Pepper roasted tobacco welcomes a bountiful harvest

Nowadays, it is the season of picking chili peppers and baking tobacco. At the 1500 acre order chili pepper planting base in Pingdi Town, fiery and plump chili peppers adorn the branches. Farmers shuttle between them busy picking and barrel filling, with smiles on their faces filled with harvest.

I saw a notice in the WeChat group that a boss will come to the village tomorrow morning to purchase chili peppers. I will take advantage of the cool afternoon and go to the fields to sell 600 kilograms of chili peppers. “Lei Chunxiang, a villager in Qingxi Village, has planted 2 acres of chili peppers this year and is growing very well. He is busy picking while happily saying.

In order to ensure the benefits of farmers, Pingdi Town has signed a fresh pepper purchase and sales contract with Tianzhu County Yunshang Nongjia Technology Co., Ltd. through the development model of “Party branch+cooperative+enterprise+farmer”, purchasing chili peppers in an order form, helping farmers solve the difficulties and sales problems encountered during the planting process, ensuring the harvest of chili peppers, and driving local people’s income increase.

At present, chili peppers have gradually matured and entered the harvest period. The scale of chili peppers planted in the town has reached 1500 acres, and the purchase price of Chaotian chili peppers is 2.8 yuan per kilogram, with a yield of about 2000 jin per acre. It is expected that the annual yield of chili peppers will be over 1500 tons, with a production value of about 8.4 million yuan, driving an increase in income for 558 farmers. “The person in charge of the Agricultural Service Center explained.

It is understood that every year as the flue-cured tobacco enters the mature period, the large growers will hire surplus labor from the village to help pick, weave, and bake the flue-cured tobacco. Nowadays, Longjiu, a major tobacco grower, has around 10 villagers helping him every day, with each person earning around 100 yuan per day.

This year, Pingdi Town planted 550 acres of flue-cured tobacco, involving 14 farmers, with an expected income of 2.2 million yuan, driving more than 130 people in the surrounding area to work. After harvesting, baking, and other work, the graded and sorted tobacco leaves will be transported to the Yangzhai tobacco purchase site for tobacco delivery in mid August.

Next, Pingdi Town will take the market as the guide, fully leverage the advantages of the agricultural industry, and continue to focus on the development path of green industries such as “planting good ecological melons and raising good ecological fish”, and the resonance of flue-cured tobacco, rice+fish, chili pepper, etc., further expanding the planting scale, enhancing product added value, expanding the channels for increasing people’s income and the development space of village collective economy, and adding vitality to rural revitalization.