Sightseeing agriculture in Tongshan County, Hubei helps farmers get rich, flower-viewing tourists keep coming

Admiring chrysanthemums, touring caves, sightseeing and picking... Since the beginning of winter, Nanlinqiao Town in Tongshan County has become especially lively. On the 17th, at the entrance of Longyan Villa in Nanlinqiao Village, Nanlinqiao Town, the reporter saw that the parking lot was full of cars with out-of-town license plates, and diners were coming and going in wave after wave.

"My WeChat Moments recommendation said Nanlinqiao has large fields of chrysanthemums to admire, and you can also taste authentic Tujia dishes in the cave, so I invited two friends to come and take a look," said Mr. He from the city.

The chrysanthemums Mr. He mentioned are located in Daping Village of the town. At the scene, the reporter saw large patches of yellow chrysanthemums and white chrysanthemums blooming in competition, while tourists kept pressing the shutter on their phones and cameras.

"This place used to be a patch of wasteland and had always been idle," said village Party branch secretary Sun Liyun. At the beginning of this year, the town Party committee led the village "two committees" to find Cheng Risheng, general manager of Tongshan Dashanzi Ecological Agriculture and Forestry Development Co., Ltd., and earnestly invited him to invest and start a business in Nanlinqiao Town.

With the support of the town and village, Cheng Risheng transferred more than 100 mu of wasteland and developed two bases for Huangju and Yinju chrysanthemums. Since mid-October, the chrysanthemums have bloomed, and people coming to admire them have been endless. The reputation of Nanlin as a flower-viewing destination quickly spread to nearby and distant areas.

"This chrysanthemum base is truly a cornucopia," said Chen Dong, deputy secretary of the town Party committee with a smile. During the peak production period, it can help villagers increase income by picking flowers, and villagers who have joined with land shares can also increase income by selling flowers. In addition, tourists coming to admire the flowers have also boosted the business of nearby farmhouse restaurants. In the second half of this year, the town added 4 new farm manors.

Ruan Bin, secretary of the town Party committee, said that the town plans to cooperate with the county tourism department to jointly launch a tourism route of "flower viewing, fishing, fruit picking, ancient dwelling sightseeing, and tasting farmhouse dishes," so that more villagers can participate and, through developing tourism, escape poverty, become prosperous, and move toward a moderately prosperous life.