Helping Hotan’s targeted poverty alleviation and promoting agricultural transformation and upgrading? Beijing aids Xinjiang to ignite new hope in barren land
Speaking of Hotan’s specialties, the planting scale of 1.7 million acres of walnut trees and 1.1 million acres of jujube trees It is enough to make Hotan people proud. The sluggish sales and falling prices of Hotan jujube and walnuts in recent years have increasingly highlighted the necessity and urgency of agricultural transformation and development in the Hotan region, and have also given Beijing a clear focus for Xinjiang's poverty alleviation work.
On March 13, Zhou Hao, Director of Planning and Development of Beijing’s Frontline Headquarters for Aiding Xinjiang and Deputy Director of the Hotan Prefecture Development and Reform Commission, said in an interview with reporters that in 2017, Beijing’s frontline aid for Xinjiang was to promote With the main line of transforming and upgrading local agriculture, improving the competitiveness of the agricultural industry, and helping the Hotan area get rid of poverty and strive for a well-off society, the "turnkey" project management model was adopted to launch the planning and construction of the 1,100-acre Xinjiang Hotan National Agricultural Science and Technology Park pilot area, and 12 selected Enterprises or professional cooperatives with many years of experience in specialty agricultural planting in Hotan have participated in 30 demonstration planting projects at 4 agricultural research institutes in Beijing, and the results have been very good.
If I hadn’t been there, I wouldn’t have believed that strawberries could be grown in the dry, water-deficient desert!
On the morning of March 14, the reporter drove for half an hour to the Xinjiang Hotan National Agricultural Science and Technology Park Pilot Area, located on the southern edge of the Taklimakan Desert. What comes into view are neat greenhouses, flat asphalt roads, and busy farmers...
As I opened the plastic curtain and entered the greenhouse, a heat wave hit my face instantly, and red strawberries rushed out from the leaves. head. When I picked one and put it in my mouth, I really felt that everything in front of me was real. I could experience the joy of picking strawberries with my own hands in Hotan, and the strawberries grown in the barren sandy soil tasted so good.
"Actually, the sandy soil in the greenhouse is not ordinary sandy soil. Before Beijing aided Xinjiang, agricultural experts were invited from scientific research institutes such as the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and the Beijing Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences. Through improvements, the soil was almost devoid of fertility. The sandy soil has turned into a 'golden land' with the ability to retain water and fertilizer," Zhang Rui, chief expert in the pilot area, associate researcher at the Forestry and Fruit Research Institute of the Beijing Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences, and deputy director of the Hotan Prefecture Forestry Bureau, told reporters, "The seeds planted in the pilot area. Strawberry varieties are also popular. The strawberries grown here were developed by a team of strawberry experts from the Beijing Forestry and Fruit Science Research Institute after nearly 10 years of painstaking research. They have my country’s independent intellectual property rights and are the first introduction trials in Xinjiang. The planting was successful."
"The hotan area has long sunshine hours and a large temperature difference between day and night. The quality of the strawberries grown here is better than that of strawberries sold in the past, and the sales price has reached 120 yuan per kilogram. At present, our company has. There are 10 greenhouses for demonstration planting of strawberries. For villagers who are willing to plant, the company will provide greenhouses and teach the technology for free, and unified purchase and sales, using the method of profit sharing to fully drive the development and prosperity of local villagers. "Xinjiang Shatian Agricultural Comprehensive Development Co., Ltd. Technology. Director Cui Yongmin said frankly.
Through demonstrations of planting strawberries, cucumbers, tomatoes, pumpkins, etc., Shatin Company has radiated the successful crop planting range in the pilot area to surrounding towns and villages, and many villagers are interested in participating in the planting.