Beipanjiang Town of Zhenfeng: planting "Zanthoxylum bungeanum" to pave the way to get rich

Once the stone desert is worrying, now the pepper fragrance is famous everywhere. In Dingtan District, Beipanjiang Town, Zhenfeng County, 90% of the area is a stone corner, which was once recognized by experts as "a place that does not have the conditions for human survival." It is relying on the strong support of the party and the government to introduce pepper varieties suitable for local cultivation, and with the hard work, hard work and skillful work of the people in the top altar, the former rock abrupt and desolate top area has become green and green. Xiao Zanthoxylum bungeanum not only explored the way to control rocky desertification by "Dingtan model", but also achieved a bumper harvest of both ecological and economic benefits. Coincides with the end of summer and early autumn, August is approaching, Dingtan pepper is about to usher in another bumper harvest.

Come to the top altar, along the stone paved mountain road, on both sides of the stone slope is full of lush green, bursts of light brushing, the air is also filled with a delicious aroma of pepper. Due to the lack of harvest time, and did not see the mountain pepper picking scene, sporadic farmers embellished in this green, but became a unique scenery.

According to Luo Zeliang, who is pruning Zanthoxylum bungeanum by the roadside, there are still about 15 days to go before the large-scale picking of Zanthoxylum bungeanum, that is, mid-August, when there will be busy farmers all over the mountains. some big growers do not have enough hands and need to hire temporary workers to help. At present, picking Zanthoxylum bungeanum belongs to the accompanying picking when pruning.

Luo Zeliang's joy is overflowing with the introduction of his own pepper. He planted 60 mu of pepper, a total of 8000 mu in the village. Dingtan Zanthoxylum bungeanum granules are full, and the green and yellow shell of raw pepper sells well. Although it has not yet reached the harvest period, businessmen from Sichuan, Chongqing, Guangxi and the province have contacted to order. The brand of "Dingtan Zanthoxylum bungeanum" is famous both inside and outside the province. According to the investigation and demonstration of the Provincial Science and Technology Bureau, the unique karst landform in Dingtan area, the high altitude and the heat dissipation effect of rock in the evening all provide advantaged conditions for the growth of Zanthoxylum bungeanum, which is also the reason why Dingtan Zanthoxylum bungeanum is full of spicy taste and rich flavor. A Zanthoxylum bungeanum tree has a high hanging fruit period for 10 years. After picking, the raw pepper is placed in a cool place for one day, waiting for the fruit to collect water and oil, and then the dried pepper can be directly ground into powder as seasoning for one day. 10 jin of raw pepper can be dried into about two and a half jin of dried pepper, and the purchase price of dried pepper is expected to be about 30 yuan per jin this year. It is estimated that Luo Zeliang's income of pepper alone this year is more than 60,000 yuan.

"now that we live in a bungalow, refrigerators, color televisions, telephones, mobile phones and motorcycles are no longer rare. We can't believe we have a good life in a stone corner. " Luo Zeliang's simple words sincerely reflect the party's good policies, paying attention to the issues of agriculture, rural areas and farmers, getting rich by relying on science and technology, and taking the road of sustainable development to bring real changes to the villagers in the depths of the mountains.

May such a good day, Nengze be more farmers, wish Dingtan pepper, fragrance floating Wanjia, famous at home and abroad.