Guiyang agriculture sees strong growth in output and rural income

Guiyang accelerates direct sales between processing enterprises and production sites. [Photo/Guizhou Daily]

Guiyang, capital of Southwest China's Guizhou province, has achieved rapid agricultural development with its continuous support to farmers.

Grain and oil production have advanced with soybean-corn strip intercropping, soybean cultivation, and rapeseed projects. Addressing seasonal vegetable shortages and limited aquatic supplies, the city focused on cold-resistant solanaceous vegetable trials to boost yields, establishing 2,000 mu (133.33 hectares) of early-maturing local vegetable bases and 100,000 mu of vegetable bases elsewhere.

In the first half of the year, Guiyang's vegetable production rose 4 percent year-on-year, fruit production increased 6.4 percent year-on-year, and Chinese medicinal herb production climbed 8.7 percent year-on-year.

Qingzhen and Xifeng will become major broiler counties with 65 million chickens. In the first half of the year, 638,000 hogs and 16.49 million poultry were sold, and 3,496 metric tons of aquatic products were produced.

Guiyang is creating 10 rural tourism and residential belts and three high-quality rural tourism destinations. It has integrated over 140 million yuan in funds to build 117 infrastructure support projects and renovate 880 rural homestays.

In the first half of the year, Guiyang's total output in agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, and fisheries reached 14.81 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 5.2 percent, and the per capita disposable income of permanent rural residents was 12,784 yuan, a year-on-year increase of 5.9 percent.