Weaving straw mats from rice straw brings in a considerable income
Original title: Qudi Town "weaves" a path to prosperity for farmers from rice straw
Forming a one-stop prosperity industry chain of rice straw purchasing, straw mat processing and finished product output
The machines turn, the straw mats come out, and the rice farmers' pockets swell. After the rice harvest, the workshops on both sides of Qubai Road in Qudi Town are bustling with activity, each straw mat machine rumbling away, with seven or eight people in front of every machine busily and orderly feeding in rice straw, and piles of rice straw are in an instant woven into large, thick straw mats.
"These inconspicuous rice straws are woven into straw mats, and they are hot items for vegetable greenhouse growers. Whenever the weather turns cold, straw mats are a necessity for vegetable and fruit greenhouses, so straw mats become very much in demand, and these past few days customers have been urging us to ship." Speaking of straw weaving, Uncle Li, a straw processing household in Chijia Village, counted on his fingers and did the accounts for us: "One machine can weave more than 150 straw mats a day. If each one earns 4 yuan, that is more than 600 yuan a day. I have three machines here, so I can earn 1,800 yuan a day. With these straw mat machines, rice straw has been woven into 'treasure', the village environment has also become more beautiful, and the villagers can swell their pockets without even leaving home!"
In Qudi Town, not only is cucumber a China Well-known Trademark, but Qudi Yellow River rice also enjoys the reputation of "the finest rice under heaven", and rice straw resources are abundant. For many years, after the autumn rice harvest, some rice farmers, in order to save trouble, either piled large amounts of rice straw by the roadside or ditch edges to use as waste fuel for fires, or simply burned it all, causing enormous waste and pollution. To thoroughly change this phenomenon, the town's Party committee and government gathered information on straw processing and utilization from many sources and promptly fed it back to the rice farmers. After development in recent years, the town now has dozens of large and small straw mat processing enterprises. They absorb and consume Qudi Town's rice straw and have formed a one-stop prosperity industry chain of rice straw purchasing, straw mat processing and finished product output. During the slack farming season, it absorbs and provides employment for more than 1,000 people at most, accelerating the pace of converting rice straw into value on the spot, improving the appearance of the village environment, and driving the healthy, coordinated and sustainable development of the local economy.