The fruit is tender and sweet without residue Shaoguan Sixing Dungang Town 8,000 acres of horseshoe excavation

Sixing County has been cultivating horseshoe for more than 300 years, and the Dungang horseshoe fruit is tender, sweet and slag-free, crisp and delicious

Yangcheng Evening News Reporter Zhang Wen, correspondents Yang Ruilian, Chen Han, Lai Jinyan photo report: During the heavy snow season, the horseshoe matures. As a horseshoe professional town, farmers in Dungang Town, Sixing County, Shaoguan City, began to get busy, digging horseshoes in the farmland. In winter, the farmland is bustling with harvests.

On the morning of December 6, the reporter came to Qianjing Village in Dungang Town and saw that in the farmland under the clear blue sky, farmers and men divided their labor and cooperated. The male workers are responsible for "turning the field", using special tools for digging horseshoes to dig up large plots of land, exposing the horseshoes that are "hiding" under the dirt; the female workers follow close behind, picking up a grain of horseshoe from the opened dirt.

Chen Rongjian, who has been planting horseshoes for 5 years, was now in charge of turning the field, only to see him insert a special iron rake into the soil, stand up with both feet and step on it, and then use the iron bar to pry it hard, and turn the soil over. In the dirt that came out, the hooves of horses were revealed, and some of them were hidden in deeper layers of soil.

At this time, the women need to pick up the horseshoes embedded in the dirt one by one and put them in different bags according to size. Chen Rongjian told reporters that they have dug more than one acre of land that day, due to weather reasons, this year's horseshoe production has decreased, it is expected that each mu can reach about four thousand catties, "this year's horseshoe is large, sweet, and the quality is not bad!" ”

It is understood that The cultivation of horseshoe in Sixing County has a history of more than 300 years, especially the "Dungang Horseshoe", which is famous for its large and tender fruit, sweet and residue-free, crisp and delicious. In recent years, in accordance with the development strategy of "one town, one industry, one village and one product", Dungang Town has focused on the "Dungang Horseshoe" brand, continued to adjust the layout of the agricultural industry, vigorously developed the modern horseshoe production and planting base, and formed a scientific and large-scale continuous planting of Xianfeng, Weixia, Zhousuo, Zongcun and other villages, with a total area of 8,000 mu. Every horseshoe harvest season, there will be merchants who take the initiative to buy at home.

Liu Dan, deputy mayor of Dungang Town, said that next, Dungang Town will continue to expand and strengthen the horseshoe industry, and at the same time actively prepare, plan to apply for national geographical indication products, and let Dungang horseshoe be branded, so as to further promote the income of farmers and help rural revitalization.

Edit: Bao Kuo

Source: Golden Sheep Network