Autumn is the harvest season, at present, Lianjiang Danyang Town Xinyang Village more than 200 acres of "autumn" edamame beans grow gratifyingly, ushered in a bumper harvest!
Pieces of edamame grow vigorously, under the emerald green leaves, a cluster of tender green edamame hanging from the branches, on a plant, as few as a dozen pods, as many as twenty or thirty, the yield is considerable.
More than 20 workers are distributed in the fields, skillfully picking the pods, packing them into bags, picking them to the side of the road, and preparing to transport them to the market for sale. As far as the eye can see, the autumn fields present a picture of harvest joy.
It is understood that the variety planted in this field of Xinyang Village is edamame No. 3, which can be planted in both spring and autumn, but the harvest period of autumn edamame is longer, it can be picked for about 25-30 days, and each mu of field can produce 1200 kg of edamame, and the purchase price per kg is 3 yuan.
The pods produced by Edamame No. 3 are full, emerald green in color, and sweet and sticky in their boiled taste, which is favored by customers. In order to get fresh edamame on the market as soon as possible, the villagers are stepping up to harvest it.
"Since entering the edamame harvest period, we have organized more than 20 villagers to help harvest edamame every day," Lian Duanmei, head of Lianjiang Liandanxin Agricultural Comprehensive Development Co., Ltd., told reporters that relying on planting edamame in the spring and autumn of each year can drive more than 300 people in Danyang Town to employment, with an average income of more than 3,000 yuan per person.
"Edamame harvest, we are also very happy, come here to pick, fast a day can earn more than 100 yuan, slow hands and feet can also earn fifty or sixty yuan, every year in the harvest season I will come to help, to increase their income." Aunt Wu, a villager in Xinyang Village, said with a smile.
Small edamame, big increase. In order to better promote farmers' increased production and income, several experts from the Crop Research Institute of the Fujian Academy of Agricultural Sciences also opened a edamame test field in Xinyang Village, and tried to plant dozens of new varieties of edamame, and now, this test field has also ushered in a bumper harvest season.
"The spring edamame in Fujian Province has formed its own scale, but the autumn edamame varieties have not yet been selected, and we want to purify and select the varieties through the combination configuration of some edamame varieties, and then cultivate varieties suitable for our own cultivation." Zhang Yumei, an associate researcher at the Institute of Crops of the Provincial Academy of Agricultural Sciences, said that in recent days, she and her colleagues in the Academy of Agricultural Sciences have been measuring production one by one in the field every day, preparing to select several better varieties for scientific and technological innovation, and cultivating new varieties of autumn edamame, hoping to benefit more people.
In recent years, based on local climatic conditions, Lianjiang County has vigorously promoted edamame and other cash crops, actively introduced new varieties and new technologies, promoted farmers' income, and promoted the high-quality development of rural revitalization agriculture. According to the staff of the county agricultural bureau, this year the county planted more than 5,000 mu of spring edamame, with a total output of more than 3,000 tons, more than 1,600 mu of autumn edamame, and a total output of more than 1,000 tons.
Source: Lianjiang Micro News WeChat