Chinanews.com, Chengdu, November 30 (Wang Jue Guo Anping) "In the past, I planted whatever I wanted, and now I have signed an agreement with the melon export company. Not only are there strict requirements on the diameter, length, and weight of radishes, but also radishes. The skin, color and freshness of the leaves have been specified in detail.” On November 30, Huang Dongchun, head of the Winter and Spring Vegetable Planting Farmers’ Professional Cooperative in Zhongba Village, Jinping Town, Peng’an County, Nanchong, Sichuan, said: “Only in accordance with the standardization Only by growing vegetables can we have core competitiveness and win the international market."
The "standardization" mentioned by Huang Dongchun refers to a complete revolution carried out by Sichuan Province focusing on improving the quality and safety of agricultural products.
After the reform and opening up, with market demand, some farmers did not use chemical fertilizers and pesticides scientifically in order to increase vegetable production, which caused food safety and soil deterioration.
In recent years, Sichuan's agricultural system has focused on the structural reform of the agricultural supply side, placing the increase of green and high-quality agricultural products in a prominent position, strengthening agricultural standardized production, and ensuring the quality and safety of agricultural products.
The villagers are harvesting carrots.
Photo by Liu Yonghong
"Caliper growing vegetables" has become a reality.
Huang Dongchun’s cooperative office is located in the 10,000-mu vegetable base in Zhongba Village, Peng’an.
Holding the freshly harvested radishes, Huang Dongchun took a ruler and measured the length and diameter of the radishes one by one.
Huang Dongchun came up with a supply contract for export to Japan: from December 29, 2020 to April 12, 2021, to supply 300,000 green-head white radishes.
"The purpose of measurement is to see whether it is suitable for customers' requirements." He said.
As small as the length of a radish, as large as the size of 10,000 acres of citrus; from the "access system" of agricultural production materials to the "quasi-establishment system" of winter heating greenhouses; from the pesticide residue testing center to the vegetable safety traceability management system... So far, Sichuan has perfected 799 local agricultural standards, focusing on the construction of 33 modern agriculture, 26 key modern animal husbandry counties, 21 modern agricultural demonstration cities and counties, and 13 national modern agricultural demonstration zones.
Located in Zhongba Village, Jinping Town, Peng'an County, Nanchong City, Sichuan Province, it has been identified as a "Pollution-Free Vegetable Base" by Sichuan Province.
"We have achieved standardized production in the links of seedling raising, transplanting, fertilization, and medicine, and we have implemented full-process monitoring from the field to the table, and we have formed a large network of agricultural product quality and safety." Huang Dongchun said proudly.
The villagers are harvesting carrots.
Photo by Liu Yonghong
The well-known agronomist Jia Sixie never imagined when he wrote "Qi Min Yao Shu" that the melon and vegetable cultivation methods he described in the book will benefit future generations and enable Peng'an County, Nanchong City, located in the southwestern corner, to develop into A veritable "Sichuan Vegetable Basket".
The modernization of vegetable planting in Zhongba Village and the quality control of agricultural products have provided important guidelines for Peng'an to build a "one belt and two districts" green vegetable base, and to realize the comprehensive upgrade, progress and development of agricultural industrialization.
The sky is bright and bright, and the China Agricultural Union International Farmers City, located in the middle section of Phoenix Avenue in Peng'an, is full of traffic and people.
"In 2019, our market traded more than 30 million kilograms of melons and vegetables, some of which were sold to cities in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the Pearl River Delta. The vegetable trucks depart every morning and arrive in Shanghai two days later. Fresh radishes and navel oranges will appear in On the dining table of Shanghai citizens." said Luo Shan, deputy general manager of Zhongnong Times Market Management Co., Ltd.
After nearly 20 years of development, the planting area of Peng'an melons and vegetables has stabilized at more than 2 million mu, and the total annual output has remained at about 4 billion kg.
There are too many melons and vegetables, and storage becomes a problem.
Combining with the strategic adjustment of the rural economic structure, Peng'an proposed an industrial development model, and guided farmers who “only know how to bury their heads in farming” to develop a one-stop service of planting, processing, transportation, and sales, which greatly increased the added value of agricultural products and promoted agricultural development. The subsistence type changes to the benefit type.
The villagers are harvesting carrots.
Photo by Liu Yonghong
The China Agricultural Union International Trade City, which integrates cold chain, logistics, warehousing, processing, and e-commerce, officially landed in Peng'an in 2018.
At present, hundreds of stores have settled in the park, forming a modern agricultural and sideline product trading base integrating sorting and processing, agricultural and sideline product exhibition and sales, warehousing and logistics, office entrepreneurship, e-commerce and other comprehensive services. It is sold to more than 20 provinces across the country, and exported to Japan, South Korea, Russia and other countries and regions.
"Look, these are the 12 items we tested for soil in May of this year, and none of them will be acceptable." Holding the "Environmental Inspection Report of the Origin", Huang Dongchun said, "Zhongba radish has become a part of Peng'an vegetables. We are obliged to defend this agricultural brand with a golden sign."
Take Zhongba Village in Peng’an as an example. The amount of vegetables exported abroad has grown from less than 10,000 kilograms three years ago to more than 2,000,000 kilograms per year.
Currently, this data is being further expanded.
Tang Fangchun, deputy secretary of the Peng'an County Party Committee and county magistrate, believes that only by persisting in planning agricultural development with the idea of industrialization and raising the level of internationalization can we solidly promote the development of modern agriculture.
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