Holding the "golden key" to open the "door to wealth"

To the north of Hantai Village, Wentang Town, Pingshan County, a large field of white poplars swayed in the wind. Walking into the woods, you can see clusters of red matsutake mushrooms poking their round "heads" out of the dead leaves and straw.

“Last year, with the help of the county forestry station, we introduced a trial planting project of red matsutake under the forest. We planted 10 acres of the trial, and now nearly 500 kilograms of mushrooms are produced every day. It is conservatively estimated that the income per mu can reach 2 With more than 10,000 yuan, it’s really a good project to get rich,” Duo Yangang, secretary of the Party branch of Hantai Village, happily told reporters, “Many villagers hope to join the cooperative this year, and the planting scale will be expanded to 100 acres.”

Hantai Village’s trial project of introducing understory red matsutake mushrooms is an epitome of Pingshan County’s efforts to cultivate specialty industries. In recent years, Pingshan County has made great efforts to optimize its layout and compiled the "14th Five-Year Plan for Pingshan County's Agricultural Characteristic Industries" and its special action plans with high quality, focusing on the development of mountain apples, authentic Chinese medicinal materials, and facility vegetables (edible fungi). The five characteristic industries of modern livestock and fishery, ecological leisure agriculture, and accelerating the development layout of one township, one industry, and one village, one product.

In Xigou Village, Xibaipo Town, the construction of the 100-acre Xibaipo Functional Agriculture Demonstration Park is nearing completion. The park is a modern agricultural tourism industrial park integrating R&D and promotion, cultivation and production, display and marketing, and tourism and research, with a total investment of 26 million yuan. "The park cooperates with national and provincial edible fungi innovation teams to establish a technical system for breeding high-quality fungi and producing high-quality edible fungi in three-dimensional shelves in four seasons. After completion, it will be able to cultivate 1.5 million rods of shiitake mushrooms and produce 1,500 tons of fresh mushrooms annually. The output value is 12 million yuan, which can guarantee the collective annual income of Xigou Village to reach 200,000 yuan.” Zhao Xinguo, the person in charge of the park, said that the park has driven 36 mushroom farmers, with each household’s annual income reaching 80,000 yuan. At the same time, the park has also attracted more than a hundred workers from surrounding areas to work in the industrial chain, with an estimated annual per capita income of up to 10,000 yuan. ”

At the same time, Pingshan County focuses on building two demonstration areas, Xibaipo and Beiye, to promote five major characteristic industries in a coordinated and point-to-point manner, and accelerate the pace of agricultural scale, industrialization, marketization, and branding.

Beiye Township, which is located in a deep mountainous area, has turned its geographical disadvantages into advantages in the development of characteristic industries. According to local conditions, it has built more than 1,000 acres of Aishi mountain apple base, 500 acres of Qiliping pepper base, and an annual output of 500 tons of cold-water fish and There are 13,000 Taihang chicken breeding bases. "Currently, we are exploring the establishment of an 'industrial consortium', trying to create a regional 'public brand', and striving to cover the entire township's agricultural products and deeply processed products under one brand. " said Wang Junjun, Secretary of the Beiye Township Party Committee.

Up to now, Pingshan County has newly developed 3,000 acres of mountain apples, 32,000 acres of Chinese medicinal materials, and 2,000 acres of facility vegetables (edible fungi). It has cultivated Yuanfang apples, Nan There are 26 agricultural product brands such as Cecheng Shoudao and Yipo Apple, 891 agricultural professional cooperatives, 475 family farms, 33 modern agricultural parks, 27 leading agricultural industrialization enterprises at or above the municipal level, and more than 130 leisure agricultural parks. , the county has strengthened scientific and technological support, improved the county and rural three-level technical service system, created a "guiding geese back to their nests" project, and introduced more than 3,500 talents from Pingshan to help rural revitalization.