Just stepped into this village, a burst of "aroma" came to the nose... In recent years, with the increasing popularity of the spice market, geranium has gradually become known to people and has become a competitive development industry. At present, the fragrant leaf geranium in Shangang Village, a town in Binchuan County, Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, is being planted in a large area.
Xiangye geranium planting base in Shangang Village
Fragrant leaf geranium alias is also known as touch incense, foreign rose, its stem and leaf young shoots the whole plant contains aromatic oil, can be used to extract fragrant leaf oil as a spice, spices are widely used in perfumes, soaps and other daily necessities and cosmetics, fragrant leaf geranium can also be used in medicine, has a cold and pain-relieving function, the role of eczema, to purify the air, remove indoor decoration formaldehyde and repellent mosquitoes are very effective, geranium growth period needs sufficient sunlight, the mountain gang village land is vast and fertile, the sun is abundant and rainfall is small, very suitable for the propagation and growth of geranium.
Shangang Village is one of the 5 poor villages in the state town, the infrastructure is slightly weaker than the village committee of the dam district, in the face of the masses to increase income and get rich, Yang Caibing, general secretary of the party branch of Shangang Village, looks anxious in the eyes, leads the village "two committees" team to take the initiative, do not wait and do not rely on it, according to local conditions, boldly explore and innovate, adopt the development model of "party branch + enterprise + farmer", in 2018, the Binchuan Tianzhu Planting Professional Cooperative was established, and Yunnan Emerald Fragrance and Fragrance Co., Ltd. cooperated hand in hand, provided by the company with technical support, In Shangang Village to jointly build a spice planting base of 300 acres, farmers can join the cooperative through 1,000 yuan per mu of land into the shares, the current cooperative has a total of 78 members, driving 25 poor households around to join. The company purchases according to the protection price of 800 yuan / kg every year, if the market price is higher than 800 yuan, it will be uniformly acquired according to the market price.
Geranium has become one of the pillar industries of Shangang Village
Looking at the initial results of the planting of fragrant leaves, Yang Caibing had more confidence in his heart, but he did not dare to relax in the slightest: "At that time, our Shangang Village was relatively short of water, and there were certain restrictions on the planting of crops, a few years ago, many plots of land were deserted, it is a pity, Shangang is a poor village, how to turn disadvantages into advantages, develop and expand characteristic industries, and help the masses to uproot poverty is a difficult problem in front of our team, we are also under pressure, hard scalp to take the initiative to seek ideas, just think that waiting is not the way, there is hope, Now that the cultivation of fragrant leaves has been promoted and the masses have confidence, the next step is to plan from how to improve product quality and build a green organic brand. ”
Through the party organization to take the lead in demonstration and leadership, fragrant leaf planting has a technical guarantee and sales guarantee, greatly improved the level of standardized planting, relieved the worries of the masses, but also let the masses see hope, so far in 2018, through the spice standardization planting base radiation drive, Shangang Village Sesame Village, Xiangshui group, group two and other village groups before and after the development of more than 2,000 acres of fragrant leaves, the average mu yield of 8 kilograms, the market price per kilogram of about 900 yuan, the entire village fragrant leaf output value of up to more than 14 million yuan, Geranium cultivation has become one of the pillar industries of Shangang Village.
Li Shaojun, a villager in Shangang Village, is one of the beneficiaries of the cooperative, and when he mentioned the planting of fragrant leaves, he excitedly recalled: "At that time, when the village launched the planting of fragrant leaves, I still had concerns, worried that the sales would not be smooth, but now look at it, those worries are superfluous. Murakami has reduced market risks through cooperatives and companies, and our income has been guaranteed, and the fragrant leaves are easier to grow without labor. At present, many families in our village are planting fragrant leaves and onions and garlic, and some also grow flue-cured tobacco and grapes, and their incomes are high, and the construction of the village is getting better and better. ”
In the process of getting rid of poverty and becoming well-off, the general party branch of Shangang Village is in the front, working in difficult places, carrying out work at the first level, and the party flag has always been flying high on the front line of poverty alleviation, and finally forming a vivid situation of "cadres leading the work, party members rushing to do it, and the masses following the work", leading the peasant households to run together to a well-off life.
Yunnan Network reporters Qi Junjun correspondents Zhang Bingquan, Yang Xiaorui, and Wu Hua