Jujube Tree, Xiangyang Zaoyuan Village, Xiangyang, Hubei becomes a "cash cow"

Jimu Journalist Zhou Pingying

Correspondent Liu Huiqin Xu Qi

In the hot summer, I walked into Zaoyuan Village, Niushou Town, Fancheng District, Xiangyang City, Hubei Province. The fragrance of jujube flowers comes out, and the garden is green, making people feel refreshed. The farmers are peeled, trimmed, and sparse fruit for fruit trees to prepare for the bumper harvest in the autumn.

Zaoyuan Village overlook

Zhang Hui, secretary of the Party Branch of Zaoyuan Village, introduced that every year in the maturity period of the jujube tree in September, the round and full sweet jujube was covered with branches, bent the branches, showing a beautiful scene of a bumper harvest. It is a beautiful landscape.

In recent years, the party branch of Zaoyuan Village has focused on industrial development, focusing on the "jujube business card", using "jujube sweet jujube" to drive the tourism industry layout of the village, create a new format for agricultural and tourism, and make the jujube tree a " "Shake Money Tree".

According to the history of the Qing Dynasty, the ancestors of Zaoyuan Pioneers love to plant jujube trees, which means that the many sons and more sons and more, and Zaoyuan Village is also named.

Wall painting culture embellish the beautiful scenery of Zaoyuan Garden

Relying on the historical and cultural background of the long history of the jujube tree, the village party branch dig deep into the village history and cultural resources and humanistic connotation, integrate the deep and simple village history and folk culture into the construction of rural civilization and rural governance, reshape the family speakers, build a small square, culture Walls, create a "jujube culture" promenade, show the history of jujube, jujube cultivation technology and deep processing methods of Zaoyuan Village, and draw the "filial piety and integrity" cultural corridor and pine crane maps, twenty -four filial piety and other beautiful wall painting culture embellishment The beautiful scenery of Zaoyuan, wake up the memory of the villagers with native culture and rural civilization, and make ecological villages more inherent.

"As a native person born in Zaoyuan Village, 'jujube' is the source of our establishment of the village, and it is also a good helper for our richness. Through the study of jujube planting and deep processing technology through the town's agricultural technology center, it is estimated that this year can earn more than 200,000 yuan. Tang Yong said happily by Tang Yong.

Zaoyuan Village vigorously develops the characteristic planting jujube industry. In addition to cultivating 80 acres of jujube planting bases in the three groups of Zaoyuan, the whole village also grows jujube trees behind the house in front of the houses to create a veritable 100 acres of ecological jujube forest. At present, the output value of jujube trees is as high as 4,500 catties, and the income of acres is about 15,000 yuan. It is expected that the "sweet jujube" can increase the income of 1.5 million yuan to the villagers of Zaoyuan Village.

Leisure jujube garden

While creating a sweet economy, the village party branch revitalizes the collective idle land on the east side of the village committee and builds about 2,000 square meters of "Zaoyuan Station". Places meet various needs such as sightseeing, tourism, catering, and accommodation. It is expected to receive more than 50,000 tourists and more than 10,000 accommodation tourists each year.

"In the next step, we will be equipped with exhibition halls in the farmhouse, exhibitions, and agricultural and sideline products such as fine processing jujube products, jujube garden rice, and extend the added value of the jujube economy, drive the sales of agricultural and sideline products in village, and make the neighbors of the township at the door of the house. "Zhang Hui said.

(The picture is provided by the correspondent Liu Huiqin)

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