Ningxia Xiji potatoes reached an output value of 1.6 billion yuan in 2015
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Using the latest improved Qingshu No. 9 variety and following agricultural science personnel in practicing scientific water-saving planting methods, I earned more than 20,000 yuan from growing potatoes in 2015, double that of 2014. Recently, when Ma Guobao, a potato grower in Luozhuang Village, Xinglong Town, Xiji County, was calculating his annual income
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<p> “Using the latest improved Qingshu No. 9 variety and following agricultural science personnel in practicing scientific water-saving planting methods, I earned more than 20,000 yuan from growing potatoes in 2015, double that of 2014.” Recently, when Ma Guobao, a potato grower in Luozhuang Village, Xinglong Town, Xiji County, was calculating his annual income, he repeatedly praised the benefits of modern potato cultivation.</p>
<p> “In the year just past, Xiji County's potatoes achieved an output value of 1.6 billion yuan, increasing the per capita income of farmers by more than 1,500 yuan.” The head of the county's Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Bureau said that by firmly seizing the opportunity of the national launch of the potato staple food strategy and the autonomous region's designation of Xiji County as a pilot county for potato staple food development, Xiji County has strengthened the construction of a three-tier seed potato breeding system, focused on promoting the transformation and upgrading of the potato industry, and increased farmers' income. At present, a improved variety breeding system has initially taken shape, based on factory-based and intensive production of virus-free plantlets and pre-basic seed potatoes, with tiered expansion and propagation of basic seed potatoes and first-generation seed potatoes, and the area over which virus-free seed potatoes have been promoted has reached 700,000 mu.</p>
<p> In order to turn the “golden beans” into cash in a timely manner and into tangible real money for farmers, Xiji County relies on the brand advantages of the “Hometown of Chinese Potatoes” and a China Well-Known Trademark, focuses on building an “Internet Plus” e-commerce outbound sales system for fresh potatoes, and has cultivated more than 300 leaders of modern agriculture through the models of “enterprise + base + farmer” and “party branch + cooperative + farmer,” vigorously expanding the marketing market. The county has built the Ningxia Jiali Potato Seed Potato Trading Center, with a storage capacity of 100,000 tons, and three specialized potato wholesale markets in Jiangtai, Xinying and Tianping, selling more than 600,000 tons of fresh potatoes outside the county annually. Fresh potatoes and their products are sold to more than ten provinces nationwide, including Shanghai and Guangzhou, and have also entered international markets such as Southeast Asia and the Middle East.</p></p>
“Using the newly improved Qingshu No. 9 variety and following the agricultural science staff in practicing scientific water-saving planting methods, I earned more than 20,000 yuan from growing potatoes in 2015, double that of 2014.” Recently, when calculating his annual income, Ma Guobao, a potato grower in Luozhuang Village, Xinglong Town, Xiji County, repeatedly praised the benefits of modern potato cultivation.
“In the past year, Xiji County's potato industry achieved an output value of 1.6 billion yuan, increasing the per capita income of farmers by more than 1,500 yuan.” A person in charge of the county's Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Bureau said that by firmly seizing the opportunity of the state launching the strategy of making potatoes a staple food and the autonomous region designating Xiji County as a pilot county for making potatoes a staple food, Xiji County has strengthened the construction of a three-tier seed potato breeding system, focused on promoting the transformation and upgrading of the potato industry, and increased farmers' incomes. At present, a improved seed breeding system has initially taken shape, featuring industrialized and intensive production of virus-free plantlets and pre-basic seeds, and tiered propagation of basic seeds and first-generation seeds, with the promotion area of virus-free seed potatoes reaching 700,000 mu.
In order to turn the “golden beans” into cash in a timely manner and into real money that farmers can see, Xiji County, relying on the brand advantages of “China's Potato Hometown” and a China Well-Known Trademark, has focused on building an “Internet+” e-commerce outbound sales system for fresh potatoes. Through the models of “enterprise + base + farmer” and “branch + cooperative + farmer,” it has cultivated more than 300 leaders of modern agriculture and vigorously expanded the marketing market. The county has built the Ningxia Jiali Potato Seed Potato Trading Center with a storage capacity of 100,000 tons and three specialized potato wholesale markets in Jiangtai, Xinying and Tianping, with annual outbound sales of more than 600,000 tons of fresh potatoes. Fresh potatoes and their products are sold to more than ten provinces across the country including Shanghai and Guangzhou, and have also entered international markets such as Southeast Asia and the Middle East.