Pteridium aquilinum harvest busy processing value

at present, it is the peak season for the growth and harvest of bracken. The bracken in the mountains of Majiang County is rushing to germinate. The previously humble bracken has been exported to all parts of the country through processing and has become a "rich dish" for farmers ".

, every morning, Chen Lian, a villager in Lanshan Village, Gudong Town, Majiang County, has carried baskets on his back and invited his partners to the mountain grass forest to pick wild bracken.

"We go uphill to pick bracken from March to May every year. If we work hard, we can earn a lot of income." Chen Lian, a villager in Lanshan Village, Gudong Town, said.

Chen Lian's company is Chaohui Green Food Co., Ltd., Jingde County, Anhui Province, which will be settled in Gudong Town in 2021 through investment promotion in Majiang County. The company signed a purchase agreement with Lanshan Village Cooperative. The fern picked by the masses every day is initially processed by the factory and purchased by the company in a unified way, thus solving the sales problem of fern.

, said: "The processing plant starts to buy bracken every year in mid-March. The bracken harvested by the common people is sold to the company for 1.2 yuan per catty. The common people involved in the picking can earn more than 100 yuan a day."

Lanshan Village has been developing the bracken processing industry since 2020, but due to backward equipment and technology, low production efficiency, the industry has not developed well. After learning about this situation, Nanjing Agricultural University invested 650000 yuan to help Lanshan Village build a special agricultural product processing plant. The School of Food Science and Technology of Nanjing Agricultural University took the initiative to provide technical support for Lanshan Village and introduced a set of cleaning, blanching, The drying as one processing equipment promotes the better development of the bracken processing industry.

"Since the beginning of spring this year, in the development model of' college party branch enterprise farmers', the processing plant can receive 2 to 30000 catties of bracken a day. Now it has processed about 500000 catties of bracken, which has increased the income of more than 5000 people. This year, the processing plant expects to purchase 900000 catties of bracken, and the collective income of the village will exceed 100000 yuan." Yan Yongmeng said.

Lanshan Village, with the help of Nanjing Agricultural University, has continuously explored and optimized the development model of "Party branch counterpart assistance unit, cooperative enterprise farmers", and has embarked on a low-input and high-yield "Pteridium aquilinum appreciates and the masses become rich. (Yang Guanghong, Zhang Anjun)