In recent years, Minhe Hui and Tu Autonomous County in Haidong City has leveraged the abundant sunlight, heat, and favorable ecological conditions of the Huangshui River Valley to focus on high-efficiency and distinctive industries that enrich local residents. By pursuing large-scale layout, standardized cultivation, and market-oriented operation of the fruit corn industry, the county has simultaneously extended the straw resource utilization chain, building a green circular agricultural system that features fresh fruit sales outside the region and straw-fed livestock, achieving both stable yield increases and ecological benefits, and injecting strong momentum into county-level rural industrial revitalization.
Relying on the region's advantageous soil, water, and climate conditions, Minhe County has scientifically optimized its planting layout, focusing on creating concentrated and contiguous standardized fruit corn planting belts in Zongbao Township and Zhongchuan Township, with the county's planting scale stabilizing at 133.33 hectares this year. The county strictly implements superior seed selection, comprehensively promoting the high-sweetness, well-shaped, high-marketability, and highly adaptable Yilv Tian No. 16 variety, while simultaneously implementing refined field management and scientific water and fertilizer regulation measures. Leveraging the unique advantages of large diurnal temperature differences and pollution-free ecology on the plateau, the county effectively improves fruit quality, seed-setting rate, and yield, laying a solid foundation for stable and bountiful harvests.
Minhe County continues to deepen the Honggu-Minhe strategic cooperation, fully utilizing the mature agricultural product agency network resources in Honggu District of Lanzhou City, Gansu Province, proactively connecting with large agricultural product distributors outside the province, opening up sales channels to Henan, Yunnan, Sichuan, and other regions, and establishing long-term stable purchase and sales cooperation mechanisms. The county strictly implements a morning staggered harvesting model, concentrating picking, rapid sorting, and timely loading for transport from 6 AM to 12 PM daily, maximizing the preservation of fresh fruit taste and quality, effectively enhancing product market competitiveness, and achieving premium pricing and thriving production and sales. Based on the current market purchase price of 0.6 yuan per jin, the average net income per mu of fruit corn across the county can reach 2,000 yuan, demonstrating直观ly significant industrial income growth.
The county adheres to the concept of combining planting and breeding with circular development, fully tapping into the feed value of fruit corn straw. Given the advantages of high sugar content, soft texture, and good palatability of straw after harvest, the county comprehensively promotes straw silage technology through the Grain-to-Feed project, carrying out large-scale straw recovery, processing, and storage utilization. This model thoroughly resolves the problems of random stacking and open-air burning of field straw, continuously improving the rural living environment, while also providing high-quality forage resources for the county's cattle and sheep breeding industry. It has successfully built a green circular model of fresh fruit external sales for income growth and straw silage for livestock feeding, achieving single-season planting, double returns, and multi-purpose land use.
Through large-scale planting, standardized production, market-oriented sales, and resource utilization, Minhe County has effectively revitalized idle land resources, optimized the agricultural industrial structure, and continuously enriched rural distinctive industry formats. The fruit corn industry has become a distinctive advantageous industry that helps people increase income locally, improves industrial quality and efficiency, and steadily strengthens collective economic power, effectively consolidating the foundation for the county's rural industrial revitalization and development.