Diversified Planting for Abundant Harvest

Ningyuan County actively explores a new path for the development of efficient agriculture, scientifically creates a three-dimensional planting and breeding model for the agricultural industry, and achieves a win-win situation in one area through intercropping and intercropping. Fruits, vegetables, and fruits have achieved abundant harvests, effectively promoting agricultural efficiency and farmers’ income.

In the grape base of Zhenbin Agricultural Development Co., Ltd. in Lengshui Town, rows of peach trees are lush and lush next to the grape greenhouse. The emerald green and reddish hawkbeaked peaches are hanging all over the branches, exuding a fruity aroma that makes people drool. Dozens of picking workers shuttle between peach trees, picking, palletizing, sorting, and transporting mature eagle billed peaches, creating a busy and bountiful harvest scene. Now we can pick peaches and grapes again. We have tasks all year round, and we can take care of the elderly and children. We are very happy to work here and have a share of income, “said Chen Fang, a villager in Xiabi Village, Lengshui Town, Ningyuan County, happily.

Mao Zhenbin is a villager in Maojia Village, Lengshui Town, Ningyuan County. In 1990, he went south to Guangdong to start wholesale of fruits and vegetables. In 2011, he invested nearly 4 million yuan to establish the Zhenbin Chicken Farm to raise layers by attracting investment from the county and returning to his hometown for development. In order to maximize the benefits of the breeding farm, Mao Zhenbin invested nearly 5 million yuan to establish Zhenbin Agricultural Development Co., Ltd. in 2016. He transferred 400 acres of land in this town to plant grapes, following a three-dimensional agricultural development model of “fruit+vegetables+sightseeing”. After several years of exploration and guidance from the agricultural department, Mao Zhenbin planted hawkpea on the sightseeing trail in the vineyard. Every year, after the grapes were removed from the shelves, Without affecting the growth of grapes, intercropping vegetables has achieved multiple wins in one place and opened up a new path suitable for one’s own development. The fruits and vegetables grown in our base are now available on the market, and we have collected a few carts, about 100000 pounds, at a price of over 5 yuan. They are sold to Changsha, and the market for these peaches is not difficult. Many customers want them. After selling the peaches, they immediately sell grapes, an increase of forty to five million yuan compared to their previous income, “Mao Zhenbin said.

In recent years, Ningyuan County has relied on its geographical and resource advantages to vigorously implement the rural revitalization strategy, expand, strengthen, and develop green modern agriculture. With industrial development as the center, it has vigorously cultivated and strengthened industries that are in line with local conditions and have profits. It has comprehensively promoted various three-dimensional industrial development models such as grape intercropping vegetables, oil tea intercropping watermelons, and forest intercropping local chickens, effectively promoting efficient agricultural development and promoting rural revitalization. At present, the area of intercropping in the entire county has reached over 5000 acres, and there are over 80 planting enterprises engaged in intercropping and intercropping. The direct economic benefits of intercropping and intercropping are nearly 100 million yuan, and intercropping alone has increased farmers’ income by more than 10 million yuan. “said Li Wei, Deputy Chief of Planting Management Unit of Ningyuan County Agriculture and Rural Bureau.