It is another year's harvest season, and 10,000 acres of pepper orchards spit out strange fragrances. At present, the pepper in Gangu County has matured into the picking period, and the pepper trees in Gangu County are full of full grains of "rich fruit", and the fruit is pressed under the pepper forest, and the people who are happy are busy pruning and picking peppers.
Walking into Jinping Village, Liufeng Town, Gangu County, on the big red robe pepper trees all over the mountain, a bunch of huge peppercorns are bright red, and this year's peppercorns are full of prickly grains, growing well, and pressing the branches. Under the pepper tree, pepper pickers from surrounding counties and districts hold baskets and carry baskets to skillfully pick peppercorns.
Li County pepper picker Chen Fangjuan said: "We are from Li County, in Gangu Liufeng pick pepper, we have picked five or six years, this year's pepper is particularly good, you see this flower is particularly big, we came to more than a dozen, every day we pick fifty or sixty pounds, 2.5 yuan a catty." ”
As the main production area of Gangu pepper, Liufeng Town, the town has a planting area of more than 40,000 acres, and the pepper industry has become a rich fruit for the local people. Jiang Youxia of Jinping Village, Liufeng Town, planted 14 acres of pepper at home, this year due to the abundant rain, pepper ushered in a bumper harvest, with the arrival of the pepper picking season, she took more than ten pepper pickers early in the morning to pick pepper, a family of old and young together, pepper in the field of laughter, lively.
Jiang Youxia said: "We planted 14 acres of pepper this year, this year's pepper grows particularly well, the rain is connected, the output of pepper has increased this year, it is estimated that there are 11,200 catties of wet pepper picked on one acre, and 25 to 300 catties of dry peppercorns." ”
Gangu is the origin of Qinjiao in ancient times, has more than 1,000 years of planting history, due to the high effective accumulated temperature, large temperature difference between day and night, it is one of the main producing areas of Zanthoxylum pepper such as Northwest Fu Pepper and Dahongpao, Gangu Zanthoxylum pepper is red and heavy, the grain is large and full, and it is named "the hometown of Chinese pepper" by the China Fruit Circulation Association. In recent years, Gangu County has vigorously developed the pepper industry, scientifically planned the planting area, screened high-quality and efficient varieties, and the county's pepper planting area is 220,000 mu, with an annual output of 15,000 tons and an output value of about 1.1 billion yuan, which has become a pillar industry for the local people to get rich.