When the mulberry is ripe, the dove calls for rain, and the swallow turns over after the wheat blossom is yellow.
In the mulberry picking garden of a family farm in Zengdun Village, Yangwan Town, Wangjiang County, Anqing City, Anhui Province, strings of purple and red mulberries hang all over the branches, and the air is filled with the fruity fragrance of mulberries, which makes people salivate and attracts many tourists to come to pick.
In 2024, the mulberries of this family farm will grow gratifying and the yield will be high, with an estimated yield of more than 1,800 catties per mu and an output value of 160,000 yuan. Excluding the cost of labor, ground rent, fertilizer and other costs, the net profit is nearly 80,000 yuan.
In recent years, Zengdun Village has focused on the new direction of the integration of agriculture and tourism, and actively built an economic industrial chain integrating "fruit base + ecological farmhouse picking + leisure and tourism", and gradually formed a new industrial pattern of "combining agriculture and tourism, promoting tourism with agriculture, and rejuvenating agriculture with tourism".