Industry-driven poverty alleviation helps farmers cast off poverty

2019年08月26日 14:39:58 | 来源:ourjiangsu.com

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The five prefectural cities in north Jiangsu have striven to help farmers cast off poverty through industrial assistance programs and policy support so as to make inroads into the market and promote industrial innovation for long-term poverty alleviation.

Huanghuatang town in Xuyi County used to be a revolutionary base in the period before 1949.

Yushan Village relied on its natural environment to start a tea farm 60 years ago. The single mode of green tea production, coupled with the backwardness of equipment and the influence of market factors, has made it difficult for the tea farm to maintain normal operation, and many tea fields have been abandoned.

In early 2018, Jiangsu Power Company was assigned to assist poverty alleviation in Yushan Village. After making a careful investigation, the power company decided to develop organic black tea.

In August 2018, the black tea production line was put into operation by purchasing the green tea leaves from the farmers at a price 40 yuan per kilo higher from a year ago. 32 impoverished households were able to gain 2000 yuan from the sale of tea leaves.

Yang Zhengguo, party secretary of Yushan Tea Farm

The new black tea production line has increased the yield, and the harvesting time has been extended to August and September, hence the growth of income for the farmers.

Yanhe Village of Guangyun County was an impoverished village merely two years ago. The poor geographic location made the villagers harvest only one season of grain each year.

In October 2016, the poverty alleviation team sent by the provincial Party committee organized the local farmers to launch a joint stock farming cooperative for the cultivation of cash plants such as colored rice, dragon fruit and yellow peach.

In a matter of two years, Yanhe became a prosperous village with annual income of more than 400, 000 yuan. 179 farmers from 82 low income households have cast off poverty.

Wu Baiyu, head of the farming cooperative

More than half of the farmers in the cooperative have shaken off poverty.

Since the start of the 13th five-year plan period, the five prefectural cities in north Jiangsu have explored innovative means and opened up channels to develop high efficiency agricultural parks, expand leisure and sightseeing agriculture, and set up leading enterprises in agricultural and sideline products processing to ensure that the battle for poverty alleviation will be won as scheduled.

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