Spring is the season of sowing. In Field of Hope, the farmers' friends can be described as the Eight Immortals who cross the sea to show their magical power. As long as you pay attention, various rare crops and unique planting methods can be discovered one by one. In Songlaojia Village, Niuji Town, Bozhou City, Anhui Province, villager Li Brother is planting spring soybeans in his own land and dyeing the soybean seeds red or blue (the color after seed dressing), waiting to be sent to the warm embrace of the earth by a machine .

Locally, soybeans are usually sown directly in harvested wheat fields in June of the Gregorian calendar. But this is the first time I have seen this kind of soybean sown in April of the Gregorian calendar. With this sense of freshness and curiosity, we asked Senior Brother Li, who was resting on the ground, for advice. Brother Li: "Spring soybeans are rare in our local area, but they are a specialty crop in our Niuji Town. It cannot be said that every family grows it. It is also the first choice of most farmers. Compared with the wheat stubble soybean growth period of more than 150 days, spring soybeans are The growth period of soybeans only takes more than 70 days, which is completely shortened by half. The average income of wheat stubble soybeans is about 800 yuan. The reason why farmers choose to plant is that the planting cost is lower, and the sowing and harvesting are more convenient. So overall. Generally speaking, the cost-effectiveness of soybean cultivation still has certain advantages.

However, although the growth period of this kind of soybean is short, the income is not low. Depending on the market conditions every year, the income per mu is 1,200-1,500 yuan. During the period, the yield of high-yield fields is twice that of summer soybeans." After listening to Brother Li's introduction, new questions inevitably arise in my mind. This kind of spring soybean, which is highly praised by local farmers, has an economic benefit of just over 1,000 yuan per mu. In today's farming industry, this kind of income does not benefit growers in any way. There must be some abnormal reason. Now, let's listen to Brother Li's explanation.

In this regard, Senior Brother Li pointed to the carefully arranged straight ridge and said to everyone: "Look, this well-supported ridge is actually a sweet potato planted in spring. On the tenth day of the fifth lunar month in the Gregorian calendar, sweet potatoes can be transplanted in spring .

Spring soybeans are sown at the roots of the fields. Yes, although the income from spring soybeans is not too high, it is an intercrop, which means you can earn more than 1,000 yuan in just over two months. There are fewer crops, management is not cumbersome, and there are fewer pests and diseases in spring soybeans. Another key point is that interplanting soybeans and sweet potatoes in spring does not interfere with the growth of soybeans. On the contrary, the fertility of sweet potato fields also provides sufficient nutrients for soybeans. Nutrition. But the growing environment and fertility conditions of soybeans alone cannot meet these standards. When sweet potatoes start to grow, how can this crop be unpopular with farmers? p>It is understood that the spring soybeans planted by Brother Li are actually different from ordinary summer soybeans, not only in different growth periods, but also in different varieties. These spring soybeans are actually popularly known as lima beans, which are cooked in the summer delicacy brine soybeans commonly found on summer tables. Green edamame is generally sold as fresh edamame, so it develops a shorter growing season, which also creates its habit of being interplanted with other crops. In Niuji Town, green edamame is not only intercropped with sweet potatoes, but also with some Chinese herbal medicine fields, such as salvia fields, which are the first choice for intercropping green edamame.

According to local farmers, the interplanting of spring soybeans in sweet potato fields was actually due to the unintentional act of a farmer who had a relative who grew vegetables in a neighboring town, one of which was green edamame. However, the planting time of green edamame does not conflict with the planting time of sweet potato in spring, so I tried to plant some, but I didn't expect it to succeed. After years of evolution and development, local sweet potato fields interplanted with green edamame have become large-scale and industrialized, adding rich color to local specialty agricultural planting. The preference of a crop is first determined by local planting patterns. Every harvest season, foreign businessmen come to buy green edamame, which is everyone's confidence in actively planting them.