China News Service, Taiyuan, November 1st (Hu Jian, Yuan Rong, Zhang Chunyan) In late autumn, the coolness of the early morning is getting stronger, and the garden is full of fruits in Papaya Village, Dongquan Town, Pingyao County, Jinzhong City, Shanxi Province, and red apples are full of branches. At first, trucks came in one after another, and here is another year of peak sales season.
Recently, the reporter saw in Papaya Village, Pingyao County, that several large trucks lined up waiting to go to the orchard to pull into boxes of packed apples. The bulk purchase by foreign merchants is the most important sales method here.
Apple grower Wang Yu's family got up very early, and today is the day they and their merchants agreed to sell apples.
"At the beginning of this month, foreign merchants came to the orchard to see the fruit, paid a deposit, and agreed to pick the fruit for delivery today." Wang Yu said, "This year is a bumper year, with a lot of rain, the fruit is huge, and the color is bright. The fruit can be picked in about 3 days.” Wang Yu is an authentic local “apple expert” and has 20 years of experience in apple planting.
Villagers in Papaya Village, Pingyao County, carry apples.
Photo by Yuan Rong
Before planting apples, Wang Yu worked as a part-time home decorator in Taiyuan. Talking about the happy life brought by the orchard, he was deeply touched, "Now the annual output of the more than 20 mu of orchard in his family can reach more than 8,000 jin, and the annual income is nearly 70,000 yuan. The biggest change is that you no longer need to borrow money for your children to study."
Li Yu, who is picking on a ladder next to Wang Yu, is a villager in Dongquan Village. The development of the apple industry in Papaya Village has also boosted the income of nearby villagers.
"At this time of the year, we come to the orchard to help picking for a month, and we can earn more than 90 yuan a day. Together with the apple bagging in June, we can earn about 10,000 yuan a year." Li Yu said.
As a beautiful and livable demonstration village in Shanxi Province, a traditional ancient village and a provincial historical and cultural village, in recent years, Papaya Village has used collective non-contracted arable land, woodland, and four barren land to promote the development of characteristic apple planting industry and build fruit picking Districts, agricultural sightseeing areas, ecological landscape areas and hiking experience zones, using homesteads and collective operating construction land to build ancient village cultural life areas, develop and strengthen the village’s collective economy, and increase villagers’ income.
In addition, Papaya Village also actively introduces advanced technology and has established a long-term cooperative relationship with Shanxi Agricultural University.
Every year, a professional team led by a professor of the University of Agriculture comes to the village for technical guidance. In the spring, it is from pruning fruit trees, instructing flower thinning to training planting techniques, in summer from fertilization, fruit thinning to nutrition, and in autumn from fertilization to prevent early leaf fall to pest control, and winter From pruning to clearing the orchard.
At present, Papaya Village has formed a "one village, one product" characteristic planting model with full coverage of fruit trees in the whole village. It has more than 2,300 acres of orchards, and its annual output has steadily increased to 3 million kilograms. The development of the fruit industry in the surrounding villages has become the leading industry in the development of the regional fruit industry.
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