"Walking the grassroots and spring ploughing line" And Shuo: Planting stevia "sweet" to the hearts of villagers

(Rong Media Reporter Merdan Heini Correspondent Wang Ziyang) During the spring ploughing season, the planting of stevia seedlings, which is now in Heshuo and becoming increasingly popular among farmers, is in full swing, and it is a busy scene.

Stevia is a new sugar source high-efficiency cash crop, with high sweetness, low calorie, safety and health care and other advantages, widely used in food, medicine and light industry, is an excellent natural sweetener, and compared with other crops also has the characteristics of low planting cost, extensive management, high efficiency.

In recent years, in order to further adjust the structure of the planting industry and guide farmers to plant efficient and high-quality specialty crops, Pegatron County has introduced stevia planting from Anhui, and after several years of development, stevia has allowed growers to taste sweetness with its high planting income, which is favored by more and more farmers.

Zhao Xinhua of GununBuhu Village, Tahaqi Town, Heshuo County, began to plant stevia from 2012, after groping and continuous learning, Zhao Xinhua gradually mastered the stevia planting technology, and became rich by planting stevia, in 2019, in order to drive more farmers to plant stevia, with the help of the village "two committees" and the "Visit Huiju" task force, Zhao Xinhua established the Xinyesheng Farmers Planting Cooperative, last year the cooperative planted 300 mu of stevia, the average net income per mu reached 2,000 yuan, the benefits are considerable.

Zhao Xinhua, head of the stevia planting cooperative, said: "After the establishment of our cooperative, more than 50 farmers have been absorbed, and the stevia has invested about 6,000 yuan per mu, and the general mu yield is about 400 kilograms, and the purchase price last year is 20 yuan per kilogram, and the benefits are still very impressive." This year, we planted 1400 acres of stevia through land circulation, and after the land scale was planted, the cost was reduced, and the market prospect of planting stevia was better, and the income would be higher than that of traditional crops. "

"I have 40 acres of land, I used to grow corn and peppers, this year I transferred the land to the cooperative, the rent of one mu of land is 995 yuan, usually I also come to the cooperative to work, like now planting seedlings, I can also earn 200 yuan a day, with two incomes, life is also sweet." Ni Yongjun, a villager in Gununbuhu Village, said.

"In recent years, the cultivation of stevia in our village has developed rapidly, mainly because of low planting costs, relatively simple management and high returns, and in the next step, we will also guide villagers to vigorously develop stevia planting, provide more local labor opportunities at the same time, and lead villagers to increase their income and become rich together." First Secretary and Task Force Leader Amanguli Bharati said.

With the goal of "promoting agricultural income", Pegatron County has continuously cultivated and expanded the stevia industry, and strived to promote industrial efficiency and increase farmers' income, in order to improve the enthusiasm of farmers in planting stevia, it has adopted the form of "cooperative + base + farmer" for planting, and in the industrial development mode of order agriculture, through unified supply of seedlings, unified management and unified acquisition, it has driven the development of the agricultural economy in Pegatron County, and lit up the new hope of farmers to become rich and well-off. The planting area of stevia has developed from 100 mu at the beginning of the introduction in 2014 to nearly 3,000 mu this year, and is currently being planted in succession, and the planting work is expected to be completed in the middle of this month.