Visit the Xinan Town Fruit Garden and explore rural revitalization

As industries prosper, villages prosper. Due to its superior geographical conditions, the fruits grown in Xin'an Town are of particularly good quality. For a long time, farmers in Xin'an have had the habit of growing fruits. Nowadays, various high-quality fruits such as tangerine, guava, red carambola and romaine are planted in a large area in Xin'an Town. Fruits are produced all year round. In recent years, Xin'an Town has held four Fruit Culture Tourism Festivals to promote rural revitalization.

On January 20, the members of Guangdong Ocean University's "Fruit Special Attack Team" returned to their hometown for practical research. In order to investigate rural revitalization, they took the fruit industry as an entry point and came to the "hometown of fruits". Xin'an Town launched a five-day winter vacation research activity in 2022. The Fruit Bao Special Attack Team visited the fruit garden of Xin'an Town and explored the way that Xin'an Town can help rural revitalization with special fruits.

The first stop of the Fruit Bao Special Attack Team came to a tangerine orchard. You can see it at the entrance of the orchard. The entire tangerine orchard is full of fruits. Under the green leaves, dots of orange shine in the warm winter sun. The fruit trees The tangerines on top are even more fresh and sweet. There are so many tangerine trees in the whole orchard that it seems like there is no end in sight. The team members were led by the tour guide to find the orchard owner. The owner was originally picking mandarin oranges, but he still responded enthusiastically to the team members' request for an interview. The owner of the orchard carefully explained to the team members about the planting knowledge of tangerines. When interviewing the owner, the team members asked about the size of the orchard. The owner replied that he currently planted about 100 acres of tangerines and may expand the scale in the future.

The team members also learned that most of the residents of Xin'an Town are engaged in occupations related to the fruit growing industry. Some villagers contracted a large area of ??land to grow fruits and became orchard owners. Each additional orchard Several jobs will be added, because most ordinary villagers will come to work in orchards, some villagers will be engaged in fruit picking and packaging, and some will be engaged in fruit wholesale and sales.

The second stop is the lemon orchard that has only been planted in Xin'an Town in recent years. The owner of this small lemon orchard is the owner of the Wogan orchard at the first stop. The owner of the Wogan orchard said that he is very satisfied with the lemon orchard. His future plan is not only to expand the planting scale of tangerines, but also to try other fruits. This small lemon orchard is his new attempt. If the operation goes well, he will also expand the scale of lemon planting. There are many others like the owner of the Wogan orchard. Although his Wogan orchard is already very large, he still has the courage to try a new possibility.

Therefore, the fruit cultivation in Xin'an Town will never be content with the status quo, otherwise the fruit cultivation in Xin'an Town would not develop so fast and on such a large scale. In 2017, Xin'an Town had more than 2,000 hectares of fruit planting area, with a total annual output of 55,000 tons and an annual output value of over 200 million yuan. At present, the fruit planting area is more than 60,000 acres, the total annual output is about 60 million kilograms, and the annual output value exceeds 300 million yuan. Famous fruits such as Hongyang New Century Pomegranate and Four Seasons Peach have developed rapidly, and four leading industries have initially formed: high-quality fruits, bananas, sericulture, and mountain chicken breeding. At present, a thousand acres of red guava planting base in Taipingtang, a thousand acres of red carambola base in Hongyang Farm, a thousand acres of yellow peel fruit planting base in Hongguang, and a hundred acres of orchard in Mukanbei have been built.

The third stop of the Fruit Attack Team is the guava orchard. The most famous fruit in Xin'an Town is the guava, and Xin'an guava also has the influence and popularity of a local brand. The taste of Xin'an guava is a combination of crunchy and refreshing and soft and sweet. It is very delicious and deeply loved by people. During the interview session, the orchard owner not only answered questions about growing guava, but also introduced the medicinal value of guava trees and guava to the team members.

While learning about guava, the team members heard the cry of a very loud raptor from time to time. The team members asked the owner of the garden if anyone was breeding birds nearby. The owner laughed and explained It was the sound made by the bird-repelling device he installed. The sound of birds of prey could be used to drive away birds and prevent them from eating guava. The team members talked about the issue of fruit sales when communicating with orchard owners. The orchard owners said that when the fruits are almost mature, they will ask workers to pick and package them, and then contact fruit wholesalers to collect the fruits.

Fruit wholesale will generally flow into Maoming, Zhanjiang and cities in the Pearl River Delta region for sale.

The members of the Guobao Special Attack Team also visited Taipingtang Village in Xin'an Town. Taipingtang Village in Xin'an Town has almost been completely transformed. All aspects of infrastructure have been well constructed and newly renovated. There are smooth roads, a beautiful red fruit sightseeing promenade, a beautiful pond park and so on. The beautiful countryside is quietly under construction. Taipingtang Village has also built a tourist service center building for tourism, laying the foundation for the tourism industry. Rural revitalization is also quietly proceeding.

Later, the team members learned that Xin'an Town's rural revitalization strategy had already begun to be laid out. In recent years, Xin'an Town has accelerated the adjustment of its industrial structure and combined with the town's agricultural ecological development project, promoted the planting of the fruit guava, forming a An ecological sightseeing agricultural cycle integrating tourism, sightseeing and picking, the town focuses on building farmhouses, fruit picking tours, rural leisure sightseeing, historical and cultural monuments corridors and other tourism projects. Not only can it broaden the channels for local people to get rich, but it can also green barren mountains and beautify the environment. In December 2018, the "Small Town Construction" project of Xinan Town was approved by the National Standardization Committee as the third batch of rural comprehensive reform pilot projects. It is the only pilot project in Guangdong selected for the third batch of national rural comprehensive reform standardization pilot projects.

In the past few days, members of the Fruit Bao Special Attack Team visited many orchards in Xin'an Town and asked the orchard owners many questions about orchard planting. The fruit planting industry in Xin'an Town is not just about growing fruits, but also covers the upstream and downstream industries of fruits. It can not only increase the income of Xin'an Town residents, but also increase employment opportunities and provide more choices for people developing in their hometown. In recent years, due to the epidemic, although the fruit industry has also been affected, it has slowly moved from offline to online, and e-commerce products have gradually included fruit sales.

When the team members visited many fruit orchards, they couldn't help but sigh at the rapid development and great changes in rural areas. The key to rural revitalization is the revitalization of industries. Rural revitalization is inseparable from the revitalization of industry, and agricultural revitalization is the top priority of rural revitalization. Based on the fruit planting industry, Xin'an Town takes advantage of the natural environment characteristics, agricultural characteristics, cultural and geographical characteristics of Xin'an Town's fruit hometown, and explores its own path to rural revitalization. If the fruit industry prospers, Xin'an Town will prosper.