[Explanation] On April 8, in the licorice planting base in Tarim Township, Shaya County, Xinjiang, 600 acres of fertile fields were green and green.
More than a dozen machines slowly drove past, and large licorice plants jumped out of the soil. The farmers were busy harvesting.
Shaya County is located at the edge of the Taklimakan Desert in southern Xinjiang.
In order to prevent and control desertification and improve the environment, use the land disadvantage to develop desert economy.
Shaya County began to artificially plant licorice here. The licorice root is thick, the licorice is pure red skin, the drug content is sufficient, and the quality is good. It is sought after by the market, and the price is much higher than other licorice markets. Harvest season.
Before the harvest, the price of 3,600 yuan per ton was booked out, and farmers turned their desert disadvantages into development advantages to increase their income and become rich.
[Concurrent] Wang Xiyue, Deputy General Manager of Shaya Yutai Animal Husbandry Co., Ltd.
The licorice we planted is a three-year cycle. After the first year of investment, the second and third years can be left to grow without any further investment. After it matures, it can receive 1.8 tons per acre, with an average of 1.8 tons per acre. The profit is about 4000 yuan.
[Explanation] "No medicine without licorice", licorice is known as the national old medicine.
It is a well-known bulk of commonly used Chinese herbal medicines and light chemical raw materials in China, and the domestic and international market demand is very large.
In China, areas suitable for licorice cultivation are mainly Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang and Ningxia, and licorice can be grown in arid and semi-arid areas in Northeast and North China.
Licorice has the characteristics of liking light and avoiding shade, heat and cold resistance, drought and waterlogging resistance, and strong root system. It is suitable for planting in desert fringe areas and is the best choice for sand control and sand fixation plants.
[Concurrent] Wang Xiyue, Deputy General Manager of Shaya County Yutai Animal Husbandry Co., Ltd.:
We plan to set up a licorice cooperative in the next step to expand the scale of planting and drive more working people to become rich.
[Explanation] With the rapid development of the licorice industry, it not only revitalized the land, but also provided the villagers with "home door" labor employment. Villager Wang Geng is among them.
Whenever there is a shortage of people for licorice planting, management, and harvesting, he will go to the licorice planting base to do odd jobs, and he can earn more than 2,000 yuan during the half-month harvesting season, which makes him very happy.
[Concurrent] Wang Geng, a villager in Cangtamu Village, Tarim Township, Shaya County
I work here in the slack time of the farming season. The boss pays more than 100 yuan a day, and the food and lodging are well arranged.
[Explanation] It is understood that in recent years, various parts of southern Xinjiang have combined geographical advantages and resource advantages to promote the adjustment of agricultural industrial structure, improve the ecological environment, increase the prosperity of the facility planting industry, and bring more farmers to southern Xinjiang. The number of jobs has made their "money bag" more and more thick, and it has also given the rural revitalization more sufficient "confidence".
The Gobi desert, which was barren in the past, has now become a "golden mountain and silver mountain" for industrial development in various parts of Xinjiang.
Reported by Yang Tao and Wang Keyi from Aksu, Xinjiang
Responsible editor: [Liu Xian]