Orchard in Zhengwan Village, Nanping Town, Simao District, Pu'er, Yunnan
Recently, whenever night falls, the LED lights in the 200-acre dragon fruit planting demonstration garden of Zhengwan Village Brothers Modern Agricultural Development Professional Cooperative, Nanping Town, Simao District, Pu'er City, Yunnan Province, light up at the same time. From a far distance, it looks like a brilliant sea of stars, and from a near distance, it looks like a little bit of fluorescence, like a dream...
This large-scale pitaya orchard "light show" created by technology-empowered modern industrial park has attracted many tourists to watch and take photos at night in recent days. The demonstration garden has become an "internet celebrity check-in point"...
According to the person in charge of the cooperative, the spectacle and beauty of the dragon fruit "light show" is not to attract tourists, nor is it a special landscape project, but a new method for dragon fruit cultivation - a new technology of imitating the sun to stimulate flowers and supplement light at night (natural Under such conditions, it is difficult for dragon fruit trees to bloom and bear fruit from December to April of the following year. However, a new technology of flowering and light supplementation is applied to increase the lighting time through night supplement and induce the differentiation of dragon fruit tree flower buds, so that the dragon fruit tree will not go dormant even in winter, increasing the results by 4 batches every year, achieving staggered launch of dragon fruit, increasing production and increasing income).
In order to improve the yield and quality of dragon fruit, in August this year, under the guidance of technicians from the Simao District Economic Crop Work Station, the cooperative invested 600,000 yuan to install LED plant fill lights. It has started to use fill lights since September 1 light operation is used to supplement the light of dragon fruit to promote flower buds, and the current operation effect is good.
It is understood that the current average yield of dragon fruit per mu in the demonstration garden is about 2 tons. This year's total output is about 400 tons, with an output value of 1.6 million yuan. Through light supply, the annual output can be increased by about 100 tons, with an added value of 400,000 yuan (at an average price of 4 yuan/ kg), the benefits are significant. The person in charge said that the cooperative will appropriately expand the planting scale according to market demand, build an e-commerce platform and carry out intensive processing of dragon fruit, and build the cooperative into the largest dragon fruit project base in the region, integrating dragon fruit, it is a modern agricultural demonstration base that integrates “planting, scientific research, sales,tourism, sightseeing and food.
In the next step, the agricultural department of Simao District will fully conduct market research according to the needs of new business entities such as cooperatives, enterprises, and family farms, actively promote new technologies, strengthen tracking service guidance, and vigorously support the promotion of dragon fruit, late-ripening mango, avocado, and citrus. and other advantageous tropical characteristic fruits, comprehensively assist rural revitalization with high-quality development of the fruit industry, and strive to write a new chapter in the modernization of agriculture and rural areas in Simao District.