Provence Tomatoes “Reflecting Red” and Getting Rich Road

At present, it is the ripe picking season for tomatoes. Entering the Provence Tomato Greenhouse Planting Base in Dayou Town, Jimusar County, Xinjiang, clusters of tomatoes hang among the vines, bright red and tempting. The fruit farmers are busy cutting, filling baskets, sorting, and packing fruits.

At present, Wei Jiaxi’s five greenhouse Provence tomatoes are growing well, with a high-quality fruit rate of over 80% and a selling price of 40 yuan per kilogram in supermarkets. Now his tomatoes are mainly sold to large wholesale markets such as Jiuding and Beiyuanchun in Urumqi, as well as more than 10 small chain supermarkets.

The Provence tomatoes planted by Wei Jiaxi rely entirely on scientific and technological management from cultivation, scaffolding, fruit thinning, watering, ventilation, and moisture removal. Coupled with unique climate advantages, the fruits produced are sandy but not sticky, sweet but not sticky, and are known as the “aristocrats of tomatoes” and are very popular among consumers.

Wei Jiaxi said, “This year we will try to lower the seedlings in April, which will be launched about 20 days earlier than in other regions, in order to seize the market and sell at a good price. Now we basically harvest every other day, with an acre production capacity of about 6 tons, and five sheds can earn about 200000 yuan.

In recent years, Dayou Town has continued to adjust and optimize the planting structure, focusing on the development of facility agriculture and characteristic planting industries, invigorating more than 500 greenhouses, introducing high-income crops such as Provencal tomatoes, Ginseng fruit, edible fungi, and driving people to continue to increase income.

Next, Dayou Town will improve the ‘party building+base+farmers’ interest linkage mechanism, actively play the role of rural wealth leaders as’ leading geese’, vigorously develop characteristic industries, explore rural leisure picking and tourism, rural e-commerce and other industries, expand the Provence tomato industry chain and value chain, further expand the channels for wealth and income, and let the people’s’ money bags’ rise day by day Tang Guoqiang, Secretary of the Party Committee of Dayou Town in Jimusar County, said.