China News Service, Handan, April 29th (Wang Tianyi Zhang Kun) On the morning of the 29th, in the sweet potato planting base of Shangguanzhuang Village 1, Fengfeng Mining Area, Handan City, Hebei Province, 42 high-quality detoxified sweet potato seedlings were planted in 100 greenhouses. A number of villagers are cutting seedlings, bundling and packaging, and bundles of sweet potato seedlings will be sent to Heyang County, Shaanxi Province.
"We can't see what it used to be. The white greenhouses and the green sweet potato seedlings are much more beautiful than the dark coal mines and the gray mountains." Fu Huaye, a villager in Shangguanzhuang No. 1 Village, said that she was in Working here, I can earn 80 yuan a day. Because I work in front of my home, the money I save is no less than that when I go out to work.
Since the first village of Shangguanzhuang in Fengfeng mining area is close to a coal mine and backed by mountains, since the 1980s, every household in the village has lived a life of "relying on mines to eat mines".
"On a sunny day, one is covered with soil, and on a rainy day, one is covered in mud." Zhang Aiguang, a villager, said that although the village has income, the natural environment has also deteriorated due to coal mining.
In recent years, with the depletion of resources, the coal mines of the village collectives have been completely closed. There is no collective economy, and many young people go out to work. As a result, the most serious one is that the pits and depressions caused by coal mining subsidence restrict the development of villages.
The picture shows the sweet potato seedling greenhouse in Shangguanzhuang, Fengfeng Town, Fengfeng Mining District, Handan City.
(Drone photo) Photo by Li Dong
In order to change the rural environment, in 2018, under the leadership of the Fengfeng Mining District Committee and government, Shangguanzhuang No. 1 Village vigorously developed scientific and technological agriculture, green agriculture, brand agriculture, and quality agriculture, and actively explored "village collective + company + base + farmer" and other development models.
"According to our local soil properties, we finally chose to plant high-quality virus-free sweet potato seedlings with strong adaptability, high yield and few miscellaneous diseases, such as Yanshu 25 and Qinshu 5. They have good taste and are favored by the market." Wang Zenghai, secretary of the party branch of Shangguanzhuang No. 1 Village, said that after several years of hard work, the village's sweet potato seedlings stood out and became the local "farmer brand".
Wang Zenghai said that in 2021, his village will cultivate 16.8 million sweet potato seedlings, each with an average price of 0.12 yuan. In addition to planting vegetables during the seedling rest period, the annual net income will be about 320,000 yuan, and the collective economic income will be about 150,000 yuan.
This year, the virus-free sweet potato seedlings have just been launched, and the sweet potato seedling base has already received 1.5 million orders.
From "relying on the mountains to eat the mountains" to "relying on the fields to eat the fields", Shangguanzhuang No. 1 Village has been constantly exploring the revitalization road of green development. An industry integrating breeding, planting, processing, trading and sales has initially formed on more than 100 acres of land. chain.
"The seed potatoes are supplied uniformly, and you don't have to worry about where to sell the grown sweet potato seedlings. There are people who teach you how to manage the seedlings. I also want to build a greenhouse." Villager Fu Huaye and his family have been planning to build a greenhouse these days. No longer let her husband go out to work, "I earn a lot, and the family is so good to be together."
Fields are suitable for fields, and water is suitable for water. The first village of Shangguanzhuang is also taking comprehensive measures in the governance of coal mining subsidence areas. The improved land is used to develop the planting of virus-free sweet potato seedlings, and a wetland amusement park has been built on the pits and depressions.
"The collective economy has a source, and the ecological environment is getting better and better. In the next step, we plan to build another 20 greenhouses and a constant temperature warehouse that can store 300,000 catties of sweet potato seedlings, and further expand the sweet potato industry chain around industrialization and scale. Do a good job in the deep processing of sweet potatoes, increase the added value of sweet potatoes, and explore the integrated development model of 'culture, tourism and agriculture', and call it the brand of the sweet potato town." Wang Zenghai said.
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