Zhangjiachuan County Rong Media Center News (Reporter Li Xin) The autumn fruit is low and the long-fruited mulberry picking is busy. At the Pengqiang Cooperative in Malu Town, Zhangjiachuan County, a new variety of mulberry from Taiwan, Changguo Mulberry, hangs on the branches, adding freshness to the off-season fruit picking.
Walking into the mulberry orchard of Pengqiang Cooperative in Zhangjiachuan County, I saw that the mulberry trees were full of vitality, and the branches were full of tender green mulberry leaves, and the leaves were full of green, red and purple mulberries, exuding a fresh and sweet taste. Ripe long-fruited mulberries hang on mulberry trees like purple-red "caterpillars", and the longest single fruit can reach more than 13 centimeters in length, and four stubbles can be picked in a year.
Compared to ordinary mulberries, long-fruited mulberries have a sweet and juicy taste and do not dye yet. The mulberry leaves of the long-fruited mulberry tree can be eaten and silkworms raised. The reporter learned that in 2022, Pengqiang Cooperative in Zhangjiachuan County introduced Changguo Mulberry and successfully tried it. After careful management, now, the harvest of fruits has entered the picking period, attracting many tourists to try and check in.
A group of young people traveling by car are enjoying the fun of picking mulberries, and the fruit farmers on the side are busy picking ripe mulberries, and the purple-red mulberries exude a sweet smell in the sunlight, which is very attractive.
Ma Qiang, the responsible person of Pengqiang Cooperative, told us that he is a retired soldier, after returning home from the demobilization of the army in 2009, he has contracted fish ponds and catering, and after more than 10 years of hard work, he has a certain amount of savings in his hands.
From leveling the land, piling up insulated soil walls, to the construction of steel frames and the laying of shed films; From the purchase of steel frames and quilts to the planting facilities in the shed, every step of the greenhouse is self-taught and self-built. After hard work, a practical and insulated winter warming underground greenhouse was finally built. Today, there are six sheds of strawberries, one shed of out-of-season grapes, one shed of long-fruited mulberry, one shed of multi-variety small tomatoes, and one shed of strawberry seedlings, with 37 employees. All kinds of fruit types are large and full, sweet in taste, excellent in quality, and are well received by the sales market.
The dividends of rural revitalization have driven the sightseeing agriculture, leisure agriculture, experience agriculture and creative agriculture, Zhangjiachuan County Pengqiang Planting Farmers Professional Cooperative is located in Zhangjiachuan County in the Guanshan Scenic Area, relying on the unique location advantages of the Guanshan Scenic Area, abundant resource elements, and actively develop leisure agriculture and facility efficient agriculture, the construction of planting, leisure agriculture, sightseeing agriculture, ecological agriculture, picking as one of the pastoral complex, the development of characteristic agriculture is unstoppable, the successful planting of Changguo mulberry, will enrich the county and the surrounding fruit categories, balanced nutrition, rich "delicious on the tip of the tongue".