more than 10 million yuan", with the "1 + N" business model, the introduction of Guangxi Yuzu Township Investment and Development Co., Ltd., Rongxian Gongguo Shatian Pomelo Planting Co., Ltd. and other agricultural enterprises, the collective economic funds of each villagers' shareholding economic cooperative participate in the planting, processing, sales and other links of Sha tin pomelo, and jointly develop the Sha Tin pomelo industry. At present, the county has integrated the collective economic funds of more than 70 villagers' shareholding economic cooperatives and built 4 collective economic demonstration gardens and demonstration points in Sha tin grapefruit village.
"Two unifications and three modernizations" help increase income
Implement unified management and unified operation, implement the development model of "two unifications and three modernizations" of standardized, standardized, and industrialized planting, coordinate the collective economic funds of each project village, consult with agricultural enterprises, and adopt the procedure of "four discussions and two openness" by each project village, adopt the subscription of Shatian grapefruit trees to form village-level fixed assets and lease them back to enterprises to implement standardized, standardized, and industrialized planting, and jointly establish a board of supervisors in each project village to participate in supervision, management, and operation, effectively increasing village-level collective economic income, and enhancing the development of village cadres. Manage collective economic capacity. As of October 2021, more than 100 party members and cadres have been selected to participate in the management of the demonstration garden to improve the professional skills of party members and cadres in the cultivation and management of shatian grapefruit; more than 70 villages participating in the development of the shatin grapefruit industry have achieved an annual income increase of 24,000-50,000 yuan in the village collective economy.
"Three-way win-win" to promote people's prosperity
Give full play to the radiation and driving role of the collective economic demonstration garden and demonstration points in Shatian Pomelo Village, promote the development model of "enterprise + demonstration garden + farmer", realize the tripartite benefits of enterprises, village-level collective economy and farmers, and implement the poverty reduction and poverty reduction mechanism through technical training and employment in the park. Since the beginning of this year, Guangxi Yuzu Township Investment and Development Co., Ltd., Rongxian Gongguo Shatian Pomelo Planting Co., Ltd. and other agricultural enterprises have set up 3 Shatian Pomelo professional and technical service teams, carried out more than 30 training sessions, with an average of more than 40 training sessions, and provided free training for the people in the project villages such as combing flowers planted with Shatian grapefruit, combing new shoots, shaking pollen, pointing flower clothes, combing fruits, adding bamboo support, and fertilization, and also specially passed on the new technologies of new biotechnology "no pollination" and organic Shatian grapefruit seedling breeding to the majority of growers. Radiation has driven more than 5,000 farmers to develop grapefruit cultivation in Shatian, providing more than 150 jobs for farmers and increasing their annual income by about 1.7 million yuan.
✍️ Source: China News Network Guangxi
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Review: Chen Qiping