Niupeng Town: Planting “greenhouse vegetables” to help farmers get rich quickly

In recent years, Niupeng Town has actively guided villages to develop greenhouse vegetables, apples, flue-cured tobacco and other characteristic Plantation according to the development idea of enriching people with industries and promoting rural revitalization, so as to promote agricultural efficiency and farmers’ income in the town.

The season of fragrant melons and fruits is a time of abundant harvest. In the golden autumn season, when we walked into the vegetable base in Yingshang Village, Niupeng Town, hundreds of vegetable greenhouses were connected together, and the vegetables such as tomatoes and melons in the greenhouses entered the harvest period.

The migrant workers are busy harvesting and packing in the base. The boxed tomatoes and melons are immediately transported to Zhaotong market for sale.

“Our base covers an area of more than 300 mu, with 396 greenhouses. At present, we have planted more than 70 mu of tomatoes, more than 30 mu of cucumbers, more than 20 mu of cauliflower, and the rest is small melons.” Zhao Juncong, head of the specialty fruit and vegetable planting and breeding cooperatives in Niupeng Town, Weining County, said that the base adopts the development model of “cooperatives+bases+farmers” to plant greenhouse vegetables. Throughout the year, various seasonal vegetables are planted in rotation, and vegetable harvesting and replanting are carried out simultaneously, The base has formed a pattern of Vegetable farming with more income in one year, and the channels for people to increase income have been further widened.

The sales channels are point-to-point. We transport them to Jiangnan Logistics Park and Zhaotong, and they then transport them to Yibin, Neijiang, Chongqing, Kunming and other places for sales, “Zhao Juncong said.

The industry is thriving, and farmers are prosperous. Greenhouse planting not only greatly increases the “gold content” of the land, but also becomes a “treasure trove” for increasing people’s income. The cooperative has been operating a greenhouse base for 7 years, with an average daily labor force of over 30 people, and the peak period of planting and harvesting labor force reaches over 60 people.