Yangtze River Hilly District, Dongxing District, Neijiang City: Bagged loofah is expensive and easy to sell

On June 19, the reporter saw in the vegetable base of the Modern Agricultural demonstration Park in Dongxing District, Neijiang City, that there were fresh and green towel gourds hanging everywhere in steel sheds. The workers are busy harvesting ripe towel gourd with their backs and scissors on their backs.

At the scene, the reporter saw that the mature loofah was covered with a thin bag without exception. Wang Yulan, who is collecting bagged towel gourd, told reporters: "bagging loquat, bagging lemon and so on are not strange in people's eyes, but this is the first time I have seen bagging on towel gourd."

According to vegetable grower Liu Qiliang, traditional towel gourd cultivation is not bagged, so the loofah grown in this way is not good-looking and can not afford the price, while the bagged towel gourd can not only reduce diseases and insect pests and improve the quality and taste of towel gourd, but also the shape of towel gourd is good-looking, which is liked by consumers.

"it's important to bag towel gourd at the right time!" Liu Qiliang said that when the towel gourd grows to 2 to 3 centimeters long, a non-toxic and pollution-free white plastic bag is used to cover the towel gourd. After the bag, the towel gourd can grow in shape, and the length and size of the towel gourd are basically the same.

It is understood that Liu Qiliang planted more than 120 mu of towel gourd this year. In vegetable cultivation, he changed the traditional planting method and paid attention to the packaging of vegetables. At present, it is the harvest season of towel gourd. The bagged towel gourd he planted has to pick more than 3000 kilograms every day during the peak period. The bagged towel gourd he planted are sold to Chongqing and Nanchong. The wholesale price of bagged towel gourd is 4.4 yuan per kilogram, which is about 1 yuan higher than that of ordinary towel gourd.