The “short, flat, and fast” vegetable industry helps farmers increase their income

Before and after the frost, in a farmland in Jiangxintun Town, Xianghe County, tractors and loading trucks were constantly shuttling through the fields. Accompanied by the roar of machines, rows of sweet potatoes broke through the soil. This side had just started sorting, and the electric tricycles on the ground began packing and weighing. Occasionally, scattered customers from around came to purchase.

This year, more than 100 acres of sweet potatoes were planted, and most of the harvest was sent to large supermarkets in Beijing, Tianjin, and the surrounding areas, with a small portion sold separately Planter Ma Xudong said.

At present, Xianghe County is vigorously developing the “short, flat, and fast” vegetable industry, promoting crop rotation models, improving the index of multiple cropping of arable land, achieving maximum land use, expanding channels for increasing people’s income, and providing important support for rural revitalization.

In the vegetable greenhouse of Lizhuang Village in Wuwuhu Town, the green spinach, fennel, and coriander are growing well, and the villagers are busy harvesting, bundling, and loading. I have been working here for over a year, mainly picking and packaging vegetables, with a monthly income of around 4000 yuan, “said Wang Xifeng happily, who was busy picking vegetables.

Our village now has over 1000 acres of greenhouse vegetables, mainly planted with spinach, fennel, coriander, etc. Vegetables are sold three seasons a year, mainly shipped to Beijing and Tianjin, and about seven or eight tons of vegetables mature every day. “Wang Dongrui, Deputy Director of the Lizhuang Village Committee, introduced.

Five hundred households town is a traditional vegetable planting base, with over 8500 vegetable planting greenhouses. By developing the “short and fast” vegetable planting industry, the income of villagers has been increased.

In recent years, based on the advantages of the vegetable industry and location, Xianghe County has made sufficient efforts in crop rotation, continuously exploring new paths for industrial development, actively carrying out “short, flat, and fast” vegetable planting work, improving land use efficiency, gradually expanding the scale of planting bases, guiding agricultural enterprises and professional cooperatives to adjust the vegetable planting structure, vigorously developing high-quality new vegetable varieties and pollution-free vegetable production, and accelerating vegetable variety updates, Promote the development of the entire vegetable industry chain.

In the first three quarters of 2023, Xianghe County has a vegetable replanting area of 99200 acres. The vegetable industry has gradually formed a benign interactive pattern of four season production, annual supply, combination of long and short periods, internal and external complementarity, and economic growth. “said Zhang Xin, director of the Characteristic Industry Service Center of Xianghe County Agriculture and Rural Bureau.