Rice blossoms are fragrant and fruitful

Source: Economic Daily

The land of Sanxiang in September is colorful and fragrant with melons and fruits. On the morning of September 23, the main event of the 4th "Chinese Farmers' Harvest Festival" was held in Tianhan Cultural Park, Changsha County, Hunan Province. The event site takes "Rice and Flowers Fragrant Words and Good Year" as the main line, and displays the harvest style of China's agriculture and rural areas with the development of agriculture and rural areas in Hunan, agricultural construction and rural revitalization as the core contents in the outdoor environmental space of natural ecological agriculture.

Talking about the farmers' harvest festival, Xia Donglin, founder of the "Flower, Fruit and Shrimp" brand in Orchard Town, Changsha County, said that the party and the government have designated the annual autumn equinox as the farmers' harvest festival, which is a great love for farmers. In 2016, the huaguo village where Xia Donglin is located introduced the "rice and shrimp ecological complementary symbiosis model" project, "lobsters feed on aquatic plants and fruits, which not only enriches the recipe, but also makes the meat of the crayfish full and elastic." With the "flower and fruit shrimp" brand getting louder and louder, the output value of the "lobster economy" exceeded 100 million yuan, becoming a rich people's industry in the village. In the market display area, Xia Donglin brought a plate of iced shrimp, flavored shrimp, fried shrimp, garlic shrimp and other delicacies with attractive color and aroma, which attracted many tourists to stop and taste.

Longping Rice Cultivation Park in Lukou Town presented an equally wonderful golden harvest. The rice garden under the autumn sun is picturesque, and the golden rice ears are like waves. More than 500 excellent rice varieties from 80 seed enterprises and scientific research units from 13 southern provinces are displayed here, and the most eye-catching thing is the "Giant Rice No. 6" with an average height of more than 1.7 meters. According to reports, giant rice seeds were developed by Yuan Longping's team and the team of Xia New Territories researchers of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the core advantage of giant rice is that it is high enough to achieve rice-fish co-culture.

With the arrival of the Farmers' Harvest Festival, Longping Rice Cultivation Park has welcomed many tourists. Everyone excitedly competed with the "giant rice" and competed to take photos in front of the lifelike straw landscape... Laughter filled the way. (Economic Daily reporter Liu Lin Xie Yao)