The northern regions of Jiangsu province have turned to cash crops to help the disadvantaged farmers to get rid of poverty and improve their well-being.
Farmers in Shaozhan Village of Funing County are rowing seedlings for the chrysanthemum planting base.
Villager Chen Zhengjiang suffers from disabilities. The village administration arranged for him to work in the chrysanthemum planting base to make money to for family expense.
In recent years, Shaozhan Village has actively explored the "new path" of rural revitalization by introducing Beijing chrysanthemum, Baixiang chrysanthemum, medium chrysanthemum and other varieties and developed the chrysanthemum industry through the "cooperative + farmer" model.
The village planted more than 200 mu of chrysanthemum last year and employed more than 100 people. At the same time, it also established a chrysanthemum processing enterprise integrating drying, processing, and packaging, which generated more than 150 thousand yuan in annual revenue.
Wang Bing, Secretary of the Party Branch of Shaozhan Village.This year we intend to further increase land transfer develop the chrysanthemum industry on a large scale strive to create a chrysanthemum brand and build a chrysanthemum-oriented industry.
Zhujiawei Village in Siyang County ushered in a bumper harvest of peppers. Villager Gao Weixia said that she and her husband are too old to go to cities to earn a living. By working at the base in their hometown, they have found an easy way of earning money.
By growing peppers in rows of greenhouses, the villagers have benefited from the lucrative business and the relatively small amount of pepper turned out to be hot cakes as soon as they were put up for sale on the market.
The sales season is expected to last till July with the peppers to be distributed to Shanghai, Beijing and other large cities.
In recent years, Zhujiawei Village Administration has taken the lead to adjust agricultural cultivation structures and promote the growing of cash crops such as pepper and celery so that it has helped more than 100 needy villagers increase their income by nearly 10000 yuan per person.
Zhuang Bo, Vice Secretary of Zhujiawei Village CPC Branch We have grown dates, pepper and celery over 1000 mu of fields and employ 200 farmers every day. The annual income from the cash crops is expected to reach 15 million yuan with 200 thousand yuan allocated to the village administration as collective income.
