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In April, the Waterwood Sunshine Rose Garden in the People's Village of Yantan Town is full of flowers and pleasant flowers, adding a bright color to the spring day! Right now, it's the harvest season for edible roses, and several workers in the densely packed, competing rose bushes are busy picking rose buds.
Edible roses are beautiful and edible, is a medicinal and food homologous plant, flowers contain more than 300 kinds of chemical components, including protein, amino acids and other nutrients, in addition to containing polyphenols, flavonoids, polysaccharides and other compounds, deeply loved by consumers. In recent years, Sichuan Shuimu Sunshine Agriculture Co., Ltd. has been committed to the research of "edible roses", actively promoting high-quality edible roses such as Zhongtian Rose No. 3, comprehensively promoting the transformation and upgrading of traditional agriculture, and helping local farmers get rich and increase income.
It is understood that in the Mizuki Sunshine Rose Garden, the rose planting area has reached more than 620 acres, the edible rose picking period in the garden is half a month, the annual output of rose wet flowers is about 280 tons, dry flowers are about 60 tons, in addition to rose essential oil, rose tea, rose soap and other deep-processed products, the annual output value is about 6 million yuan, driving 16 households out of poverty, and there are more than 50 seasonal workers. "From home to the base, it only takes 10 minutes to walk, there is an income of more than 3,000 yuan per month, and the employment at the doorstep can also take care of the elderly and children, which is very good!" Zhang Guifang has been working in the planting base for three years, and this job not only solves the problem of employment and livelihood, but also allows her to learn a lot of agricultural knowledge.
In accordance with the development idea of "one heart, one line and five parks", the town has incorporated the people's village into the overall planning of the peninsula industrial zone and deepened the integration of "agriculture, culture and tourism" industries. Thanks to the unique climate and soil environment, Zigong Shuimu Sunshine Rose has excellent quality, and the annual rose festival will be held every summer, as of now, it has been held for seven consecutive years, attracting nearly 100,000 tourists, and driving the surrounding masses to increase their income by more than 3,000 yuan every year.
In the next step, the People's Village Rose Garden will take science and technology as the guarantee, market-oriented, and talents as the source of development, continuously enhance the industrial carrying capacity, enhance the level of industrial modernization, and make every effort to create a rose industry and rose culture with the theme of "ecology, organic, science and technology, and health". (Jiang Jili, Gong Chunlin)
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Editor: Wu Shanguan