Tongfang Town, Changting County, vigorously develops the gold leaf industry to increase the income of towns, villages and tobacco farmers

After the "beginning of summer", the contiguous tobacco fields in Tongfang Town, Changting County grew vigorously, and the diligent tobacco farmers were busy harvesting tobacco leaves; In the roasting room, tobacco farmers skillfully tie tobacco leaves and send tobacco to roast, which is a good picture of the gold leaf industry to promote income increase.

Tongfang Town is committed to the development of the gold leaf industry and has created two firsts in the city: first, the town grows 13,671 acres of tobacco, and the township planting area ranks first in the city; The second is Qiu Xingmin, a large flue-cured tobacco grower in Liuchen Village, with a planting area of 300 acres, ranking first in the city.

Tongfang Town has a large area of tobacco planting, a large number of tobacco planting households, there are 20 villages planting flue-cured tobacco, 723 tobacco farmers, 19 acres of tobacco per household, including 35 large households planting more than 50 acres, planting flue-cured tobacco varieties for Cuibi No. 1, is the full income and full adjustment of Fujian China Tobacco Company, forming the unique quality characteristics of Fujian's high-end raw materials "fragrant, sweet, moist and quiet".

Tongfang Tobacco Station implements technical measures of "early planting, early shooting, early harvesting", "nitrogen control, sulfur control" and increasing organic fertilizer to ensure that flue-cured tobacco production and income increase efficiency.

Qiu Xingmin, a large tobacco grower in Liuchen Village, returned to his hometown in 2019 to plant flue-cured tobacco and established a gold leaf production cooperative with a tobacco planting area of 300 mu, which is the largest professional tobacco grower in the city, and won the title of "Top Ten Entrepreneurial Young Tobacco Farmers" in Longyan City.

[Qiu Xingmin, head of Changting Golden Leaf Planting Professional Cooperative: In 2024, 300 acres of land will be transferred to plant flue-cured tobacco, and the current growth is good, with an estimated output value of 5,500 mu and a profit of about 2,000 yuan (per mu), and the output value of rice seed production per mu in the second half of the year is expected to be 3,000 yuan, and the profit is almost 1,000 yuan (per mu), and the net income is expected to be about 900,000 yuan this year. 】

(Chen Tianchang, Zhong Chenbiao, Liu Zhisong)