[Explanation] Butuo County, as a large potato cultivation county in Liangshan Prefecture, Sichuan Province, has a potato planting area of about 210,000 mu per year. The potato industry has become an important help for the local industry to alleviate poverty. In recent years, Butuo County has gathered high-tech agricultural talents to provide technical assistance to agricultural planting, and has explored a characteristic road of intellectual poverty alleviation that focuses on the potato industry, so that the majority of poor households can escape poverty and increase income.
Recently, the reporter saw in the Bujiang Shufeng Modern Agriculture Demonstration Park in Butuo County that an expert service team organized by the Sichuan Provincial Department of Human Resources and Social Security is conducting relevant guidance for the local potato industry in the park.
Wang Xiyao, a professor at the Agricultural College of Sichuan Agricultural University who is known as the "potato king", shuttles through the fields as soon as he enters the park, answering the questions he encountered in the experiment. She told reporters that the potato science and technology college she led to establish, there are 6-8 doctoral students and graduate students from Sichuan Agricultural University stationed in the park for a long time, and they will provide long-term technical support for potato cultivation related issues.
[Same period] (Professor Wang Xiyao of Sichuan Agricultural University College of Agriculture) Currently, with the help of the expert team, teacher and student team of Butuo Potato Science and Technology Institute, this park has formed a complete potato industry chain. This demonstration role will promote cloth The development of the potato industry has enabled the most basic guarantee for the butt and decisive battle to overcome poverty.
[Explanation] The Bujiang Shufeng Modern Agriculture Demonstration Park is a characteristic industrial park where the local government vigorously promotes the talent poverty alleviation strategy and adjusts the planting structure. The total investment of the project has exceeded RMB 70 million and it was put into operation in July 2018. In an interview with reporters, Chen Liangyu, deputy general manager of Butuo County Bujiang Shufeng Ecological Agricultural Technology Co., Ltd., said that in the process of potato cultivation, over time, there will be a "degradation" of output decline year by year, which seriously restricts the income increase and production enthusiasm of ordinary people. As a high-tech project, potato seed tuber breeding is a common problem. Facing the plight of the shortage of local high-tech agricultural talents, Sichuan Human Resources and Social Security Department organized many agricultural experts such as Sichuan Agricultural University and Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Sciences to provide guidance to the park.
[Same period] (Chen Liangyu, Deputy General Manager of Bujiang Shufeng Ecological Agricultural Technology Co., Ltd. in Butuo County) We passed the process (technology) of detoxification (for potatoes). Our virus-free seed potatoes are distributed to ordinary people, and the yield per mu can be increased by about 30%.
[Explanation] Chen Liangyu told reporters that since the park was put into operation, the comprehensive benefits have gradually manifested. In 2019, the park employed 23,143 people and spent more than 1.62 million yuan in labor costs. It has driven more than 16,000 households out of poverty in the county to increase their income, and the average household income has increased by more than 3,150 yuan. It is estimated that the labor service expenditure will reach nearly 3 million yuan in 2020. The realization of the park will drive farmers' per capita disposable income to be higher than the local average by more than 20%.
He Meikun reports from Liangshan, Sichuan
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