"I really can't imagine that a small sweet potato actually drives such a big benefit." The 50 acres of selenium-rich watermelon sweet potatoes that my family planted this year almost sold crazy, and the daily calls for goods almost exploded. Now calculated, the average income per mu reaches about 8,000 yuan. Li Guanghua, a villager in the 6th group of Wangling Village in Jiuli Hui Nationality Township, Zhongxiang City, Hubei Province, said excitedly.
According to Fan Shuli, secretary of the party branch and village director of Wangling Village, sweet potatoes are treasures, and leaves and vines can raise cattle, sheep and pigs. After the deep processing of sweet potatoes, potato chips, potato flour, potato noodles and so on are produced. In the past, farmers in Wangling Village spontaneously planted sweet potatoes, failing to form a scale and brand effect. Since 2019, the village has targeted the guidance and support of the sweet potato industry, and has applied for nearly 300,000 yuan of government financial funds to help farmers build 2 cellars for storing sweet potatoes and 20 greenhouses for cultivating sweet potato seedlings.
"Now it's the time of agricultural leisure, before we were idle at home, either playing mahjong, or getting together to talk about the Li family. Now after the development of the sweet potato industry in the village, we have something to do, and every day without leaving the village, we can earn 120 yuan by sorting out sweet potatoes here. Villager Chen Yuzhen spoke quickly.
Li Guanghua, chairman of the Zhongxiang City Potato Zhenguo Tree Planting Professional Cooperative, who is packing sweet potato gift boxes in the sweet potato cellar, said: "Our sweet potato industry has such a good income, which is inseparable from the attention and support of the party committee and government, and Zhou Jun, secretary of the municipal party committee, came to my sweet potato sales point to stand for us and encourage us to make the sweet potato industry bigger and stronger." We take the improvement of the quality of sweet potato varieties as a reward for donating safe and healthy food to consumers, and have achieved no chemical fertilizer, no pesticides, and regular stubble. It also borrowed zhongxiang selenium-rich soil resources to cultivate selenium-rich sweet potatoes to form a functional food brand. Zhongxiang City Thousand People Live BroadcastIng To Help Farmers Group has made great contributions to our sweet potato sales. We're almost lying down to make money now. ”
Fan Shuli, secretary of the party branch and village director of Wangling Village, said that we will use the strength of the whole village to develop selenium-rich sweet potatoes, selenium early rice and winter peach industries, and promote rural revitalization with the development of high-quality agricultural industries. This year, it is planned to expand the area of selenium-rich sweet potatoes in the whole village to 2,000 mu, so that Wangling sweet potatoes will become the first brand to conquer consumers' taste buds and an important pillar of rural revitalization. (Liao Liang, Zhang Jun, Chen Wei)