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Editor's note: Since last year, Cao County has unexpectedly "gone out of the circle" and the fire has spread throughout the country and continues to this day. The "fire" of CaoXian is not an accident, but the "internal strength" that Caoxian has cultivated for many years, which is the support of the industry behind the city and the force of traditional characteristics. In order to explore and promote more Caoxian characteristics and advantageous resources, from now on, the public network poster news launched a series of reports on "This is CaoXian County", interviewing the characteristic industries of Caoxian County and the characters and stories behind it, analyzing the current situation of Caoxian County after the explosion, and taking you to Caoxian County, which continues to "go out of the circle" at zero distance.
Public Network Poster News Reporter Cui Zhiqi Li Hao Trainee Reporter Zheng Shuai Cao County reports
In Cao County, there is a saying that "the world's asparagus looks at Cao County, and Cao County asparagus looks at Su Ji".
Cao County is located in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River plain southwest of Lu, and the land is very suitable for planting asparagus. After years of development, the asparagus industry has become a characteristic agricultural industry in Cao County. CaoXian is known as the "Hometown of Chinese Asparagus", and "Caoxian Asparagus" is a Chinese geographical indication product. Recently, the public network poster news reporter came to Suji Town, Cao County, to visit the asparagus planting base in Cao County.
Suji Town is a large asparagus planting town in Cao County, through the development of asparagus cultivation, the villagers have increased their income, and the small asparagus has become a rich industry for the rich people of Xingcun. In the Baiji Asparagus Park in Suji Town, the reporter saw that the bamboo shoot farmers were picking asparagus, each carrying a basket, holding a small shovel and a smear in his hand, seeing the asparagus that had slightly broken the soil, using a small shovel to throw the soil away, cutting the asparagus from the roots, putting it in the basket, and finally burying the soil and wiping the soil with a trowel. The whole process is smooth, and a white shoot is picked. "We dig twice a day, once at five or six o'clock in the morning, once at four or five o'clock in the afternoon, and we can dig more than 100 pounds a day." This year, the price of asparagus, a pound is about six yuan, and one mu of land can increase by more than 10,000 yuan. A villager who was digging bamboo shoots told reporters.
The reporter learned that at present, the asparagus planting area of Suji Town is more than 25,000 mu, and the annual output of asparagus has reached more than 50% of the total national output, which is the largest town for asparagus planting in Cao County and one of the major asparagus production areas in the country, with an annual output value of more than 100 million yuan. "Asparagus as a characteristic industry of Suji Town, we have planned and built a 10,000-mu asparagus base with Baiji as the center, and vigorously developed the asparagus industry." Every year starts from the Qingming Dynasty and lasts for 3 months, which is the season of harvest of asparagus. Li Shunyuan, deputy mayor of Suji Town, told reporters that in the next step, Suji Town will continue to use the advantages of asparagus planting and continue to expand the planting area. At the same time, strengthen asparagus seedling selection, asparagus management, asparagus processing, etc., so that the asparagus industry to intensive and modern development, truly make the asparagus industry full of vitality, with industrial revitalization to promote rural revitalization, for rural revitalization to improve the quality of empowerment.
As the largest green asparagus production base in The country, with the development of science and technology, the industrial chain of asparagus has also been continuously extended, forming a market-oriented, one-stop industrialization pattern with bases, farmers, production and marketing. It is understood that now Caoxian asparagus processing enterprises have developed to more than 20, the main products of asparagus canned, asparagus beverages, asparagus seasoning, asparagus health products and other products are exported to Europe, America, Southeast Asia and other countries and regions, the annual export of foreign exchange of hundreds of millions of dollars.
Juxinyuan Group, located in Caoxian Development Zone, is a leading enterprise in the asparagus processing industry. Recently, the reporter came to Juxinyuan Group and erected a sign of a national high-tech enterprise at the door of the company. The reporter saw in the production workshop that the fresh white asparagus that had just been collected from the ground was neatly stacked on the workbench, and hundreds of workers in the production workshop were peeling the cleaned asparagus. "It's the peak season for asparagus harvesting, and the company is producing at full capacity." The staff of Juxinyuan Group told reporters.
Founded in 1999, Juxinyuan Group is an enterprise with scientific and technological innovation as the core. In the early process of the development of the asparagus industry, Juxinyuan made every effort to promote industrial mechanization, improve planting efficiency, and increase income for bamboo shoot farmers. Now it has developed into a leading enterprise in the whole industrial chain integrating seeding, breeding, planting, processing and finishing. In order to promote the development of the asparagus industry, Juxinyuan has established a science and technology innovation center to develop new products and cultivate new seeds. The reporter saw in the laboratory of Juxinyuan Science and Technology Innovation Center that hundreds of samples were neatly placed on the shelves, and two technical research and development personnel were classifying the petri dishes of seeds. "Scientific and technological innovation has always pushed us forward, in the development of the company, we have always put innovation in the first place, but also with the major scientific research institutions across the country to cooperate with the asparagus industry continues to extend." Now it has developed 6 categories of products such as canned asparagus, asparagus beer, asparagus health drink, asparagus Pu'er tea, asparagus food, etc., and applied for dozens of invention patents. Zhao Luyu, president of Juxinyuan Group, told reporters.
The development of the industry needs a good market environment, and it is even more necessary to promote the development of the leading enterprises. Juxinyuan Group is an Australian listed enterprise, a national high-tech enterprise, and a key leading enterprise in agricultural industrialization in Shandong Province, with more than 2,000 fixed employees and nearly 4,000 seasonal employees, and employees from surrounding rural farmers. "In the next step, we will improve the mechanization of asparagus planting, increase farmers' incomes, promote industrial upgrading, and give play to the health value and high added value of asparagus." The industry has been developing, the peasants have always had income, and the revitalization of the countryside will go further. Zhao Luyu said.
Develop an industry and drive an economy. Cao County actively guides bamboo shoot farmers to implement pollution-free and standardized planting, cultivates organic asparagus production bases and pollution-free agricultural product bases, breaks the international green barriers, has obtained national green food certification, and exported to Europe, the United States, Japan and other countries and regions. At present, Cao county has become the world's largest asparagus planting, processing and export base.