[Rural Revitalization] Kashgar, Xinjiang: Characteristic Industries Help Villagers Increase Income

  [Explanation] Right now is the harvest season, and the fields in the villages of Kashgar City in southern Xinjiang are busy.

The villagers spread the way for agricultural products through multiple channels, sharing the joy of a bumper harvest.

  The reporter saw in the wheat field in Kule Village, Akkash Township, that the golden wheat had matured. As the harvester passed by, the golden wheat grains poured down from the door of the machine cabin, and the grains returned to the warehouse.

It is understood that in order to ensure the orderly development of harvesting, the township government and the owner of the large harvester coordinated the optimal price for harvesting, and harvested in accordance with the principle of first yellow harvest first, plus government harvesting subsidies, farmers can harvest within half an hour. One mu of wheat, which not only shortens the harvest time, but also reduces the harvest cost and improves production efficiency.

  [Concurrent period] Yimingjiang·Maimatiming, deputy head of the agricultural office of Akkash Township, Kashgar City, Xinjiang

  This year, we have a total of 21,000 mu of wheat in Akkash Township, and we have harvested 13,000 mu. For families in financial difficulties, a low price of 10 yuan per mu will help them harvest wheat.

  [Explanation] At the double-membrane melon planting base in Duneike Village, the township, the mature double-membrane melons are big and round, and the villagers are busy transporting the melons to the delivery truck.

Reziwanguli, who is picking her own melons, told reporters that the melons grown with double-film planting technology have high sugar content, strong resistance, storage and transportation, and this year's income will be higher than last year.

  [Concurrent period] Reziwangli·mu, a villager in Dunyireke Village, Akkashi Township, Kashgar City, Xinjiang

  Melons sell for five to six yuan per kilogram, and our current income is considerable.

  [Explanation] Aishan Abduaini, deputy secretary of the Party Committee of Akkash Township and the mayor, introduced that this year, 1,300 mu of double-film melons have been planted in the township, and the first batch of melons has been on the market. The township government has expanded sales channels for melon farmers. , Solved the worries of melon farmers, and now Shuangmo melon has become the rich melon of their township.

  [Concurrent] Aishan Abduaiini, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of Akkash Township, Kashgar City, Xinjiang

  The first batch of melons is already on the market, and it is estimated that one mu of land can reach an income of 5,000 to 6,000 yuan.

Our township adopts an online and offline sales model, through bulk purchases, scattered purchases by vendors, independent sales by farmers, and cadres through the WeChat platform public account to promote sales, and expand sales channels for melon farmers. Now Shuangmogua has become our township’s Get rich melon.

  [Explanation] The snow chrysanthemum planting base in Kule Village of the township also ushered in a bumper harvest. Early in the morning, the villagers could not wait to rush to the golden "flower sea" clusters and start a busy day in the bursts of fragrance. .

Villager Reyihan Guli said that the snow chrysanthemum can be picked until mid-October, and she can earn 20,000 yuan in income.

  [Concurrent period] Reyihan Guli·Zunong, a villager in Kule Village, Akkash Township, Kashgar City, Xinjiang

  It is time to pick the snow chrysanthemum (picking). I will help my neighbors (picking). I have an income of about 100 yuan a day. The snow chrysanthemum can be picked until mid-October.

  [Explanation] It is understood that in recent years, the Kashgar area has adapted measures to local conditions and encouraged villagers to change traditional planting structures and planting patterns, broaden income-increasing channels, and use geographical advantages to build a thousand-mu characteristic industrial planting base. Now the villagers are more and more confident in increasing income. The pockets are getting more and more bulging.

  Zhao Yamin, Zhang Yuejiao, Maize·Kadir reports from Kashgar, Xinjiang

Editor in charge: [Sun Jingbo]