During the autumn harvest season, the new rice is fragrant. According to the current market price, rice is about 2.8 yuan per kilogram, and at Jiangsu Tianshengyuan Ecological Farm in Xuefu Town, Yandu District, Yancheng, Jiangsu Province, the rice harvested here is not enough to sell at 30 yuan per kilogram. It is understood that this is the high benefit brought about by exploring the green ecological development model.
Merchants inspect the ecological rice on the spot.
The farm was founded by the local disabled Qi Sitian after extensive market research, multi-party fund-raising of more than 2 million yuan, the location is selected in a place far from the villagers' residential concentration area, rice fields breeding black-spotted frogs and gold thread wide-body leeches, the rice grown by the market favor. The farm has developed from 60 acres three years ago to more than 200 acres now, and the economic benefits are rising steadily. Due to the standardized rice frog co-cultivation model and the use of the new variety of "Salt Japonica 16" this year, more than 70,000 kilograms of pure natural high-quality rice have been produced this year, which is in short supply in the market.
On the farm's threshing ground, more than 10 merchants came to order rice. Due to the excellent quality and limited total yield, the price of rice here has soared to 37 yuan per kilogram. Xu Xiaopeng, a grain broker in Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province, has traveled thousands of miles to visit three times to investigate rice production. He found that the water used in the frog field was purified, and the rice field could not use a little fertilizer and pesticide, otherwise the frogs and leeches would die quickly. He said: "I started relatively early, and I had already paid a deposit of 1 million yuan in advance a month ago, and signed a purchase contract of 30 yuan per kilogram to buy 50,000 kilograms of rice here." It is understood that the farm produces 400 kilograms of rice per mu, sold at the contract price with Xu Xiaopeng, and earns up to 12,000 yuan per mu.
In addition to rice income, 1500 kilograms of frogs are produced per mu in the rice field, which is calculated at 40 yuan per kilogram, and the income per mu is as high as 60,000 yuan. Chen Aiguo of the Tongchuan Road Aquatic Products Wholesale Market in Shanghai's Zhabei District is an old farmer of the farm's frogs. He said: "I am also from Yancheng and have been in the fish and shrimp business in Zhabei for a long time. Later, I found that many people in the old Subei area loved to eat frog meat, so I took the frog breeding and sales license of Tian Shengyuan Farm and began to sell frogs here. There are more than 30 tons of frogs that I transported to Shanghai this year alone, and the wholesale price here is 40 yuan per kilogram, and 60 yuan per kilogram in Shanghai is not enough to sell. ”
Income from leech farming is also a major issue. The farm has built more than 50 greenhouse leech breeding ponds along the edge of the rice paddies. Gold thread wide body leech, commonly known as leech, is a clinical Chinese herbal medicine, often used to treat blood storage, bruises and other diseases, its high medicinal value is highly sought after by the market. At present, the basic sales of leeches on the farm of more than 50 mu have ended, and this year's mu production of dry goods is more than 100 kilograms, and each kilogram of dry goods is sold at a good price of more than 1600 yuan. Qi Sitian said that this year, the farm has achieved an output value of more than 20 million yuan, and the output value of mu has exceeded 100,000 yuan, in addition to the land circulation fees that have been paid to surrounding farmers and the wages of more than 70 migrant workers, the farm's net income per mu this year is more than 80,000 yuan.
Referring to the next step, Qi Sitian said: "Next year, the farm area will increase to more than 300 mu, absorb more surrounding people, especially the disabled, to the farm for employment, and realize the road of green ecological prosperity." (Written by |.) Zhang Zhaoling, Zha Zhengjun)