The annual planting area of Yangxian County is more than 50,000 mu, and the fresh sweet potato is 65,438+10,000 tons. At present, all the sweet potatoes produced in this area are sold out by foreign customers except for farmers' own use. In order to increase added value and realize agricultural industrialization, it is planned to use sweet potato to process edible citric acid, starch, potato chips, vermicelli, preserved fruit, caramel, sweet potato candy, vinegar and other products.
In view of the situation that sweet potato and its derivatives are green and have health care function, and the price is rising year by year, Huai Guan Shu Town in Yangxian County has made full use of the traditional advantages of planting sweet potato for decades. The party committee and government of this town took sweet potato planting as the characteristic pillar industry in the town, and vigorously developed the sweet potato industry according to the model of "association+farmers+enterprises", and embarked on the road of government guidance and typical driving. The development path of the Association's technical training and product sales has formed a sweet potato industrialization chain with Huaishuguan Village, Wanling Village, Zhangshan Village and Shicaosi Village as the leading factors, radiating the surrounding areas, producing, processing and selling through train, attracting merchants from Xi, Gansu, Zhejiang and other provinces to buy in the town.
In 20 12, the town developed more than 6000 mu of sweet potato/kloc-0, of which more than 6000 mu of new variety "purple sweet potato" was introduced, and the output of sweet potato reached 26000 tons, achieving an output value of 44 million yuan. Zhou Wenyi, a big sweet potato processor in Wanling Village of this town, processes more than 20,000 kilograms of sweet potato starch and handmade vermicelli every year, with an annual net income of 654.38+10,000 yuan. Only the sweet potato in this town increases the per capita income of farmers by 1354 yuan every year, accounting for 38% of the per capita net income of farmers, which has effectively promoted the "upgrading and upgrading" of the town and village party organizations.