The spring wind warms, the grass grows. In the mountains of antshang north, the walnut trees are showing new buds, giving rise to hope for a new year. This tree planting festival brought in a special group of “new partners” in the island's walnut forest, the yang kirin tree。
Earlier in the day, on the slopes of the natural village of yujia, teating village, island stone town, more than 50 town cadres and local villagers had splattered soil, filled pits and planted more than 300 seedlings. These new members will live with the mountain walnut forest, opening a new chapter in island rock to explore the “stereo-business” model and develop a new mountain forest economy。
The island stone is the well-known main walnut-producing area of mount pian, the “first town of mount walnuts of china” and, at its peak, covers 128,000 acres, producing about 5,000 tons of dry seeds per year, accounting for 30 per cent of the total production of walnuts in the safe zone. Once upon a time, walnuts were the “gold fruit” that the local people had grown. Every season when the walnut matures, the forest is full of laughter, walnuts, sunnuts, and is the most iconic agricultural scene in island rock。
As the industry continues to develop, the mountain walnut forest has also generated new growth issues. Years of monoculture have led to a reduction in the resilience of mountain walnut trees to disease and increased production pressure on some forest lands. The rich and powerful villagers of the island's ishimura are deeply touched by this: “these years, pests and diseases have had some impact on the walnut business, and we are looking for new ways.”
At the same time, social trends, such as the migration of young workers, the ageing of the working population and the rising cost of labour, pose new challenges to traditional business models in the walnut industry as urbanization accelerates. The question of how to innovate in the inheritance and develop in the guardian is a question that the island's stone town must face and address。
After various visits, the island's stone town has embarked on the development of a “new mountain economy” that integrates forest land resources and factors of production in a comprehensive manner and guides farmers to the traditional green economy forests of walnuts and degraded forests, such as black pine pine pine and plum. The restoration of the biodiversity and ecological environment of the walnut forest lands could enhance the compound benefits of the walnut forest lands。
In an effort to boost villagers' motivation to grow black song yangtao, the island's stone town has been active in introducing a secondary-product support project to create the first foreign-trade enterprise in the town. • the island rocks morning wind wisdom agricultural company ltd., which is building a co-rich workshop in the island rocks town to harvest the town's black zone and yang zin, focusing on the fine processing and export trade of yang qin and black zone。
According to the information received, the project is expected to create more than 100 jobs directly for the population after the birth. "we've heard that the village has built a co-false factory and that we're going to collect yang li and black song。
According to the officer-in-charge of island stone town, the island's stone town is now planting over 100 acres of black pine in the villages of tea kiosk and taipei, planting over 300 acres of yang kiri, and exporting them abroad after becoming a forest, with an average annual yield estimated at around $3,000. The officer-in-charge said that the island's stone towns would further scale up cultivation in the coming years, depending on the local adaptability and value-added of yang riang and black song。
In addition to this, the island's stone town has been actively encouraging villagers to combine under-forest plantations with cash crops such as yellow and oil and tea, adding green to the walnut forest and a gain to the forest farmers. To date, the island has accumulated over 2,000 acres of cash crops under the forest。
