In recent years, Liancheng has been focusing on new technologies, new products and new tracks, moving towards the new, and injecting strong momentum into the high-quality development of the sweet potato industry.
Recently, in the intelligent greenhouse of Liancheng County Dizhongbao Modern Agricultural Development Co., Ltd., a tuft of sweet potato detoxification seedlings is growing well, and the workers are busy cutting seedlings and planting seedlings to prepare for the bumper yield and increase of income in the sweet potato industry in the new year and lay a good foundation.
Lin Hongchang, a villager of Linkun Village, Linfang Town, is a new farmer born in the 90s, these days, he is busy selecting sweet potato seedlings and planting, with the guarantee of good seeds and strong seedlings, Lin Hongchang's sweet potato planting has developed from more than 10 acres a few years ago to more than 300 acres now, relying on the "sweet industry" of sweet potatoes, life is getting more and more prosperous.
Lin Hongchang, a villager of Linkun Village, Linfang Town, Liancheng County, said: "This year I am going to plant 315 acres of sweet potatoes, the field has been all prepared, and now the seedlings have been planted two-thirds. All my seedlings are provided by Dizhongbao, because he is a detoxified seedling, which is more resistant to viruses and increases yield, so we have taken all the seedlings here in recent years. ”
In order to polish the business card of the hometown of sweet potato, Liancheng vigorously promotes sweet potato varieties, supports the construction of the expansion base of Dizhongbao Agricultural Technology Co., Ltd., introduces, screens, tests and demonstrates sweet potato varieties suitable for local planting, and has built more than 3,000 square meters of sweet potato seedling tissue culture center and 15 differentiated, large-scale and standardized sweet potato planting demonstrations, variety innovation and new varieties display bases of more than 300 acres, providing nearly 100 million high-quality detoxified and healthy potato seedlings for the market every year.
"Now the expansion is mainly 11 varieties, the main promotion is Jishu 26, as well as watermelon red, Jishu 26 because of its better yield, better quality, stronger adaptability, and suitable for our factory processing, so this amount is the largest, watermelon red is the market. Wu Zhican, the technical director of Dizhongbao Modern Agricultural Development Co., Ltd., said.
Liancheng County has carefully done a good job in the cultivation and multiplication of high-quality sweet potato detoxification seedlings, and cultivated more sweet potato seedlings suitable for market demand, so as to meet the needs of processing, fresh food, fruits, vegetables, ornamental and other multi-functional sweet potato varieties.
"Sweet potatoes, like rice, are replaced relatively quickly, and sometimes the varieties will degrade and not adapt, so we must find new varieties that can replace them and do a good job in variety reserves. Last year, the Science and Technology Institute provided us with 84 varieties of seedlings, and after expert identification, field observation, factory trial processing and other screening processes, we finally retained 8 varieties of sweet potato seedlings. Wu Zhican said.
Last year, the sweet potato planting area of Liancheng County reached 100,000 mu, the output value of sweet potato product processing was 8.1 billion yuan, and the output value of the whole industrial chain was 14.5 billion yuan.
Reporter: Zhang Ling, Lin Jiawei