"It's the season to eat loquat again, and I heard that the loquat here is of high quality, big fruit, rich and sweet, and the meat is soft and tender, so I brought my family to try it. ”
"6 yuan a catty, all of them have just been picked from the fruit tree, very sweet!"
In April, summer is getting stronger. On April 18, the reporter drove from Guanling Autonomous County to Jieqiao Town, and the car drove along Provincial Highway 210 on the asphalt road. Outside the car window, a tree loquat along the road, according to the mountain slopes, the golden loquat hanging all over the branches, become a beautiful landscape.
After driving for about 7 minutes, the car drove into the industrial intersection of Geyao Village's Shili Fruit Corridor, and the reporter saw that from time to time, there were tourists who drove by to park their cars in front of the villagers' stalls, and after some inquiry, they either chose to buy ready-made directly, or went to the orchard to experience the fun of picking.
"The loquat here is sweet and has a good texture, and it is more than 10 minutes away by car, so if you want to eat it, you can drive here and buy some. Xiao Liangfeng, who lives in Guanling Autonomous County, said that every time he comes, he will buy more than ten catties and take them back to his family and friends to taste. On weekends, you can also bring your children to the orchard to experience the fun of picking.
Huang Yongxue's family, who live in Geyao Village, Broken Bridge Town, Guanling Autonomous County, is the whole family mobilization during this time, and they go out before dawn every day, and the men of the family go up the mountain to pick loquats, pick fruits and put them in baskets, and then drive a basket of carefully selected fruits to the stall in a farm tricycle, and the women are selling the loquat that has just been picked today.
"Every year when the loquat is ripe, there are a lot of buyers and tourists who come to our village to buy loquat. Like me, I set up my own stall to sell, pull two cars a day, and a car of more than 200 catties is not enough to sell. Huang Yongxue, a villager in Geyao Village, was filled with the joy of a bumper harvest, and a small part of the more than 20 acres of loquat planted at home was sold to passing tourists, and most of them were taken away by buyers.
"Sweet" stories like this...... It can be seen everywhere in Geyao Village, Broken Bridge Town, Guanling Autonomous County.
Geyao Village, Broken Bridge Town, has a unique geographical location, and the ecological and climatic conditions are very suitable for loquat planting. At present, the village mainly grows "big five-star loquat", and the early harvest of this variety of loquat starts in early April and ends in late May. The suitable temperature and fine planting management not only make the Broken Bridge loquat full in appearance, bright in color, but also delicate in flesh and sweet in taste, which has been favored by buyers and consumers in Hunan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places.
"This year is the second year to harvest loquat here, the loquat harvested here is large, good taste, and sells better. Ms. Lou, the buyer, said. The fruits you see today will be sorted and packaged and sent to Hunan.
The loquat planting in Geyao Village has developed from a few hundred acres at the beginning to more than 3,000 acres now, and loquat has also become a "sweet fruit" and "golden fruit" for the local people to increase their income and get rich, injecting vitality into rural revitalization.
The benefits that can be seen and touched, and the promising development make the road to prosperity in Broken Bridge Town wider and broader. Nowadays, the fine fruit industry in Broken Bridge Town is becoming more and more profitable, and the town has added 35,000 acres of loquat, citrus, dwarf pomelo and other fine fruits, with a total area of 45,000 mu, of which the loquat planting area is 20,000 mu, and the total output value has reached 200 million yuan.
Broken Bridge Town focuses on the development of the whole industrial chain of fine fruits, further promotes the adjustment of the agricultural industry structure, optimizes the structure of the agricultural industry, promotes the integrated development of primary, secondary and tertiary industries in rural areas, and does a good job in several major agricultural industries such as fine fruits, early-maturing vegetables, ecological fisheries, Guanling cattle, and Chinese herbal medicine, deeply excavates the local cultural characteristics, and creates a characteristic township with integrated development of agriculture, culture and tourism.
Author: Chen Zeyun