Right now, it's the season for bamboo shoots to go on the market. In Qiujiatun, Leitang Village, Dongquan Town, Qiu Yanjun and his wife shuttled through the bamboo forest. This year's summer rain is moist, and the bamboo shoots after the rain are emerging one after another in the forest, and Qiu Yanjun and his wife are harvesting bamboo shoots early in the morning.
According to Qiu Yanjun, this is his fourth year of planting bamboo shoots. Taking advantage of the development of snail flour raw material industry in Liuzhou, he and his wife discussed changing their abandoned land to bamboo shoots, planting a total of 6 acres of bamboo shoots, with a production capacity of 3,000 catties per mu. This year, the rain is abundant, the temperature is suitable, and the bamboo shoots have reached the season for the market. Now before 7 o'clock every morning, Qiu Yanjun has already brought tools into the forest to harvest bamboo shoots, and he can harvest about 2,000 catties in one morning.
There were 3 bamboo shoot purchase points in Leitang Village, Dongquan Town, that day. At one of the acquisition points, I saw the bamboo shoot peeler quickly cut a knife on the shell of the bamboo shoot, and with a strong break of his hands, the fresh bamboo shoots were displayed in front of him. Qiu Yanjun weighed the bamboo shoots at the bamboo shoot purchase point, registered the weight, and then sold the bamboo shoots to the merchants.
Pan Dongkui is a well-known merchant from the surrounding counties, and when he heard that the bamboo shoots in Dongquan were tender and crispy, he had come here to buy bamboo shoots for several years. Pan Dongkui introduced that it is not yet the peak of bamboo shoot production, and the current purchase price of bamboo shoots with shell is 0.6 yuan a catty. In one morning, Pan Dongkui purchased 12,000 catties, and the acquisition is expected to last until November.
In recent years, Liucheng County has actively built a production base for snail flour raw materials in Liuzhou, and vigorously developed the planting, breeding and processing industry of snail flour raw materials such as bamboo shoots. Up to now, there are a total of 16,000 acres of bamboo shoots planted in the county, of which about 11,000 acres are planted in the bumper yield period. The annual output of bamboo shoots is expected to exceed 24.75 million kilograms, with an annual output value of 29.7 million yuan. In order to encourage farmers to plant hemp and bamboo and promote the increase of farmers' income, Liucheng County continued to implement the subsidy policy for new bamboo shoots (hemp bamboo) this year, of which a one-time subsidy of 650 yuan per mu for new bamboo shoots (hemp bamboo) with more than 1.5 mu of continuous patches.