In Jiangyan Village, Kuaidamao Town, Tonghua County, villagers are busy in the sweet potato fields. Rows of round, chubby red-skinned sweet potatoes, accompanied by the smell of earth and the unique sweetness of sweet potatoes, present a golden autumn scene of harvest.
In recent years, Jiangyan Village has continued to consolidate the results of poverty alleviation and vigorously developed and expanded the village's collective economy. This year, we will continue to broaden the road to increasing income, invest 25,000 yuan for the development of ecological planting economy, and vigorously develop sweet potato planting. Sweet potato is rich in protein, starch, pectin, cellulose, amino acids, vitamins and a variety of minerals, with the reputation of "longevity food" and "small ginseng", and has become the "new favorite" on people's tables. Zheng Ruilong, secretary of the village party branch, said: "Due to the constant changes in people's dietary structure, the market demand for coarse grains such as sweet potatoes and corn is getting bigger and bigger." Seeing this business opportunity, Zheng Ruilong led the villagers to continuously investigate and study, repeatedly experiment, and finally determined the locally recognized sweet potato varieties for promotion and planting. It is understood that this year's sweet potato harvest in Jiangyan Village, with a total output of 50,000 jin and cumulative sales of more than 40,000 yuan.
The development of sweet potato cultivation in Jiangyan Village has not only strengthened the village collective economy, but also provided employment for the young and middle-aged labor force in the village. Villager Nie Jingchun smiled at the wages of migrant workers in the past few days and said, "I have earned a few hundred yuan in a few days, and I am not tired of work, and I will come when I plant next spring."
Yang Mingming
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