The golden wind is cool, and the fruits are fragrant. Walking into the village of Yudao in Hanbei Town, a piece of fruit forest is lush, on the fruit trees in the garden, all the plump and round apples are hanging on the branches, under the blue sky and green leaves, the fruit farmers are busy picking, sorting and packing fresh apples, and the fields present a gratifying harvest picture.
With green as the base, the landscape is golden. Based on the unique natural endowment and development reality, in recent years, Qidao Village has established the development idea of "rejuvenating the village by industry and enriching the people with apples", guiding and encouraging the majority of villagers to plant apples.
"I used to grow sorghum, corn and potatoes, and my income was sluggish." Yang Yonghong, a villager in Qidao Village, said happily that his family's income has doubled since the village began to grow apples on a large scale. Today, he has become one of the top apple growers in the village, earning more than 90,000 yuan a year.
"We invested 200,000 yuan to update the orchard irrigation facilities and build a 200-cubic-meter reservoir to solve the problem of water shortage for agriculture in Qidao Village." Speaking of the initiative to plant apples, Li Zhijun, secretary of the party branch of Qidao Village, told the story. In recent years, through the implementation of a series of comprehensive measures such as hillside greening, road repair, and cold storage, the village has completed the repair of 10.7 kilometers of rural roads, set up a transportation service team, and completed the construction of 300 cubic meters of high-standard storage and cold storage, which has significantly increased production efficiency.
In addition to improving the hardware, the village also regularly hires fruit tree planting experts to provide on-the-spot guidance at key nodes such as fruit tree branching, pruning, and fertilization, so as to achieve unified management of apple planting. In order to improve the yield and ensure the quality of the fruit, more than 800 acres of apple orchards in Qidao Village all adopt the original ecological planting method, mainly natural growth and artificial insect control, and use organic fertilizer to fertilize, the cultivated apples are bright in color, delicate in flesh, sweet and sour, juicy and rich in flavor.
The high-quality and tasteful apples are favored by the majority of consumers, attracting many surrounding villagers and tourists to come to pick. Walking under the leafy apple trees, the autumn breeze blows the branches and leaves, the forest fruits are fragrant, and the tourists are happily picking, while the income of the villagers in Qidao Village is also increasing year by year.
"The existing fruit tree planting area of the village is 800 acres, with an annual output of 400,000 catties of high-quality apples, and the sales income can reach more than 120 yuan. Li Zhijun said that in order to improve popularity, Qidao Village also organized an online promotion meeting, turned mobile phones into "new agricultural tools", and moved the live broadcast room to the field, so that "treasure" agricultural products would not be sold.
The apples are red, and the days are sweet. The harvest scene of Qidao Village is a beautiful freeze frame of bright red apples adorning the branches, and it is a busy scene of Qianmo traffic full of fruits "going out".
(Source: Wuxiang Financial Media)
(Editor in charge: Zhang Wenwei)