China News Service, Jinan, March 6 (Reporter Zhao Xiao) March is the time to "taste spring". Shandong spring vegetables are rushing to be "fresh" and come on the market. There are many varieties. While enriching the "spring taste" on the tongues of consumers, it has also become a rural The "hot cakes" to increase income and become rich.
On March 6, reporters saw at the Qilibao Comprehensive Vegetable Wholesale Market in Jinan City that spring vegetables such as shepherd's purse, noodle vegetables, and moss vegetables appeared "clustered" on the stalls. Clusters of "green" attracted citizens to buy.
Online, various fresh food e-commerce platforms have also quietly launched new spring seasonal dishes.
Noodle dishes, shepherd's purse appear on market stalls.
Photo by Zhao Xiao
The market demand is strong, the fields are busy harvesting, and there is a steady supply.
In recent days, the Qingzhou Xiangwei Toon Planting Base in Weifang City has been full of "Chun" meaning.
In the greenhouse, clusters of delicate toona buds "bloom" on their tips.
Shi Xiangwei, the person in charge of the base, shuttled among them, busy picking this year's first toon crop.
In recent years, Shi Xiangwei has tried transplanting toona seedlings into greenhouses in winter, and strictly controlled the temperature and humidity in the greenhouse, so that the toona that was originally launched around Qingming Festival will be launched earlier.
"We have four greenhouses of more than 1,000 square meters and have planted more than 200,000 toon saplings. Now we can pick more than 200 kilograms every day." Shi Xiangwei told reporters that at present, toon buds are mainly sold to Qingdao, Yantai and other cities as well as major hotels. , the overall benefit is considerable.
Shi Xiangwei is picking toon in the greenhouse.
Photo courtesy of the Propaganda Department of Qingzhou Municipal Party Committee
In the vegetable greenhouse of Qigang Village, Malinggang Town, Luxi New District, Heze, more than 10 villagers are harvesting mature chrysanthemum in an orderly manner. These vegetables will be sorted, weighed, and packaged before being sold to markets in various places.
"I have been working at the vegetable base for two or three years, and I can earn about 20,000 yuan (RMB, the same below) a year. The income is pretty good," said villager Zhang Yuanfen.
"We have a total of more than 10 acres of land in Qigang Village, Malinggang Town, and rent 4 greenhouses. We take turns growing seasonal vegetables, including shepherd's purse, Chinese cabbage, chrysanthemum, etc. Seasonal vegetables are available all year round." He Xianchen, the person in charge of the greenhouses He said that what is currently on the market is Chrysanthemum chrysanthemum, which is mainly sold to nearby supermarkets and wholesale markets.
Walking into the vegetable planting base of Li Changli, a large vegetable grower in Jingma Village, Hutun Town, Chiping District, Liaocheng City, 26 high-standard plastic greenhouses are neatly arranged.
Local villagers are harvesting lush spinach in greenhouses.
After being harvested, bundled, and weighed, bags of spinach are neatly stacked on trucks, waiting to be sent to the market.
"This year, spinach has been planted in more than 20 sheds, covering an area of about 30 acres. The yield per mu is more than 4,000 kilograms, and each kilogram can be sold for about 1.5 yuan." Li Changli said that during the spinach harvest period, nearby villagers will come to the base to help collect vegetables. Each person You can earn dozens or hundreds of yuan a day.
In recent years, Chiping District has adapted measures to local conditions to guide the people to develop characteristic planting, carefully create characteristic agriculture, gradually expand the scale of planting, realize the industrialization and diversification of vegetable planting, and further promote employment and collective income increase for villagers.
Villagers harvest spinach in a greenhouse.
Photo courtesy of Chiping District Party Committee Propaganda Department
As the weather gets warmer, tomatoes, toona buds and peppers in greenhouses in Anjiazhuang Village, Xianzhuang Town, Tai'an City, are also ushering in a bumper harvest.
In recent years, Anjiazhuang Village has focused on the development of agricultural industries, especially vegetable cultivation.
This year, the village adopted scientific planting techniques and management methods to ensure the quality and yield of vegetables.
Zhang Yibin, operations manager of the Anjiazhuang Village Agricultural Development Professional Cooperative, said that a batch of toona buds matured in the greenhouse not long ago and were sold to the wholesale market at a price of 20 yuan per catty, which increased the village collective's income and at the same time hired local villagers. Manage vegetable greenhouses and provide employment opportunities for villagers.
"Villagers also learned new technologies and new management experiences by participating in greenhouse management."
According to the "Spring Vegetable Consumption Observation" released by the Jingdong Consumer and Industrial Development Research Institute at the end of February this year, shepherd's purse, cabbage sum, spring bamboo shoots, geranium vegetables, etc. occupy the "C position" on the best-selling list of seasonal spring vegetables, while artemisia, pea tips, erai vegetables, The sales of edamame rice and willow sprouts increased by 250%, 172%, 132%, 97% and 86% respectively year-on-year.
"Post-80s" and "post-90s" have become the main force in spring vegetable consumption, accounting for 70% of sales.
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