Visit Huiju | The sticky corn of Sizi Village is "steaming"

Correspondent Liu Guisheng Xu Mengli

"In addition to selling sticky corn on the booth, I also received several large orders. The activities made by the work team are really good. Selling us with sticky corn helped us!" On August 26th, Sizi, Ergong Town, Tasheng City, The villager Ma Jima looked at the order in his hand and laughed.

The activity of Maluma said is a sticky corn sales promotion conference jointly organized by the Tacheng Daily in Sizi Village, Sizi Village, Sizi Village, Taski Town, Sizi Village, Sizi Village.

Right now, go to the peak sales season of sticky corn in Sizi Village, and some of the sticky corn transportation channels that are affected by the epidemic are not smooth. If you do not broaden the sales and pick it in time, you must miss the best oral period of sticky corn, which will cause losses of sticky corn growers.

The work team and the village "two committees" are in their eyes and are anxious. After consultation, they decided to change sticky corn from "out of the village into the city" to consumers "out of the city into the village". The Adjusting Corn Sales Promotion Conference has attracted thousands of people in the surrounding villages and communities to participate in hundreds of people and hundreds of businesses. At the promotion meeting, the "Eating Corn" and "Ruby Corn" competition was launched to let everyone taste sticky corn on the spot. At the same time, the sale of sticky corn is opened, prompting the on -site signing of merchants and growers, expanding the popularity of the sticky corn of Sizi Village, and opening up the blocking point to restrict the sales of sticky corn.

The "Rick Corn" contest held in Sizi Village, Ergong Town, Tasheng City. Photo by Liu Guisheng

At the villager Ma Zhijun's house, the team members and village cadres were busy loading the sticky corn. "The transportation department helped us apply for a vehicle pass. In the morning, the sticky corn loaded in Tacheng can be sold in the Karamay market in the afternoon. Yu Jiahui said.

The work team and the village "two committees" were promoted by the circle of friends and WeChat groups for sticky corn, so that the retail of the sticky corn in Sizi Village, the orders continued, and the sales volume rose steadily. At present, Sizi Village sticky corn has been picked and sold for 2 million, accounting for 95%of the planting area.

Sizi Village is located in the western suburbs of Tacheng. The water and soil are rich in heat and heat resources, convenient transportation, and suitable for planting sticky corn. However, due to the high requirements for seeds and harvesting, only a small number of villagers tried to plant sticky corn, and the income was not high.

Since the village in the village, the work team has made a single planting structure and low economic benefits through investigation. The sticky corn tastes planted here is soft and glutinous, the taste is sweet, and it is very popular with consumers. Immediately, the work team and the village "two committees" actively guided the villagers to plant fresh sticky corn with higher economic benefits, and invited agricultural technical experts to train growers in the selection of adhesive corn, field pipes, etc., so that Sizi Village's Fresh and sticky corn planting area has grown from more than 70 acres in 2017 to more than 700 acres, with an average of more than 6,000 yuan.

In order to allow ordinary people to rest assured to plant fresh food, the work team will produce "online+offline" sales "combination cards". Give full play to the advantages of sending the unit, sell fresh sticky corn online on the website and Douyin platform, and apply for the villagers to apply for 56 freshly sticky corn temporary sales points in Tacheng City. The card, played the reputation of the sticky corn in Sizi Village, solved the sales problem.

Saziz Village sticky corn planting and sales are basically based on family. In order to ensure fresh sticky corn taste, sticky corn is harvested on the same day and sold on the same day. However, sticky corn requires manpower from harvesting, steaming, bagging, and sales. Insufficient labor is a problem that has always existed. Nowadays, orders have increased sharply. For a while, the labor force is short, which makes many planters anxious.

In response to this situation, work team members, village cadres, and village party members areas to help villagers lack of labor to harvest, transport and distribute. At the same time, the surplus labor of the surrounding villages is engaged in seasonal migrant workers in Sizi Village, and each person earns more than 200 yuan per day.

Today, Sizi Village Fresh Corn Selling Eidam, Tori, Altay, Karamay, Urumqi and other places. Thanks to the high income of sticky corn cultivation, the per capita income of villagers in Sizi Village reached 19,800 yuan in 2021, and sticky corn growers increased to more than 20 households.

"In the next step, we plan to build a cold library in major cities in northern Xinjiang. At the same time, we explore sticky corn preservation technology, allowing the sticky corn of Sizi Village to go out and further broaden the channels of income increase in the masses." Said the team captain and first secretary Kang Jin.

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