Spring is bright and bright, and everything is shining. In the morel mushroom planting base of Xiaotang Village, Crescent Lake Township, Xingqing District, morel mushrooms broke through the ground with brown "small umbrellas", and the growth was gratifying. In order to avoid damaging the caps, the workers carefully cut off the stalks and put them in buckets against the soil, and this batch of morels is about to be loaded into trucks and sent to Chengdu, Sichuan.
Morel mushrooms have the reputation of "the king of mushrooms", and have always been widely welcomed by the market because of their nutritional value and tender taste. "We planted the morels in November last year, and at present, the morels in our base have entered the harvest season, and recently they will be picked every two or three days, and we have picked five or six batches, and all the fresh morels will be transported to Chengdu by refrigerated trucks, and some of them will be dried to make dried mushrooms. Xu Qing, general manager of Ningxia Jiahe Gusheng Biotechnology Co., Ltd., introduced that in recent years, with people's attention to healthy eating, the demand for morels has also increased, and the company is also aiming at this market demand. Therefore, in 2021, the company will build a morel mushroom planting base in Xiaotang Village, Crescent Lake Township, and carry out in-depth cooperation with Xiaotang Village Cooperatives to establish a production model of "cooperative + base + farmer".
At present, there are 10 greenhouses for planting morel mushrooms in the base, covering an area of 40 acres, and the output of each facility greenhouse can reach more than 3,000 catties, and the income is also very considerable. At the same time, with the emergence of the industrial benefits of the morel mushroom base, it has not only strengthened the industrial structure of Crescent Lake Township, but also created a large number of jobs for the local immigrants.
Wang Yanyan, 40 years old from Datangbei Village, Crescent Lake Township, is one of the beneficiaries, who came to work in the morel mushroom planting base, not only with a guaranteed income, but also with the ability to take care of her family. "In the past, I used to work outside, which was unstable, but now I work in the morel mushroom base, and my life is relatively easy, 120 yuan a day, and the income is also good. Wang Yanyan said.
If the industry is prosperous, the countryside will be prosperous. Nowadays, the morel mushroom planting base facilities in Xiaotang Village, Crescent Lake Township have been continuously upgraded, and industrial chains such as large-scale planting, cold chain transportation, drying and processing have been gradually formed, bringing new hope for rural revitalization.
"In the future, we will continue to take root in Crescent Lake Township, vigorously develop the fungus industry, continue to expand the planting scale of morels, increase the planting area to 120 acres, and lead more immigrants to get rich and increase income. Xu Qing said.