Source: Economic Daily News Client
"Chestnuts are born with strong branches and fruits, no light does not hang fruit, and the light path cannot be opened to certainly not grow chestnuts." In the cold winter, when the temperature in Xinglong County, Hebei Province, deep in the Yanshan Mountains, drops to minus 10 degrees Celsius, Chen Guozheng, a fruit tree expert invited by the county, is training dozens of rural people in the field management of chestnut trees in a chestnut garden in the county's Lanqiying town. The lecturers explained in a simple and simple way, while performing operation demonstrations; some of the participants recorded, some videos, extra serious, completely unaffected by this cold weather.
Yang Chunpeng, an agricultural extension researcher at the Xinglong County Agricultural and Guangdong University, told reporters that Xinglong County is a large forest and fruit county, and the county's economic forest has developed to 1.05 million mu and 52.5 million trees, and the per capita fruit trees of farmers have exceeded 220 trees, and the fruit income has become the "golden key" for 207,000 rural people to increase their income and become rich. In order to make good use of the winter agricultural leisure time, the county organized agricultural technology experts and leaders to get rich with on-site explanations, agricultural broadcasts, and lectures in the farmers' bookstores to send a "big meal" of scientific and technological knowledge to the fruit farmers in the county to help farmers increase production and income. Since the winter of this year alone, more than 13,000 farmers have participated in the training through various channels in the county, including 8 professional training courses for special bulk fruits, training more than 1,000 professional fruit farmers.
Li Changjiang is a villager in Qingsongling Town, who has been studying with the Xinglong County Agricultural and Guangdong School for a year, and this time he took the initiative to come to the training class. He said: "The previous learning harvest was particularly great, and I hope to continue to learn from the teacher, constantly broaden my horizons, and master more scientific management techniques for fruit trees." It is understood that there are many "repeat customers" like Li Changjiang in the training class, and the scientific management of fruit trees has allowed fruit farmers to obtain tangible benefits. Taking the canopy shaping technology that Chen Guozheng is talking about as an example, the successful crown shaping this winter will increase the yield of chestnut mu by 100-200 jin next year and increase the income by more than 1,000 yuan.
Wang Zhi, director of the Xinglong County Agriculture and Rural Bureau, said: "After years of continuous scientific and technological training, the professional technology of fruit tree planting of the peasant masses has been continuously improved, and all millions of mu of fruit trees in the county have achieved pollution-free green planting. This high-quality large-scale planting has promoted the extension of the fruit deep processing chain. Up to now, the county has cultivated nearly 100 fruit deep processing enterprises, with a total processing volume of 300,000 tons, a total output value of more than 1.6 billion yuan, and only one fruit tree planting, the per capita annual income of farmers has exceeded 4,000 yuan. (Economic Daily reporter Song Meiqian correspondent Yang Xu Guan Pengyu)