On May 6, I walked along the tourist road around the tropical rainforest national park into Yawang Village, Qifang Town, Baisha County, and saw groups of villagers on both sides of the road, busy pulling pipes for watering, digging pits and cultivating soil, and supporting seedlings and planting...... In less than half a day, rows of tender green camellia saplings stood upright in the wind, adding a touch of new green to the barren mountain.
"Since the beginning of this year, I have planted more than 600 camellia seedlings on more than a dozen acres of betel nut land, thanks to the high-quality camellia seedlings purchased and distributed by the government for us in a timely manner, and also sent professional and technical personnel to teach planting techniques on site, we are very confident that the seedlings will be planted well." Villager Fu Ronghua said happily. Since 2023, Qifang Town has deeply practiced the development concept of "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets", organized and held Camellia oleifera planting deployment meetings for many times, and formed a working mechanism for the town leaders in charge to personally grasp and the village party branch secretary to track and implement, and also dispatched the town agricultural service center and party members of each village branch to set up the "Nongxiao No. 2 Camellia oleifera planting service team", and popularized the benefits, market prospects and policy support of Camellia oleifera planting to farmers through the WeChat public account of Qifang Voice, village broadcasting, household publicity, and village group work groups. Stimulate the enthusiasm of farmers to plant Camellia oleifera. At the same time, the planting needs, natural resource distribution, and existing Camellia oleifera of enterprises, large planters, and farmers were comprehensively surveyed, and the Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences and other departments were invited to formulate a high-quality development plan for the Camellia oleifera industry in the town. In addition, the village (resident) party branch also combined with the theme party day activities to carry out a series of camellia planting activities, guide and mobilize the masses through land shares, land circulation, land trusteeship, joint cultivation and other methods, revitalize the "sleeping" barren mountain resources, actively transform low-yield camellia forests and barren hills and barren slopes, expand the camellia planting area, and lay a solid foundation for the camellia industry to be better and stronger.
It is reported that Qifang Town strives to complete the planting goal of "protecting 3,000 acres and striving for 5,000 acres" in 2024. At present, the promotion of Camellia oleifera planting is being carried out in an orderly manner. For example, the town-affiliated enterprises have successfully built a 270-acre "rubber + camellia + N" full-cycle planting technology demonstration base by using the rubber wide and narrow row planting method, and also trained 28 camellia planting technology experts at the same time. Nalai Village has planted more than 40 acres in the early stage of Chen Min, the leader of getting rich, to now the demonstration has driven the whole village to plant more than 91 acres and prepared more than 500 acres of land, and it is expected that by 2025, the planting area of Camellia oleifera in the village will reach more than 1,000 acres. Qifang Town Agricultural Service Center organized a group of agricultural technicians to go to various villages to promote high-yield and high-quality Camellia oleifera seedlings and guide planting techniques, from variety selection to Camellia oleifera planting and management training, effectively improve the level of Camellia oleifera planting for farmers, and add "oil" to rural revitalization. In the next step, Qifang Town will play a leading role in party building, build a Camellia oleifera nursery, promote high-yield and high-quality Camellia oleifera seedlings and planting technology, rely on offline exhibition and sales promotion, online e-commerce platform and other ways to build an integrated service chain of production and marketing, and at the same time combine the resource advantages of being located in the ecological core area to give Camellia oleifera ecological green brand value, shape the Qifang ecological camellia oil brand, and strive to build a camellia town.
◎Source: Hainan Daily client
◎ Reporter: Liu Ningyue
◎Correspondent: Huang Liangchao