Right now, it is the time for the ginger harvest. Ten thousand mu of ginger in Funing District, Qinhuangdao, Hebei is growing well, and a bumper harvest is once again ushered in.
In the ginger field in Xijie Village, Liushouying Town, Qinhuangdao City, workers are busy harvesting ginger; the ginger in the field is full and the output is gratifying.
Jiang Nong Li Yongan planted more than 30 acres of ginger. This year, the yield per acre was about 10,000 catties, and the purchase price was double that of previous years.
Li Yongan, Jiang Nong, Xijie Village, Liushouying Town, Qinhuangdao City, Hebei Province: The weather is good this year, the yield per mu is quite high, and the price is good. Each catty has reached more than three yuan, and each mu will generate about 20,000 yuan for us.
Sizhao Village in Liushouying Town is a village with only more than 400 households. The purchase price of 3000 mu of ginger planted in the village this year is more than 3 yuan per catty, with an average yield of 13,000 catties per mu, and sales of more than 120 million yuan. Profit is also more than 50 million yuan.
The ginger is harvested in mid-October every year, and the village is loaded and transported every day.
Sun Jianli, vice chairman of the Sizhao Crop Planting Professional Cooperative in Qinhuangdao, Hebei: Now it is sent to Shandong Province in a day with twelve or three trailers. Each trailer is more than 60,000 catties, and it needs about 1,000 people a day.
It is understood that Funing District, Qinhuangdao has nearly 40 years of ginger planting history. In recent years, the ginger planting area has stabilized at more than 10,000 mu.
Up to now, there are more than 50 cooperatives involved in the ginger industry and more than 50 ginger washing factories in the district.