On April 21, the reporter came to Chongxing Village, only to see a series of greenhouses, a green watermelon hanging on the vine exuding an attractive fragrance, from time to time there are tourists with children to experience agricultural picking, "I thought watermelons were growing on the ground." The innocent words amused the people who were picking watermelons, and watermelons are becoming a sunrise industry in Dachong Town after bananas and sugarcane.
"The watermelon variety I grow is 2k, and now it is ripe, and the locals call it 'crunchy'. Zou Aifu, a watermelon grower, flicked his fingers as he spoke, and the watermelon in his hand cracked. The reporter tasted a piece, and sure enough, it was sweet and crisp and full of moisture. According to Zou Aifu, his family began to plant watermelons last year, more than 20,000 catties of watermelons sold for more than 50,000 yuan, this year he also planted cabbage under the forest, so that a single industry extends more planting models, and strive to increase a batch of vegetable income on the original basis.
Due to the hot weather, watermelons, a weapon to cool off, are very popular among the masses, and the watermelons grown in Chongxing Village are in short supply. This year, Dachong is encouraging growers to expand their planting for two more crops.
"Fruit dealers in Ningnan, Xichang and other places contacted me to buy watermelons, and I believe that the income can get better and better year by year. When it comes to future development, Zou Aifu is full of confidence.
"He works here, close to home, has time to pick up and drop off the children after he is busy, and his income is okay, usually he mainly does pollination and hanging vines, and sometimes he increases the workload, and the salary is higher. While developing the fruit and vegetable industry, Zou Aifu also helps the migrants solve the employment problem, giving priority to the migrants in orchard employment, and planting watermelons and cherry tomatoes every year can help them increase their income by more than 70,000 yuan.
It is understood that in order to do a good job in supporting the development of the industry after immigration, and to achieve the goal of the immigrant masses to move out, stay stable, and get rich through development, the party committee and government of Dachong Town vigorously support Zou Aifu to dare to think and dare to do to get rich leaders, organize agricultural technical experts and backbones to regularly go to the orchard to check the growth of fruits and vegetables and the sales of products, vigorously give policy support and technical guidance, and actively mobilize other farmers who are willing to develop to visit and study in the orchard, and give full play to the demonstration and leading role. Under his demonstration and guidance, more than 100 households in the surrounding villages developed more than 200 acres of fruit and vegetable planting, which greatly stimulated the endogenous motivation of the immigrants.
In the next step, Huidong County will always adhere to the "one main line" and adhere to the "two bottom lines", vigorously tap the industrial potential, cultural potential and tourism potential of towns and villages along the Yangtze River, vigorously develop the tropical fruit and vegetable industry based on the superior geographical location and climatic conditions along the river, and create a new industrial belt integrating fruit and vegetable planting, derived agricultural picking experience, agricultural tourism and other formats, promote the full employment of immigrants in various forms, and make every effort to promote the development of post-migration support industries. Innovate the mechanism of linking the interests of farmers with farmers, continue to expand the space for the masses to increase income, truly and effectively drive the immigrants to increase their income and get rich, and make every effort to do a good job in the "big article" of supporting the development of immigrants.
(Dachong Town, Zhao Jing, County Rong Media Center, Zhang Xuejun)