Starting from Bailongqiao Market Town, Wucheng District, Jinhua City, follow the Baitang Downline and head for Xiyi Road, about 15 minutes’ drive to Shangxiashao Village.
It is another bumper harvest season. Looking around, the colors of autumn are everywhere in Shangxia Shao Village, with ears of bent rice plating the fields with a layer of gold. Xue Hongyue, the person in charge of the family farm, walked with the reporter in the field, looking at the full ears of rice, and expressed joy. “The second season of rice can be harvested, and the yield is expected to reach 400 tons this year,” Xue Hongyue said.
Xue Hongyue transferred and contracted 500 mu of land from other farmers for rice cultivation, and established a family farm in July 2021. In order to grow good grain, this year, with the strong support of relevant departments, she also built a grain drying center on her family farm, built a steel structure drying room and warehouse of 1800 square meters, and equipped with two 20-ton dryers, which can provide grain drying services for surrounding farmers and farms of over 1500 mu. “With land and support, planting rice has great prospects for development,” Xue Hongyue said confidently.
Benefiting from the advantages of land resources, Shangxiashao Village has vigorously developed traditional and characteristic agriculture such as rice planting and fruit planting in recent years. Currently, the village has planted over 1000 mu of rice, built over 100 mu of grape base, and over 50 mu of blueberry base.
The past midsummer season is the time to pick blueberries. Located at the Blueberry Base of the Liuying Family Farm in Shangxiashao Village, tourists are welcomed and sent to and from the base. “This place is close to the urban area, and the blueberries grown in our blueberry base are all low shrubs, which are very suitable for parent-child picking tours. Therefore, many citizens choose to pick by themselves.” Farmer Liu Ying said that in the past, farmers only sold their agricultural products through traditional methods. Nowadays, fruit picking tours and beautiful rural tours have also become popular, and the business forms of villagers becoming rich have become more diverse.
Over the years, Shangxiashao Village has revitalized its land resources through various methods such as land contracting and introduction of projects, continuously expanding the village’s collective economy, and making the “cake” of common prosperity bigger and bigger.
“In 2013, when I served as the party branch secretary of the village, the collective economy of the village was still negative.” Shao Jiancheng, the party branch secretary of Shangxiashao Village, introduced that in 2019, after the merger of two natural villages, Shangshao Village and Xiashao Village, the village contracted the idle land to the sawmill and other tenants, and the annual rent could reach more than 800000 yuan. At the same time, the introduction of the “four village joint construction” project in conjunction with surrounding villages can also collect a certain amount of rent each year. Currently, the village collective economy has reached about 1 million yuan.
The collective economy of the village has become richer, and the living standards of the villagers have also improved. In recent years, the village has invested more than 1 million yuan in the construction of major projects such as the village cultural auditorium and the upgrading of high standard farmland. This year, more than 1 million yuan has been invested in the reconstruction of natural gas and tap water in the village. The implementation of practical measures to benefit the people has greatly improved the living environment of the village and significantly improved the happiness index of the villagers.
“Next, the village plans to rely on the advantages of rice planting and fruit planting to add landscape sketches on fields and main roads in the village to attract more tourists to visit Shao Village,” Shao Jiancheng said.
(Editor in charge: Ye Binde, Wang Liwei)
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