Vegetable planting helps Guizhou poverty alleviation efforts

In Jingnan town, Xingyi, Qianxinan Bouyei and Miao autonomous prefecture, Southwest China's Guizhou province, impoverished farmers are benefiting from vegetable planting in plain areas among mountains.

Feilongdong village in Jingnan town introduced an agriculture development management company to help farmers increase their income. With agricultural product retail stores and online stores, the average sales volume is above 30,000 yuan ($4,236.29) per day.

The company adopts both modern management technologies and traditional agricultural production technologies to innovate an industrial development method integrating planting, breeding, marketing, and tourism.

The company gives preference to impoverished farmers. After receiving planting skills training, farmers will plant according to the company's schedule and receive commission in addition to a base salary.

With the integration of manufacturing and marketing, the company's processing capability is 100,000 metric tons of vegetables per year, It has also established cooperation relationships with Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing, Chengdu, and Guiyang.

According to Wang Dapeng, head of Jingnan town, ecological agricultural products will contribute to agriculture industrial restructuring, accelerate agricultural industrialization, and increase the income of farmers.