Good returns from early spring potato harvest in Tengzhou, Shandong Province

CCTV News:At present, it is the spring potato harvest season. In Dawu Town, Tengzhou City, Shandong Province, local villagers are busy harvesting, and there is a bumper harvest in the fields.

In the potato shed in Malou Village, Dawu Town, Tengzhou City, the villagers are digging in an orderly manner. As the hoes fall to the ground, heavy potatoes roll out, and then these potatoes are sorted and packed and transported to all parts of the country.

Pang Jiashui, a large potato planter in Malou Village, Dawu Town, Tengzhou City, Shandong Province:I improved the planting mode, which was listed more than 20 days earlier than in previous years, and the potatoes grew well, with an yield of more than 5,000 kilograms per mu.

The golden and round potato not only looks gratifying, but also has a much higher price than the same period of last year. The field purchase price per kilogram is about 2.3 yuan, and the yield per mu can reach more than 12,000 yuan. Since entering the harvest period, merchants from all over the world have come to buy them and drove the trucks directly into the fields.

Jiangsu merchant Qualcomm:The potatoes here are good in color, shape and taste. They are very popular in our place. I ordered 15 tons today.

It is understood that the potato planting area in Tengzhou City in spring this year reached 470,000 mu. In recent years, with the continuous expansion of potato planting area and increasing output, potato industry has become a characteristic industry for local villagers to increase their income and get rich.