In recent years, Pegatron County has vigorously encouraged and guided farmers to introduce high-yielding and efficient specialty crops for planting and promotion according to local conditions. At present, the local introduction and cultivation of "stevia" has opened up the "sweet" life of the villagers with its high economic benefits.
Zhao Xinhua, a farmer in Gununbuhu Village, Tahaqi Town, Pegasus County, a few years ago, in the spirit of trying new and exotic crops to plant, get rich faster and become well-off, planted a small area of stevia after learning from many parties, after several years of hard planting, the scale of planting has been expanding, and has become a well-known local stevia planting expert. Not long ago, the reporter saw in her family's stevia planting field, and from a distance, the green stevia grew happily.
Grower Zhao Xinhua said: "Our family has been planting stevia for seven or eight years, just did not dare to plant, just tried to plant about 20 acres of land, feel that the benefit is OK, every year to increase a little, in the last year planted 300 acres, the yield per acre of land is about 450 kilograms." In terms of economic income, it is still more optimistic than other crops, so this year it has expanded the planting area and planted 1300 acres. ”
It is reported that stevia is known for its "sweetness", as a drug and diet has been widely used, from which the stevia is known as a "new sugar source", "plant sugar king" and the best natural sweetener. Steviol glycoside derivatives have lowering hypertension, blood sugar, improving diarrhea and other clinical effects, since 1990 China approved stevia can be used as a pharmaceutical sweetener excipient.
Pegatron County since 2014 began to introduce stevia crops for planting, during the period, Pegatron in order to continuously cultivate and expand the stevia industry, improve the enthusiasm of farmers to plant stevia, and actively adopt the "cooperative + base + farmer" planting mode, provided by the cooperative seedlings, and sent technical personnel to guide the whole process, responsible for the acquisition, after year by year development, stevia planting has opened up the "new vision" for growers to get rich and increase income, and has gradually become a new way for local farmers to increase income. At present, more than 2,600 acres of stevia in Pegatron County are growing well and a bumper harvest is in sight.