In recent years, Tianba Town, Xuanwei City, has actively explored industrial transformation, changed the pillar industries from "underground" to "ground", developed green ecological industries to replace the original coal industry, and many once abandoned hillsides have now become "cornucopias" of green gold after planting oil tea.
In the autumn of October, it is the season of oil tea seedling management and protection, in the Xinmin Village Oil Tea Fruit Seedling Base in Tianba Town, one by one, the oil tea seedlings are growing well, and the villagers grab the oil tea seedlings when they are farmers. Relying on the original 5660 acres of wild safflower oil tea and the technical support of the expert service team of the Institute of Camellia Oleifera of the Provincial Academy of Agricultural Sciences, the Camellia oleifera fruit nursery base in Xinmin Village has cultivated varieties suitable for local cultivation and high yield.
Ma Xiao, secretary of Xinmin Village in Tianba Town, said: "Our base is to invite technicians to the mountain to select the seeds of the best quality wild oil tea, and then we breed our own seedlings, and the seedlings bred are also selected from the highest quality seedlings to graft, and the best southwest safflower oil tea spikes in our local area are selected to carry out grafting to ensure the high quality of the varieties." ”
Because the camellia oleifera fruit adaptation to planting altitude is particularly strong, as low as 400 meters above sea level to 2300 meters above sea level can be planted, and the management is extensive, the output value is high, which injects new green "vitality" into the xinmin village of the overall landform "high slope steep valley deep", and the current Xinmin village has planted a total of 2500 acres of oil tea.
"We have steep slopes here, before we planted corn, potatoes, there is not much income, now the policy is good, the village built a base of oil tea fruit, planted oil tea fruit trees, the result is that we take our own income, life will be better and better in the future." Ma Weixiang, a villager in Xinmin Village, Tianba Town, said happily.
Once barren mountains have become a "cornucopia" of green gold, oil tea cultivation is not only a good project to help villagers increase their income, but also to solve the employment of idle labor in many villages. Fan Quanfu, who is guiding the villagers to manage and protect the oil tea seedlings, because he is old, idle at home, with the seedling technology and experience of his youth, he became an administrator in the base, and he can have an income of more than one hundred yuan a day. Fan Quanfu said: "After the establishment of the cooperative in our place, I was engaged in management here, the oil tea fruit was planted, and the greenery in the village became better. ”
Tianba Town has a maximum altitude of 2533.9 meters and a minimum altitude of 1300 meters, and most places can grow Camellia oleifera fruits. At present, the cultivation of camellia oleifera in Tianba Town involves twelve administrative villages (communities), 25596.4 acres of camellia oleifera have been planted, and the camellia oleifera fruit can blossom and bear fruit in 3 years, and reach the full fruit period in about 5 years, and the output value per mu can reach about 7,000 yuan.
Wang Bangping, secretary of the Party Committee of Tianba Town, introduced: "Oil tea has three major advantages, the first is the ecological advantage, it is evergreen in all seasons, strong adaptability, the greening of barren mountains, barren slopes, steep slopes is very effective, the second is economic benefits, each mu of land can be planted 110 camellia oleifera, each mu can harvest 1200 kg." In addition, the tree age of camellia oleifera fruit is very long. Third, rural tourism can be developed, combined with rural revitalization, oil tea can blossom in spring and fruit in autumn. This industry has both economic and ecological benefits, as well as the development of rural tourism benefits. ”
In the next step, Tianba Town, Xuanwei City, will focus on the goal of building a hometown of camellia oleifera, expand the planting area of camellia oleifera, improve the management level of camellia oleifera planting, introduce enterprises for deep processing, extend the industrial chain of camellia oleifera fruit, and let the oleifera tea that opens up the hillside will enrich the ecology and enrich the people.