The weather warmed up, and the whole land of Huishi entered the busy season of spring ploughing and production. Walking into the Chinese herbal medicine planting base of Huining County Township Planting Farmers' Professional Cooperative, more than 500 acres of Astragalus seedlings have been fully excavated, and the fields are busy with farming and the industry is thriving.
In the Chinese herbal medicine planting base, a medicinal material deep digging machine drove into the field, excavated, deep turning, the medicinal materials were scattered in the land, and the villagers were busy picking up the seedlings and bundling them.
Wang Hui, head of the Rural Planting Farmers' Cooperative in Huining County and senior agronomist: Now is the time for seedlings, and the sprouts are relatively long, so the survival rate of planting is relatively high.
In recent years, with the rise in the price of Chinese herbal medicines, the price of seedlings is also very considerable, Huining County a rural planting farmer cooperative last year planted seedlings yield is good, a spring, the cooperative began to calculate the new year's farming, and intends to increase the number of acres of circulating land, ready to do a big job.
Wang Hui, head of Huining County Township Planting Farmer Professional Cooperative, senior agronomist: This year, our cooperative has transferred a total of 550 acres of land, astragalus transplanting, astragalus seedlings, banlan root, and skullcap, the total planting area should reach about 500 acres, leaving 50 acres of land for stubble, as well as seedlings this autumn.
Driven by the characteristic industries, the surrounding people began to develop the cultivation of Chinese medicinal materials, and better economic benefits allowed everyone to find a new direction to increase income and get rich. At present, the cooperative has planted all kinds of Chinese herbal medicines, forming a good development situation with extensive participation of the masses, and gradually exploring a new path for the large-scale and industrialized development of Chinese herbal medicine planting.
Li Bingfeng, a villager from Maili Village, Caotan Town, Huining County: I work in a cooperative, and while I work in a cooperative, I grow a little Chinese herbal medicine by myself and learn some techniques for planting Chinese medicinal materials. The cooperatives provided us with some seeds last year, and I also invested a little myself, planting more than a dozen acres of Chinese medicinal materials, and this year the cooperatives provided us with seeds for free, and I may increase a lot this year, and the planting area has increased to 30-40 acres.
"A herb" grows a "golden recipe" for the common people to get rich. The cultivation of medicinal herbs has also realized the desire of the surrounding people to find employment at their doorstep. Large planters and cooperatives employ local people to manage and harvest medicinal materials, which not only solves the employment problem of cooperatives, but also increases the income of the masses and makes the industry of enriching the people at their doorstep continue to grow.
Wang Hui, head of Huining County Township Planting Farmer Professional Cooperative, senior agronomist: Our cooperative now has 5 employees, about 500 to 600 people per year, and the annual labor expenditure is about 200,000 yuan.
Li Guimei, a villager from Kongjiazhai Village, Caotan Town, Huining County: The work at home is almost done, the cooperative is digging medicinal materials, and I work here to earn some pocket money, which is very convenient.
Rural revitalization, industry first. According to the geographical and climatic characteristics and market demand, the Huining County Rural Planting Farmers' Cooperative has developed the cultivation of traditional Chinese medicinal materials in Caotan Town, realizing the transformation from "digging gold in the soil" to "producing gold with characteristics", and becoming a "new way" to drive the local people to increase their income and get rich. In the next step, the cooperative will play a leading role in demonstration, continue to expand the scale of Chinese herbal medicine planting, strengthen service measures, let the cultivation of medicinal materials bring "sweet" days to the masses, and make greater contributions to rural revitalization and high-quality agricultural development.
Wang Hui, head of a rural planting farmer cooperative in Huining County, senior agronomist: This year, the yield of about one acre of land is about 800 catties, according to the market price of about six yuan per catty, so the output value of one acre of land is about 5,000 yuan, astragalus is now seedlings, after the start, it will be transplanted to the local area, about an acre of seedlings can be moved to about 5 to 6 acres of land, and it is expected to be transplanted about 260 acres.
(Huining financial media reporter Niu Lina, Zhang Xinyue)