Kaiyang makes progress in agricultural modernization

Kaiyang county in Guiyang, capital city of Southwest China's Guizhou province, has spared no effort in boosting agricultural modernization, leading to strong results in 2022.

This year, Kaiyang built 30,000 mu (2,000 hectares) of high-standard farmland and increased the grain-sowing area to 495,200 mu, an increase of 12.91 percent.

The county's total grain output reached 168,300 metric tons this year, an increase of 17.21 percent, while the output of vegetables hit 570,000 tons, and 580,000 pigs were slaughtered.

Replying on the local selenium-enriched soil, Kaiyang attaches great importance to the development of fruit, mushrooms, tea and traditional Chinese medicine.

In 2022, Kaiyang achieved an output of 23,000 tons of edible fungi, 107,900 tons of fruit, 25,800 tons of Chinese medicinal materials, and 10,500 tons of tea.

While improving the quality and output of primary agricultural products, Kaiyang has continued to push forward the deep processing of agricultural products.

Due to such efforts, the output value of agricultural product processing in the county has reached 9 billion yuan ($1.28 billion), and the conversion rate of agricultural product processing stands at 60 percent.

Additionally, in order to increase local incomes, Kaiyang formulated the "Kaiyang County 2022 Action Plan for Cultivating New Types of Agricultural Business Entities".

To date, Kaiyang has cultivated 25 leading enterprises above the municipal level, 254 farmers' professional cooperatives, and 445 family farms.

A total of 86,000 farmers from 25,200 households are engaged in agriculture in the county, and they have increased their incomes by an average of 3,600 yuan.