In recent years, with the vigorous development of facility vegetable industry in Xinjiang, the arid Tarim Basin is gradually saying goodbye to the situation that a large number of fresh vegetables depend on external transfer.
As one of the concentrated and contiguous areas of deep poverty, Kashgar plans to build a 1 million mu high-quality vegetable base in 2020, increase the local vegetable supply, extend the vegetable industry chain, and take the vegetable planting industry as the leading industry to increase farmers’ income.
Recently, we saw in Kashgar (Shandong Shuifa) modern vegetable industrial park in Xinjiang, located in the suburb of Shule County, Kashgar, that more than 100 workers and several large machinery and equipment are under intense construction, and more than 900 greenhouses under construction are arranged neatly, which has taken shape.
As an investment attraction project of Shandong’s aid to Xinjiang, the industrial park started construction in 2019, covering an area of 4711 mu, with a planned total investment of 1.06 billion yuan. Phase I plans to build 70000 square meters of intelligent Dutch greenhouse, 6480 square meters of seedling raising center and 1000 greenhouses.
Tarim Basin is rich in light and heat resources, but it is close to desert, with serious soil salinization, large temperature difference between morning and evening, frequent bad weather, few vegetable planting types, low yield, backward production and operation mode, and weak self supply capacity of vegetables. Taking Kashgar as an example, 60% of vegetables need to be transferred in winter and spring, and the wholesale price of vegetables is generally higher than that in cities outside Xinjiang.
Liu Yanshi, the person in charge of the vegetable industrial park and deputy general manager of Xinjiang Donglu water control agricultural development Co., Ltd. of Shandong Shuifa group, introduced that the construction of the vegetable industrial park is to introduce Shandong’s mature vegetable planting technology into southern Xinjiang, drive the development of Kashgar vegetable industry, and solve the problems of low local vegetable production, few varieties, short listing period and unstable price.
After the completion of the modern vegetable industrial park, it can produce 1.5 million tons of fresh vegetables per year, with an annual vegetable processing capacity of 1 million tons, and stably provide 3000 jobs.
At present, 40 greenhouses built in 2019 have been in stable operation, and the remaining 960 greenhouses are planned to be put into use by the end of August 2020. Given that farmers in southern Xinjiang are unfamiliar with greenhouse planting, enterprises are preparing to establish agricultural training schools to train a group of knowledgeable and skilled industrial workers to enter the park for employment. In addition, the enterprise also recruited more than 20 experienced greenhouse planting experts from Shandong, contracted 40 greenhouse greenhouses, and accelerated the teaching of planting technology locally.
Wu Qingxiu, a planter from Shandong, came to Xinjiang in September 2019 and currently contracts 12 greenhouses* In the past six months, she has planted tomatoes, peppers, melons and other crops in batches. She told reporters that the greenhouse is now in the stage of soil improvement and is expected to be profitable in three years.
In addition to the strong support of the provinces assisting Xinjiang, Xinjiang has also promoted the development of vegetable industry in southern Xinjiang from a high position and comprehensively improved the guarantee capacity of vegetable supply in Xinjiang. In 2020, Xinjiang launched the implementation of the three-year action plan for the development of protected vegetable industry in southern Xinjiang, which plans to build a modern protected vegetable industry system, production system and management system.
According to the action plan, southern Xinjiang will focus on the development of farmers’ courtyard arch shed and expand the scale of facility agriculture. In the way of intensive seedling raising, promote the planting mode of “early spring and late autumn” in field and arch shed, realize the full coverage of seedling raising centers at county and township levels and the full coverage of vegetable seedling demand at village level, and strive to achieve the goal of increasing annual income of 1000 yuan per courtyard.
In the seedling raising center of kumusilik Township, Shule County, several villagers are raising seedlings in the greenhouse. Thanks to the * assistance of the village team of Xinjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, the existing 10 greenhouses and 15 greenhouses under construction are upgraded to “5g + Internet of things”, and the greenhouse data information can be mastered and managed remotely through mobile app.
With the help of this “new thing”, the seedling raising center of kumusilik Township * will cultivate more than 1.6 million “early spring” vegetable seedlings, grape and fig seedlings in 2020, providing all kinds of high-quality seedlings for more than 3000 vegetable sheds in 21 villages of the township.
Post time: Aug-02-2021