Golden autumn brings bustling harvest activity across the fields, with the fragrance of specialty onions filling the countryside. As specialty crops enter their critical maturity and harvest period, the nationally recognized geographical indication product Hequ red onions from Bolvquan Village in Louziying Town, Hequ County, have entered their first round of harvesting. Local farmers are seizing the agricultural calendar and staggering market entry to capture golden autumn market opportunities through refined production and sales models, turning these small red onions into a specialty industry that stabilizes farmer incomes and supports rural industrial revitalization.

Relying on Bolvquan Village's unique soil, sunlight, and climate conditions, the locally grown Hequ red onions feature firm stalks, rich aroma, and excellent quality, making them a highly distinctive local agricultural product. With the first round of harvesting now in full swing, the county's red onion autumn harvest and sales work has officially begun. Unlike traditional concentrated harvesting models, the village adheres to因地制宜 principles and adopts staggered harvesting, scientifically controlling maturity cycles to lay a solid foundation for premium pricing.

Zhou Zhizhong, deputy director of Bolvquan Village, said: "These past few days our red onions have just started maturing. What we're harvesting now is the first batch for market, with good appearance and rich aroma. We're starting with small-scale harvesting to sell at a good price first, giving buyers a preview of our red onions' quality and laying the groundwork for subsequent sales."

Based on market demand, Bolvquan Village implements a "first batch trial harvest, early market entry" production and sales strategy, precisely avoiding price fluctuation risks caused by concentrated agricultural product market entry. Leveraging the quality advantages of first-batch red onions with uniform appearance and pure flavor, the village makes an early market appearance to build local brand reputation, effectively securing buyer resources and market attention, steadily improving growers' economic returns, and paving a stable path for subsequent large-scale, standardized production and sales, establishing a long-term orderly autumn harvest and sales system.

Red onion buyer Qiao Feng said: "We arrived at Bolvquan Village early specifically to secure the first round of red onions entering the market. We're conducting small-scale purchasing and stockpiling first, and after about ten days when the large-scale harvest period arrives, we'll purchase in full force and ship in bulk."

Superior quality wins market favor, and stable sales channels boost planting confidence. After years of cultivation and development, Bolvquan's red onion industry has gradually transformed from scattered household planting and independent selling to a standardized development model featuring township and village coordinated management, standardized harvesting, designated buyer purchasing, and order-based external sales. The industrial chain continues to improve, and market competitiveness steadily rises.

It is understood that over the next ten-plus days, Bolvquan Village's thousand-mu red onion fields will successively enter the golden stage of full maturity and concentrated harvesting, ushering in a harvest surge of thriving production and sales. Small industries nurture great hopes, and quality products support prosperity. In recent years, Louziying Town has continued to leverage local agricultural resource endowments, deeply cultivating the red onion specialty industry, continuously optimizing planting techniques, standardizing harvesting criteria, and expanding sales channels, forging a distinctive prosperity path of "small specialty, big industry, high returns."