Wuchangshan Hetun Forest District is bustling with golden autumn harvest

Corn is yellow and clear, and households are busy with autumn harvests. Recently, at the Changzheng Forest Farm in Wuchangshan Hetun Forest District, the fields presented a golden scene, with tall and straight corn stalks and plump corn ears. Planters shuttled through it, busy with transportation, loading, and drying… Everywhere was a bustling autumn harvest labor scene.

The Changzheng Forest Farm of Shanhetun Forestry Bureau is a large field for planting and processing sticky corn. Almost every household has planted a lot of sticky corn. In the home of Wang Shufang, a sticky corn grower in the Changzheng Forest Farm, in order to accelerate the evaporation of corn moisture, the hot kang is covered with golden corn kernels. Wang Shufang kept flipping the corn kernels with her hands and introduced, “After fully drying the corn kernels like this, they can be sent to the rice mill to be ground into corn residue, and then they can be sold directly for money.

Due to the fact that sticky corn is a seasonal grain, it should be immediately picked and sold as soon as it matures. After picking, sticky corn sticks also need to undergo cleaning, steaming, outdoor drying, and drying. The process takes about 5 days, which is more time-consuming than selling corn sticks directly, but the price will be higher than corn sticks. Once the money bag is bulging, it doesn’t feel hard, “said Wang Shufang happily.

At the home of grower Zhou Xigui, he introduced, “What we are currently packaging is corn cobs, which can be processed into corn starch. In recent years, these old cobs have mainly been exported to South Korea, creating economic benefits that are not inferior to sticky corn residue.

According to the person in charge of the Party branch of the Long March Forest Farm, “Sticky corn planting is one of the stance projects of the Long March Forest Farm. The forest farm vigorously guides and supports the employees to plant sticky corn, and cooperates to establish the Long March Sticky Corn Residue Production and Operation Cooperative. The next step is to use the cooperative as a base to concentrate on deep processing of the sticky corn planted by individual households, find unified sales channels, and strive to make the brand of Long March sticky corn bigger and stronger.