Tobacco leaf industry boosts rural revitalization
“Tobacco leaves are growing well, and are expected to bring more than 14 million yuan of income this year, and the special income for the village will also exceed 1 million yuan, creating a ‘win-win’ situation for the industry and farmers,” said Ou Bo, party secretary of Gaotian Village, Yujia’ao Town, Ningxiang City, who was overwhelmed with joy.
Gaotian Village was awarded a provincial demonstration village for rural revitalization, whose collective income mainly comes from the tobacco leaf industry.
There is a Jinchun Tobacco Leaf Cooperative, Zhongnan Tobacco Experimental base and Hunan Breeding Center for Natural Enemy Insects of Tobacco.
The village planted tobacco leaves for about 133.3 hectares in 2021 and generated an output value of 10 million yuan and a collective income of over 1 million yuan. This year, it has planted tobacco leaves for 200 hectares and the leaves are entering the harvest period.
Since the tobacco leaf is a seasonal crop, the greenhouses will be used for fruit and vegetable planting in the slack season, in which higher temperatures help crops grow faster. Drying rooms for tobacco leaves will also be transferred for edible mushroom cultivation, thus diversifying industrial development and farmers’ income sources.
Rural revitalization cannot be separated from joint efforts. As a supporting unit, Changsha Huangcai Reservoir Irrigation District Administration invested 20 million yuan in infrastructure construction in Yujiagao Town to solve the irrigation problem.
When some tobacco farmers had financial difficulty in the early stage of planting, Zhou Hao, first party secretary of the village, helped farmers apply for a nearly 20-million-yuan loan from SRCB Ningxiang Branch.
In the future, Gaotian Village will focus on the tobacco leaf industry, promote industrial integration and explore new approaches to transformation and upgrading of the tobacco industry, as well as farmers’ income increase.
Gaotian Village was awarded a provincial demonstration village for rural revitalization, whose collective income mainly comes from the tobacco leaf industry.
There is a Jinchun Tobacco Leaf Cooperative, Zhongnan Tobacco Experimental base and Hunan Breeding Center for Natural Enemy Insects of Tobacco.
The village planted tobacco leaves for about 133.3 hectares in 2021 and generated an output value of 10 million yuan and a collective income of over 1 million yuan. This year, it has planted tobacco leaves for 200 hectares and the leaves are entering the harvest period.
Since the tobacco leaf is a seasonal crop, the greenhouses will be used for fruit and vegetable planting in the slack season, in which higher temperatures help crops grow faster. Drying rooms for tobacco leaves will also be transferred for edible mushroom cultivation, thus diversifying industrial development and farmers’ income sources.
Rural revitalization cannot be separated from joint efforts. As a supporting unit, Changsha Huangcai Reservoir Irrigation District Administration invested 20 million yuan in infrastructure construction in Yujiagao Town to solve the irrigation problem.
When some tobacco farmers had financial difficulty in the early stage of planting, Zhou Hao, first party secretary of the village, helped farmers apply for a nearly 20-million-yuan loan from SRCB Ningxiang Branch.
In the future, Gaotian Village will focus on the tobacco leaf industry, promote industrial integration and explore new approaches to transformation and upgrading of the tobacco industry, as well as farmers’ income increase.