Walking into Baran Village, Chaoyang Town, Libo County, every household is filled with the joy of loquat harvest. The loquat trees on the mountain are full of loquat wrapped in paper bags, and the branches are bent. Peel it off with your hands, and you can see the ripe fruit, which is particularly attractive among the green leaves.
The loquat gradually matures and enters the picking period, and the masses begin to pick and sell loquat with the joy of a good harvest. The pickers in the loquat forest are scattered around, picking the fruits neatly, opening the bags one by one, picking the loquat that meets the standards such as size and color into the back basket, and then transporting it directly to the loquat receiving center at the bottom of the mountain after filling the truck.
At this time, the loquat receiving center of Hongxin Tuloquat Professional Cooperative in Libo County, Balang Village, is also a busy scene. It has already been filled with loquat picked and transported from the mountain that day, and baskets of loquat are almost spread all over the site, and the workers are sorting, packing, and loading, waiting for merchants to buy and transport to the market.
More than 100 acres of loquat in Barotan Village, a large loquat planter, Tang Qisheng's family ushered in a bumper harvest, and he was guiding the workers to sort the loquats, and several workers were weighing, sorting, or packing, busy processing the loquat that had just been picked and transported from the mountain.
"Today is the fourth day of harvesting, and this year's output is about 70,000 catties. Looking at this year's harvest, Tang Qisheng said happily.
"This year, I planted loquat management well, the yield is OK, at present we are according to the fruit market price increase and the size of the fruit for grade price wholesale, the first batch of loquat wholesale price is about 4.5 to 7 yuan a catty, my family has been booked tens of thousands of catties, mainly sent to Guangdong, Hunan, Fujian, Zhejiang, etc., now every day invited more than a dozen workers to come to pick, to them to eat and live. Xiao Qingyuan, another large loquat planter, told reporters.
Characteristic industries have sprung up, and peasants' pockets have swelled. Li Renyan, who lives in Xinchang Village, Jialiang Town, will come to Chaoyang from Jialiang to work every year during the loquat picking season, she said to reporters while picking loquats: "This year is the third year that I have come here to pick loquats, we are mainly responsible for picking, pruning, loading, the boss eats and stays, bills by the hour, and gets more than 100 yuan a day, which brings me a lot of income." ”
Nowadays, loquat has become a characteristic boutique fruit industry in Balang Village, and the local people get rich. The unique climatic conditions such as latitude and longitude, light and heat resources, temperature and humidity make the loquat bright in color, delicate flesh, tender and juicy, sweet and pleasant, and are favored by the majority of consumers.
Mo Jinfu, vice chairman of the People's Congress of Chaoyang Town and secretary of the general party branch of Badan Village, said: "This year, the rain is sufficient, the weather is good, and the enthusiasm of the villagers to plant loquat has also improved. The industry has done well, and it has also driven the employment of the surrounding masses. ”
It is understood that Chaoyang Town, Libo County, focuses on the development direction of characteristic high-quality fruits, and realizes the production, wide sales and brand of high-quality fruits. This year, the loquat planting area in Chaoyang Town reached 18,000 mu, and the output is expected to be 10,000 tons this year, with an output value of 140 million yuan. The planting area of loquat in Balang Village is 12,000 mu, the average yield per mu is 600 kg, the average sales price is 14 yuan/kg, the annual output is 5,100 tons, the output value is 71.4 million yuan, and 368 farmers and 1,100 people are driven.
Libo County Rong Media Center
Guizhou Daily Tianyan News reporter Bi Wenjun
Edited by Wang Weiwei
Second instance Lu Taiming
The third trial was carried forward by Zhang Fayang