Pulling gourd bees to brew "sweet honey"

Gourd bees breed.

In the middle of summer, walking into the community of Wangjiazhuang Street in Malong District, a picture of "the village is in the forest, the road is in the green, the house is in the garden, and the people are in the scenery" is presented in front of you. In the woods, Zhang Quanfu, a group of barley residents, is harvesting gourd bee pans, and he said that he raised more than 100 nests of gourd bees in the forest, harvested four times a year, and harvested more than 800 kilograms each time, with an annual income of more than 100,000 yuan.

The community is a poor community, located in a remote mountainous area, with less arable land, but the forest resources are very rich, the forest coverage rate is 76.46%, and it enjoys the reputation of "natural oxygen bar, health treatment center, ecological corridor". How to turn "green waters and green mountains into golden mountains and silver mountains" and provide strong support for poverty alleviation is a major test faced by the general branch of the community party. In recent years, Starting from the local resource endowment, Wangjiazhuang Street has adhered to the guidance of planning, local conditions, market guidance, and talented people, vigorously developed the gourd bee breeding industry, increased the income of the masses, and helped alleviate poverty.

The street gave full play to the leading role of party members and cadres, and vigorously cultivated and excavated "leaders who got rich". Under the leadership of the party organization, a number of gourd bee breeding experts such as Zhang Quanfu and Zhang Chunyang have emerged. Driven by them, many people actively participate in gourd bee farming. The general branch of the party of the community led the village to get rich, and successively went to Shizong County of Qujing City, Longling County of Baoshan City and other places to learn from the scriptures, introduced the gourd bee queen, organized breeding training, and mobilized the masses to participate in gourd bee breeding.

Today, in the lush forest, farmers are busy harvesting bee pupae, and the harvest gives farmers hope of getting rich. Zhang Bingcai, general secretary of the party branch of the community, said that the community will set up a professional cooperative for gourd bee breeding, increase training, mobilize the masses, especially poor households that have set up files and cards, actively participate in cooperatives, select technical experts, increase the intensity and scale of gourd bee cultivation, and strive to breed more than 1,000 nests by 2020, achieving an annual output value of 20 million yuan.

The living environment of gourd bees is very demanding, the most important of which is that the forest vegetation should be good and avoid the north wind. Ingredients are wild fruits, apples, grasshoppers, and honey. Bee pupae are in short supply in the market, and the price is rising year by year, and it has been above 200 yuan / kg. The unique forest resources and industrial pollution-free environment of the community have become an ideal place for gourd bee breeding.

At present, the street and Xiaolongjing community has developed 4 large gourd bee breeding households, driving more than 40 scattered free-range households, breeding more than 520 nests of gourd bees, which can generate more than 1 million yuan this year.

(Author: Reporter Liu Chenglong correspondent Wang Zixinwen / photo)