Ecological agriculture and sightseeing tourism advance hand in hand
Ecological agriculture and sightseeing tourism advance hand in hand
(Agricultural Wealth Network) The hills are lush and green, the foot of the hills verdant, orchards full of fragrance everywhere, and old houses with classical features faintly visible among them, making people linger and forget to return. This is the current state of Qiuban Village, Shuikou Town, Dehua County, which was listed this year as a municipal-level demonstration village for socialist new countryside construction.
Qiuban Village has a total land area of 10.18 sq km and a forest land area of 14,126 mu. It is home to nationally protected precious tree species such as the Chinese yew (Taxus chinensis), and is one of the key ecological forest protection areas, with broad prospects for developing rural ecological leisure tourism. Leveraging its own locational advantages, Qiuban Village has embarked on a development path with local characteristics.
Drawing on regional characteristics
Developing distinctive agriculture
Since part of the Daixian Lake National Water Conservancy Scenic Area lies within Qiuban Village, and the village has the advantage of traditional agriculture such as edible bamboo shoots, this has laid a solid foundation for Qiuban Village to build a "agriculture + tourism" modern agricultural development model.
This year, Shuikou Town and Qiuban Village, with the goal of "building an ecological agriculture sightseeing tourism village," established 13 new countryside construction projects including ecological agriculture and new village construction, and have already achieved notable results. For example, taking advantage of Qiuban Village's low altitude, high temperatures, and suitability for growing melons and fruits in all four seasons, a corner of the village was built into a comprehensive sightseeing orchard of 100 mu integrating tasting and viewing, with Dehua pears, chestnuts, and oil persimmons. They also renovated 600 mu of low-yield old oil tea forests and newly planted 250 mu of oil tea, greatly broadening the sales channels for camellia oil, increasing farmers' income, expanding the village's moso bamboo forest base, and deep-plowing and tending more than 400 mu of moso bamboo forest, exploring and establishing a bamboo forest viewing area and an edible bamboo shoot picking area. At the same time, the village also built a leisure fishing area and a biological firebreak forest belt.
Building infrastructure
Optimizing the living environment
While developing distinctive agriculture, Qiuban Village has vigorously improved farmers' production and living environment, such as upgrading and renovating the village's cement roads, repairing water channels to ensure irrigation for farmland production, intensifying the development of cultivated land in the village, and developing a county-level economy with Dehua characteristics. The "agriculture + tourism" modern agricultural development model is gradually taking shape.
Moreover, Qiuban Village has taken the construction of an ecological demonstration village as the entry point for doing a good job in ecological development, implementing greening of the village's main roads and farmers' courtyards, hardening of household access roads, and carrying out the "three cleanups and five renovations" of clearing garbage, clearing sludge, and clearing road obstacles, and renovating roads, toilets, ditches, pens, and kitchens to improve the village's appearance, building a garbage landfill to achieve harmless garbage treatment, and implementing water and toilet renovation projects, guiding farmers in the central village to renovate 20 toilets, greatly improving farmers' living environment. At the same time, in response to farmers' needs, a rural network information and culture station was also built, and training courses on planting and other relevant production skills are held regularly to raise farmers' level of knowledge.
Qiuban Village has a total land area of 10.18 sq km and a forest land area of 14,126 mu. It is home to nationally protected precious tree species such as the Chinese yew (Taxus chinensis), and is one of the key ecological forest protection areas, with broad prospects for developing rural ecological leisure tourism. Leveraging its own locational advantages, Qiuban Village has embarked on a development path with local characteristics.
Drawing on regional characteristics
Developing distinctive agriculture
Since part of the Daixian Lake National Water Conservancy Scenic Area lies within Qiuban Village, and the village has the advantage of traditional agriculture such as edible bamboo shoots, this has laid a solid foundation for Qiuban Village to build a "agriculture + tourism" modern agricultural development model.
This year, Shuikou Town and Qiuban Village, with the goal of "building an ecological agriculture sightseeing tourism village," established 13 new countryside construction projects including ecological agriculture and new village construction, and have already achieved notable results. For example, taking advantage of Qiuban Village's low altitude, high temperatures, and suitability for growing melons and fruits in all four seasons, a corner of the village was built into a comprehensive sightseeing orchard of 100 mu integrating tasting and viewing, with Dehua pears, chestnuts, and oil persimmons. They also renovated 600 mu of low-yield old oil tea forests and newly planted 250 mu of oil tea, greatly broadening the sales channels for camellia oil, increasing farmers' income, expanding the village's moso bamboo forest base, and deep-plowing and tending more than 400 mu of moso bamboo forest, exploring and establishing a bamboo forest viewing area and an edible bamboo shoot picking area. At the same time, the village also built a leisure fishing area and a biological firebreak forest belt.
Building infrastructure
Optimizing the living environment
While developing distinctive agriculture, Qiuban Village has vigorously improved farmers' production and living environment, such as upgrading and renovating the village's cement roads, repairing water channels to ensure irrigation for farmland production, intensifying the development of cultivated land in the village, and developing a county-level economy with Dehua characteristics. The "agriculture + tourism" modern agricultural development model is gradually taking shape.
Moreover, Qiuban Village has taken the construction of an ecological demonstration village as the entry point for doing a good job in ecological development, implementing greening of the village's main roads and farmers' courtyards, hardening of household access roads, and carrying out the "three cleanups and five renovations" of clearing garbage, clearing sludge, and clearing road obstacles, and renovating roads, toilets, ditches, pens, and kitchens to improve the village's appearance, building a garbage landfill to achieve harmless garbage treatment, and implementing water and toilet renovation projects, guiding farmers in the central village to renovate 20 toilets, greatly improving farmers' living environment. At the same time, in response to farmers' needs, a rural network information and culture station was also built, and training courses on planting and other relevant production skills are held regularly to raise farmers' level of knowledge.