A watermelon seedling leads to a big industry

"A watermelon seedling attracts agricultural industry," May 21, in Wuhan City Caidian District ninth melon festival, Caidian District agricultural committee director Hu Changlin introduced, 18 years ago, Caidian District from Japan, South Korea and other places introduced watermelon seedling planting; Now it has become a planting area of 42,000 mu, total output of 100,000 tons, annual economic benefit of 330 million yuan agricultural pillar industry, become farmers get rich from poverty good helper.

The reporter learned from the Agricultural Committee of Caidian District that Caidian District, Wuhan City, as the first district of melon industry in Hubei Province, has increased its income again this year, occupying 70% of Wuhan's early melon market.

Eighteen years ago, Wuhan melon production was zero, but Wuhan residents at that time could consume about 1 billion yuan a year melon. At the end of 1997, Caidian District Party Committee and District Government decided to create a "sweet cause" and let melon "grow" money in farmers 'pockets. At the end of the year, high-quality muskmelon was introduced into this area and popularized in dwarf seed farm.

Hu Changlin told reporters, Caidian melon has been introduced from the original single seedling, developed Wanfulai, take bit, early spring red jade, Elizabeth and other more than 10 varieties, production all according to standardized technical procedures strict operation, realized unified provision of seedlings, unified planting norms, quality balance, with sufficient moisture, high sugar content, thin peel, taste cool characteristics. In 1999, the local melon registered the trademark "Lotus Lake" in the State Administration for Industry and Commerce, and was certified as green food by the China Green Food Development Center in 2000. The products were listed under unified brand, unified packaging and unified price. In March 2013, melon in Caidian District obtained the geographical indication certification trademark of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce, and the high-quality melon produced was rated as one of the five advantageous agricultural products of the whole city by Wuhan City Government.

Liu Xiangguo, 60 years old, is an agricultural worker in Caidian District of Wuhan City. In recent years, he has created a lot of family business by planting melon. He built a four-story building of 400,000 yuan in dwarf town, bought hundreds of square meters of commercial housing for his son in Urban area of Caidian District for 400,000 yuan, and built a rental factory building in his hometown for 300,000 yuan. In Liu Xiangguo's melon shed on the dwarf seed farm, he told reporters: "I can create this family business, basically by planting melon."

In 1998, Liu Xiangguo tried to plant 5 mu of melon, and realized net income of more than ten thousand yuan in that year. The following year, he expanded his planting of 17 mu and realized a net income of 60,000 yuan. In 2000, it will be expanded to 50 mu and 100 greenhouses, realizing a net income of 180,000 yuan. This year, because he is old, he will reduce the planting scale to 23 mu, he told reporters: "Net income will not be less than 100,000 yuan."

Liu Xiangguo and Wang Shengjun, who once served as deputy director of dwarf seed farm and now head of planting department of Caidian District Agricultural Committee, will calculate watermelon account together: At present, melon does not worry about sales. From early May to the end of June, the average wholesale price is 1.5 yuan per catty, calculated according to the minimum yield of 4000 jin per mu, gross income is 6000 yuan, minus expenses, net income is at least 3000 yuan.

However, the net income per mu of cotton in one season is less than 1000 yuan, plus the labor of weeding and flower picking; rice is relatively simple, the type of machine harvest, but the net income per mu is only about 800 yuan; ordinary watermelon, planting is relatively simple, but the market price is relatively low, the net income per mu is also 1000 yuan.

Wang Shengjun said: "Caidian melon sales market has been opened, farmers planting melon production up equal to earn money." For this reason, Caidian District has built seedling factories to solve the problem of farmers 'easy death of seedling, fundamentally providing guarantee for farmers to become rich, and also opened "West Melon Expert Compound" to implement unified technical guidance.

Caidian District Agricultural Industrialization Office introduced,"According to an average of 5 mu calculation, West melon planting has driven Caidian ten thousand farmers to become rich."

In Liu Xiangguo's view, the driving effect of melon is not only here. "Look, isn't the master of the melon cart also benefited from this?" He pointed to the traffic on the country road. Moreover, working in melon greenhouses can also increase farmers 'income. Liu Xiangguo said: "On this season of melon, I asked the helper to spend more than 10,000 yuan."

Xu Zhixia, a villager of Military Camp Village in Caidian District, has a history of planting melon for 13 years. She said, planting two crops of melon a year, after October planting Artemisia quinoa, home 3 acres of land can net earn 30,000 - 40,000 yuan. In the military camp village, melon and Artemisia quinoa planting area of 1500 mu. Village cadres introduced, 10 years, the village increased agricultural income more than 10 million yuan, per capita net income from 2800 yuan to nearly ten thousand yuan.

Only when the planting base is large-scale can it have the right to speak in the market. It is understood that Caidian District has basically formed a high-quality melon industrial belt along National Highway 318 to Hongbei Agricultural Science and Technology Park and five demonstration plates of Xiaosi Township, Tonghu, Yuxian, Zhangwan and Chenggong, 15 professional villages with planting scale of more than 1000 mu and 40 demonstration villages of more than 100 mu. The industrialization of operation has been realized. Relying on 68 professional melon cooperatives and 5 wholesale markets of origin, the marketing network of melon industry in the whole region has been extended to more than 40 fruit wholesale markets, supermarkets and wholesalers inside and outside the province, equipped with more than 120 transportation and marketing vehicles, basically forming the industrialized operation pattern of "cooperatives + bases + farmers".

Industry develops and peasants become rich. According to statistics, melon has been "planted" rich Caidian District tens of thousands of farmers. At present, Caidian District has taken melon model as the development direction of modern urban agriculture. Liu Ziqing, secretary of the district party committee, said: "Suburban agriculture is to aim at the metropolis, grab the characteristic card and do a good job of comparing benefits."