Yumen: Xiaohua blooms "Red" days

Yumen in the midsummer, morning light. The safflower in Liang Haixia, Huangshuiqiao Village, Huahai Town, the city blooms in the safflowerland. The picking workers traveled in the sea of ​​Huahai, bending over their heads and busy picking up. After a while, their hands are full of red flowers.

Huahai Town is the famous Honghua hometown in Gansu. Huahai Town has an area of ​​more than 6,000 acres this year. It can produce 69 tons of safflower seed oil and 210 tons of safflower velvet. Safflower has become a veritable "rich flower" in Huahai Town.

Every year, the safflower collection period, Liang Haixia's land can always usher in picking workers in the surrounding townships. "Start picking at 5 am, end at about 11 noon, and earn more than 200 yuan a day." Chen Qinghong said.

"Safflower's drought resistance, less pests and insect pests, good management, this year's market is good. The acquirers come to the village to buy it every day. The supply is in short supply. Our family has grown 120 acres this year. It is estimated that it can receive more than 400,000 yuan." Hua said happily.

In Changhe Village, Liudun Town, Yumen City, the fields are golden, and the red flowers are exposed with bright flowers, swaying in the wind, like a golden carpet covered with the fields. Nowadays, with the guidance and support of industrial policies, the planting area of ​​red flowers in Changhe Village reaches more than 2,000 acres, and the enthusiasm of villagers growing red flowers is getting higher and higher.

In recent years, in order to improve the quality and output of safflower, Yumen City has organized experts to guide the management and protection measures of fertilization, watering, insect -proof, and other control measures in the fields, and achieved high -standard planting and management of safflower. In addition, Yumen City carried out fertilizer and pesticide reduction operations, insisting on not using or using chemical fertilizers and pesticides to guide farmers to carry out green planting.

Together with safflower planting, there are safflower processing enterprises. The Yumen Yingrui Melon June Sauce Co., Ltd., which was established in 2018, has built five of the premium juice, pure water, drinks, wine, honeydew seed oil and safflower seed oil processing production line.

"We can process 100 tons of safflower seed oil in one year. In addition to processing and sales, we are also preparing to process other safflower products. They continue to work hard on extending the safflower industry chain to strengthen the safflower industry." Jing Yudong, general manager of juice Co., Ltd. said.

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