Fenggang: vegetable base helps farmers out of poverty

Report from our correspondent (Ran Yusheng Wang Haiyan Tian Jinhong) A few days ago, walked into Fenggang County Suiyang Town Yongsheng Community Wanxiong vegetable base, vegetable base pieces of vegetables green, good growth, lovable.

It is understood that Wanxiong Vegetable Base is Suiyang Town, Fenggang County. In its poverty alleviation work, Suiyang Town gives full play to its location and resource advantages to speed up the adjustment of agricultural industrial structure. It builds infrastructure through Shanghai counterpart assistance funds, gives full play to its demonstration and driving role, centralizes scattered planting of thousands of households to implement large-scale, intensive and specialized planting, and provides technical support and broadens sales channels for local cooperatives and farmers. Out of a "party building + enterprises + cooperatives + farmers" vegetable industry poverty alleviation model.

According to the introduction of the person in charge of the base, the company has provided more than 60 long-term jobs for the local people, and more than 200 seasonal employees are employed every day.

At present, Wanxiong Ecological Agriculture Development Co., Ltd. has expanded its planting area to 2500 mu on the basis of the original greenhouse. The vegetables planted such as pepper, kale and purple cabbage are mainly sold to Hong Kong, Thailand, Indonesia and other places. It is expected that the annual output value will reach 88 million yuan.

"Suiyang Town adopts the method of attracting investment and introducing enterprises and establishing professional cooperatives to vigorously develop vegetable cultivation and drive local people to increase their income and become rich." At present, there are more than 70 workers working on the base every day, paying workers more than 120,000 yuan a month." The deputy mayor of the town said to the author.

Up to now, the base has driven 620 households to develop vegetable planting of 5100 mu, and it is expected that the output value will reach more than 25 million yuan, realizing an average income increase of 15,000 yuan for 86 poor households. Driven by the project, Shimen Village of the town has built a standardized vegetable industry demonstration base of 2000 mu, covering 2360 people in 10 groups, including 78 beneficiaries from 18 poor households. The town revitalizes farmers 'vegetable professional cooperatives to develop 10 members, planting 600 mu of chili, driving the masses to plant 1400 mu. In 2017, an order for selling 2 million catties of chili has been signed at a price of 2 yuan per catty.