[Explanation] It is the time of the yellow flower harvest season. In the Yunzhou District of Datong City, Shanxi Province, the yellow flower fragrance is everywhere. In the continuous yellow field, picking workers are busy picking. Nowadays, the local "little yellow flowers" grow a "big industry" and become a "rich flower" for farmers. Unlike agricultural work during the day, the picking of yellow flowers is mostly done at night.
[Same period] Reporter Li Tingyao: It's 12 o'clock in the middle of the night. The stars in the yellow flower field behind me are picking up. The pickers are wearing spotlights to work. Every year from July to early August is the picking period of the yellow flower. Every day from 8 o'clock in the evening to 6 or 7 o'clock in the morning, the pickers must pick while the night is dark. The buds of a high-quality yellow flower should look like this, without blooming. After the sun rises every day, the yellow flower will gradually bloom, and its food value and economic value will become lower, so the workers should take advantage of the night to complete most of the Picking work.
[Commentary] After dawn, the pickers who worked 10 hours in a row ended the night picking work. Some farmers will process and dry the yellow flowers at home. Wu Guofu was a villager in Jijiazhuang Village, Jijiazhuang Township, Yunzhou District, Datong City. He was once a poor household in the village and has established a card, but now he has become rich with yellow flowers.
[Commentary] Wu Guofu, a villager in Jijiazhuang Village: Planting yellow flowers was the model household that the county government took me to do in 2015 (formerly Datong County). I planted 2 acres of yellow flowers. The income was not much in the first year. In the third year of full production, this is more, one acre of yellow flowers, the dried yellow flowers are more than 400 pounds, the lowest (harvested) dried yellow flowers are 400 pounds, and a pound of 20 yuan is more than 8,000 yuan, which rushes to the fifth in the fourth year There are more years, more each year, and a year’s income of 1334.
[Explanation] In addition, he also transferred more than 40 acres of land to the Huanghua Professional Cooperatives, which can receive a transfer fee of more than 20,000 yuan per year. Liu Zhifeng, the head of Jifu Industrial Development Cooperative in Jijiazhuang Village, introduced that his cooperative had transferred 710 acres of land to plant yellow flowers, driving 197 poor households.
[Same period] Liu Zhifeng, the person in charge of Jifu Industrial Development Cooperative in Jijiazhuang Village: First of all, transfer land, transfer villagers’ land, 800 yuan per mu, some villagers have more than 20 mu, and light transfer land is more than 16,000 yuan, what else The advantage is that this villager has also been transferred from other places, and can still come to our cooperative to work in the idle time, pick the yellow flowers when picking the yellow flowers in the summer, or when the yellow flowers are picked, and each villager can earn 10,000 yuan.
[Commentary] The Huanghua picking season, the village has not enough manpower, the cooperative also invited about 300 pickers from Shandong Province. In the more than one month of the picking period, the pickers can earn more than 4000 yuan per person.
Yunzhou District, Datong City, Shanxi Province is the main producer of yellow flowers in the country. Yellow flowers have been cultivated for more than 600 years and are known as the "hometown of yellow flowers in China." At present, in Yunzhou District of Datong City, 170,000 mu of yellow flowers are planted, and 90,000 mu is in full production, with an annual output value of 700 million yuan. The per capita income of farmers is increased by 5,000 yuan, driving more than 15,000 poor households out of poverty.
Reporter Qu Lixia Li Tingyao Wu Junjie Shanxi Datong reported
Editor in charge: [Ji Xiang]