The fruit farmers are picking dates. Lee xin-ting
The farmers are sorting out the dates. Xiao jinping
During the spring festival, during the season of the date market, the fruit of the day was swung and the fruit farmers were busy picking the date of the day, in the garden of a series of trees in the town of quandu, dynasty county。
The milk date is a specialty agricultural product of dynasty and covers an area of more than 2,000 acres. It is the largest taiwan date planting base in the city of zhongzhou. The fruit is so sweet and nutritious that it coincides with the festival of the new spring that it has become a “new pet” for the fruit market。
Salt silos don't eat at sea
The dahir is located in the southernmost part of fujian, bordering guangdong, and is well known as the “fukuyan south gate”. The dynasty has mountains and seas, and the climate is lovely. Dynamite county book: “the natural conditions in dynamite are suitable for fruit tree production and date ”
Of these, the salt silo village of the four towns is the main production area for date palms, as documented in the dynasty of dynasty, which was prepared by the dynasty county secretariat of the dynasty: the village is the main planting area in dynasty county. Up to 50 tons of fresh fruit could be acquired in one day。
The salt silo village, located in the eastern part of the town, is a small mountain village dependent on the sea。
“the salt silo village is dependent on the sea village, but not on the sea, where there are more than 1,000 acres of land and where there have been many previous fruit and vegetable plantations, such as double valorium, platinum and bananas, but they have not been very successful or efficient.” the secretary of the salt village party, on weinbin, said that successive village committees and villagers were exploring what kind of industry to develop。
As early as the 1990s, some people in mountainous towns in dinang county tried to seed taiwan's berries, and fruit trees, though viable, were small and not sweet. In 2000, hundreds of seedlings of “milk dates” were introduced into the village, and in the second year harvests were made and sold at good prices。
The villagers who watched moved, and they followed them. In october 2007, the village of salt silos was rated a special village of dates by the city of yuzhou。
Farmers' “trees” to wealth
"and try to get all of this out of today!" in the roosters of the salt silo village, mr. And mrs. Onwinzin are gathering and picking fruit and transporting it by motorcycle to the village's buying station。
Onvinzin, over 40 years old this year, is a home-grown salt silo, growing herbs, vegetables, bananas, etc. At a young age, but with average income. More than 10 years ago, with the encouragement of the two village councils, two acres of dates were tested, and tens of thousands of yuan were not expected to be earned in that year. Onvinzin, which tastes sweet, has grown more than 10 acres and specializes in date-planting。
“this date-palm garden, which has 15 acres and is growing over 300 trees, collects about 120,000 pounds this season and is expected to earn more than 600,000 yuan.” onwinzin is carrying dates while happy counting this year's revenues。
According to onvinbin, there are 12 family farms in the village, 22 buyers and operators, and more than 95 per cent of the village's villagers grow dates. Last year, the acre produced 11,000 pounds, about $6 a pound, worth more than $70 million, and farmers earned about $30,000 net per capita。
“salin villages depend on the sea, the land is saline and the local water quality and humidity are suitable for the planting of dates, the fruits are large and sweet, the roads are sold without fear, farmers are highly motivated to grow, the area of the village as a whole is already more than 1,100 acres, and the town of four towns is now forming a saline-centric date-planting base of more than 2,000 acres. “the deputy director-general of the department of agriculture and rural affairs of dynasty county, shen zun。
New agricultural technology efficiency
The rich roads of the salt silos are not smooth, but are full of turns。
In the past, many farmers have argued that the production of dates can be improved and beneficial if fertilizer is increased. However, blind application of fertilizer increases the cost of planting and reduces the quality of dates, while also affecting the ecological environment。
“by necessity organic fertilizers!” shen and mandarin say that any fertilizer is less than organic fertilizers, so that the use of organic fertilizers is promoted in the village and that, in order to increase yields, more effort should be made in agricultural techniques, such as the use of new technologies such as “night light” and “the mites”。
Light alone is an essential condition for plant growth, and different light conditions directly affect plant growth. “during the night” is the installation of lighting lights in the berries, 25 special energy-saving light lamps per acre, lighting of fruit trees at night, promotion of light co-operation, regulation of the date-growing cycle, and early flowering, with an increase in the seating rate。
The main pest of date dates is the “polls of date dates”, commonly known as red spiders, who survive by sucking on date-leave juice, which makes the bark thicker, darker colours, lower quality and lower production of fruit, which used to be treated by spraying chemical pesticides。
In 2010, agricultural technicians from dinh an county agricultural authority travelled to the village of salt silos to promote biocontrol techniques using mites, pasting or hanging a box containing useful mites on fruit trees, which will eliminate harmful mites such as red spiders and dictums。
Biocontrol techniques of the mites increase the yield of dates. The data show that the production of dates in salt silo villages increased from 3,000 kg in 2001 to over 5,000 kg today. (shaw jinping)
