Red Net Moment News May 25 (Correspondent Ren Zewang Zhu Yaling) On May 24, the author walked into Xianghuajing Village, Lanxi Yao Nationality Township, Jiangyong County, only to see that the peach trees growing between the cracks in the stone mountain were full of fresh peaches, and the branches were bent heavily. Looking up, the green leaves are hidden, layer by layer, string, bright and rosy peaches are full of tenderness and mouth-watering. Villagers are carrying baskets and weaving bags to pick fresh peaches, and their faces are full of smiles.
Located in Xianghuajing Village on the border of Xianggui, the per capita paddy field area is less than 0.4 mu and the dry soil area is less than 1.3 mu, which is a mountain with "eight stones and two points". For a long time, local villagers only subsisted on the cultivation of rice, corn, sweet potatoes and so on. In the past, the natural environment of Xianghuajing Village was harsh and lacked industrial support, and the villagers could only "rely on the sky to eat".
"The fields are barren, there is a lack of soil and water, so we will plant mountains!" Peach trees are drought tolerant and have low management costs, taking only three or four months from flowering to fruit ripening. In 2012, some villagers who were not willing to be poor began to try planting yellow peaches in the mountains. Due to lack of planting experience, peach trees bloom year after year, but the fruit set rate is extremely low. Although the income is not high, it proves that the stone mountain in the village is suitable for peach trees to grow.
How to make the fresh peach industry blossom and bear fruit in the stone crevices? In recent years, the local party committee, government and county village-based help and support team have adopted industrial development models such as "party building + industry + cooperative" and "party member + capable person + farmer" to provide policy support such as industrial funds and land circulation, assign party members and cadres, planters to "learn from the experience" to learn management and protection techniques, and help fresh peach growers gradually solve production problems in the form of "one-to-one" and "one help and many", and the quality and output and output value of fresh peaches have been greatly improved. After the villagers tasted the sweetness of planting peaches, there were more farmers and more varieties of peaches in the village, and the area has reached more than 3,700 mu.
"The fresh peaches in our Fragrant Flower Well Village are bright in color and sweet in taste, and you are welcome to taste them!" Villager Gao Shilong and the workers introduced them to the author while carrying fresh peaches to the purchase point. His family planted 100 acres of peach trees with varieties such as peaches, nectarines and chickpeas, and it is expected that 250 tons of fresh peaches can be picked this year, and the gross income can reach 750,000 yuan at a price of 3 yuan per kilogram. He grinned and said that he did not expect that such a "stone land" that seemed to be unable to plant anything would bring wealth to everyone. His family now hires 30 workers from outside the village every day to pick fresh peaches and sell them to Guangdong merchants who come to buy them.
"Since planting peach trees, the villagers' incomes have doubled several times. Everyone has more confidence in rural revitalization! Li Jinping, a member of the county team stationed in the village, told this writer. Among the 270 peach tree growers in the village, there will be more than 150 households with peach planting income of more than 100,000 yuan this year.