China News Service, Taiyuan, November 18th, title: Shanxi's eldest son: characteristic agriculture helps increase income, carrots pave the way to wealth
Author Yang Jing
In the early morning of the 18th, in the vegetable field in Nanchang Village, Baodian Town, Changzi County, Changzhi City, Shanxi Province, the carrot harvesting machine had begun to dig, and the newly unearthed carrots were neatly laid out in the field.
Afterwards, the villagers simply sorted the picked carrots, put them in woven bags, put them on tricycles, and took them to the village vegetable market for trading.
In the vegetable market on the other side of the village, workers are unloading the carrots brought by the villagers in an orderly manner, washing them, bagging them, and loading them on transport vehicles. These uniform and brightly colored carrots are about to be shipped to Hunan and Fujian. And so on.
Wash the bagged carrots.
Provided by Changzi County Financial Media Center
Baodian Town, Changzi County is located in the Shangdang Basin. It is dominated by cinnamon soil, with fertile land, deep soil layers and shallow groundwater levels. It is an important grain and oil production base.
The traditional planting industry in this area is mainly carrots, potatoes, and wheat. Nanchang Village, Baodian Town, has gradually formed a two-year, three-crop planting mode that mainly grows carrots and wheat.
Grower Chang Aihong told reporters that with the support of the government, carrots have been grown in large areas for more than ten years.
"I planted more than 4 acres of carrots this year. According to the market situation, one catty sells for about 40 cents, and I probably earn more than 10,000 yuan."
Carrots are grown well and won't worry about the market.
Locally produced carrots have neat and uniform roots and a crisp and sweet taste, which has attracted many foreign merchants to buy them.
"Carrots are widely sold, mainly to large merchants from other provinces. Every year when the carrots are ripe, merchants come to buy them. The carrots we pick are sold out at home." Chang Aihong said.
In the vegetable field of Nanchang Village, villagers are digging carrots.
Provided by Changzi County Financial Media Center
In 2018, in order to solve the chaotic local trading order and the dirty, chaotic, and poor trading environment, the local government led the establishment of a vegetable trading market and organized villagers to concentrate sales in the market, making the carrot trading increasingly large-scale.
Nowadays, carrot has become a beautiful business card of Nanchang Village.
"I come to the eldest son to harvest carrots every year. This year I have been buying carrots here for more than half a month." Zhao Yueming, a merchant from Changsha, Hunan, told reporters that carrots are sold well, reaching 50 to 60 tons per day. They have been loaded and shipped almost every day for half a month Changsha.
"I hope the more people grow carrots, the better."
In recent years, Nanchang Village has gradually formed a stable planting and sales model of carrots. The village is now a local carrot industry base, covering more than 20 surrounding villages. The planting area reaches more than 8,000 mu, with a yield of 7 to 8 kilograms per mu. It has become an important way for Nanchang Village to get rid of poverty and continue to increase income.
In addition to growing carrots, vegetables such as potatoes and cabbage in Nanchang Village have gradually become large-scale.
The village is actively adjusting its industrial structure and developing special agricultural products in the process of promoting industrial prosperity and rural revitalization, and embarking on a new path of increasing agricultural income and making villagers rich.
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