In late September, packaged vegetables in a vegetable cooperative in Yuzhong County, Lanzhou City. Photo courtesy of the Propaganda Department of Yuzhong County Party Committee
China News Service, Lanzhou, September 21 (Yang Na and Zhang Yongyan) In late September, Yuzhong County, Lanzhou City ushered in the peak season of vegetable harvesting. As one of the three main production bases of the country's "Northern Cuisine to the South" and "Western Cuisine to the East", the county continues to provide various vegetable products for the domestic market from May to October every year, and Yuzhong Plateau summer vegetables enter the southeast coast More than 80 professional wholesale markets in more than 60 large and medium-sized cities in the region are served on the tables of Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and other countries.
Dou Junlan, director of Xianglong Vegetable Production and Marketing Professional Cooperation in Jinya Town, Yuzhong County, instructed workers to pick, sort, load, and transport them to the cooperative vegetable fresh-keeping warehouse. After cleaning, root cutting, bundling, and loading into the vegetable warehouse for cooling . Dou Junlan said that after 24 hours of cooling down, the cooperative's vegetables will be shipped to designated cooperative markets in Guangdong and Tianjin, and the annual sales of vegetables will reach more than 15,000 tons.
Dou Junlan recalled the original intention of establishing the cooperative ten years ago. A large number of vegetables grown by vegetable farmers could not be transported to the vegetable bank in time, which affected the economic income. Dou Junlan went from organizing staff to pick up the vegetables to mobilizing the villagers around him to invest in the establishment of the cooperative. In the past ten years, the cooperative has actively explored the development model and realized the "five unifications" of unified seedling raising, unified management, unified production, unified processing and unified sales.
In late September, Guojiawan Village, Gancaodian Town, Yuzhong County developed the beekeeping industry. Photo courtesy of Yuzhong County Party Committee Propaganda Department
Up to now, the cooperative has established sales partnerships with more than 2,000 supermarkets in Guangdong and other places. The scale of the cooperative has also grown from 6 people in 2021 to 2022, absorbing more than 500 local laborers to work, allowing villagers to work nearby and have considerable income. At the same time, in 2019, 41 poverty-stricken households in the town who have no ability to develop industries will join in the form of income from asset investment, and each household will receive a dividend of 2,000 yuan each year.
Xianglong Vegetable Production and Marketing Professional Cooperative is a microcosm of the development of 's vegetable industry in Yuzhong County. Over the past ten years, Yuzhong County has adhered to the basic idea of "expanding area and increasing income, standard production, brand efficiency, and quality assurance", and has established 1564 agricultural cooperatives. Actively cultivate leading enterprises in industrialization, and the vegetables, fruits and other products that drive rural development are mainly sold to Guangdong, Hong Kong, Macao, Tianjin, Beijing, Hebei, Yangtze River Delta and other regions. The benign interaction pattern of internal and external complementation and benefit growth has basically realized the rational and optimal allocation of vegetable production at multiple levels such as region, time, and variety.
Today, Yuzhong County, led by cooperatives, not only provides farmers with technology and sales channels, but also allows farmers to work at home while taking care of their families. In 2022, the county's vegetable planting area will reach 362,000 mu, with an output of 800,000 tons. The advantageous industrial belt and characteristic industrial clusters have begun to take shape, and the vegetable industry has become the county's leading industry with local advantages and characteristics.
Developing industries according to local conditions is the development principle that Yuzhong County has always adhered to. In Guojiawan Village, Gancaodian Town, combined with the remediation of abandoned land, 400 mu of rapeseed, 100 mu of alfalfa, and 150 mu of buckwheat were transferred to the abandoned land in the village. Forage), to achieve the purpose of increasing farmers' income, benefiting the village collective, and beautifying the living environment.
In autumn, in the thousands of acres of terraced fields in Mapo Township, Yuzhong County, different crops are gradually maturing, showing a variety of colors, just like the "color palette" of the earth. Photo by Liu Xiaobo
The problem of land abandonment has been solved, and at the same time, it has also ensured the nectar source of bees. The buckwheat and rapeseed after pollination by bees have fuller grains and better taste, and the collective income of the village is increased by selling buckwheat noodles and rapeseed oil. . Rape, buckwheat and other crop straws can be used as forage for cattle and sheep after processing, and cattle and sheep manure is made into organic fertilizer through fermentation and decomposing, which can provide crop nutrition and fertilizer efficiency, improve soil quality, and improve product quality.
Liu Shanzhong, secretary of the party branch of the village, said that relying on the Guojiawan Village Joint Stock Economic Cooperative, 50 boxes of Chinese bees will be introduced in 2021, and 30 boxes of Chinese bees will be purchased in 2022. Branch + Cooperative + Farmer" model to expand sales channels, increase scale, and maintain quality. Bencun Joint-Stock Economic Cooperative applied for the registration of the trademark "Liu Xinyuan", author ofEfforts will be made to cultivate high-quality, marketable and characteristic brands that can enrich the people. Through honey sales, the village collective economy will be increased by 60,000 yuan in 2021.
Life has become rich, and various folk song and dance teams from Yuzhong County took to the stage. In Baimu Village, Yuanzicha Township, there is a folk band with an average age of over 65 years old. The eldest, Wei Zhoulong, is 78 years old this year. They sing classic red songs, write and perform their own stories about the changes around them, and show a happy and beautiful new life.
