"Anti-seasonal" winter dates
Behind the season is the transformation
Reporter Liu Yiwei
Winter dates, winter dates, as the name suggests, winter dates should ripen in winter. However, this year, the big li winter jujube is on the market in large quantities in the summer. People can't help but wonder: Is this clearly a summer date? In fact, the variety is still winter dates, the taste is still winter dates, but this year's winter dates are "anti-seasonal". This "anti" makes the winter jujube industry show a more hot scene.
△ Dali County Anren Town thousand acres of greenhouse winter dates
"When the dates from our village are exported to Dubai, they can sell for $20 per kilogram." Xue An'an, secretary of the party branch of Xiaopo Village in Anren Town, Dali County, said.
In recent years, in order to make the winter dates sell at a good price, Xiaopo Village has continuously upgraded its planting technology, and the time for winter dates to go to market has been advanced from mid-October to mid-to-late May. "Winter jujube" becomes "summer jujube", and the value is doubled.
△ Automated sorting
The past, however, is a different story.
"Looking at it from a distance, there is a piece of water; when you look closely, it is all alkali." The planting is not long, and the masses are really afraid. The old man in the village recalled that until the mid-1990s, more than 4,000 people in the village still guarded 10,000 acres of saline land to live a poor life. When the merchants who came here to rent land inquired, no one wanted the rent of five yuan per mu of land.
In 1998, the 33-year-old Xue An'an was elected chairman of the village committee of Shangxiaopo Village, and he was anxious in the face of the 10,000 mu of saline and alkali land that "sprinkled a gourd seed and could not get back half a scoop of grain".
Changing the saline land is not an easy task, so try to change the planting structure. Xue Safety and village cadres bought fast-growing Yang and Snow Jujube to try to plant, and the originally tenacious Fast-growing Yang died "salty" in less than two years, but the Snow Jujube Tree miraculously survived.
What to plant was determined, and irrigation became a new problem. The water quality within 500 meters of the village is still good, and 500 meters away is bitter water. Xue An'an decided to divert water from the Luo River to irrigate the jujube fields.
"In the end, we raised more than 3 million yuan to repair the 3.8-kilometer-long main canal and 13 other small canals." Xue Security said that when the village collective did not have a penny to do this, the villagers gave him the nickname "Xue Bold".
The jujube trees that drank "sweet water" grew well, but at that time, a pound of snow dates could only sell for three or four cents, and the hard-to-cultivate industries were facing the dilemma of being "uprooted". What makes the villagers even more worried is that every September and October, the dates will crack when it rains, and they can only be left in the ground.
Ask the experts! "Xue Bold" and the village cadres made a decision after summing up.
The opinion of experts is that the snow jujube and pear jujube are grafted into higher market price winter dates, and at the same time, rain shelters and steel intelligent greenhouses are built to continuously extend the production and sales cycle of winter dates.
△ Packing
The improved area of winter jujube in Xiaopo Village has grown rapidly at a rate of 1,000 mu per year, and by 2014, the once 10,000 mu of saline alkali land has become a winter jujube garden, with an average income of more than 10,000 yuan per mu. A small jujube brings an annual income of 24,000 yuan per capita to Xiaopo Village, and the total output value this year is expected to exceed 200 million yuan.
"A few years ago, merchants from Jiangsu and Zhejiang wanted 240,000 yuan to buy out my 10 acres of winter dates for a year's harvest, and I couldn't believe my ears." Speaking of his story, villager Li Jianhua smiled and closed his mouth.
With the continuous development of the winter jujube industry, Xiaopo Village has successively built a storage cold storage, trading market, logistics center and e-commerce platform. At the peak of winter jujube production and sales, merchants from Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Nanjing and other places gathered in Xiaopo Village, and the winter jujube planted in the surrounding towns and villages was also "swept away".
△ Shipment
At the entrance of Xiaopo Village, there is a sign sign of "China's First Winter Jujube Village". "Someone came to me and said your name made a bit big!" I said not big, Shandong, Shanxi, Hunan we have all been, according to the village-level winter jujube planting area and development speed, this first place is worthy of the truth. Xue An'an said that the first crown is also an encouragement and encouragement to village cadres and villagers.
(Contemporary Shaanxi Liu Yiwei)