Currently, over 50,000 acres of chili peppers in Dancheng County, Zhoukou, Henan Province are experiencing a bountiful harvest, with busy scenes across fields and farmlands. In recent years, the local area has continuously promoted the development of the chili pepper industry toward specialization, scale, and branding, helping residents increase their income and prosperity.
At the chili pepper cultivation base in Liuzhai Village, Hugang Township, Dancheng County, the fields are lush and green, with peppers hanging abundantly on branches in vibrant red and green colors, showing excellent growth. Villagers move through the pepper plants, skillfully picking mature peppers and bagging and transporting them. Through policy support and regulatory guidance, local authorities support professional cooperatives in achieving full-chain development from seedling cultivation, planting, and purchasing to sales.
Currently, Hugang Township has 56 cooperatives and 3 chili pepper processing enterprises. In recent years, the local area has continued to promote the chili pepper industry toward specialization, scale, and branding, leveraging "small peppers" to drive a "big industry," helping residents increase income and achieve prosperity. Currently, chili pepper cultivation in Dancheng County covers over 50,000 acres.
**Hubei Xiaochang: Grape Harvest Creates Sweet Industrial Chain for Rural Revitalization**
Currently in peak grape maturation and marketing season, an ecological park in Xiaochang County, Xiaogu, Hubei Province, has achieved a bountiful harvest across 3,100 acres of grapes, welcoming both fruit harvesting and large numbers of tourists enjoying picking activities.
Walking into the ecological park, grape vines are laden with fruit, featuring over ten grape varieties. As gentle breezes carry the fruit fragrance, many tourists wander through the gardens experiencing the joy of picking. Beyond picking activities, grape sales represent the ecological park's main business. During harvest season, hundreds of villagers work here daily.
In the sorting and packaging area, villagers systematically grade, pack, and load freshly picked Shine Muscat grapes while cold-chain vehicles stand ready to transport fresh fruit to markets in Wuhan, Chengdu, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and other cities.
According to reports, the park operates under a "base + company + farmers + dividends" model, driving 246 households across 4 surrounding villages to increase their annual income by 4,800 yuan per household on average, while establishing stable support mechanisms for 33 households that have emerged from poverty, providing annual dividends of 3,000 yuan per household.
**Anhui Tianchang: Euryale Seeds Fill Ponds as Water Harvesting Begins**
In early autumn, euryale seeds fill the air with fragrance. Nearly 100,000 acres of euryale in Tianchang City, Anhui Province are gradually entering harvest season, as growers welcome their busiest season of the year.
At a euryale cultivation base in Tianchang City, green euryale leaves cover the entire water surface. Over ten workers wear waterproof clothing, holding sickles in one hand and nets in the other, quickly hooking mature fruits from the water surface.
Euryale, commonly known as "fox nuts," enters picking season in August, with harvesting basically completed by mid-October. In recent years, local authorities have developed comprehensive cultivation and water management models through promoting improved varieties and methods, technical assistance, and other measures.
The independently developed "Tianyuan No. 1" variety has significantly improved quality and yield, with average per-acre production reaching 300 pounds and per-acre benefits exceeding 3,000 yuan. Currently, euryale cultivation in Tianchang City covers over 70,000 acres, with more than 120 euryale cultivation and processing enterprises, cooperatives, and family farms, employing over 20,000 people and producing 48,000 tons of various euryale products annually, with total industrial chain output value exceeding 2.6 billion yuan.
**Shanxi Ji County: Early Apple Harvest Begins as "One Technology, One System" Helps Farmers Increase Income**
Currently, over 10,000 acres of early-ripening apples in Ji County, Shanxi are entering harvest season. In orchards, fruit farmers are busy picking, sorting, and boxing in an orderly fashion.
In recent years, local authorities have scientifically arranged early, medium, and late-ripening varieties while vigorously promoting dwarf-density planting models, achieving "double growth" in both fruit tree planting quantity and output.
In the dwarf-density orchard in Dongcheng Village, Hukou Township, Ji County, bright red, plump, and round apples hang heavily on branches, filling the air with fruit fragrance. Over 20 villagers work in coordination, systematically handling picking, sorting, and boxing.
Ji County is a major apple-growing county in Shanxi. In recent years, local authorities have cleverly utilized "time differences," scientifically arranging early, medium, and late-ripening varieties to achieve staggered market entry while vigorously promoting dwarf-density planting models, achieving "double growth" in fruit tree planting quantity and output per unit area.
Dwarf fruit trees are easier to manage, significantly reducing labor intensity for fertilization, pruning, picking, and other processes, truly achieving "improved quality and increased efficiency."
Beyond relying on technology for efficiency improvements, addressing rural labor aging issues, Ji County has introduced a farmer-company cooperation mechanism of "villager land shareholding + company management + village collective support participation," allowing villagers to receive 50% dividends through land shareholding, companies to receive 30% dividends for operational management, with the remaining 20% dividends belonging to village collectives.
Currently, Ji County is vigorously promoting dwarf-density planting models and the "532" farmer-company cooperation mechanism. This "one technology, one system" approach not only drives local apple industry transformation toward intensive and high-efficiency development but also makes the county's 300,000 acres of apple orchards truly become "golden gardens" for residents' stable income increase and sustained prosperity.
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