From the county town to the east, it is the provincial highway leading to Maba. If you want to build the capital Yi Expressway in the future, you must go east along this direction. 58 kilometers away is Maba County Town.

But if you take the provincial road, it takes one hour and forty minutes. This still requires that when the weather is good, clouds and fog often occur in the mountainous areas, which requires driving to reduce the speed below 30 kilometers per hour.

"Twinkou Town is 13 kilometers away from the county town, making it the second largest town in the county after Chengguan Town. The more than ten kilometers of river valleys from Chengguan Town to Tongkou Town should be regarded as one of the most important industrial and agricultural operation areas in our Baoling County. The largest Pingba River Valley area is mainly wheat and corn. Some areas near the foothills are mainly alpine potatoes. In addition, some areas with relatively low terrain also have Chinese medicinal materials... "

Three people sat on Sha Zhengyang's land patrol, Xiong Xiangkuijia County Mayor Qiao Zhiming and Sha Zhengyang.

After Sha Zhengyang's repeated persuasion, the county party secretary Tan Kaishan did not follow the investigation, otherwise it would be too much. He was just a deputy director of the Provincial Development and Planning Commission who fought in front of the station. If this kind of battle, a specialist in the administrative department would accompany him and a large group of county party secretary and county magistrate would easily be criticized.

The road conditions are quite good from the county town. It took less than half an hour to get there. Walking east along Twinkou Town for two or three kilometers, the river valley began to narrow, and the mountains on both sides could be seen to be more majestic and steep.

The car stopped on the side of the road. Accompanied by the senior party officials and mayors of Tongkou Town, Xiong Xiangkui, Sha Zhengyang and others got off the road and walked directly from the road to the edge of the mountain. They walked one or two kilometers. The terrain began to rise. When they walked up, they were already a relatively gentle hill.

As he stood firm, Sha Zhengyang and Xiong Xiangkui looked forward from afar. The higher the mountain went, the higher the progress. Of course, there may be some gentle ups and downs in the middle, and there are also some passes for road access.

"Director Sha, you saw this area in the car just now. It is one of the most important agricultural belts in Baoling. Along the river valley, wheat and corn are the main crops. You have also seen it. When you go to this line, it will mainly become a mixed area of ​​corn and potatoes. Then, it will be intercropping with potatoes and medicinal materials..."

"County Magistrate Qiao, how many crop zones are there in the county like this? What I mean is this type of crop zone that can provide stable production capacity. What is the situation?" Sha Zhengyang asked thoughtfully.

"The Baoxi River originates from Baoling Mountain, but there are many tributaries, among which the two tributaries, such as Fengxi and Hexi, are the most important. There are several towns along Fengxi and Hexi, which are basically built in the valley area. Well, there are about seven or eight similar valley areas, but the scale is definitely not comparable to that of the county town. From west to east, Tongkou Town, Chengguan Town, Meideng Town, this line of agricultural production belt is about 20 kilometers, with fluctuations and narrowing areas occasionally, but in general, it is still a flat dam area, and the others are much smaller, just three or five kilometers, no more than seven or eight kilometers at most, and not so wide."

Qiao Zhiming is still very familiar with the county situation. He has not yet figured out why Sha Zhengyang is so concerned about agricultural production, but since he asked about it, he still introduced it truthfully.

"County Magistrate Qiao, I think this line is mainly based on grain crops. So which areas are mainly concentrated in your tea mountain and medicinal materials planting?" Sha Zhengyang was not very satisfied. It was not his purpose to look at pure crop planting. What he is going to do now is to evaluate the potential of developing agricultural product processing industry in the county.

After being stunned, Qiao Zhiming quickly said: "Director Sha, tea mountain planting is mainly concentrated in Meideng Town, Baogou Township, Qihe Township, Sanlie Township, Guiqiao Town and other towns. The terrain of these towns is much higher than here. Except for Meideng Town, the other towns are not in the valley area, most of which are on the gentle slopes and on the hillside. You should be clear that the soil climate and water quality of tea trees have special requirements. Our Baoling is a famous ecological tea planting base. Alpine selenium-rich cloud tea is a famous specialty in the region and is well-known..."

"Monor Qiao, I know all these. High-altitude selenium-rich cloud tea should be considered a specialty of the region, but I don't think we have done it and have done it well." Sha Zhengyang shook his head, "Specialist Xiong, as far as I know, the construction of high-altitude selenium-rich cloud tea in mountainous areas such as Baoling, Laifeng, Maba and other counties actually started to be carried out more than ten years ago, but first, the scale is small, the second is the cultivation of tea trees is still at the low level, third is the lack of brand building awareness, and fourth is the lack of marketing methods. I can understand a few tea factories in this morning. Not to mention getting famous abroad, even when I started to come into contact with the situation in Wuling, I realized that there are more than a dozen brands of high-altitude selenium-rich cloud tea in Wuling, but none of them is truly well-known in the province. How can this make people feel sorry for it?"

Sha Zhengyang's words made Qiao Zhiming and Xiong Xiangkui a little embarrassed.

In fact, this is not a problem for Baoling County. Baoling, Laifeng, Maba, Jueshan, Wanzhang, and Luodu all claim to be the most authentic production sites of selenium-rich alpine green tea. While boasting about it, they slander each other. There are as many as 20 or 30 tea factories in several counties, and there are more than 100 tea gardens. Any tea factory can register a trademark. As a result, no one's reputation has become popular, and everyone is still in the most primitive original tea stage.

Tea merchants coming in outside enter the tea garden to purchase at will, and they wantonly lower prices. However, local manufacturers are small in scale and weak in brand power, making it difficult to digest too much tea, so in the end, the added value of the industrial chain is not fully reflected, and they are more of becoming raw material suppliers.

However, Sha Zhengyang's interest in the tea industry still made Xiong Xiangkui and Qiao Zhiming a little excited. At least there is one thing that can still attract Sha Zhengyang's attention. They are not afraid of Sha Zhengyang's mean criticism and ridicule, but they are afraid that Sha Zhengyang will not express anything after reading it. That is the real thing that is not interested in your place.

There is no greater sorrow than death. If you have no interest in your place, it means that your place is nothing good. How can you seek development?

"Director Zhengyang, what you mean is that we can make a difference in the tea industry. We also know that our tea industry is not satisfactory, but you also know that brand building is not that simple, and this also involves the interests of several counties, which is probably difficult to bridge..."

Xiong Xiangkui sighed. He was not unclear about the problem Sha Zhengyang said, but how do you coordinate and deal with it?

You Baoling said you are the number one green tea in the mountains, and I dared to [.] say that I am the number one green tea with selenium-rich, so Jueshan dared to blow my green tea. The quality of my green tea is the highest in the country in the high mountain selenium-rich level. Anyway, there is no clear standard. Everyone is all high and selenium-rich. Why can you blow me and not use it?

"The solution was thought of by people, but everyone rushed forward like this. There were seven or eight tea factories in a county, each playing their own trumpets and singing their own tunes. Then they could only stay at the lowest-end original tea production. Tea that could have been sold for two or three hundred or even three hundred or five hundred pounds could only be sold at a low price of twenty or thirty yuan per pound. There was a difference in the middle. I don't believe that no one was moved." Sha Zhengyang said lightly.

Sha Zhengyang didn't say it thoroughly, leaving room for nothing. He believed that Xiong Xiangkui and Qiao Zhiming should understand what they mean. As for how to operate and integrate, that is the next step of work and can be studied in detail.

The topic came to an end. Sha Zhengyang walked along the mountain and disappeared halfway. A few words could be vaguely seen from the somewhat dilapidated signs on the roadside, the 10,000 mu of Coptis chinensis planting base.

"Is this the medicinal material planting base in your Tongkou Town?" Sha Zhengyang straightened the wooden sign and asked in a deep voice: "Wanmu, is this data reliable?"

"Director Sha, this ten thousand acres are just a fictitious number. In fact, since 1988, the scale of medicinal materials planting in Baoling has been in full swing for ten years, but medicinal materials planting is one thing. It is not easy to turn into real money in ordinary people's bags. If you don't do it well, you have to lose all your money and owe a lot of debts."

Qiao Zhiming didn't cover up anything. Sha Zhengyang told him that covering up at this time is a foolish move, giving you the opportunity to explain the problem clearly and find a way to solve it from the above. If you still have to hide it, you will really be self-severing from the people and the organization.

Sha Zhengyang nodded.

This is the truth. The risk of medicinal materials planting bases without pharmaceutical companies or large medicinal materials wholesale markets nearby is quite high.

In Wanzhou, the main reason why the medicinal materials planting and planting industry in Dongxia was not Handong Pharmaceutical Group, and several major pharmaceutical companies in Wanzhou Pharmaceutical Factory and Wanzhou Pharmaceutical Factory No. 2 were the bottom line for the acquisition of medicinal materials in the county, so farmers were allowed to throw away all their burdens and focus on planting and cultivating to improve production capacity and quality.

Compared with Wanzhou's pharmaceutical industry, Baoling and even Wuling's pharmaceutical industry is not worth mentioning at all and is not on the same level.

However, Baoling has a history of growing Chinese herbal medicines, and there is also a pharmaceutical factory in the county, but it is not well managed and is in trouble. How to solve this problem? Sha Zhengyang dares not say yet.

"In addition to Coptis chinensis, Magnolia officinalis, lily, Atractylodes and Cypress in our county have planting bases, and their planting area ranges from hundreds of acres to thousands of acres, but they all have a considerable scale. However, the price of medicinal materials has fluctuated greatly in recent years, which has caused heavy losses to the pesticide farmers in our county and seriously damaged the production enthusiasm of farmers in the county... "

In this area, Qiao Zhiming is even more upset than the tea industry. Although the tea leaves are scattered and cannot form a brand and scale, there are still several tea factories and tea gardens. At least tea farmers can still make a living by growing tea. The tea leaves are cheap but can always be sold.
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