In recent years, Linxia County's Manisigou Township has vigorously readjusted the agricultural industrial structure, combined with local realities, actively guided the masses to circulate, make use of idle and barren land, develop characteristic industries, and through the demonstration and leading role of cooperatives, developed high-efficiency cash crop planting, further optimized the industrial structure of the whole township, and continued to broaden new channels for the masses to increase their income and become rich.
Nowadays it is the season of planting wulongtou, into the forest source ecological seedling farmers professional cooperative planting base in the middle road village of Ma nisigou Township, under the guidance of technical personnel, the villagers are busy planting wulongtou, the head of the cooperative Ma Wenyi told reporters, wulongtou is also known as thorn dragon tooth, wooden dragon head, black thorn vegetables, etc., is the young bud of the basswood, growing in high-altitude mixed wood forests, secondary forests and other places, to hillsides, river valleys are more common. Is a kind of popular medicinal vegetables dual-purpose health care type wild vegetables, wulongtou likes temperature and cold, likes the sun and shade, drought tolerance, less diseases and insect pests, full of small thorns, rhizomes can be medicated, has stomach and stool, blood and pain relief and other effects, than the traditional crop yield is 2-3 times higher.
"Our cooperative introduced Wulongtou seedlings from the northeast in 2019, and carried out trial planting in Diao Qi's Yanga Village and Juji Town in Jishishan County, and after the trial planting, I think our Middle Road Village in Manisigou is very suitable for planting Wulongtou in terms of soil, climate and environment, so in 2020 we transferred 200 mu of land and planted it, and this year we transferred 300 mu of land on the basis of last year's planting, and now the planting scale has reached 500 mu." Ma Wenyi, head of the Linxia County Linyuan Ecological Seedling Farmers Professional Cooperative, said.
Planting udon dragon heads not only beautifies the environment, but also gives the surrounding masses who cannot go out to work have a place to go. At the planting base, the reporter met Ma Gaxiang, a villager of the Second Society of Zhonglu Village, who told reporters that her husband was sick and her grandson went to school and could not go out to work, so she transferred the family's land to the cooperative, and came to the cooperative to work after the family's work.
"Now we have 8 acres of land in our family, the family's land can't be planted, we transferred to the cooperative, the rent given to us is also very good, the salary is also very good, the children in the family go to school, cook for them, we come here to work, give us 100 yuan a day, the students at home can take care of it, can give them to eat on time, and they can still have a place to work, I think it is very good." Ma Gaxiang of the Second Society of the Middle Road Village of Ma Ni Si Gou Township said happily.
At the same time, Ma Wenyi told reporters that wulongtou vegetables can be eaten fresh or dried into dried vegetables, which has the obvious advantage of the market supply period being higher than other similar mountain wild vegetables. After planting, through careful management, it can be harvested and utilized for many years, and has great economic value and ecological benefits in terms of fresh food, biopharmaceuticals, returning farmland to forests, ecological greening, etc., and has broad development prospects and development space.
Ma Wenyi, head of Linxia County Linyuan Ecological Seedling Farmers Professional Cooperative: At present, the price of Wulongtou on the market has reached about 30 yuan, I think I will take the lead in planting first, let the villagers see the benefits of planting, and then everyone thinks that planting can be, I want to continue to expand the planting area, I can provide technical guidance free of charge, can provide the best channels for purchasing seedlings, we will jointly make Wulongtou planting bigger, stronger, and increase income.
In recent years, Mani Sigou Township has continuously changed its traditional agricultural development ideas, in accordance with the industrial development idea of "rural revitalization as the guide", efforts have been made to cultivate traditional industries and guide characteristic industries, and through the adjustment of the agricultural industry structure, the development momentum of characteristic industries is good.
"Since the beginning of this year, the party committee and government of Manisigou Township have taken rural revitalization as the guide, and according to the advantages of land resources in the township, classified policies, unified planning, planted in the whole township, 4500 mu of grain and grass combined corn, 5200 mu of double-low hybrid rapeseed, 2800 mu of detoxified potatoes, 980 mu of Wulongtou planted in Hanmen Village of Middle Road, at the same time, the introduction of leading agricultural enterprises Baiyi Group and Rongxuan Company, planting 350 mu of plateau watermelon in Zhaojia Village, and planting 960 mu of red lettuce in the four villages of Middle Road, Hanmen, Sizhuang and Tangga With the participation of leading enterprises and the impetus of agricultural cooperatives, we have further cultivated and strengthened the advantageous and characteristic industries of the whole township, increased the channels for increasing the income of the masses, and laid a solid foundation for consolidating the results of poverty alleviation and achieving effective connection with rural revitalization. Ma Jianlin, vice chairman of the People's Congress of Mani Sigou Township, Linxia County, said.
Reporter: Wang Shenghong