A town in Henan got rich by growing chili peppers, with almost every household planting them

Chili peppers

Chili peppers are a vegetable, often appearing on the dinner table as a side dish, and are an indispensable seasoning for most friends. Chili peppers can be processed into chili powder, chili sauce, chili oil, and more, and are loved by many friends who enjoy spicy food.

In Wanggang Town, Henan Province, the chili peppers grown in this town each year would be enough to feed Sichuan for ten years, with a planting area reaching 85,000 mu, and the yield is astonishingly high.

Farmer Sister Wang is an ordinary farmer in Wanggang Town. She planted 20 mu of chili peppers, and earns income every year by selling chili peppers. Adding agricultural subsidies, her annual income is fairly decent.

Growing chili peppers is not that easy. Every year, you have to go through four processes: sowing and planting - harvesting - sun-drying - selling. The hardest part is probably the harvesting, because every year at that time, your hands and body ache with a burning pain, and most people cannot bear this hardship.There are many varieties of chili peppers. The ones Sister Wang planted are small chili peppers, which are basically processed into dried chili peppers, chili sauce, and so on, because they are a relatively spicy type and are especially suitable for use as seasoning.

Growing chili peppers:

First: choose soil that is relatively loose and fertile. Although chili peppers like warmth, try not to let it be too dry. When planting in winter, you need to build a shed for planting, because chili peppers are afraid of frost.

Second: the distance between chili pepper plants should be widened out; do not plant them too densely, as this will hinder their growth. They cannot be planted together with vegetables such as eggplants and potatoes.