Luocheng strives to expand agricultural industry chain

In recent years, Hechi's Luocheng Mulam autonomous county has developed its characteristic industries, widened its sales channels and expanded its agricultural industry chain, in order to achieve industrial prosperity and increase farmers' incomes.

The county has vigorously developed its characteristic industries. The county currently has a sugarcane planting area of 160,000 mu (10,666 hectares), a mullbery planting area of 80,000 mu, a downy grape planting area of 80,000 mu, and a camellia oil planting area of 125,000 mu. In addition, there are 583 specialized agricultural cooperatives and 92 family farms in the county to drive the common development of these industries. The county has created 20 fruit bases of over 1,000 acres, and three tea-oil demonstration bases covering an area of 10,000 mu have also been built.

The county has extended its industry chain and enhanced its leading enterprises' growth prospects. Honored as "China's hometown of wild downy grapes", Luocheng has taken the processing of the downy grape as a key industry in recent years. Guangxi Dayi Ecological Wine Company was created with an investment of 30 million yuan ($4.64 million), to implement a downy grape deep processing and frozen storage project. The project was completed and put into operation in June, effectively alleviating the sales pressure of wild downy grapes.

Luocheng has built an e-commerce public service center, 10 town-level e-commerce service stations and 71 village-level e-commerce service outlets. The county has registered 117 e-commerce enterprises, and more than 2,000 people have opened online businesses. The city of Shenzhen in Guangdong province has helped Luocheng in the publicity and marketing of its agricultural products. So far, 30 suppliers and 278 poverty alleviation products have been identified. From January to May this year, the county's sales of poverty alleviation products totaled 130 million yuan.