Si County, Anhui: early autumn sweet potato cut seedlings busy rural revitalization new scene

At the beginning of the early autumn, the vast fields of Si County, northern Anhui are still green. The reporter came to the sweet potato fields of Ding Jingjun, a villager in Pengpu Village, Sicheng Town, Suzhou City, Anhui Province. In front of the green, there was a little purple sweet potato seedlings in the green. More than 20 workers were lined up in turn. A sweet potato seedlings, and then bundle them to be sold. Ding Jingjun told reporters that these workers are all neighbors staying at home. They need to cut seedlings for 200 acres of sweet potatoes. Now it is the peak period of employment. Essence

The picture shows the villagers who are cutting sweet potato seedlings in Pengpu Village in Sicheng Town

The reporter noticed that the cutting seedlings were cut down from the top of the sweet potato seedlings to cut 25-30 cm down from the top of the sweet potato seedlings, which is what the locals call "cut head". So does the sweet potato "cut the head" in the peak season of sweet potatoes affect the yield of sweet potatoes?

"We planted a lot. Cut a stubble of the seedlings not only affect sweet potatoes, but also benefit the growth of sweet potatoes." Ding Jingjun in the greenhouse said cheerfully.

"Cut the head" for sweet potato seedlings can control the excessive strength of the seedlings and can have an additional economic income, so many potato farmers are selling seedlings for sale. In fact, this season can no longer be planted by sweet potatoes in Si County, so where do these large amount of sweet potato seedlings be sold? In this village field, the reporter encountered a sweet potato seedlings from Fujian.

"I am from Fujian. Now I plant more than 2,000 acres of sweet potatoes in Zhanjiang, Guangdong. The seedlings on Si County are the original seedlings. The yield we planted in Guangdong will be higher. Purchase more than 5,000 acres of seedlings here. "Zhou Chengcan, a merchant in Fujian Province, said.

"At present, our trucks can be loaded with 50 to 550,000 sweet potato seedlings per car, and 5 to 6 vehicles can be sent every day, mainly selling them to Zhanjiang and Lu Feng, Guangdong." Huang Hu, chairman of a cooperative in Si County, said that future cooperatives will still be Further expand the market in the Pearl River Delta region.

Si County is the famous hometown of sweet potato. The annual sweet potato planting area is about 200,000 mu. Starting from spring, more than 100 sweet potato planting cooperatives and family farms in the county have adopted professionalized methods to cultivate sweet potato seedlings. The sweet potato seedlings growing in the spring are cut and planted in the stubble field. From the end of July to the beginning of September, the period of sweet potatoes in Guangdong, Fujian and other places, the majority of sweet potato growers in Sixian County will cut off the sweet potato seedlings according to the needs of the southern market, cutting off the sweet potato seedlings, cutting off the sweet potato seedlings down Selling to the south.

It is understood that the sweet potato seedlings in the autumn stubble field can cut out 150,000 to 30,000 sweet potato seedlings in the first crop of one acre of land. After about 20 days, the second stubble can be cut out of 30,000 to 60,000 sweet potato seedlings. Before the sweet potato harvest, the third stubble of sweet potato seedlings can also cut 20-50,000 trees, and the income per mu can reach 1,000-2000 yuan. At present, a large number of sweet potato seedlings have emerged in the county's main body. In the autumn, the supply of sweet potato seedlings exceeds 1 billion or more. Thousands of people engage in sweet potato seedlings and transportation work every day.

Source: Si County Rong Media Center Dong Lihou Liu Wenhua

Edit: Sun Xiaomin

Review: Ang Yuhao Zhu Jianghui Huang Yan

- END -