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Flaming red persimmons and a flourishing life

Time:2020-10-20     Click:

Villagers are packing freshly picked persimmons into cartons. (Photo/ Zhang Haohua)

What a harvest month of October! The autumn is coming with mountains of persimmons turning red. On October 15, in the mountain of the Zhangshui Town, vehicles of the Zhangshui Town Rural Revitalization Company, loaded with persimmons freshly harvested by villagers, drove out of the mountain, delivering the persimmons in time for more than 200 orders previously reserved online. As is learnt, this is the first time that this company helps villagers living in the mountains of the Zhangshui Town to sell fresh persimmons online.

As is learnt, the Zhangshui Town Rural Revitalization Company is the first company dedicated to “rural revitalization” in Ningbo. Invested with high-quality township assets and joint shares of all villages under its jurisdiction, the company has activated idle rural resources and concentrated its efforts to shake off poverty and become rich.

“Villagers used to sell persimmons on their own, making the cost quite high. Now thanks to the unified purchase, our income is secured and our labor’s worth it.” Zhang Longzi, a 63-year old local villager, said. Before, villagers had to go down mountains to sell persimmons all by themselves. The way is too long and the cost too high. Villagers would also sell some but not many persimmons to passing-by tourists, therefore leaving many persimmons rot at home.

Zhang Longzi said that the ancient persimmon tree in his home was planted by his grandpa’s father and is now 200 years old. It can still yield persimmons of 200 to 250 kilograms every year.

On that day, the Zhangshui Town Rural Revitalization Company purchased a total of over 800 kilograms of persimmons. All the persimmons were well packed with standardization at doors of local villagers who had picked fresh persimmons. “At present, considering that the quality of persimmons should be guaranteed, the online sale is only available to those customers living in Ningbo. Thanks to the recent gold season of harvesting persimmons, the number of orders is still increasing.” A representative of the Zhangshui Town Rural Revitalization Company said, “All the income gained from selling the persimmons would be fully refunded to participating villagers.”

The Zhangshui Town, one of the mass production areas of persimmons in Ningbo, will hold a series of activities themed “Golden October, Flourishing Harvest Season” in the near future, so as to help farmers in mountainous areas to get rich. Tourists will also be invited to participate in picking persimmons.