How can snow jujubes be turned into gold? Let's all put our heads together

Panchi Township is a mountainous area, and wild sour jujubes grow all over the hillsides. In recent years, the farmers have believed in scientific farming, invited professors from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and successfully grafted and cultivated pear jujubes and snow jujubes, crisp, sweet and fragrant. The farmers are all accustomed to packing every 10 kg of jujubes into a cardboard box for sale, and they did make some money.

But before long, Wang Chunhua, director of the Panchi Industrial and Commercial Office, discovered that when consumers bought those jujubes, they repeatedly said that each box was too big and too heavy, that a family could not eat so many at once, and that they were inconvenient to store. So he suggested to the growers that they change the 10 kg large box into a 2.5 kg small box, and guided them to register the trademarks "Zhonghua Pear Jujube" and "Large Snow Jujube".

In this way, it was not only easier to transport, but also easier to @#@136@#@, and the price immediately rose to 60 yuan per kg. It also sold as far away as Beijing, Xi'an, **, Henan and more than a dozen other provinces and cities, with demand exceeding supply. Among them, after grower Tang Zhaoqing's 20 tons of snow jujubes were repackaged, he immediately earned more than 800,000 yuan more than before. Whenever he met anyone, he would say: "It was the @#@54@#@ of the industrial and commercial office that turned my snow jujubes into lumps of gold."

Make one suggestion and silver grows from the fields

Gaozhuang Township is located at the junction of the four counties of Yiyuan, Mengyin, Yinan and Yishui, with blocked information and poor land. Year after year, the farmers followed the old methods left by their ancestors, planting in spring, harvesting in autumn, and resting in winter. Apart from feeling poor, none of them felt anything was improper.

Liu Junshan, director of the Gaozhuang Industrial and Commercial Office, and several colleagues in the office reckoned that the farmers must be made to break out of the traditional farming model, changing spring planting and autumn harvesting into spring planting and autumn planting as well, and changing two harvests a year into four harvests a year. In this way, the farmers' income would rise. But what to plant and how to plant it still needed careful thought. Many hands make light work, and after repeated study, a plan took shape.

Before long, the industrial and commercial office put forward this suggestion to the Gaozhuang Township Party Committee: have the farmers plant corn in the spaces between the wheat rows before harvesting @#@245@#@, plant coriander in the cornfield, and after pulling up the coriander, plant garlic or spinach. After study and analysis, the township Party committee considered it feasible, and so actively promoted and tested it. In 2000, the township conducted intercropping trials on nearly 10,000 mu of land, and each mu increased income by about 60% compared with the traditional planting method. From this one item alone, the farmers of the whole township increased their income by more than 4 million yuan.