Fengxian Zanthong: From "hemp egg" to "money skewers"

Text/Shi Rui

The pepper flavor in Fengxian, Shaanxi is full of pepper and rich incense. While playing with the mountains and rivers of Fengfeng County, the life of pepper farmers is more popular.

In the peppercorns in Shilian Village, Shuangshipu Town, Fengxian County, Yao Laiyun, who was in the pepper, pointed at the peppercorns who had just harvested, and said, "These 'hemp eggs' is the" money skewers 'to get rich'! "In recent years, Fengfeng in Shaanxi Province The county combines the implementation of the implementation of the forest and the pepper pepper to the people, and continuously innovate the development of the development of the development of the phoenix pepper industry. In 2021, the county's peppercorns retained about 4 million, the annual output of dried peppers was 4,000 tons, and the output value was as high as 400 million yuan.

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Fengxian "Dahongpao" is famous for its "ears"

"Phoenix peppers are fresh, and the phoenix peppers are pretty. If you discern the red robe, you must find your ears." This is a folk song describing the peppercorns described in Fengxian County in Shaanxi. The difference between the "Dahongpao" is that there are two small petals at the base of the peppercorn fruit, which looks like a pair of small ears. People call it "two ears", and the ears are the main feature of the authenticity of the "big red robe".

Fengxian is located in the hinterland of Qinling in the southeast of Shaanxi and is located on the subtropical and warm temperature borders. The annual average temperature of the county is around 11.4 ° C, and the vertical changes are obvious, and precipitation is concentrated. The mountain environment where the cold and the hot and hot in winter have created the unique growth conditions of the pepper and pepper.

Fengxian's unique climate environment has bred the excellent quality of "Dahongpao". Outstanding among many peppercorns.

The history of peppercorns in Fengxian can be traced back to the Three Kingdoms period, and it has been more than 1,000 years. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, Fengxian's "Dahongpao" had been famous for its popularity and enjoys the reputation of "Chinese famous pepper" and "King of Pepper". In recent years, Fengjiao has also obtained certifications such as "National Origin Protection Products", "AA -Class Green Foods" and "Shaanxi Famous Brand Products".

The leapfrog development of the peppercorns industry

The development of the peppercorns in Fengxian also experienced a twists and turns. In 1988, Fengxian established the peppercorns of peppercorns to promote peppercorn planting in an orderly manner in the county, and popularized the management technology of peppercorns.

Since 2003, Fengxian has been promoted by the integration of peppercorns and the implementation of the policy of returning farmland to the forest, which has promoted the rapid development of Fengxian's peppercorns industry.

In 2005, Fengxian was named "the hometown of Chinese peppercorns". The enthusiasm of the masses to plant peppercorns has risen, but the "blocking road" follows: the problems such as peppercorns, high falling flowers, and lagging on the lagging of the market information of pepper farmers have seriously restricted the large -scale development of Fengxian's peppercorns industry.

The Fengxian Forestry Bureau jointly made efforts to take a series of effective measures to gradually break through the siege of the peppercorns industry and achieve leapfrog development. In response to the problems of peppercorns, inconvenient picking, inconvenience, trimming and high cost of artificial picking, the Northwest Agriculture and Forestry Technology University, Baoji Municipal Government and Fengxian County Government jointly established a demonstration station in Fengxian Zanthong. After years of hard work, the station has cultivated excellent varieties suitable for local climate, soil, fertility and other conditions for Fengxian County, "Feng Xuan No. 1" and "Xunnongless". These two varieties have strong anti -reverse resistance, less thorns, fast growth, and early results. The unit yield per mu is more than 17%compared to the previous. At the same time, Fengxian County continued to carry out practical technical training, popularized scientific planting management, trained a group of professional and technical talent teams of peppercorns, and improved the professionalization of pepper farmers. Through scientific trimming, pulling branches, the tree shape and tree body of peppercorns are gradually optimized, and pepper fruit picking is more convenient.

In order to effectively solve the problem of being easily affected by "Chun Chun Cold", which is susceptible to "cold spring cold", the problem of falling flowers and fruits, reduced production, or even harvesting, Fengxian explored a insurance model of "government+pepper farmers+insurance companies", in accordance with "government guidance, policy support, compliance according to law, compliance in accordance with laws, compliance, compliance, compliance, compliance, compliance, compliance, compliance, The principle of autonomous voluntary "has gradually implemented policy peppercorns insurance to effectively protect the interests of pepper farmers. Since 2007, Fengxian has incorporated peppercorns into policy agricultural insurance. Due to the frost, it has accumulated more than 1,300 million yuan for the masses, minimizing the loss of natural disasters to industrial development and planters. In 2012, Fengxian County and Northwest Agricultural and Forestry University of Science and Forestry Science and Technology established the first peppercorns test demonstration station in the country, providing technical guarantee for the development of Fengxian Zanthong industry. Leverated by the county pepper industry development center, the joint peppercorns testing station, meteorological bureau, towns, villages, peppercorns, and professional cooperatives established the peppercorns anti -frost freezing joint control mechanism, timely release prevention measures and peppercorns meteorological reports, monitor meteorological and temperature in real time Change, share information, and deal with the weather of "cold spring" together.

In order to solve the problem of lagging of pepper farmers' information lag, Fengxian Forestry Bureau relies on modern means such as automatic meteorological station network and grid prediction system to improve the industrial service system, strictly monitor cold air activities, and use mobile phone text messages, WeChat, large speakers and other methods Publish low -temperature frost forecast information to the town village cadres and meteorological information officers in time, and specifically guide farmers to adopt frost defense measures in advance to minimize disaster losses; build a peppercorns information service platform, establish a peppercorns industry information library, and send them to pepper farmers as soon as possible. Information such as diseases and insect pest control, practical management technology and market sales.

In 2017, the Fengxian Dahongpao peppercorns cultivated system was selected into the 4th China Ministry of Agriculture's 4th China Important Agricultural Cultural Heritage List. In 2018 and 2020, Fengxian Dahongpao peppercorns were evaluated "high -quality climate quality" and "national rural characteristic products", respectively. In 2021, Fengxian County was shortlisted for the first batch of characteristic agricultural products (peppercorns) industrial advantage areas in Shaanxi Province. At present, there are more than 66,000 acres of peppercorns in the county, 4,000 tons of dried peppercorns, and 1 national peppercorns standardization demonstration park, 3 provincial modern agricultural (peppercorns) demonstration parks, and 1 provincial -level peppercorns without pollution -free demonstration zone. Cultivate 1 "National 5A Integrity Enterprise", 3 provincial leading enterprises, and 78 professional cooperatives of peppercorns.

The peppercorns are red, good days

Yao Laiyun, Fengxian, was a poor household. His wife was sick for many years and his debt was exhausted. In 2013, after understanding the situation of Fengxian Forestry Bureau and poverty alleviation cadres, he donated 6,000 yuan to him, provided pepper seedlings and agricultural resources for free, and regularly conducted technical training for planting technical training and pest control technology. In 2016, through the development of the peppercorns industry, Yao Lai achieved poverty alleviation.

Wei Guoyin, deputy director of Fengxian Zanthong Industry Development Center, said: "In Fengxian, there are more than 3,000 farmers who rely on the peppercorns to achieve poverty alleviation, and the average annual income of the household can reach 15,000 yuan. Carry out scientific research on peppercorns planting, continuously cultivate new species of peppercorns, innovate planting models, carry out deep processing of peppercorns products, extend the peppercorns industry chain, and make more people get rich. "

Nowadays, only 8,000 acres of peppercorns in Shili Store Village in Fengxian County alone, including more than 5,000 acres of fruit pepper, the production of peppercorns in the village in 2021, 250,000 kilograms, and an output value of more than 30 million yuan.

Fengxian has continuously explored the depth and breadth of the peppercorns and rich people's strategy, extending the function of peppercorns, and digging the cultural value of peppercorns. At present, Fengxian Forestry Bureau is cultivating an emerging format of agricultural experience, agricultural science, tourism picking and farm accommodation; Tourism Specialty Exhibition Store. Propagate the promotion of Fengxian County peppercorns through e -commerce sales, online celebrity live broadcast, tourism product exhibition promotion, etc., and promote the integration and development of rural areas of rural areas in the county, and help rural revitalization.

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