Nowadays, walking into the Santaipu Village Committee of Lingquan Street, the golden marigolds are blooming. Photo courtesy of Kaiyuan Rong Media Center
People’s Net Red River On July 20th, the marigolds of the Santaipu Village Committee of Lingquan Street, Kaiyuan City, Honghe Prefecture, Yunnan Province ushered in the harvest season. The golden flowers bloom on the contiguous hillsides, looking around, like golden carpets spread over the fields. Among the flowers, the figures of Ju Nong shuttled back and forth, and the joy of the harvest filled their faces.
It is reported that the Santaipu Village Committee of Lingquan Street has been planting marigolds for 10 years. This year, the marigold planting area has reached 18,000 mu, benefiting more than 800 farmers, and the total income of farmers is expected to reach more than 40 million yuan.
Village Yang Kaiming’s family planted 40 mu of marigolds, and when he talked about the harvest, the corners of his mouth rose: “This year’s marigolds have big flowers, so far, a bunch of flowers have been picked and sold for more than 10,000 yuan. It is estimated that After all picking, the income can be increased by more than 70,000 yuan.”
The picked flowers will be transported to the old Deng’er marigold purchase point of the Santaipu Village Committee. Since the opening on July 11, the purchase point has purchased more than 1,000 tons of flowers.
In recent years, Lingquan Street has practiced the concept of “Two Mountains” in industrial cultivation, paid attention to the development of in-depth integration of production and tourism, and focused on the development of agricultural characteristic industries such as marigold and gourd pear, turning the village into a garden, Roads become flower belts and fields become flower seas, realizing a win-win situation for economic benefits and environmental beautification, beautifying the environment, enriching the masses, and laying a solid foundation for the masses to steadily increase their incomes. (Ye Chuanzeng, Zeng Zhizhi, She Ju, Pujian)
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