#2021 Refueling Leader #In Xinjiang Bazhou Bohu Farm, a red pepper can not be seen at a glance. In winter, these bright red peppers have dried in half, and there are harvesting farmers everywhere.
In a red pepper field on the side of a highway, I met a Hubei farmer, Sister Yu, who was still a person from my hometown. She is the second generation of military reclamation, her parents are both military reclamation people, and she has taken root in the frontier with her parents and become a new military reclamation farmer.
She told me that her elderly family lived independently, the children worked in Beijing, and the couple still insisted on farming. Her family has a total of 600 acres of land, it is estimated that this year's pepper market is good, all at once planted 400 acres of dry goods red peppers, and sure enough, it caught up with the good market.
She and her husband started spring this year, and after raising pepper seedlings in the greenhouse, they ploughed the ground and put down the soles of their feet. At the time of the Guyu Festival, helpers invited from Guizhou and Sichuan came to plant, and the flowers went to plant more than 20,000 yuan, and the field management such as weeding, fertilization, pest prevention, etc., spent more than 40,000 yuan.
This time, more people were invited to pick peppers, and there were 20 people in total. Yu Dajie said that the high profit of planting peppers is that it is troublesome to pick, unlike wheat and cotton, which can be harvested mechanically. However, peppers can only be picked by hand, this year's pepper harvest, more fruitful, very difficult to pick, slow, a day can only take more than 10 acres, it is estimated that it takes a month to harvest, labor costs to nearly 100,000 yuan.
Sister Yu said that planting peppers is much harder than planting rice and cotton, which is very hard. She said that the planting area is too large, it takes a month for the husband and wife to raise seedlings, and it takes more than 40 days to turn over the underground fertilizer and plant, followed by field management.
The husband and wife have to work in the fields every day, and in order to catch up with the farmers, holidays such as the Dragon Boat Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival cannot rest. Every day at dawn, I have to go to the ground, rain or shine, rain or shine, rainy days and rainy days.
Yu Dajie said that planting peppers is planting rice and cotton, to be two to three times busier, there is no time for a moment of leisure, even if you are sick with a cold, you have to go to the field to observe the condition of seedlings and insects, and a little negligence will cause a big incident, resulting in a reduction in production and harvest.
She said that this year's pepper market is so good, if it is not planted well, it will be very unlucky. She said her family's peppers are growing well, bearing more fruit and producing high yields. From the current state, each acre of dried red peppers can reach 600 catties.
She said that the growth and production of peppers like this year are rare, and this year is not in vain. His family's order for peppers has reached 250,000 pounds, and he is not worried about sales at all, and I am afraid that he will not be able to complete the order.
This year's wholesale price is 10 yuan a catty, the output per mu of more than 600 catties, the output value can reach 6,000 yuan. She said that 400 acres of peppers can be picked for 240,000 catties, and the total output value will reach more than 2.4 million yuan.
This year's investment is relatively large, has spent more than 500,000 yuan, and it will cost some funds when selling. This year's net income can reach 1.8 million yuan, which is not a problem.
She said that growing peppers makes money 4 to 5 times as much as growing rice and cotton. But growing peppers is hard, not ordinary hard, but very hard. Therefore, other people are reluctant to grow peppers, and they all grow rice and cotton, which is the reason. Generally, farmers who are older are afraid of the hard work of planting peppers, so they plant rice. Therefore, at present, there are very few people growing peppers in Bazhou, which is also an important reason for the good pepper market.
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