Xigou Village: planting small peppercorns, picking stars and winning the flag

All media reporter Bian Ruihe

Speaking of peppercorns, everyone knows that it is a must -have ingredient in the kitchen. In Xigou Village, Guicun Town, Gongyi City, peppercorns have become a special cuisine. With meat or stir -fry directly, a large plate is raised, and it is pinched with the freshly baked baked cakes. The unique taste makes people have endless aftertastes.

In recent years, under the leadership of Wang Xizheng, the secretary of the village party branch, the village returned farmland to the forest, protects the ecology, develops enterprises, and has made small pepper pepper into a large industry. Star Village.

Xigou Village is located in the southeast of Gongyi City, Gongyi City. It is located under the Wuxi Mountain in the northern foot of Songshan. It is adjacent to the south and Dengfeng Fan family. The village area is 3.6 square kilometers. There are 109 acres of cultivated land in the village, all of which are thin mountains. There are 8 village groups in the village, 253 households and 957 people.

Although Xigou Village is rich in forestry resources, beautiful mountains and rivers, and pleasant environment, before 2000, it is still a poor village that is backward. There are tens of thousands of foreign debt in the village, and the village cadres cannot pay their wages, which is very poor. In 2002, the village returned 498 acres of farmland, focusing on protecting the ecology; in 2007, relying on a good ecological environment, a village built a pink agricultural peppercorns processing base and established Gongyi City Xigou Village Farm Music Co., Ltd. In 2018, with the help of villages and towns to build an opportunity for the "10,000 acres of flower pepper base" industrial projects, Xigou Village was used as the largest planting area to achieve more than 800 acres of peppercorns. Since then, Xigou Village has entered the fast track of development.

In 2020, Xigou Village was identified as a beautiful rural village in Zhengzhou City. It improved rural quality from the aspects of the enhancement of the living environment, public service facilities, infrastructure, and natural landscape building. In 2021, the village collective economic income exceeded 500,000 yuan.

Wang Xizheng introduced that the peppercorns have now become a beautiful business card in Xigou Village, which has attracted much attention. With this peppercorns industry, Xigou Village has taken advantage of the momentum, and continuously accelerates the pace of development.

In just a few years, I have been riding the poor Xigou Village, and has been rated as the most beautiful villages in Gongyi City, Civilized Village and Town of Gongyi City. Village, Henan Province Health Village and other honors. In Gongyi City's "picking stars and winning the flags", Xigou Village was named "Four Star Village" in 2019, and in 2020 and 2021, it was rated as "Five Star Village" for two consecutive years.

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