Hongchuan Town: Pepper harvest in hospitality

In the summer season, the sun is like fire. Entering the order of pepper planting base in Hongchuan Town, Chengxian County, I saw a ridge peppers grow up.

Since the beginning of this year, Hongchuan Town of Chengxian has aimed at creating a strong agricultural industry town and selected chili planting as a leading industry to develop and expand the collective economy of the village. Driving more than 500 people in the town to plant 1,860 acres of peppers, build a new pattern of "party building leader+characteristic industries", and help rural village comprehensive revitalization.

"This year we have promoted the planting peppers: Erjing strip, pearl pepper, beauty pepper, and Da Yanhong. They have signed agricultural product purchase and sales agreements with businesses in Shandong, Sichuan and other places for order -based acquisitions, integrated production and sales. Sorrow. "Lu Jianxin, the head of Chengxian Kangsheng Cooperative, said," Pepper planting is a short and fast and high -efficiency industry, and it is also a labor -intensive industry. From seedling, planting, management to mature picking, every link requires a lot of labor. "

It is understood that there are more than 70 villagers who work in the cooperative chili planting base every day. Not only are farmers realizing farmers' idle workers, they also drive a per capita income to increase more than 2,000 yuan. According to preliminary estimates, the average income per acre of pepper is at least 5,000 yuan. Excluding land rent, labor, pesticide and other costs, the income per mu is about 3,000 yuan.

At present, Hongchuan Town has built two more than 300 acres of pepper industry bases. Clatidium planting covers 10 villages, forming a regional layout of the pepper planting industry. In the next step, Hongchuan Town will take market -oriented, give full play to the advantages of the agricultural industry, through the construction and co -construction model of village enterprises, and make every effort to promote vegetable processing, sorting workshop and storage library construction, and strive to create an integrated operation of "production and sales" Models, broaden the channels for increasing the income and village collective economic development space, add vitality to the revitalization of the countryside.

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