In the past few days, Xu Changcheng, an edible mushroom grower in Heping Village, Dafangshen Town, Xiuyan, has been busy checking the growth of his home-grown shiitake mushrooms. This year, Xu Changcheng's family has planted 60,000 shiitake mushrooms, which will create a lot of income for him. In recent years, Dafangshen Town has scientifically guided the adjustment of the agricultural industry structure, coupled with the fact that the mushroom market has been optimistic and the income is considerable since last year, more and more farmers have joined the edible mushroom planting industry and become mushroom farmers, which has driven many local labor force to achieve employment and increase income.
In Dafangshen Town, like Xu Changcheng, there are many wealthy households who have developed the cultivation of cash crops and engaged in characteristic planting and breeding industries.
In recent years, Xiuyan Dafangshen Town has focused on the upgrading of industrial structure, clarified development ideas, and gone all out to do a good job in characteristic planting, scientific breeding, and new industries, creating a standard production system, and developing modern and efficient agriculture and animal husbandry. Investment in science and technology, focus on optimizing the development of planting industry, vigorously develop the planting of Chinese medicinal materials, and prescribe a "good prescription for getting rich" for rural revitalization.
According to statistics, at present, the planting area of Chinese medicinal materials in Dafangshen town reaches 400 acres, and the planting types include Atractylodes, Polygonatum polygonatum, clematis, etc.; excluding retail households, the town has more than 800 pig breeding stocks, 500 beef cattle stocks, more than 1,500 sheep, and 40,000 broiler chickens, of which more than 20,000 breeders are cultivated on a large scale; there are 7 edible fungus planting communities in the town, more than 1,400 mushroom farmers, and the amount of edible fungus inoculation in 2024 is about 14 million sections, which is expected to produce economic benefits of 123 million yuan.
In the future, Dafangshen Town will continue to focus on "countryside" and "enrich the people" as the core, insist on promoting advantages and tapping potential, continuously cultivate and expand the development of characteristic industries, strengthen technical guidance and services, and promote the development of characteristic industries in the town to achieve the pattern of "one village, one product", so as to refuel, empower and speed up the development of rural revitalization.
All-media reporter Zhao Yuze