Guangshan: planting mulberries to increase income

Tourists pick mulberries in the mulberry garden of Shiwang Ecological Agriculture Professional Cooperative, Chunshugang Village, Guangshan County, May 6, 2017. Shiwang Cooperative introduced 60 mu of fine mulberry from Taiwan and South Korea in 2014.

The cooperative uses the mulberry planting industry to promote the development of sightseeing agriculture through the "leisure picking" model, advocate a green and healthy lifestyle, and guide healthy leisure for the general public. Additional products such as mulberry leaf tea and mulberry wine have been developed to promote the transformation of traditional agriculture to modern agriculture with high profit margins and high added value. And drive 12 poor farmers around to plant mulberries, with an average annual income of more than 20,000 yuan. (Xie Wanbai, correspondent of Henan 100 degrees-Xinyang Channel)