Source: Overseas Network
Xinjiang Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, rich and diverse terroir, the seat of the prefecture Korla produces fragrant pears, Ruoqiang and the last two counties in the hinterland of Taklamakan produce red dates, Yuli County produces cotton, yanqi, Bohu and Heshuo counties around Bosten Lake north of the Tianshan Mountains produce grapes, peppers and tomatoes, and Luntai County on the edge of the desert has been the hometown of small white apricots since ancient times.
Apricots are one of the oldest fruit trees cultivated in China, and I believe that the apricots in Luntai are more than 2,000 years ago, after Zhang Qian chiseled the western region, the Central Plains soldiers brought apricots here and planted them in the fields of Tunken. The white apricot blossoms of Luntai blossom and fall for another thousand years, waiting for the great Xuanzang, and the apricots of ordinary people's homes were honored in the "Records of the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty".
This year,000 temperatures are low, and the almond blossoms bloom a week later than in previous years. At the end of March, the apricot blossoms, which had long been unable to hold back, could not wait to push open the flower door and appear on the stage, and the first grand event of the oasis began. Looking around, ten miles of clouds and smoke, a hundred miles of rouge; Up close, the rouge is ten thousand points, and the flowers are delicate. When you walk into the wheel, you enter the world of flowers and the illusion of dreams.
The apricot blossoms bloom, and the townships hold the apricot blossom festival at the same time, from north to south, from east to west, the apricot blossoms can not be seen at a glance, the flowers are surging and the crowds are bustling. Men, women and children, the whole village, the whole township and even the whole county rushed out to walk on the green, enjoy the flowers, meet friends, and indulge in wine and gold in the apricot tree garden.
This year, the apricot blossoms bloom late, but ripen early. At the beginning of June, the apricots of the wheel are ripening and the picking season has arrived. At this time, the wheel platform opened the door of harvest, and the aroma filled the city, and the eyes were full of gold. The streets, the streets, the roads, under the orchard trees, pieces, piles, baskets, all apricots. Golden apricots, honey-flowing villages, honey-flowing orchards, and honey-flowing cities are suspected of mistakenly entering the Golden House.
Each fruit tree in the orchard flaunted its achievements, hanging golden fruit from its branches. Eating apricots on the wheel platform to eat drunk, eating to the mouth to bubble, such a soul-destroying way to eat, have you ever had?
I was intoxicated when I was awakened by a woman's shouting. Finished work, closed work. Today's goods sent to Shanghai are all sent away, and I will treat you what you want to eat.
The woman, whom the women called the boss, was very young, her long yellow hair pinned behind her head with a hairpin, and a white and red dress, like a flame. Her name is Ayi guli and she is 31 years old. She grew up in Yangxia, was admitted to the inner junior class, and attended school for 6 years free of charge. Helplessly, 18-year-old Ayi guli took the same path as her mother and married early. Married life brought her pain, 25-year-old Ayi guli divorced and returned to her mother's house with a 3-year-old child.
With a fluent Mandarin, Ayiguli has worked in advertising agencies and Unicom companies, buying herself a mobile phone and an electric car. She tasted happiness as the joy of struggle, and was determined to keep her destiny firmly in her own hands. The sudden death of her mother left her without her last reliance. The village committee arranged for her to serve as a poverty alleviation specialist, which solved her difficulties in bringing up her children.
Luntai white apricot fruit flesh is juicy, yellow in the white, high sugar content, contains a variety of organic ingredients and essential vitamins and inorganic salts, well-known inside and outside Xinjiang.
White apricots are not easy to preserve, perishable, in the past, trapped in traffic, white apricots harvest when the farmers are worried about selling. Today, Xinjiang railways, roads, aviation, smooth roads, developed logistics industry, cold chain transportation to the countryside, apricots run on the road, fly in the air, in less than a week can reach any place in the country.
The clever and capable Ayi Guli sniffed the business opportunities and followed others to learn to contract apricot orchards and send fresh apricots to the mainland.
Apricot opens the door to Ayiguri's happiness, good apricot plus true integrity, she succeeds. Last year, an apricot season made a net profit of 40,000 or 50,000 yuan. This year, some companies in Shanghai have booked her apricots early, and the new crown pneumonia epidemic in Shanghai has just stabilized, and she has been busy shipping, hiring five or six old aunts from Henan to pack apricots, she is responsible for online and offline sales, and apricots are quickly sold out. In autumn, you can also sell dried apricots.
As soon as I entered the apricot orchard of the family of Kurban Ahmalizi in the village of Kaga Mai lai in Yangxia Town, I saw him and his wife climbing a ladder and picking apricots with a basket. Afraid that the apricots would hurt and affect the quality, the basket was sewn with thick cotton. His apricots are round and sweet as honey. Kurban Ayulizi calculated an account for us: his own 2.7 acres of apricot trees, each tree sold for more than 1,000 yuan, removing the cost, and the income was 55,000 yuan. He saved all the money for the sale of apricots, ready to buy a cow and add some ewes, and his life was like a pigeon turning over, higher and higher.
In the past few years, due to poor management and the flood of pests and diseases, his family's apricot harvest has almost been extinct. He looked sadly at the village committee. The cadres of the village committee contacted the agricultural technicians to visit his home, formulated scientific management measures for his apricots, and taught the technology by hand. The almond tree lived up to expectations, with high yields, good quality and good prices this year. Speaking of which, Kurban Ahmed had a faint watery tinge in his eyes.
Its 500-acre apricot industry demonstration garden in Gablak Village is all on the edge of the wheat field. Looking around, the apricots on the branches of the apricot trees are one after another, glowing with fruity aromas. There are several automatic lift picking machines parked under the trees, and villagers are standing on the machine gimbal busy picking apricots. The plucked apricots were poured on the blanket, heavy and yellow, and several girls were sorting, putting the smooth and undamaged apricots in a white net sleeve and putting them into the basket one by one. Such apricots can be sold for 20 yuan a kilogram.
I met Aishan Kuzi, the director of the apricot dry factory in Bostan Village, who was harvesting apricots in an apricot tree garden, and the 42-year-old Aishan had wide cheeks, sword eyebrows, small flatheads, and was simple and capable. He borrowed 500,000 yuan from the bank, contracted the apricot factory at an annual rent of 20,000 yuan, he was ambitious, ready to build the apricot factory into a wheel platform brand, in just one year, invested in the development of apricot sauce, mulberry sauce, dried apricots, apricot drinks 4 varieties, high quality and excellent price, soon occupied Korla and the surrounding market, the supply exceeded demand. Aishan, who became rich from the apricot industry, owns two trucks and a car, and the house is decorated with grandeur.
The existing apricot planting area in Luntai County is 81,800 mu. The main planting areas of white apricots are Yeyungou Township, Cedaya Township, TierekeBazar Township and Yangxia Town to focus on the development of early-ripening white apricots; Luntai Town, Halbak Township and other townships are mainly middle and late ripening apricot varieties, and the apricot industries in the eastern and western townships complement each other, achieving the greatest benefits of industrial development.
Apricots open the door for farmers to get rich. In 2021, the total output of various types of apricots in the county will be 19,500 tons, and the per capita income of the forest fruit industry will be 3,831 yuan, which is double that of 5 years ago.
Apricots, the holy fruit bred by sunshine and desert wind, snow water and soil, technology and sweat, after the Korla fragrant pear, have become the new image ambassador of Bayingolin Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture, the "net red" from the South Tianshan Mountains, and the spokesperson of the green ecology of Luntai.
A cart of small white apricots pulled away, transported to all over the world, a few days later, when the sweet knocked on the door, opened the door to pick up the apricots, the catch is sweet, is happiness. (Li Peihong)
People's Daily Overseas Edition ( 2022-09-03 Issue 07)