CCTV News: In Chengwu County, Heze City, Shandong Province, garlic farmers took advantage of the sunny weather to harvest 350,000 mu of garlic.
Walking into the garlic field in Xisunzhuang Village, Datianji Town, Chengwu County, the garlic fields are lush and green, and the garlic leaves sway in the wind.
In the garlic field of garlic grower Sun Xianzhi, an automated harvester is shuttled through the garlic field, cutting poles and bagging them in one go, greatly improving the harvesting efficiency.
Datianji Town, Chengwu County is a strong garlic industry town. At present, there are more than 230 related enterprises such as garlic preservation, storage, processing and sales, and deep processing in the town. It processes and operates nearly 500,000 tons of garlic annually, with an output value of more than 4 billion yuan, driving more than 8,000 people to stabilize employment and increase their income. At the same time, it brings more than 400 million yuan in economic benefits to the tertiary industries such as transportation, logistics, and catering every year.
The mayor of Datianji Town Gao Peng: In the next step, our Datianji Town will adhere to the one-stop "production, production, production, sales" and the integrated development path of "science, industry and trade". With the help of the Chengwu County Modern Agricultural High-tech Demonstration Park, we will continue to attract more, larger and better garlic deep processing enterprises to land.
