Cone chestnut bag Practice Yuping photo
Lishui, China, October 5 (Shao Yanfei, Ge Mingrui, Practicing Yuping) In October, during the harvest season of cones and chestnuts, in the various conical chestnut forests in Qingyuan, the people carried baskets on their backs, bowed their heads, squatted down from time to time, picked out the cones from the thorn balls, and threw them into the basket.
Cone chestnut harvest practice Yuping photo
Wu Chuangju, a grower in Lanni Village, is busy in the cone chestnut field he grows at home. He laughed and said that my family's oldest cone chestnut tree has been more than 50 years old, and after so many years, it has also accumulated a lot of old customers, and every time the cone chestnut matures, guests will call to book. "The family planted about 7 acres of cone chestnuts, and there is a revenue of 10,000 yuan (RMB, the same below) per year."
Located in the mountains of southwest Zhejiang, Qingyuan County, Baishanzu Town, Lanni Village, Qingyuan County, Lishui City, is located in the east of Baishanzu, at an altitude of 1074 meters, due to the high altitude and inconvenient transportation, many elderly people can only stay at home. The cone chestnut has become the main source of income for many left-behind elderly people. In recent years, Qingyuan cone chestnut has become increasingly favored by the market, and the income it brings to growers has become more and more impressive. According to statistics, the current planting area of cone chestnuts and chestnuts in Qingyuan County has reached 30,831 mu.
Harvest the framed cone chestnut Lian Yuping photograph
"Our village began to plant cone chestnuts in 2003, and now the planting area has reached more than 800 mu, and the planting and management are mostly left-behind elderly people." Wu Shaoren, deputy director of the Lanni Village Committee, said.
"In Lanni Village, cone chestnut growers with a certain planting scale can earn 40,000-50,000 yuan per year, and the cone chestnut has become the 'rich fruit' of the left-behind elderly." Wu Shaoren said.
The "Implementation Plan for Zhejiang's High-quality Development and Construction of a Common Prosperity Demonstration Zone (2021-2025)" proposes to "effectively develop and utilize human resources for the elderly and promote the elderly to make achievements" and "implement the action of farmers to get rich and increase income". At present, special agricultural industries such as cone chestnut are helping the left-behind elderly in mountainous counties such as Qingyuan to move toward common prosperity.
"Now the purchase price is still relatively considerable, which can bring me hundreds of yuan of income every day." Yin Ruiying, a grower in Lanni Village, said happily that the quality of the cone chestnut was not so good before, and the price could not be sold very high, and it could not sell much money.
Nowadays, buyers from all over the world go to the village every day around 3 p.m. to buy, and Yin Ruiying usually goes to the mountain in the morning to pick up cone chestnuts.
Harvesting cone chestnuts Practicing Yuping photo
The development of cone chestnut is inseparable from Wu Shaoren's efforts. In 2020, Wu Shaoren returned to his hometown and was elected deputy director of the Lanni Village Committee. "At that time, I wanted to go back to the countryside and break out of the world, and I also wanted to do something for the people, especially the left-behind elderly." He said that during the harvest season, he needs to be responsible for the purchase of cone chestnuts in the villages of Huangshui, Hehu and Lanni in Baishanzu Town.
During the National Day holiday, Li Chengwu, head of Zhejiang Wancheng Food Industry Co., Ltd., was busy "imparting experience" with the cone-chestnut buyer who came to deliver the goods.
"During the harvest season, local buyers come to deliver goods from 4 p.m. to 3 a.m. the next day." Li Chengwu said that when they acquired the acquisition, they evaluated it according to the quality, and the purchase price was 5 yuan to 11.5 yuan per catty.
Nowadays, under the guidance of relevant practitioners, the quality of Qingyuan cone chestnut has been significantly improved, and the small cone chestnut tree has become a "golden fruit" for getting rich. (End)
Source: China News Network