Central Broadcasting Network Anqing October 11 news (reporter Zhang Xuanjian) "In the past, these were barren mountains and barren slopes, basically no cash crops, but now all of them have been planted with blueberries, the growth trend is good and the yield is high, with the collective industry under unified management, the village has become richer and more beautiful, and our own pockets have also bulged." Chen Yuan, a villager in Lishan Village, Huangdun Town, Huaining County, Anqing City, pointed to the blueberry plantation not far away and told reporters.
The 71-year-old Chen Yuan, who was the village secretary of Lishan Village in Huangdun Town before retiring, is now responsible for the management of blueberry cultivation at Anhui Duxiushan Blueberry Co., Ltd. In the past, he has witnessed the past bare barren mountains turn into lush blueberry gardens in front of him. Today, Huangdun Town has also become the largest blueberry planting area in the Yangtze River Delta, and is known as the "First Blueberry Town in Anhui".
Huaining County is located in the southwest of Anhui, is a low hilly landform, more than 90% of the red soil, yellow brown soil, acidic to slightly acidic, is the natural suitable habitat for blueberries, as of 2020, the county's blueberry planting area increased to 60,000 mu, fresh fruit production has reached 8600 tons, the primary industry output value of 352 million yuan.
In 2021, Huaining will add another 10,000 mu of blueberry planting base, with a fruit hanging area of 15,000 mu and a fresh fruit output of 10,000 tons, and strive to exceed 100,000 mu of blueberry planting area by 2025, and the standardized planting ratio will reach more than 90%.
"According to local conditions, industrial development is the key to rural revitalization", Huaining County in accordance with the "selection of a poverty alleviation characteristic industry, the construction of a number of blueberry poverty alleviation bases, innovation of a set of poverty alleviation and income increase mechanism, to drive the development of the people to become rich", focusing on the development of blueberry characteristic industries, the former barren slope full of weeds and weeds into a "golden" blueberry garden, becoming the county's leading industry for poverty alleviation and rural revitalization.
The reporter learned that Huaining County, according to factors such as resource endowments and traffic location, scientifically delineated and processed blueberry planting areas and recreational blueberry planting areas, and carried out classification guidance.
In the principle of voluntariness and compensation, villages, groups, and households are encouraged to speed up land circulation with compensation in accordance with the law, and a variety of mechanisms mobilize the enthusiasm of the vast number of farmers to participate, and concentrate on building blueberry bases in successive pieces. Gradually implement the development model of "market operation, large household driving, farmer participation, and company operation" to develop the blueberry industry.
In 2020, the small blueberry fruit brought a large income of 22.8 million yuan to the village collective, the average income of the village increased by 156,200 yuan, and the average operating income of the village reached 328,300 yuan, realizing the overall improvement of the village-level collective economy from weak to strong.
The cold dew has arrived, the autumn is getting stronger, and the blueberry picking season has long passed, but the production workshop of Anhui Duxiushan Blueberry Technology Development Co., Ltd. is still busy. Here cans of blueberry juice, bottles of blueberry wine, boxes of dried blueberries are sold all over the country.
The reporter learned in the interview that there are 5 blueberry deep processing enterprises in Huaining County, and the main products are blueberry wine, dried blueberry fruit, blueberry vinegar, blueberry series beverages, etc. In 2020, the amount of blueberry deep processing fresh fruit is 6500 tons, and the output value of the secondary industry is more than 1.2 billion yuan, and the total processing capacity is expected to reach 100,000 tons in 2025.
Nowadays, Huaining County is planning to build a rural revitalization demonstration area with the blueberry industry as the core, a modern and open blueberry characteristic town, and a green food industrial park based on the deep processing of blueberries around the regionalization of blueberry brands, large-scale planting, production standardization, and processing industrialization.
It is worth mentioning that Huaining County is working hard to create a cultural tourism business card of "Duxiu Hometown and Blueberry Hometown". Elements such as health care, leisure sports and cultural tourism will be implanted into the development of the blueberry industry, promote the integrated development of blueberry first, second and third industries, and give birth to new formats and new models. At the same time, combined with the rural revitalization strategy, the development of small towns and the construction of beautiful villages, we will promote the global integration of rural resources and diversified value-added. Last year, a total of 600,000 people came to Huaihuai for leisure picking and tourism, and the output value of the tertiary industry was 360 million yuan.
Source: CCTV