In the cold winter, farmers dig golden dolls in the soil at least 150 yuan a day. Poor households earn 20,000 yuan a season.

At the time of water chestnut harvest season, in Baihu Town, Lujiang County, Anhui Province, the famous "hometown of water chestnuts" in Anhui Province, a team of water chestnut porters composed of more than 2000 people are busy, of which poor households account for about 15%. Only this item increases the per capita income of the poor labor force by about 4000 yuan, bringing more choices for the local poor households.

According to reports, Baihu Town has been "married" with more than a dozen provincial and municipal markets, including Beijing, Shanghai, and Hebei, and exported to Europe, the United States, Southeast Asia and other regions. It is estimated that the total output this year will reach more than 50000 tons, small water chestnuts have entered the big market, and the water chestnut industry has increased the income of farmers in water villages by more than 100 million yuan.

Zhou Yuanli is the person in charge of the professional cooperative for planting water chestnuts in Baihu Town, selling more than 2000 tons of water chestnuts to foreign countries every year. This year, he recruited more than 300 surplus rural workers as water chestnut porters, who are responsible for harvesting, sorting, packaging and transportation. "if you earn 150 to 200 yuan a day, you will earn more if you work more." Zhou Yuanli said that his cooperative alone will pay more than 600,000 yuan in labor fees this year, most of which will be paid to the local labor force of poor households.

After breakfast every day, Zhou Xiaohong, a villager of Xicheng Village, Baihu Town, and his wife will come to the water chestnut field to help Zhou Yuanli harvest water chestnuts. They bent down and dug out the small water chestnuts with their hands in the mud more than a foot deep. "at the end of the season, we can not only make money, but also take care of our family." Zhou Xiaohong said.

Zhou Jianchang is a local poor family. His wife is paraplegic and his son is in college. The family's only source of income depends on him working in a cooperative. Zhou Jianchang said that he earns about 150 yuan a day, and he can increase his income by about 20,000 yuan a quarter, and he will be able to take off his "poor hat" this year.

It is understood that Baihu Town, Lujiang County has planted water chestnuts for more than 400 years, and the planting area has grown to more than 20000 mu, with a total output of more than 50000 tons.

In order to expand and strengthen the water chestnut industry, the local agricultural technology department provided one-stop service to farmers from the aspects of seed selection, cultivation and transplanting, improved varieties to expand planting area, and field management was upgraded from extensive to green and fine fertilizer control.

At the same time, they also set up water chestnut professional cooperatives, registered agricultural trademarks, passed the green food certification, and successfully realized the industrial management of "company base farmers".

Now these "golden dolls" in the soil are leading the local people to a well-off society!

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