Growing scallions puts Sanhe villagers in Zunyi County, Guizhou on the road to prosperity

Scallions are an important ingredient in cooking, but in Sanhe Town, Zunyi County, scallions are a money bag that boosts villagers' incomes and makes them rich. It is understood that villagers in Sanhe Town, Zunyi County have been growing scallions for more than 10 years, and many villagers have become rich by growing them; scallion cultivation has become a major pillar industry of the town.

Ma Zhengfu of Lengshui Village is one of the large-scale scallion growers in Sanhe Town. In 2010, when Ma Zhengfu saw that other villagers had made money growing scallions, he and his wife hit it off immediately and rented 18 mu of land to start growing scallions, earning a net profit of more than 40,000 yuan that year. After tasting success, he continuously expanded his planting scale, and by 2014 his scallion planting area reached more than 200 mu.

At the scallion planting base in Huhe Village, Sanhe Town, Ma Zhengfu's wife Liu Dezuo told reporters that scallions have high yields, generally about 8,000 jin per mu, with a cost of about 0.5 yuan per jin; the current market is good, with a wholesale price of 3.2 yuan per kg. The reporter quietly calculated that the 170 mu of scallions her family planted in 2015 earned more than 1.3 million yuan in a single season.

By growing scallions, Ma Zhengfu's family has become well-off. In Sanhe Town, there are still many people like Ma Zhengfu who have become rich by growing scallions. According to the town's responsible person, at present more than 200 households in 12 villages in Sanhe Town grow scallions, with a planting area of more than 6,000 mu. Growers can not only become rich by growing scallions, but also, calculated at 30 labor days per mu, provide nearly 200,000 work opportunities for local surplus labor, with labor income of 1.4 million yuan.