Spring city, april. In the blueberry shed in the town of singuan, a string of blueberries covered in frosting were attached to branches, with the villagers' fingers flipped and skilledly picked the fruit into the basket. "you can make $200 a day." wang trailand, a villager in the village of diancheng, laughed and said that three acres of pear flow had been transferred to the company for a rent of $7,000 a year and that she had taken a pick at the base, “a job at the door of the house and a good heart”。
This is a vivid microcosm of the booming blueberry industry in valium city. In recent years, peace cities have focused on the blueberry industry as a niche agriculture, building on the pre-eminence of highland agriculture, making small berries a major force for rural renewal through the mobilization of business, technological empowerment and farming。
The digital revolution in the shed
Unlike traditional agriculture, the lull blueberry plantations are “technologies”. Entering yunnan hyung modern agriculture ltd., a base on the 8th street street, 233 acres of high-standard blueberry greenhouses was spectacular. There is no soil, all blueberries are bred with a matrix, the planting basin is placed directly on the ground and the matrix is organized by imported peats, coconut bricks and pearl rock, so that the water is protected and soil pests are isolated。
“the past depends on experience and now on data.” this is the consensus of peace blueberries practitioners. In the water fertilizer integration room in the queen's street, the technology manager zheng set up an introduction pointing to the fertiliser: “each basin has a spot, the moisture is below a given value, and automatic irrigation is activated. Temperature can also be regulated by the smart temperature control system to keep the temperature in the shed in a very small range.” the head of the blue agricultural base on the streets of the county stated: “the water fertilization system is the heart, and the old method used to be the concentration of fertilizer in the pool, with a large margin of error, and now a fully automated machine is fine enough to count by drop, which is the key to producing good fruit.”
The core competitiveness of science and technology lies in filling the market gap. It is at mid-altitude, with a wide range of temperature, day and night, and it fills the “empty window period” after the fall of blueberries from the hot zone. “the blueberries planted in the north or in the soil mature only in march, and we are able to be listed by the end of november through the control of intelligent temperature.” zheng set up an account to sell up to nearly $200 a kilogram a year ago and possibly $70 a kilo a year later。
The current market for blueberries continues to burst, but prices have been hit with the expansion of cultivation across the country. In the face of competition in the market, the quiet blueberry business is confident. “the output is high, and the consumer ultimately chooses quality.” hwang qiang, chairman of the board of directors of wichuan and modern agriculture (yunnan) ltd。
For the moment, the calm blueberry map continues to expand rapidly. In a presentation by li xiaofang, commissioner of commercial services at the sanctuary agricultural rural department, blueberry cultivation was located at the centre of the medium- and high-end blueberry industry, with an increase from 596 acres to 2,642 acres for just over a year。
It's a collection book from the door
Industry thrives and eventually ends up in farmers ' revenues. A land-flowing change is occurring in the town of sulu in the golden street. The street innovation, using the “village-wide flow + series development” model, has transferred 400 acres of inefficient agricultural land to eua agriculture。
“the villagers of the original land planted their own pear or left it idle, renting an acre of land for 3500 yuan, which now rises to 2,500 yuan.” according to wang lung, the chief secretary of the siura party, the village has also grown its collective economy, bringing about a three-way win-win process of “business cost reduction, increased returns for villagers, collective strength”。
At the greenberry base in the 8th street street, the 40-year-old villagers of the bamboo garden village, yang mei, were pickin' up blueberries according to the size of the fruit trail. “there are many casual jobs, which are the favorite. Clean. Look at the blueberry. The key is to get close to home and take care of the kids." she was satisfied that she earned a minimum of $200 a day and that the base also had a prize for excellence in fruit extraction and a full-time award, which was stable。
It is known that there are more than 100 people working on a daily basis at the base. The ongoing construction of the blue agriculture project, which is expected to provide about 200 jobs after its completion, will increase the demand for jobs after the completion of the 100-acre farm in the agricultural sector. According to statistics from the agricultural rural directorate of the city of peace, at present 2,642 acres of blueberries in the city of peace directly address the employment problems of more than 3,900 people, based on a management requirement of 1. 5 persons per acre。
It's more reassuring for the villagers to be creative about the working model. The shuma village relies on labour cooperatives to create the “happiness in work” platform, which organizes skilled industrial workers to follow enterprises in blueberry production areas across the country. “the work cycle has been extended from 4 months to 10 months, with more income, after a season and a half.” wang lung said。
"peace speed."
The rapid clustering of industries depends on a high-quality business environment. Visheng agriculture invested $9 million in the construction of a thousand acres of modern farms from the signing of contracts to 420 acres in the first phase, making rapid progress。
“yunnan is located at 23 degrees north latitude, is well-sighted and has the advantage of exporting to south-east asia. But the most exciting thing about us is the efficiency of government.” wong qin recalled that many villagers were involved in project filings, land flow, and that peace city, street and village commissioners had made up a special course, “opening the green passage and the procedure was completed in 10 days, `pacing' gave us confidence in the subsequent expansion of phase two”
Efficient services contribute to industrial clustering. According to statistics, in 2024 alone, there were seven well-known blueberry enterprises that settled in peace, all using high-standard matrix planting and smart greenhouse technology. In 2025, the average value of blueberry acre production was more than $12,000, while the total industrial output was $32. 6 million, with products sold mainly to high-end markets in the cities of beijing and shanghai。
The presentation by the head of the city of peace will continue to promote the deep layout of the blueberry whole industrial chain. In the future, peace of mind will be linked to online platforms through offline commerce, which will promote a “place-to-place” marketing model, allowing fresh blueberries to arrive faster at the consumer table; and the blueberry culture festival, which will attract tourists to experience field pleasures and form a “planting + processing + electrician + tourism” three-product integration model。
From a blueberry to an industry, from traditional tillage to intelligent farming, the quiet blueberry story is vividly interpreting the “new quality productivity” of modern highland agriculture, a blue fruit that shines on the future of a revitalized rural “berries”. Kunming information port, kunming daily, journalist hu park joon
