[Explanation] Recently, at the tomato base in Toutang Village, Toutang Town, Tianyang District, Baise City, Guangxi, the grower Huang Qiuyun bowed to the field and picked barrels of fresh fruits under the still hot sun.
[Same period] Huang Qiuyun, a tomato grower in Baise City, Guangxi
Because the technology here is relatively good, and the climate is quite good. With our current technology, if we follow the times, the yield per mu of our side can reach 8,000 to 10,000 catties. If the market price can reach 3 yuan, our one mu of land The income, including principal and interest, can be 20,000 to 30,000 yuan.
[Explanation] Baise is the national "Southern Vegetables North Transport" base.
Baise autumn and winter vegetables, which are mainly tomatoes, are exported about 2 million tons every year, accounting for 60% of the total output, and the sales radiate across the country.
As an important variety of autumn and winter vegetables and fruits in the "Southern Vegetables Northward Transport", the local tomato has a sweet skin and is easy to keep fresh. In 2015, it was granted the protection of geographical indications of agricultural products. It attracts many dealers to the fields every year to purchase, supplying Beijing, Liaoning, Henan and other places and even overseas markets.
[Explanation] The development of the Baise tomato industry is dominated by family-based operations, and the level of scale and industrialization has gradually increased. In 2021, the planting area will be 305,100 mu.
According to reports, this year Baise tomato will achieve a substantial increase in yield per unit area on the basis of a basically stable area, and the output is expected to reach more than 1 million tons.
[Explanation] Huang Qiuyun has been planting tomatoes for nearly ten years. She changed the single rice planting mode in the past, and implemented the "rice-tomato" two-cropping paddy and dry rotation planting mode in a year. The planting area has gradually expanded from the original 7 mu to 24 mu.
[Same period] Huang Qiuyun, a tomato grower in Baise City, Guangxi
For example, I am a big grower myself, and the boss is more willing to accept farmers with a daily output of 5,000 catties. He is not willing to find three or four hundred catties. He will spend time (to purchase). If I expand the planting area, I will guarantee When the production capacity and output are relatively stable, my quality can also be guaranteed. Many bosses are interested in big companies like us.
[Explanation] Baise tomatoes are on the market from mid-October to the end of April of the following year. The earliest tomatoes planted in the second half of this year have entered the picking period.
In the past few days, many farmers have harvested early-ripe tomatoes to meet market demand first.
Busy tomato trading scenes can be seen everywhere in the field purchase points and wholesale markets.
[Explanation] In the Tianyang District Agricultural Products Wholesale Market, small trucks full of tomatoes lined up neatly at the gate of the sorting yard waiting for unloading.
In the sorting yard, the tomatoes unloaded from the trucks pass through automatic cleaning machines and sorting machines, and finally are boxed, packed, and sent to cold storage by workers, waiting to be shipped to markets across the country.
[Explanation] Baise is an old revolutionary base area. On 36,300 square kilometers of red land, agricultural industries such as grain, fruits, vegetables, sugar cane, sericulture, tea, and Chinese medicinal materials are booming, making it a national spice base, a national commodity grain production base, and a national The sugar cane base has won titles such as "Hometown of Mango in China" and "Hometown of Tangerine in China".
Reported by Wang Yizhao, Huang Lingyan and Zhang Wenqian from Baise, Guangxi
Responsible editor: [Wang Kai]