It's another year of bumper dates! In August, the 3,500 acres of rice dates in The Village of Xinshan in Santai County have matured one after another, and the fruits of uniform size are hanging from the branches, and the growth is gratifying.
Jujube farmers in the jujube forest are busy picking dates and loading dates, tourists and merchants choose dates, buy dates... Everywhere you look, there is a busy harvest scene.
Fruit farmer Huang Tinggang said: "This year's jujube harvest is better than any other year, big and sweet. ”
Fruit farmer Huang Jiagui said: "I sold more than 10,000 dates on one acre last year, and this year I have sold more than 9,000.
The rice jujube in The village has a long history of cultivation and is a protected product of the National Geographical Indication. For a long time, through organic planting, greenhouse planting and other technologies, the quality and yield of jujube are getting better and better, and the price of jujube this year can reach three to five yuan per catty. The crisp, juicy, sweet and refreshing dates are loved by nearby merchants.
Ye Xianzhong, a rice jujube buyer, said: "I came from Chengdu, and I have been harvesting rice dates in The Mountain Village of Santai County for more than ten years, this fruit has a good color, a sweet taste, and it is easy to sell when it is pulled out and sold. ”
Xinde Town is the hometown of Rice Jujube in China, and the whole town grows more than 6,000 acres of rice jujube. In recent years, Xinde Town has combined the advantages of regional resources to comprehensively accelerate the pace of development of rice and jujube characteristic industries, boost rural revitalization, and increase income by upgrading technology, broadening sales channels, and introducing new products.
Liu Bing, deputy mayor of Xinde Town, said: "This year's harvest of rice dates the people have tasted the sweetness, and while we have smoothed the sales channels and sold dry and clean, we have done a good job in the autumn and winter management of rice dates, vigorously developed organic rice dates, improved the quality of rice dates, and truly made millet dates a big industry and made the people continue to increase their income." ”
At present, more than 10,000 mu of open-field rice dates in our county have been gradually matured into the picking period, and the output value can be achieved after all of them are listed.
Santai County Rong Media Center \ Yang Fang Chen Hang