During the cold dew season, walking into the thousand-acre pomegranate garden in Shuanghe Village, Yangjie Town, Weining Autonomous County, the red pomegranate ushered in a bumper harvest, and bustling tourists picked pomegranates while enjoying the beautiful scenery, so it was not lively, competing to taste this "sweetness of autumn".
"Look, these pomegranates are red, they must be very delicious."
"Don't be busy picking it, this pomegranate is so beautiful, I'll take a picture with it first."
In the pomegranate garden, a brightly colored, large round soft seed pomegranate is dotted with branches, the air is filled with a strong fruity aroma, tourists who come to experience picking carry baskets in the pomegranate garden to take photos and check in, from time to time pick a pomegranate gently peeled, onyx-like fruits are transparent like crystal, making people salivate.
"The quality of pomegranates in Shuanghe is very good, and every year as soon as the pomegranates are ripe, I will come to purchase a batch and bring them back to my hometown for relatives and friends to taste." Rao Jing, a teacher from Fuzhi Primary School near Shuanghe Village, has worked in Weining for many years in Hezhang County, and whenever Shuanghe pomegranates are ripe, she is a "taster" in the pomegranate garden. "The rural air is good, the scenery is beautiful, there are many fruits and vegetables, it is more desirable than the star-rated tourist attractions, and it is worth coming down often to see and take a look."
While tourists experience the fun of picking, the growers dare not delay for a moment, weighing, packing boxes, and their faces are full of harvest joy.
"My family grows 4 acres of pomegranates, and on weekdays, I can go to the pomegranate orchard to do some management, bagging, and picking work, and I earn 80 yuan a day, which is very good." Fruit farmer Jiang Taicong happily calculated the income account while packing for tourists.
In 2019, Shuanghe Village introduced high-quality soft seed pomegranates according to local conditions, and planted more than 3,000 mu of soft seed pomegranates through the model of "party branches leading cooperatives to plant a batch and demonstration to drive the masses to plant a batch independently", and now they are entering the fruit-hanging period, because of their large size and good quality, they are snapped up every time they go on the market.
"Shuanghe Village has a high altitude, a large temperature difference between day and night, a long pomegranate production cycle, and sufficient nutrient accumulation, which not only achieves peak shifting and ensures the quality of pomegranates. At present, the brand of Shuanghe pomegranate has been launched in the surrounding area, and the market is in short supply. Liu Wei, secretary of the party branch and director of the village committee of Shuanghe Village, said.
Offline sales continued to be booming, and online sales orders soared. Jiang Min, a local live broadcast anchor in Shuanghe Village, shuttled through the pomegranate forest, carefully checked the growth of the fruit, and shared the Shuanghe pomegranate with netizens in the live broadcast room from time to time.
"As an online anchor, I help my father and fellow villagers to promote local high-quality agricultural products to the majority of netizens for free, help the goods go out of the mountains, and promote the villagers to continue to increase their income." Jiang Min said.
Relying on the pomegranate industry, Shuanghe Village follows the trend and combines its own advantages to cultivate a number of farmhouses, build a number of picking gardens, create a number of industrial tourism projects, and set up a number of local product sales entities, leading tourism with industry, boosting agricultural industry with tourism, realizing the integration of agriculture and tourism, and comprehensively promoting rural revitalization.
"We will continue to rely on the soft seed pomegranate base to create pomegranate culture, develop seedling management, expand the bonsai industry, do enough deep processing articles such as pomegranate wine, continue to explore new paths of combining rural agriculture and tourism, comprehensively promote rural revitalization, and strive to build a livable and workable and beautiful and new river." Liu Wei said.
Zhao Qingneng Luosha
Guizhou Daily Tianyan News reporter Zhou Yang
Edited by Peisheng Zhai
Second Instance Xie Chaozheng
Third Trial Li Kai