Right now, it's the season when the grapefruit is ripe. Walking into the three red grapefruit planting base of the Nanxi Second Team in Nanxi Town, Hekou County, one by one, the bulging and heavy grapefruits are hung all over the branches, which looks particularly attractive under the sunlight.
In the grapefruit forest, the pickers are busy picking and bagging the fruits of the qualified quality, and the transport workers are responsible for carrying the bags of grapefruit to the trucks at the foot of the mountain, everyone has a clear division of labor, the links are orderly, and the joy of the harvest is particularly sweet under the sun. The agricultural technicians of the Hekou County Agricultural Science Bureau rushed to the news to "accept" the results of the new year, sum up experience, and accumulate momentum for development.
Hu Yuanhong, senior agronomist of the Hekou County Agricultural Science Bureau, said: "This piece of grapefruit is a 5-year-old tree, the amount of hanging fruit of a tree is about 40, and the income of each fruit is 10 yuan, a tree can make a profit of 400 yuan, and the output value of mu is about 20,000 yuan." At the same time, in the process of planting, we have also installed biological control equipment in the orchard, reduced the frequency of pesticide use, replaced chemical fertilizers with organic fertilizers, and taken multiple measures to improve the green quality of grapefruit. ”
It is understood that the base planting of three red grapefruit is the company in 2018 from Fujian introduced varieties, peel book, fruit heart, flesh pink, juicy and refreshing, slightly fragrant taste, grapefruit core less, sugar degree of 12.4%, the base covers an area of 230 acres, the annual output value of about 1.5 million yuan, the quality in the county in the same variety of the best, is one of the main products of Hekou County green food brand.
Since 2019, Hekou County has vigorously implemented the three-year action of grasping organic, creating famous brands and cultivating dragon heads in modern agriculture with hot area characteristics, accelerated the formation of an agricultural brand pattern with regional public brands and enterprise brands as the core, and integrated development of government, enterprises and research, and has successively introduced a number of high-quality agriculture-related enterprises such as Hekou Huiyou Agricultural Technology Co., Ltd. and Hekou Star Agricultural Science and Technology Development Co., Ltd., and vigorously promoted the popularization of technology under the technical support of the Red River Tropical Crops Research Institute, and organized agricultural development leaders to go out to study from time to time. Gradually formed a number of characteristic agricultural products such as grapefruit, mango, jackfruit, caigu rice and other characteristic agricultural products.
Up to now, the fruit planting area of Hekou County has reached 293,200 mu, with an output of 453,000 tons, of which the grapefruit planting area is 35,000 mu, the annual output is 22,500 tons, the output value is 180 million yuan, and a total of 7 enterprises and 9 products in the county have obtained effective "three products and one standard" certification, with a certification area of 10,600 mu, of which "Yunhe" banana, "Linyuan" banana, "Xiawan zi grapefruit", "Hongke Orchard banana", "Hekou Yaoguan green grapefruit", "Hekou Yaoguan three red grapefruit" and "golden land" 7 products of grapefruit have obtained effective green food certification, 3 green food brand industrial bases have obtained state-level recognition, and the creation of "one county and one industry" demonstration county based on grapefruit has been smoothly promoted, and new breakthroughs have been made in industrial transformation and upgrading.
Reporter: Hekou County Rong Media Center Liang Zhongqiong Wang Peilian Correspondent: Tao Gongqiong