In recent years, Sitan Township has combined the construction of beautiful villages, focused on the optimization and adjustment of the agricultural industrial structure, actively explored new ways of Gobi agriculture, vigorously developed sunflower planting, and injected new elements into the adjustment of the industrial structure. At present, 10,000 acres of oil sunflowers have bloomed one after another, the growth is gratifying, and the harvest is in sight.
Walking into the 10,000-acre sunflower industrial park in Sitan Township, a large golden disc blooms in full bloom in the sun, and the golden sunflowers merge with the clear sky in the field, just like a painting, beautiful.
Liu Jiangping, head of sunflower planting at Gansu Jinghui Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Technology Co., Ltd.: I have planted large sunflowers in this place for two years, I planted oil sunflowers for the first year this year, and now I am watering the fourth water, this year's water and fertilizer are also sufficient, looking at this growth trend is also very good, I feel that I can reach more than 500 kilograms, I feel that an acre of land can be left with more than 600 yuan, I planted nearly ten thousand acres of land, four or five million should be able to earn, the prospect is still good.
In the past, local agriculture was mainly based on the cultivation of traditional crops, and the phenomenon of land abandonment was serious. In 2019, Gansu Jinghui Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Technology Co., Ltd. decided to change the planting structure here after many inspections, through the mode of land circulation, the construction of 10,000 acres of sunflower industrial park, the absorption of farmers to land into the shares, migrant dividends, villager Wang Shulin is one of the beneficiaries.
Wang Shulin, a villager in Yongtai Village, Sitan Township: In the past, the land that could be planted was planted, and the land that could not be planted was also deserted, anyway, the income of exhausting people to death and working hard a year was not very good, and now like me, the land has also been transferred to more than three hundred acres and four hundred acres of land, and the annual circulation fee is also thirty or forty thousand yuan, and then I work in this place, I can earn sixty or seventy thousand yuan a year, usually I go to the field to watch the watering, and then I am responsible for management, and the work is easy.
Liu Jiangping, head of sunflower planting at Gansu Jinghui Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Technology Co., Ltd.: We use our local Sitan Township for our labor, starting from seedling replenishment, seedling picking, seedling release, and sowing, when there are more than one or two hundred people a day, and when there are fewer, there are forty or fifty.
In addition, the development of the sunflower garden industry has also led to the rise of the local beekeeping industry, which not only ensures the pollination of sunflowers, but also allows beekeeping farmers to produce high-quality honey and continuously increase income.
Liu Jiangping, head of sunflower planting at Gansu Jinghui Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Technology Co., Ltd.: Our sunflowers are now in full bloom, we need a lot of bees, we are here in the Sixteen Regiments, our local grass nest beach these beekeepers, we invited four or five to come up.
Beekeeper Huang Yepei: The area of sunflowers in this place is still large, we came to this place to collect honey, and this sunflower pollen was also awarded, our income is high, the honey flow is OK, and the quality is good.
It is understood that this year, Sitan Township planted a total of more than 20,000 acres of sunflowers, through the development model of "party branch + cooperative + enterprise + farmer", concentrated continuous circulation of land, the formation of large-scale planting, not only enhances economic benefits, but also drives the development of the local tourism industry.
Wang Shulin, a villager in Yongtai Village, Sitan Township, Jingtai County: Concentrated continuous planting of this sunflower, when the sunflowers bloom now, this scenery is also relatively good, and there are more people taking photos on the side of the road one day, which is really good for our local tourism.
Dang Wenyan, director of the Agricultural Service Center of Sitan Township: In the next step, Sitan Township will take the development of Yongtai Guicheng tourism as an opportunity to focus on building a modern industrial park integrating agriculture and tourism, build industrial planting areas, tourism service areas and villagers' production areas, and comprehensively promote the high-quality development of Sitan.
(Reporter: Liu Libo Lu Youjun)