Sweet potatoes have been cultivated in the Chaoshan region for hundreds of years, and the sweet potato flour produced is sticky and sweet, which helps digestion and enhances appetite, and is deeply loved by the local people. In recent years, Chaonan District of Shantou City has vigorously promoted the development of the sweet potato industry, and launched the construction of the Sweet Potato Municipal Modern Agricultural Industrial Park (hereinafter referred to as the Chaonan Sweet Potato Industrial Park) in Chaonan District of Shantou City in 2021.
"We seize the opportunity, actively explore the market, and supply about 2,200 tons of sweet potatoes in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area in 2021, with a good momentum of development." Lin Xuanhong, the leading entity of the industrial park, Shantou Mayor and General Manager of Agriculture Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Changhe Agriculture), said that the sweet potato industry in Chaonan has entered the fast lane of development, and sweet potato planting is becoming a powerful engine to promote the revitalization of local villages.
"Watermelon red" sweet potato.
Promote good seeds, standardized planting to improve quality
Sweet potato is a bulk crop in the province and even the whole country, why can Chaonan sweet potato get the favor of the Greater Bay Area and even the national market?
"This is mainly due to the good natural environment and excellent quality of varieties in Chaonan." Lin Xuanhong introduced that Chaonan District is bordered by the South China Sea, belongs to the coastal hilly area, and the land is formed by the accumulation of semi-flowing sandy soil along the coast, and the soil layer is deep and loose, which is suitable for planting sweet potatoes; The local subtropical monsoon climate has an obvious oceanic climate, a large temperature difference between day and night, good air condition, and sufficient irrigation water. Therefore, the sweet potatoes produced are powdery, sticky and sweet.
Long and agricultural sweet potato planting base.
Changhe Agricultural Sweet Potato Planting Base is located in Jingdu Town, Chaonan District, with a planting area of 3500 mu and a seasonal yield of 3500 jin, and the main planting variety is "Pushu 32", commonly known as "Watermelon Red". "All the seedlings planted in the base have been detoxified, the disease resistance has been greatly improved, and the modern and refined management technologies such as water control and fertilizer control, automatic irrigation, and field monitoring have been adopted in the planting process, and the yield and quality of sweet potatoes have become more stable."
In terms of processing, Changhe Agriculture will finely sort sweet potatoes, give priority to the sale of sweet potatoes that meet the size and weight standards, too large or too small, they will be reprocessed to make French fries, mashed potatoes and other products to improve the added value of sweet potato products.
In addition to the application of modern technology, the industrial park also vigorously promotes the integration of production, education and research, establishes cooperation with the Puning Institute of Agricultural Sciences, encourages and supports enterprises in the park to cooperate with relevant scientific research institutions and enterprises at home and abroad, actively introduces and widely adopts new varieties, new technologies and new materials, carries out research on the development of germplasm resources of sweet potato agricultural products, high-yield and high-quality cultivation, and continuously improves the quality of Chaonan sweet potato.
Long and agricultural sweet potato product packaging.
Joint agriculture brings farmers, and insured purchases drive farmers to increase their income
In addition to optimizing varieties and improving quality, the industrial park relies on the leading role of leading enterprises to gradually improve the mechanism of increasing farmers' income, forming four major agricultural belt agricultural models such as order agriculture, industrial chain extension, leaseback and backward package driving and socialized service, which effectively drives the development of industrial parks while effectively driving farmers' income.
Changhe Agriculture has achieved remarkable results in combining enterprise development with agricultural belt agriculture. In order to promote the continuous expansion of industrial scale, Changhe Agriculture provides high-quality seedlings and planting technologies for farmers around the base, unifies technical standards, and purchases sweet potatoes grown by farmers at a guaranteed price, which reduces the planting risk of farmers and effectively promotes income increase and production.
Lin Hongxuan said that through the linkage cooperative, Changhe Agriculture has driven 805 farmers in total, and the average household income has increased by 1300 yuan. "With the support of the industrial park project, the company has built more than 2,000 square meters of sweet potato collection and processing plants, which can effectively meet the needs of sweet potato storage and processing, and can also attract a large number of surrounding farmers to work and increase income."
In the joint farming model of Changhe Agriculture, farmers are highly motivated to grow sweet potatoes.
In order to improve the planting level of farmers in the park and cultivate more new farmers, the industrial park has also explored the implementation of new farmer cultivation projects, set up farmer training schools, regularly carried out agricultural technology training, and provided technical guidance, online consultation and other services for farmers. Woodlanders were among the beneficiaries of the project. "After the training, I have become more proficient in the scientific cultivation of sweet potatoes and understand the relevant knowledge of digital agriculture. The scale of sweet potato cultivation in the family has also expanded from 50 mu to 120 mu. ”
Industrial integration to create a sweet potato leisure agriculture demonstration zone
It is reported that the Chaonan Sweet Potato Industrial Park takes "ecology, characteristics, high quality and high quality" as the development positioning, and aims to accelerate the construction of modern sweet potato industry, develop ecological boutique agriculture, explore the integration of multiple formats of sweet potato, and create a modern green and high-quality sweet potato production area, a sweet potato science education area and a leisure agriculture demonstration area.
Sweet potato harvest site.
In order to further enhance the development level of the sweet potato industry, Chaonan Sweet Potato Industrial Park is actively promoting digital agriculture, building a sweet potato production information monitoring system, focusing on the collection, analysis, prediction and release of the sown area, yield, market period and place price information of bulk sweet potatoes nationwide through the network information platform, providing timely, accurate and comprehensive production and early warning information, reasonably staggering the sowing and harvesting periods, preventing blind production, avoiding concentrated large numbers of listings or out-of-stock disconnections, and promoting the stable development of production and the smooth operation of the market.
Next, the industrial park will also create agricultural leisure tourism projects, relying on the surrounding villages and pastoral landscapes of the original Jingdu Town, forming an innovative agricultural leisure demonstration area integrating functions such as agricultural technology incubation, new agricultural product cultivation and modern agricultural demonstration gardens. The main body of the implementation of the industrial park will build a sweet potato taste experience hall, a leisure sightseeing pavilion and a landscape tree seedling in the science popularization corridor, expand new functions such as ecological protection, leisure agriculture, education and science popularization, and cultural inheritance, and promote the combined development of sweet potato agriculture and agriculture.
【Co-ordinator】Huang Shuerong
[Reporter] Gao Yongbin Intern Kuang Keying
【Image】Reprinted from the network
【Source】 Southern Rural Daily