Gangnan District of Guigang City: passion Fruit "fragrant House"

Guangxi News Network-Guangxi Daily Guigang News (Reporter / Tang Zhengfang correspondent / Liu Zhining) passion fruit trees are covered with ripe passion fruit, and more than 10 villagers are busy digging, fertilizing and pruning branches and leaves. This is what the reporter saw on March 27 at the passion fruit planting base in Dongling Village, Dongjin Town, Gangnan District, Guigang City.

"if you work at the base every day, you can earn 70 or 80 yuan, and you can also learn the technique of growing passion fruit." Luo Xiuzhen, a villager who is busy, said. The 60-year-old works in the passion fruit base and has mastered the skills of cultivating seedlings, pruning and picking fruits. The land in Dongling village is mainly on low hills and gentle slopes. under the guidance of poverty alleviation departments, economic capable people developed passion fruit cultivation through land transfer last year, opening up a new way for industrial poverty alleviation. Today, more than 20 villagers like Luo Xiuzhen have achieved employment on their doorstep.

"passion fruit has the advantages of low investment, short cycle and quick harvest, and there will be a harvest in a few months." Gan Ruwei, head of the professional pine and cypress passion fruit planting cooperative in southern Hong Kong, said: at present, the planting scale is more than 200mu, with an annual output of 100000 kg of passion fruit, and 300000 passion fruit seedlings. "We encourage surrounding farmers to join us in development. Now more than 10 farmers have joined in."

A responsible person of the Hong Kong Southern District Poverty Alleviation Office said: "this year, we plan to provide subsidies and support in terms of fruit seedlings and chemical fertilizer materials, and guide cooperatives to cooperate with poor villages through the model of 'companies + cooperatives + bases + poor households'. Provide seedling and technical guidance for poor households, sign purchase contracts, establish stable planting and sales channels, and use industry to help poor households shake off poverty and become rich."