Farmers in Boye County eat "scenic rice"

A few days ago, the reporter walked into the Qianghe she Agricultural Ecological Park in Baita Village, Boye County, Hebei Province, and saw that it was surrounded by green trees and verdant eyes. Colorful tomatoes, Kirin watermelons and summer black grapes hang all over the branches in the greenhouse, and there are also horseback riding, picking firewood eggs, fishing, barbecue and other projects in the garden, attracting citizens from Baoding and surrounding counties to come to pick and visit.

Qianhe Agricultural Ecological Park covers an area of more than 800 mu and has more than 80 greenhouses. Since its establishment in 2012, it has mainly produced leeks, cucumbers and other vegetables with average economic benefits. In 2015, the planting base began to change its mode and structure, from traditional agriculture to leisure and sightseeing agriculture, from single planting of vegetables to leisure tourism and ecological picking. Through three-dimensional planting, the base has embarked on the road of leisure sightseeing and tourism picking. In order to grow green, pollution-free and good-tasting vegetables and fruits, all farm manure and organic manure are used in the base; in order to enable vegetables and fruits to catch up with their counterparts, the park carries out three-dimensional planting in greenhouses, cold sheds and bare land, so that citizens have fresh vegetables to eat every day and fruits are picked all the year round. The base has strawberries, cucumbers, tomatoes and green kale in spring, colorful tomatoes, Kirin watermelons and summer black grapes in summer, hemp yam, pears and grapes in autumn, and strawberries and leeks in winter. In order to enhance the safety of fruit and vegetable products from farmland to table, the ecological park forbids the use of highly toxic and residual pesticides and establishes detailed ledger records and corresponding traceable files of fruit and vegetable quality and safety. Han Zhaohui, head of the base, said that the ecological park integrates green production of fruits and vegetables, sightseeing picking, and leisure tourism, and has become a good place for citizens around Baoding and Boye to enjoy holidays and experience pastoral fun. Now, selling things in the traditional sense has been very difficult to attract consumers, and consumer experience is becoming more and more important. His ecological park is changing from selling "products" to selling "experience" and "scenery." after its launch, it is not only welcomed by rural tour enthusiasts, but also led to the sale of farm banquets and agricultural by-products.

In Boye Prefecture, Qianju Society is not the only one who "eats scenic rice". At present, the county has built a number of ecological picking gardens, such as Shawo Millennium Ancient Pear Garden, Dabei River Beautiful Rural Tourism Park, Beiyi, good Taste, Daying facilities Agricultural Park, and so on. Tourists have enjoyed the pastoral scenery of Boye County in the process of picking. at the same time, it also greatly increases the value of local specialty products such as Yali pear and yam. In recent years, in promoting the construction of beautiful villages, Boye County has actively implemented the development of global tourism in the face of the layout of tourism industry in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei. Relying on the "tourism +" model to build a rural tourism economy with entertainment, leisure, vacation, catering and fitness as the main body, Boye County took the lead in building a characteristic brand of "beautiful rural eco-tourism" in Baonan Plain, which has become a new bright spot of ecological leisure tourism in Baoding. In August 2015, the county was awarded the title of "demonstration County of Leisure Agriculture and Rural Tourism in Hebei Province". At present, the county has built various agricultural industrial picking gardens with the characteristics of Yali pear, yam, edible fungi and so on. The pear blossom festival and autumn picking festival held every spring can attract more than 500,000 tourists, and more than 2000 people are employed in leisure agriculture and rural tourism. In 2015, the total income of tourism in the county exceeded 100 million yuan.

Li Donghui, our reporter Feng Lei