Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 29th. Title: Picking and gathering popular pastoral gardens-leisure agriculture development stimulates rural revitalization
Xinhua News Agency reporters Huang Yao, Chen Chunyuan, Yang Jing
In the midsummer season, Lingxi Town, located in Yangxi Township, Yujiang District, Jiangxi Province, attracts many tourists. Smoke lingers in the forest, the lake is rippling with blue waves, and the good ecological environment makes many people feel “like walking into a Danqing ink painting.”
Peng Aiqin, a local resident who came to play, was busy picking grapes. “There are flowers and fruits here all year round. There are more strawberries in spring and nameless flowers and plants in summer, such as grapes, figs, mulberries, etc.” Peng Aiqin said to the town’s “treasures” as many treasures, saying that as long as they have time on weekends, they will be there. Come and play.
Hong Ailin, the person in charge of Lingxi Town, said: “It used to be a barren hills and ridges seven or eight years ago, basically belonging to a remote country.” Today, it has become a complex that integrates flower and tree cultivation, fruit tree cultivation, ecological leisure and tourism, and forest tourism and vacation. Ecological sightseeing parks and various recreational agricultural projects make the former remote mountains become lively.
“The grapes grown in my house are of good quality and taste sweet. After the town was built, there were more tourists, and most of the grapes were picked by tourists when they were still in the field!” said Chen Lingyao, a rural resident of Yangxi. “Although there was more rain in the first half of this year, Yield per mu is slightly lower than last year, but net income per mu can be 3,000 to 4,000 yuan excluding costs. The most important thing is that picking tourists can also help save time and labor.
In recent years, leisure agriculture has continued to develop, and it has become an important place for urban and rural residents to visit “green waters and green mountains”, to find “happy homes”, and to recall “wandering homesickness”.
According to data from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, in 2020, the national leisure agricultural operating income will be 604.9 billion yuan, which will return to 70% of 2019, and the proportion of the national tourism market will increase by more than 10% compared with 2019.
In addition to the continuous expansion of the scale of the industry, leisure agriculture has also expanded from picking farm fruits, eating farm meals, and living in farm houses to selling products, selling scenery, selling culture, selling experience, and selling health. Leisure farms, agricultural parks, and agriculture have emerged. Carnival and other formats.
Located in Xundian Hui and Yi Autonomous County of Yunnan Province, Yiqiutianshantai Manor has melons and fruits fragrant and flowers sway in the wind. This is a modern farming manor with leisure experience as its mainstay. Visitors who come to experience it seem to be in a harvest garden. In the fruit picking garden, some parents take their children to experience red pear and peach picking; in the production experience area, many children are also experiencing vegetable planting.
“Our agricultural products are mainly ecological and organic, and they are very popular with tourists.” According to Gong Yanqiong, the manor in charge, there are not only a variety of vegetables in the manor, but also ecological chickens and ecological pigs, providing tourists with “ecological dining”. Currently, the manor is in the peak reception season, with more than 1,000 people being received every day on weekends.
“We are designing leisure agriculture learning courses to let children who come to experience know plants and animals.” Gong Yanqiong said, this will not only allow tourists to experience agricultural production, but also learn new knowledge about agriculture.
At the same time, the manor also promoted the employment of surrounding people. In addition to more than 80 permanent employees, the manor also employs some seasonal workers every year. Last year, the manor’s labor costs were about 4 million yuan.
“Close to home, able to take care of the family, and income is not bad.” Xu Guanfeng, 40, is one of them. She is a waiter in the catering department, and her husband also works at the manor. The total monthly income of the two is more than 8,000 yuan.
The data shows that in 2020, rural leisure tourism will absorb 11 million jobs, driving more than 8 million beneficiary farmers.
“Leisure agriculture transforms characteristic agricultural products into gifts, transforms residential houses into guest houses, and allows more farmers to find jobs nearby, so that farmers can sell agricultural income, collect rents, earn salaries, share dividends, and earn money, and share more industrial value-added. Income.” Diao Xinyu, deputy director of the Department of Rural Industry Development of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, said that with the comprehensive promotion of the rural revitalization strategy and the accelerated pace of agricultural and rural modernization, leisure agriculture and rural tourism will usher in an important period of opportunity and great development potential.
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[Editor in charge: Wang Mengmeng]
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