China News Service, Urumqi, August 27th (Wang Xiaojun, Chen Jiuzhou, Cui Shumin) Right now, it is the season for the harvest of peppers. The 1,500 mu of millet peppers in Aksu City, Xinjiang have a bumper harvest. The operation model of "professional cooperatives + farmers + markets" allows the masses to plant There is no worry about the sales of peppers, and the increase in income is guaranteed.
Recently, in the pepper planting base of Arelangan Village, Baishi Tugeman Township, Aksu City, rows of red millet peppers are growing gratifyingly. The cadres and volunteers were smiling and busy picking peppers in the fields, showing a booming harvest everywhere.
Villager Adili Dawuti said: "This year, I planted 10 mu of peppers with the cooperative. The yield is high and the quality is good. It was sold to the cooperative at a price of 5 yuan per kilogram. At present, it has sold for more than 1,000 yuan per mu, and it is estimated that it is OK. For another 800 yuan, I plan to continue growing peppers next year."
The villagers sell the peppers from the cooperative for drying.
Photo by Chen Jiuzhou
The chili peppers are harvested, and the villagers can still work in front of their homes.
Villager Guripostan Tursun joined the pepper-picking team and came to the field to pick peppers every day, which greatly increased her family's income this year.
"Our home is very close to the pepper base. We can earn about 150 yuan a day working here. We can really make money and take care of the family. Although I am busy, I am very happy to see the better days go by." Villager Gu Li Postan Turson said.
In recent years, Aksu City has continued to consolidate and expand the achievements of poverty alleviation and effectively connect the rural revitalization, adjust the agricultural industry structure according to local conditions, actively explore new paths for the village to strengthen the people and enrich the village, continue to develop and strengthen the village collective economy, effectively drive the local villagers to increase their income and become rich, and boost the rural revitalization. .
In order to make the pepper industry bigger, stronger and better, and to ensure the quality and income of peppers, the agricultural department of Aksu City actively guides the cooperatives to adopt the management methods of unified seed supply, unified management, unified purchase and unified sales, and strengthen the "pre-production, production-in-production" operation mode of pepper. , postpartum” production management and technical services, the cooperative also contacted sellers in Guangzhou, Changsha and other places in a timely manner to ensure a stable sales market for peppers.
Wang Mei, chairman of Aksu City's Profitable Agricultural Products Farmers Professional Cooperative, said: "At present, the cooperative has served more than 2,300 households in the surrounding areas. The average household income has increased by more than 3,500 yuan, and more than 60 people have been employed. Employment, vigorously develop industries with good economic benefits, and allow villagers to increase their income and become rich.”
Volunteers help villagers pick millet peppers.
Photo by Chen Jiuzhou
In the past few days, in the professional cooperatives of profitable agricultural products farmers in Aksu City, there has been an endless stream of pepper growers who have come to sell.
The local government's promotion of millet pepper planting has not only made money for the villagers, but also promoted the development of the processing industry.
Cooperative member Gulinakzi Maimati said: "This year, the production of peppers is high, and there are many processed products. Our income has also increased. Now we can get more than 3,000 yuan per month."
"In the next step, we will continue to expand the planting area of millet peppers based on the actual local conditions, radiate and drive more villagers to develop characteristic industries, boost the prosperity of the industry and increase the income of the people, and effectively make the rural revitalization 'get rich express' run faster." Aksu Municipal Party Committee Muhetar Mamuti, a member of the "Visit Huiju" team of the United Front Work Department and the Municipal Federation of Industry and Commerce in Arelangan Village, Baishi Tugeman Township, said.
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