Xin’andu Farm in Dongxihu District has the good harvest of 800 mou asparagus in the first quarter; the produced 600 ton asparagus will be directly sold to Japan after the processing. Feng Mingzhi, the local farmer working in the farmland, said: “I plant export vegetables for the first time.”
At the end of 2005, Xiamen Ruyi Group had invested to construct 5,000 mou demonstration planting base of modern agriculture; in the meantime, it operates the introduction, processing and export of agricultural and sideline products of fruits, vegetables and edible fungus with the cooperation of Japan Laifu Food Co., Ltd. In recent days, Wuhan Ruyi Agricultural Development Co., Ltd has also been engaged in constructing 125 mou large-scale hi-technology demonstration park of edible fungus here.
From the planting of raw materials, agricultural products processing to the sales of them, Ruyi Group has constructed a complete vegetable industry chain in Dongxihu District. Industrial economy, which gives priority to food processing, has brought along the production and sales of agricultural products and injected the strong power for the industrialization of agriculture in Dongxihu District.
Dairy is another agricultural industry chain with the most characters in Dongxihu District; the formation of the chain also benefits from the leading processing enterprises.
Since half a century, milk cows have been cultivated in Dongxihu district. During several decades of years, the development of milk cow cultivation is very slow without the support of strong leading processors; the numbers of milk cows are always about several thousand, and the amount of milk cow on hand is only 2,000 until 1998. Since 1999, Wuhan Youzhiyou and Shanghai Bright successively enter into the district to lead the milk cow cultivation to centralize from scattered culturists to large-scale culturists and “subzone” with fast enlargement; therefore, the income of dairy farmers increase in successive years.
At the start of last year, Mengniu Group, the well-known magnate of diary food, had been successfully introduced in the district; it had invested 370 million yuan to construct the production base of diary food with annual production of 0.2 million tons.
District head, Yan Puliu, introduces that the amount of milk cows on hand is 17000 at present; the market share of diary products exceed 70% in Wuhan and the influence is radiated to five provinces in the central south of China. From the planting of green forage and cattle raising to the processing and sales of dairy products, the employment of 40 thousand person has been gathered in the dairy industry; thereinto, net income per capita of dairy farmers exceed 20 thousand yuan.
Up to the end of last year, 68 leading enterprises of agricultural products processing have been introduced in Dongxihu district; the total assets has broken through 6 billion yuan. The industry of agricultural product processing realize the output value of 6.2 billion yuan, which takes up 62% of gross industrial output value of the whole district; the annual average growth rate of agricultural product processing keeps above 40%, and eight major industry chains have been preliminarily formed: beer and beverage industry chain with China Resources Beer, Pepsi-Cola, Robust as leading enterprises; dairy product industry chain with Mengniu and Bright as leading enterprises; grain and oil industry chain with President, Xinyuan Grain and Oil, Jiabao Sugar as leading enterprises; fodder industry chain with Tongwei, Xiwang and Haida as leading enterprises; aquatic products industry chain with Deyan Aquatic Products and Guoxun Food as leading enterprises; vegetable industry chain with Laifu Ruyi and Hubei Samwoo as leading enterprises; meat products industry chain with Wuhan Shuanghui and Piaopiao Food as leading enterprises; Wooden articles industry chain with Shuanglong and Yingguan as leading enterprises.
In recent years, with the extension and fission of agricultural “leading enterprises”, industry chains of Dongxihu District gradually extend to outside areas of the district, city and even the province.
When Jiabao Sugar settled in Dongxihu in 1993, daily output of syrup is 200 tons. And now, it has developed into the “magnate” of the industry, with daily output of 800 tons syrup and 400 tons amylum and is evaluated as “National Excellent Leading Food Enterprise” by the Food Association of China.
The company’s principal introduces that as the daily consumption of broken rice for the enterprise is over 400 tons, it will not meet the demand only depending on the grain output in the district, so the field of vision is turned to the neighborhood areas of Anlu and etc. At present, there are nearly 500 rice factories of large and small scale in the province. The average increase in value for processed broken rice is 400 yuan per ton. Calculating the yield as half a ton of grain per mou, it can drive the increase of value of 400000 mou rice paddy and income increment of several hundred thousands of farmers.
According to statistics, agricultural “leading enterprises” of Dongxihu district will consume over 1 million ton agricultural products of various kinds; and one quarter of gross amount can only be supplied in the district; the agricultural products of wheat, barley and vegetable seed will be completely dependent on the neighborhood villages; accordingly, the driving and radiating functions of agricultural industry chain have been largely dispersed and the agricultural development of neighborhood areas have been promoted.
With the increasingly maturation of agricultural product processing chain, “agriculture on order” has become the common practice in Dongxihu district. In last year, the capital investment of agricultural products and materials processing contracts, which were concluded by leading enterprises of the whole district and farmers, had reached 0.34 billion yuan and had propelled 18000 farmers to get rich.
The leading enterprises not only bring orders, but also the market information, advanced technology and standardized management methods and boost the agriculture of Dongxihu district to transform from the traditional scattered management to intensivism, scale and modernization.
At present, about 20 standard production bases of non-polluted vegetables, lotus root, milk cow and famous, special and excellent aquatic products as well as nursery stock and flowers of over several thousand mou have been constructed in the whole district; one “intermediate test” base and one promotion base of well-known, special and excellent agricultural products is constructed; and nearly ten kinds of new agricultural products will be promoted annually.
In 2006, interplant and multiple cropping areas of high-efficiency economic crops in the district are totally 425 thousand mou, increasing by 14000 mou than that of last year; areas of aquaculture for well-known, special and excellent products reach to 5,800 mou, increasing by 40% than that of last year. Farmers’ net income per capita is 4,979 yuan, increasing by 42% than that of 2002; the regional economic and social development level have achieved the medium level of top hundred counties (cities) of the whole country.
In this year, the district Party committee and government will plan to construct “three large centers”, namely, food manufacturing center will be formed on the basis of agricultural product processing enterprises; logistics center of agricultural products and electronic commerce information network center will be constructed depending on the bonded logistics center and Duoluokou Market; the agricultural products processing and development center will be constructed based on the scientific institutes of Wuhan Polytechnic University, etc.
The Standing Committee Member of Municipal Party Committee and Secretary of District Party Committee, Jia Yaobing, said, “Agriculture development of our district will be along the information highway to march forward to the international market.”
