As the whole year's work depends on agood start in spring, the farming in this season is the hope for agriculturalharvests. As a key “vegetable safety” base of the municipal government, LibuTown of Jingzhou District has actively guided vegetable growers to conductspring plowing and seedling, focused on both epidemic containment andagricultural production, and achieved the completion rate of spring plowingresumption of up to 98% across the town.
In a vegetable greenhouse located inYangjing Village, Libu Town, Jingzhou District, green beans, peppers andeggplants at the field management phase are growing very well, while whitecucumbers in the middle of fruit bearing period are hanging in the brancheswith tempting brightness. Vegetable grower Li Yinwu is busy with picking andbagging at the greenhouse.
In the Jingyang Professional Cooperativefor Green Vegetable Production and Sales in Jingzhou district, employees arepacking and loading green vegetables sent by vegetable growers. Chairman WuChangqing introduced that in the harvest season of vegetables such as cucumberand lettuce at present, they can deliver 30,000 jin on average each day. As thevegetable varieties grow, the cooperative's loading of vegetables will furtherincrease.
Currently, Libu Town, with a vegetableplanting area of 50,000 mu and more than 11,000 greenhouses, has achieved theannual output of fresh vegetables of 510,000 tons. As it was the season forvarious vegetables such as cabbage, radish, kale and leek amid the epidemic, inorder to solve the transportation problem, avoid vegetable overstocking andsafeguard vegetable growers’ interests, Libu Town organized the cooperative tosupply vegetables for the urban area, promoted the alliance between thecooperative and supermarkets to actively explore more vegetable sales channelsinside and outside the province, and established partnerships with wholesalemarkets outside the city, thus further expanding the product sales network.
While expanding sales channels, theseedling of vegetables is also underway. The vegetable production has beenfully restored through agricultural material purchasing, door-to-doordistribution, and online technology guidance. Currently, the town has completed80% of the seedling transplantation work of vegetables such as edamame andsweet corn, which were sowed in spring, and further increased the planting areaof vegetables.