In order to broaden the industrial chain of the pineapple industry and increase the added value of agricultural products, Hekou County vigorously introduces and supports the entry and development of agricultural product processing enterprises, and the pineapple processing factory of Nanchang River Residents Group of Xiaohekou Community in Hekou Town is one of them.
Pineapple to be processed
Walking into the pineapple processing factory of the Nanchang River Residents Group of Xiaohekou Community, Hekou Town, the air is filled with sweet smells, the factory is full of baskets of fresh pineapples, and dozens of workers perform their duties, peeling, removing eyes, loading baskets and weighing, cleaning and cutting, the scene is a busy scene. These pineapple pieces will be sent to the quick-frozen warehouse at minus 40 °C for 10 hours, and then refrigerated for 2~3 days in the cold storage, and finally will be loaded and transported to Fujian for deep processing to make diversified products such as pineapple freeze-dried and canned pineapple.
Workers are peeling pineapples
Workers are slicing pineapples into cubes
Pineapple is one of the traditional industries in Hekou, and local growers have always been mainly selling fresh fruits, but the fresh fruit has a short shelf life and large market fluctuations, while the rough processing of pineapples can alleviate the impact of the sales trough on the industry and increase the added value of products. Hekou Wangxin Agricultural Development Co., Ltd. and Hekou Hippo Agricultural Professional Cooperative have set their sights on the field of pineapple rough processing after full research on the market, and jointly set up a processing plant in Xiaohekou Community, Hekou Town, which not only broadens the sales path of pineapples, but also effectively increases the employment of local people.
Hekou Wangxin Agricultural Development Co., Ltd
Person in charge: Li Bing
"We buy pineapples directly from growers, so we don't have middlemen to make the difference. Last year we also did rough processing of bananas, this year we made pineapples, and then we plan to do rough processing of other fruits such as mangoes, jackfruits, papayas, etc. ”
According to reports, at present, the processing plant a day of rough processing of about 10-30 tons, this year, the factory has rough processing more than 3,000 tons of pineapples, to solve the employment problem of more than 50 local people.
Workers processing pineapples at a processing plant
Zhou Rongzhen, a resident of the Mameng Village Resident Group of Xiaohekou Community, Hekou Town
"Now that I am too old to go out to work, I can now work in the processing plant at my doorstep, which solves our employment problem. ”
Next, Hekou County will give full play to the leading role of cooperatives in rural revitalization, continue to expand the fruit deep processing industry, extend the industrial chain, create more sources of income for the masses, provide more employment opportunities, and let the "fruit economy" inject "sweet power" into rural revitalization.