"Walnut trees are planted in the field, there is a walnut processing factory in front of my home, I sell walnuts to the factory, and then go to work there, and my annual income is more than 40,000 yuan." On November 6, Turnisa Aimel, a villager in Bashi Yabag Village, Chasamichit Township, Yecheng County, said.
Yecheng County has a large number of poor people and a deep degree of poverty, as the largest walnut producing area in Xinjiang, how to let walnuts play a positive role in poverty alleviation and start the golden sign of "Yecheng Walnut"?
In recent years, Yecheng County has vigorously promoted the improvement of the quality and efficiency of the forest fruit industry, and built a whole industrial chain of walnuts that is "eaten dry and squeezed clean". At present, 330,000 people in the county are involved in the walnut industry, and the per capita net income of farmers and herdsmen accounts for 37.1% of the income from walnuts.
Villagers sort walnuts at the walnut processing plant in the Xinjiang Walnut (Yecheng) Wholesale Trading Market in Charbagh Town, Yecheng County (data map of this newspaper). □ Photo by Jotikel Nigatti
Growers become "people who understand"
As soon as this year's newly harvested walnuts were sold out, Abdullah Maimaiti, a villager in Kanteiqi Village, Besirek Township, Yecheng County, began to prepare for next year's harvest. "In a few days, I'll apply farm manure to the walnut orchard, and then let the walnut tree drink a beautiful winter water and wait for the spring next year," he said. In my winter free time, I will learn management techniques such as walnut pruning and grafting. His family's 45 acres of walnuts have increased from 230 kilograms last year to 260 kilograms this year.
"This year, the average yield of peach cores in our township has increased by about 30 kilograms compared with last year, and the quality is good, the empty shell rate is low, the nuts are full, and the per capita income of farmers and herdsmen walnuts is more than 4,000 yuan." Behind the increase in production and efficiency, the government guides and helps farmers to plant scientifically and finely manage. Yang Libo, deputy head of Saybagh Township in Yecheng County, said.
In recent years, the cultivation and management of walnuts in Yecheng County has changed from extensive to quality and efficiency and scientific and technological innovation. The promotion and application of science and technology has provided strong support for the majority of farmers to rely on the walnut industry to increase income and get rid of poverty.
Ma Xiaobin, a major walnut grower in Tieti Township, Yecheng County, began to grow walnuts in 2000, when, like most farmers, he did not understand the technology and planted walnut trees densely, resulting in a lack of sunlight and insufficient pollination, and the yield per mu was only a few tens of kilograms. In recent years, Yecheng County has deeply implemented the projects of grasping the density and promoting the transformation of walnut dense plantations; grasping pruning and promoting the "shaping" of walnut trees; and grasping grafting and promoting the improvement of walnut varieties. Benefiting from these technical trainings, Ma Xiaobin has become a well-known "walnut champion" in the county, and many forest fruit growers have become "people who understand" scientific planting.
Walnuts are treasured all over the body
In Xinjiang Meijia Food and Beverage Co., Ltd. in Yecheng County Light Industrial Park, the production lines of walnut kernels and walnut beverages in the factory are running in an orderly manner. Company employee Dolikun Ahmad said: "In the past, it was to eat a walnut kernel, and now, walnuts have become walnut milk, walnut oil, walnut drinks, etc., which can be sold all over the country." ”
The planting area of walnuts in Yecheng County is more than 580,000 mu, and the total annual output is 130,000 tons. Among them, Xinjiang Meijia Food and Beverage Co., Ltd., which integrates the research and development, production and sales of walnut products, acquires about 40,000 tons of walnuts per year. Peng Hongchun, chairman of the company, introduced that in the future, it is also necessary to make walnut protein powder into polypeptides, walnut oil into soft capsules, walnut distraction wood into tea bags, and walnut shells into activated charcoal. The longer the walnut industry chain, the higher the added value of walnuts and the higher the income of growers.
"In recent years, the contradiction between the oversupply of walnuts has been more prominent, and the effective way to solve this contradiction is to improve the quality of walnuts, extend the walnut industry chain, and meet market demand with better quality and more types of products." Fei Xinghua, general manager of the Yecheng Walnut Trading Center of Xinjiang Fruit Industry Group, said. The reporter saw that in the walnut processing area, walnut kernels are not only processed into a variety of foods, walnut shells and walnut green skins are also turned into treasures and processed into industrial products.
At present, Yecheng County has formed a walnut industry development pattern in which the county has leading enterprises, townships have planting bases, and villages have cooperatives.
Online and offline efforts are in unison
Last winter, seeing that the walnut wholesale trading market was built in front of his home, Abulimiti Meatzi, a villager in Baiheti De'erya Village, Charbagh Town, Yecheng County, saw the business opportunity, became a farmer broker, went to other townships to buy walnuts, and then pulled them to the trading market to sell, earning 0.2 yuan - 0.3 yuan per kilogram of walnuts.
In September, the walnut picking season entered, the Xinjiang walnut (Yecheng) wholesale trading market became lively, selling walnuts with local growers and brokers, buying walnuts with local enterprises and mainland merchants, and many farmers in the vicinity keenly seized this business opportunity and started transportation, catering and other businesses.
In the Yecheng County Red Pomegranate Naan Industrial Park, walnut products also occupy a place, and the industrial park processes walnut naan to digest 28 tons of walnut kernels a year. In the Walnut Seven Immortals Garden in Sayi bagh Village, Sayi Bagh Township, Yecheng County, there is an endless stream of tourists, and a grand walnut picking festival is held every year...
Liang Yongjun, deputy secretary of the Yecheng County PARTY Committee and secretary of the CPPCC Party Group, told reporters that in recent years, Yecheng has vigorously promoted the construction of e-commerce platforms and promoted the online sale of bulk agricultural and sideline products mainly walnuts and their deeply processed products.
Up to now, Yecheng agricultural product processing enterprises have set up 5 direct sales outlets and 16 e-commerce platforms outside Xinjiang, and built 5 township-level e-commerce service centers, 20 e-commerce service outlets, and 130 village-level service outlets.
The construction of online and offline sales platforms has not only promoted walnut sales, but also led a large number of villagers to find local employment nearby, allowing them to achieve stable income growth.
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Source: Xinjiang Daily