China News Service, Yongding, Fujian, March 21 (Huang Qiuping, Chen Jingbin) As the temperature continues to rise, peppers have ushered in a good season for transplanting.
In recent days, fields in Yongding District, Longyan City, Fujian Province have been busy.
On the 20th, at the thousand-acre pepper planting base in Chendong Township, Yongding District, Longyan City, villagers worked in groups of two or three, busy transporting seedlings, breaking membranes, planting seedlings, and watering.
Villagers in Yongding District worked in groups of two or three, busy transporting seedlings, breaking membranes, planting seedlings, and watering.
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"The benefits of the peppers planted last year were pretty good. The main variety we planted this year is Chaotian pepper. The total area is about 1,200 acres. So far, 800 acres have been planted. It is expected that all the peppers will be planted in about 20 days." The on-site responsible person of the Chendong Township Pepper Company in Yongding District Wu Juncai said, "After the pepper transplanting is completed, a series of field management and maintenance such as watering, fertilization, and weeding will be carried out. The output value this year is expected to be about 12 million yuan."
In order to connect the interests of industrial development and farmers, the base adopts the "company + base + farmers" model to develop the pepper industry. People can increase their income by transferring land and working in the base to maximize their interests.
The villagers were busy transporting seedlings.
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"I work here from land preparation and planting of peppers, and I can earn 100 yuan a day. It's close to home, and I can take good care of the elderly and children. The later management, maintenance and harvesting of peppers require a large number of workers. We can It's really good to work here." Luo Min, a villager in Yantai Village, Chendong Township, Yongding District, said happily.
In recent years, Chendong Township in Yongding District has relied on the local good climate and land resource advantages, closely followed market demand, and adapted measures to local conditions to vigorously develop pepper, sweet potato, rice "paddy and drought rotation" and other characteristic industries. Today, pepper cultivation has become the local pillar. industry.
Aerial photography of a thousand-acre pepper planting base in Chendong Township, Yongding District.
Photo courtesy of Yongding District Media Center
"We will continue to expand the pepper planting area through grain and pepper rotation, actively introduce the pepper processing industry, and cultivate a 'planting + processing + experience' pepper industry chain." Li Jianrong, secretary of the Chendong Township Party Committee in Yongding District, said.
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