In recent years, under the care of the Party's policy on agriculture, countryside and farmers, under the promotion of the project of creating a strong village with agricultural characteristics, and with the strong support and help of governments at all levels, especially the forestry department, my village has actively utilized and popularized new technologies in science and technology to cultivate a new base for the transformation of low-yield forests of Torreya grandis, and achieved double harvests in economic benefits and scale development. At present, the torreya grandis variety in Xuetao Village is one of the best varieties. There are more than 265 torreya grandis trees over 100 years old in the village. In 2008, the fruit yield was 26 tons, with an output value of 840,000 yuan. Due to the stable output and output value, farmers' income was good, and the enthusiasm for developing new bases was very high. By the spring of 2008, more than 900 mu of torreya grandis new bases had been built and put into production. Indeed, the prosperity of our village is the result of developing Torreya grandis industry.
For the development of the industry and the prosperity of the villagers, we should pay attention to production, processing and sales, both hands, and both hands should be hard.
In the construction of the base, we strictly follow the technical regulations of Torreya grandis production in Dongyang, so as to achieve large holes, pre-buried base fertilizer, strong seedlings, timely planting and shading, and check the procedures to ensure the construction effect. In the management of fruit trees, our methods are scientific fertilization, drug control, reasonable fruit hanging, organic unity of reproductive growth and vegetative growth, and unified time picking. At the same time, in order to facilitate the production management of the base, from 2006 to the first half of 2008, the village also built a 7-kilometer base forest road, and the village industry invested 500,000 yuan to harden the road and excavate several reservoirs to serve the production. Invested 500,000 yuan to build a village comprehensive office building, an elderly activity center and a village cultural square, which greatly enriched the amateur cultural life of the masses.
In processing and sales, there are currently 3 processing enterprises and 2 economic cooperatives, which implement the integrated process of purchase and sale.
In recent years, under the guidance of experts from the Municipal Forestry Bureau, the villagers in our village have been able to correctly master and use the technical essentials of Torreya grandis production and processing. As long as the business departments have new technologies and new experiences, they are required to promote and apply them in our village first, which makes us benefit a lot.
Xiatao Village is well-known for Torreya grandis. As an industrial village with strong characteristics, it is still far from the requirements of its superiors, but we firmly believe that in a few years, after our new base is put into production, our village will truly become a strong village with strong characteristics and our goal will be realized.
In February, 20021year, Zhejiang Forestry Bureau announced the "one village and ten thousand trees" demonstration village in Zhejiang Province in 2020, and Taoxue Village was on the list.
There are some tourist attractions near Xuetao Village, such as Hengdian Film and Television City, Hengdian Red Tourism City, Dongyang Revolutionary Martyrs Cemetery, Hengdian Huaxia Cultural Park, Shemushan Scenic Area, etc., and there are some specialties such as Dongyang woodcarving, Dongyang Torreya grandis, Dongyang bamboo weaving, Dongyang green jujube, Zhejiang white peony and so on.