In the past few days, in the pepper seedling base of Xiaping Village, Xiyu Town, Xihe County, the growth of pepper seedlings is gratifying, and dozens of villagers are grabbing the season, transplanting, packing, and preparing to transport to the township planting base for planting, and the shed is busy.
"This year, our seedling base has cultivated a total of 1.3 million pepper seedlings, and 150,000 pepper seedlings have been raised since this morning, and it is expected that all the pepper seedlings will end around May 20." Yang Pingkui, the person in charge of the pepper seedling base, said, "We give the migrant workers a handful of 3 dimes, and if they are fast, one person earns more than 100 yuan a day, and the income is still good." ”
In the development of the pepper industry, Xihe County adopts the development model of "cooperatives + bases + farmers", and encourages the promotion of pepper planting through "policy + technology". At the same time, according to the method of "unified planning, unified varieties, unified seedlings, and unified technology", we will solve the worries of pepper farmers in sales, so that the pepper industry can drive more farmers to effectively increase their income and live a prosperous life.
"This year, our cooperative expects to plant 200 acres of peppers, and we just came to transport seedlings at the seedling site, and today we need 50 acres of pepper seedlings. At our planting site, we have already started the preliminary preparation work, and we can transplant the field when we transport it. Bao Xueqin, head of the Wensen Planting Farmers Professional Cooperative in Xihe County, said while loading seedlings.
It is understood that this year, the county's pepper planting involves 17 townships, a total of 28 million pepper seedlings have been cultivated, and the seedling transplanting work is being carried out in an intense and orderly manner to ensure that 10,000 acres of pepper transplanting work will be completed by the end of May.
In recent years, relying on local resources and geographical advantages, Xihe County has seized the strategic development opportunity of rural revitalization, maintained a good momentum of industrial development, continuously adjusted the industrial structure, extended the industrial chain, continued to develop and expand characteristic industries, and guided the masses to develop characteristic industrial planting through policy support, demonstration and scientific and technological boost, etc., so as to increase the income of the masses and inject vitality into the promotion of agricultural modernization and comprehensive rural revitalization.
(Reported by Liang Yunxia)