Small pepper grows into a big industry, and the prosperous days are coming.

Source: People\’s Daily Online – Anhui Channel

The little pepper lit up the simple smiling faces of the villagers. Photo courtesy of the Propaganda Department of Qiaocheng District Committee

Chaotian pepper is also called small pepper and has a long history of planting in Qiaocheng District.

Autumn is here, and Qiaocheng is red. From the fields to the courtyard and inside and outside, there are fiery red scenes everywhere. The small peppers reflect the simple smiling faces of the villagers and light up the road to rural revitalization.

In recent years, Qiaocheng District has relied on its traditional planting advantages of small peppers to actively guide the masses to develop pepper cultivation by introducing new varieties, developing contract farming, building drying and cold storage facilities, and issuing large-scale planting support policies. , formed a small pepper characteristic planting industry, laying a solid foundation for promoting the effective connection between poverty alleviation and rural revitalization strategies.

At present, Bozhou City has proposed to implement the \”June 1 Strategy\” and accelerate the construction of the \”Yangtze River Delta Green Agricultural Products Production, Processing and Supply Base.\” In the next step, Qiaocheng District will focus on building a high-quality chili base, develop deep processing of chili products, continue to make efforts to expand the Yangtze River Delta sales market, and strive to build a high-quality \”vegetable garden\” in the Yangtze River Delta region.

It’s a good day for small peppers to bring fire

Lumiao Town is a big small pepper planting town in Qiaocheng District. 23,000 acres of the town’s 70,000 acres of land are planted Little pepper. Walking into Lumiao Town, both sides of County Road 008 passing through the town are covered with red peppers. There are pepper stalks everywhere in front of and behind the house, inside and outside the yard, and people are busy picking dried peppers everywhere. of villagers.

“These small peppers being dried are called Sanying peppers, which are the main pepper varieties grown locally.” Zhu Chongshan, deputy secretary of the Party Committee of Lumiao Town, said that Sanying peppers have a concentrated maturity period and are suitable for harvesting first and then drying. pick. The yield of dried pepper per mu is 800 kilograms. Based on the current market price of 8 yuan per kilogram, the income per mu can reach more than 5,000 yuan.

In 2020, Lumiao Town introduced new pepper varieties \”Baoyin 829\” and \”Baoyin 849\”, and signed an order repurchase contract with Anhui Baoyin Agricultural Company. Villagers from Leizhuang Village came to Hongqi and planted two acres of \”Baoyin 829\” peppers this year. They have already sold two crops and earned more than 10,000 yuan, and they are expected to earn another 10,000 yuan.

“I have been growing peppers for more than ten years, and I have never seen such high-yielding peppers. One pepper stalk can produce up to 4 pounds of peppers. The yield is too high.” Lai HongQi said the high returns have boosted confidence in developing pepper cultivation. He plans to transfer 30 acres of land after the autumn harvest to expand the pepper planting area and strive for greater profits next year.

Sunji Village, Shuanggou Town, Qiaocheng District, is a large pepper planting village. The whole village has more than 2,000 acres of pepper planting area. It mainly produces high-spicy varieties and is very popular among customers from Hunan, Jiangxi, Guangdong and other places. Sun Maoshen, a major pepper grower, said that starting from July every year, customers come to Sunji Village to buy peppers in an endless stream. During the peak season of pepper sales, the road in the center of the village is full of trucks with foreign license plates.

“People across the country know that Hunan people love spicy food, but not many peppers are grown locally, and most of the peppers are purchased from other places.” Xu Jiacai, a customer from Changsha, Hunan, said that Sunji Village is his One of the must-visit pepper producing areas every year, the small peppers produced here are highly spicy and of good quality, and are very popular in the market.

Sun Peng, the person in charge of the Green Food Development Service Center of the Qiaocheng District Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau, said that Qiaocheng District has a long history of planting small peppers in all towns and villages. The current planting area is more than 120,000 acres, and the main varieties are Sanying Peppers, pickled peppers, bright red peppers, etc., the yield benefit per mu is more than 5,000 yuan, which is a new way for the masses to increase production and income.

Small peppers have grown into a big industry

In recent years, in view of the short planting cycle, wide range of uses and high value of small peppers, Qiaocheng District has continued to increase the number of small peppers. The promotion of peppers includes the introduction of new varieties, the development of contract farming, the construction of drying and cold storage facilities, and the introduction of large-scale planting support policies to actively guide the masses to develop pepper cultivation.

Seeds are the \”chips\” of agriculture, and only good varieties have good prospects.

Sanying pepper is the pepper variety that has been cultivated for the longest time in Qiaocheng District. Due to the low spiciness of this variety, the market demand has gradually declined. \”Chili peppers are an important food condiment. As the use of small chili peppers increases, people\’s tolerance for spiciness is getting higher and higher, and high-spicy varieties are becoming more and more popular in the market.\” Sun Peng introduced.

Variety is the foundation and technology is the guarantee. Only by combining good seeds with good methods can we achieve abundant yields. Lumiao Town invites agricultural technology experts to each village to provide technical training on pepper management, and provide guidance to growers in all aspects of seedling, planting and growth, so as to transform traditional pepper planting into a high-quality pepper industry and promote pepper planting towards industrialization and scale. transformation in cultural direction.

The Luzhong Planting Farmers Professional Cooperative in Xumiao Village, Lumiao Town, Qiaocheng District, planted 320 acres of small peppers this year, accounting for about one-third of the transferred land area. \”Without the drying rooms built by the government, our pepper planting scale would not be as large as it is now.\” Han Liugen, the head of the cooperative, said that the peppers grown by the cooperative are mainly Sanying peppers. Sanying peppers can only sell dried peppers, but Dried peppers dried naturally are prone to discoloration, moldiness, and difficulty in storage, which restricts the scale of development.

In 2020, Qiaocheng District used 2 million special poverty alleviation funds to build a drying workshop, refrigeration and preservation warehouse, cold storage and storage workshop for Xumiao Village, and improved several supporting facilities. \”These facilitiesThe facility solves the drying problem in the pepper planting process, paves the way for the development of the pepper industry, and helps the pepper industry develop rapidly. \”Han Liugen said that the cooperative pays 160,000 yuan in rent to Xumiao Village every year, which has increased the village\’s collective economic income and further increased the income of people who have been lifted out of poverty.

Little Pepper breaks into the Yangtze River Delta

In October 2019, Bozhou officially joined the Yangtze River Delta and proposed to build a green agricultural product production, processing and supply base in the Yangtze River Delta.

Qiao. The urban district seized the opportunity to grow, and established the Qiaocheng District Leading Group for Promoting Large-Scale Cultivation of Chaotian Pepper, headed by the principal person in charge of the district government and composed of principal principals from the District Development and Reform Commission, the District Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau and other relevant units, to formulate industrial development policies and research Solve the difficulties and problems encountered in the process of large-scale planting.

Qiaocheng District has also included the large-scale planting of Chaotian pepper into the special assessment of rural revitalization industry development. The top three towns that plant more than 20,000 acres (including 20,000 acres) of Chaotian pepper will be awarded 5 million yuan, 3 million yuan, and 2 million yuan respectively for the development of the Chaotian pepper industry on a large-scale planting area of ​​5,000 acres. The above villages will give priority to drying equipment, cold storage and other projects.

The relevant person in charge of the Qiaocheng District Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau said that Qiaocheng District plans to invest 11 million yuan in the construction of \”Northern Anhui Chaotian Pepper Special\”. \”Colored Agricultural Products Trade Center\”, with a planned land area of ​​70 acres in the first phase and 500 acres in the long-term, eventually forming an influential pepper trading market in the country.

The policy is strong and the industry is accelerating. \”The whole town Chaotian Pepper The planting area has increased from 5,000 to 6,000 acres before 2020 to 23,000 acres now, driving more than 4,000 people to work. The per capita net income has increased by more than 3,000 yuan, and the total output value has reached 120 million yuan. Dong Heng, secretary of the Party Committee of Lumiao Town, said that the town is actively connecting with and introducing Chaotian pepper processing and trading enterprises in the Yangtze River Delta region, developing Chaotian pepper deep processing, extending the industrial chain, and providing high-quality green pepper products to the Yangtze River Delta region.

At the just past Fifth Party Congress of Bozhou City, Bozhou City proposed to comprehensively implement the \”Six One Strategy\”, build \”one city, one district, one base, one city, one city, one center\” with high standards, and accelerate the construction of \”one capital, one district, one base, one city, one city, one center\”. Establish a production, processing and supply base for green agricultural products in the Yangtze River Delta.

The relevant person in charge of Qiaocheng District said that the district will actively leverage the advantages of Chaotian pepper industry, fully promote the large-scale cultivation of Chaotian pepper, and enhance its ability to connect with the Yangtze River Delta market. Create a high-quality agricultural product production, processing and supply base for the \”Yangtze River Delta\” and the whole country, and promote the leap-forward development of agricultural industrialization.

Little peppers are now popular. Wang Yongsheng)