Vegetable Base Harvesting Busy, Rural Revitalization Industry Prosperous

At present, it is a critical period for autumn vegetable picking and sales. In various vegetable bases in Heshui County, the masses are busy picking, packing, and selling, with a joyful harvest on their faces.

Entering the planting base of the Li Juxiang Planting Farmers’ Professional Cooperative located in Wangchangsi Village, Gucheng Town, Heshui County, more than 100 greenhouses were neatly arranged, and the coriander inside the greenhouses was growing happily. Outside the greenhouses, people were cleaning and transporting freshly picked radishes, which would be loaded and shipped to Shaanxi Province for sale.

This year, the cooperative has planted over 100 greenhouse vegetables and 100 mu of open field vegetables. During this period, coriander, cauliflower, and radish have started to mature and go on the market. They can harvest approximately 4000 to 5000 kilograms of vegetables a day, mainly sold to Xi’an, Xianyang, Xifeng District, and other places. “Hou Panlong, the chairman of the Li Juxiang Planting Farmers’ Professional Cooperative in Heshui County, said.

Based on resource endowments and industrial advantages, Wangchangsi Village aims to build a thousand acre plateau summer vegetable planting base. In accordance with the development requirements of “consolidating old bases, expanding new bases, and driving scattered households”, it continuously strengthens infrastructure construction, optimizes and adjusts industrial structure, and creates a plateau summer vegetable production layout led by coriander, chrysanthemum, spinach, and supplemented by scallions, cabbage, red bamboo shoots, etc., effectively driving people’s participation in industrial development, Enhance the level of large-scale operation and further expand the Peiyou melon and vegetable industry.

Currently, our village has over 1000 acres of vegetable planting area and over 300 greenhouses. We have attracted investment and introduced two vegetable planting cooperatives. Through land transfer and radiation, half of the village’s population has developed the vegetable industry, and some people are working in the cooperatives nearby, with an annual income of around 15000 yuan per person, achieving the goal of increasing people’s income. “said Shi Mingxiang, Deputy Secretary of the Party Branch of Wangchangsi Village.

It is understood that in order to increase the collective economic income at the village level, continuously enhance the village level’s self-protection and ability to serve the people, the Jiuqingwan Village Party Branch has organized the establishment of the Yifeng Agricultural Farmers’ Professional Cooperative in Jiuqingwan Village, Heshui County, with village cadres as the legal representative. With a support fund of 500000 yuan, three vegetable linked greenhouses have been built to develop the vegetable planting industry. By providing technical guidance, promoting new varieties, and sales channels to the masses through cooperatives, it has effectively promoted the increase of income and wealth for the masses.

In recent years, Heshui County has adhered to the development concept of “increasing efficiency of facilities for melons and vegetables, stabilizing the quantity of summer vegetables on high plateaus, and expanding the scale of characteristic melons and vegetables”, adhering to the principles of early spring greenhouse vegetables in spring, plastic film commodity vegetables in summer, open field replanting vegetables in autumn, and solar greenhouse vegetables in winter, actively promoting the high-quality development of the melons and vegetables industry. Actively integrating project funds, increasing land transfer efforts, and implementing a policy of ensuring greenhouse, technology, and production for technical cadres at the county and township levels, mobilizing and guiding the masses to develop the vegetable industry. By implementing measures such as upgrading old facilities, supporting the development of plateau summer vegetables, intensive breeding of high-quality seedlings, and high-tech assembly and matching, we aim to enhance the comprehensive agricultural production capacity, risk resistance, and market competitiveness, and promote the improvement of quality and efficiency in the melon and vegetable industry. As of now, 305 galvanized steel frame greenhouses, 1 multi-span steel frame greenhouse, and 850 small steel frame greenhouses have been built in the county, planting 97000 mu of various types of fruits and vegetables; Build 3 intensive seedling centers and 3 seedling bases, and complete 10.2 million seedlings; Based on the vegetable production season and crop arrangement, 16 training courses were held around the prevention and control of vegetable diseases and pests in facilities and intensive seedling cultivation techniques, with 1030 vegetable farmers trained.