Vegetable Base Helps Fenggang Farmers Escape Poverty
Reported by Ran Yusheng, Wang Haiyan, Tian Jinhong) Recently, walking into the Wanxiong Vegetable Base in Yongsheng Community, Suiyang Town, Fenggang County, patches of vegetables in the base are verdant and growing well, delighting the eye.
It is understood that the Wanxiong Vegetable Base is a vegetable industry poverty alleviation model of "Party building + enterprise + cooperative + farmers" that Suiyang Town in Fenggang County has developed in its poverty alleviation work by fully leveraging its location and resource advantages to accelerate the adjustment of the agricultural industrial structure, building infrastructure with Shanghai counterpart assistance funds, giving full play to its demonstration and driving role, concentrating the scattered planting of thousands of households into large-scale, intensive and specialized planting, providing technical support to local cooperatives and farmers and expanding sales channels.
According to the person in charge of the base, the company has provided more than 60 long-term jobs for local people, with more than 200 seasonal workers per day.
At present, Wanxiong Ecological Agriculture Development Co., Ltd. has expanded its planting area to 2500 mu on the basis of the original greenhouses. The peppers, Chinese kale, purple cabbage and other vegetables grown are mainly sold to Hong Kong, China, Thailand, Indonesia and other places, truly enabling Fenggang's green agricultural products to "leave the mountains". The annual output value is expected to reach 88 million yuan.
"Suiyang Town has adopted the methods of attracting investment to bring in enterprises and establishing professional cooperatives to vigorously develop vegetable planting and drive local people to increase their incomes and become prosperous. At present, more than 70 workers work at the base every day, and more than 120,000 yuan in wages is paid to workers each month," the deputy town head in charge told this reporter.
Up to now, the base has driven 620 households to develop 5100 mu of vegetable planting, with an expected output value of more than 25 million yuan, and has increased the average income of 86 poor households by 15,000 yuan each. Driven by this project, Shimen Village in the town has built 2000 mu of standardized vegetable industry demonstration base, covering 10 groups and 2360 people, including 18 poor households and 78 people who benefit. The town's Zhenxing Farmers' Vegetable Professional Cooperative has developed 10 members, planted 600 mu of peppers, and driven the public to plant 1400 mu. In 2017, it has signed orders for 2 million jin of peppers with outside parties at a price of 2 yuan per jin.