Jixian Town: Great Watermelon Make a big article to help rural rejuvenation

"The watermelon here is large, sweet, full melon sand, many juice, and delicious, pull back to sell, special sought after!" On September 16, 2022, Liu Ke, a fruit dealer from Shenzhen, said happily.

On the same day, more than 50 villagers were harvesting watermelon in the watermelon planting site of the people's fruit and vegetable planting farmers' professional cooperatives in Jixian Town, Jixian County. Picking, scaled, loaded, busy, full of happy sweat on his face.

There are more than a dozen cars that come to collect melons. Dealers from Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Nanning and Beijing also laughed. "I am here for the second time. When the ground was sold out, I called me for a call to urge me to ship! "Liu Ke said. Chen Mingsheng, a Beijing merchant who also came to Yungua for the second time, did not hide his smile: "This melon is good, so it is a sought -after. The car stops on the market for half a day. Child. "Sun Mingsheng said that Ji Xian's side is full of selenium -rich black land, coupled with the climatic conditions of warmth and night after autumn, so that the watermelon planted here in this season is particularly favored by acquirers and consumers. Essence

Jixian Town has the history of planting watermelon for more than 40 years. Earlier this year, with the support of the party committee and government of Jixian Town, the village took the tuning planting structure as a new starting point for the revitalization of the countryside. Agree with Sun Jingtao, the secretary of the village branch, led the establishment of the people's fruit and vegetable planting farmers' professional cooperatives. The first batch of 525 acres of watermelon was planted. The watermelons planted by long -term small dulls and retail households were made into large industries that helped consent the development of the village.

During the planting process of watermelon, Jixian Town assigned agricultural technicians to guide on the spot in every link of watermelon planting such as planting, pests and insect pests to fertilizer and water management. The output and quality of watermelons have been up, and the merchants have recognized it, and the sales revenue naturally increased.

"In the past two days, the town helped our cooperatives to sell watermelons. Through online and offline contact, it can be sold more than 400,000 pounds a day. It is estimated that it will be sold out in four or five days." The price is six cents per catty, with a total output of 4.7 million pounds, and the total income is expected to be more than 2.6 million yuan. "At present, the watermelon planted by cooperatives has been exported to Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Nanning and Beijing.

Li Yi, Secretary of the Party Committee of Jixian Town, told reporters that since this year, the party committee and government of Jixian Town and government in accordance with the requirements of provincial cities and counties and rural rejuvenation, combine the work style construction and "Sanhang Action" related work, actively adjust the agricultural planting structure, and strive to promote characteristics Based on the existing industrial projects such as the existing "eight family mushrooms" and "long green seedlings", this year, it has successfully created "agree with watermelon" and "red light cucumber seeds" industrial projects, which effectively drives farmers to become rich , Collectively increase their income, "Let each village have its own characteristic industries, use special industries to promote high -quality development in rural areas, and do a good job in industrial projects to help rural rejuvenation articles." Li Yi said.

Reporter Yang Xinyu

Edit Guan Ying

Review Zhang Min

Preparation Wang Chunying

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