The early rice in the Yahu terraces has matured and is about to be mined. Photo by reporter Yu Yusang
New Hainan client, Nanhai Net news on May 17 (reporter Yu Yusang) "This year we planted 10 acres of land, and after the rice matures, the village committee can also purchase it in a unified manner." A villager in the rice field who is busy tending to the rice said. On May 16, the early rice planted in the Yahu terraces of Wuzhi Mountain was full of grains and hung heavily on the rice stalks, which was about to usher in the first harvest of this year.
The early rice in the Yahu terraces has matured and is about to be mined. Photo by reporter Yu Yusang
Wang Huiming, the first secretary of Yahu Village, introduced that for the planting of rice every quarter, the Yahu Party branch improves the standardization and efficiency of farmers with the requirements of unified planning, unified varieties, unified planting, unified purchase and unified sales. In 2024, the planting area of early rice in Yahu terraced fields will be 750 mu, with an output of about 600,000 kilograms, and the harvested rice will bring rich benefits to farmers. As the early rice matures, the end of May will also be the first festival of the year, when the Yahu Rice Terraces will celebrate the joy of "opening the sickle" with tourists and citizens through activities such as farming experience and folk culture performances.
Villagers prepare for pre-mining work in rice paddy fields. Photo by reporter Yu Yusang
It is understood that Yahu Village uses ecological terraced resources to develop agricultural and tourism integration tourism projects and "Shanlan Rice" characteristic industries, forming the development idea of terraced agricultural tourism of "promoting tourism with agriculture and combining culture and tourism", and operates and manages the development and protection of terraced fields through the mode of "Party branch + cooperative + enterprise", realizes the ecological protection of Yahu Terraces, and transforms the natural resources and beautiful pastoral scenery of Yahu Terraces into collective income of the village, injecting new vitality into rural revitalization.
Early rice in the Yahu terraces. Photo by reporter Yu Yusang
It is worth mentioning that in order to maximize the benefits of the masses from the Shanlan rice planting industry, the cooperative has increased the purchase price of Shanlan rice from 4 yuan/jin to 10 yuan/jin, and the average income of each household has increased by nearly 8,000 yuan, up to 21,000 yuan, which has greatly improved the enthusiasm of the masses for planting grain. In 2023, the income of the collective enterprise of the "Shanlan Rice" industry will be 583,000 yuan.