Source: Qinhuangdao Reporter: Liu Xuwei
Autumn is the harvest season. In his year’s golden autumn, farmers have their own festival: “Chinese Farmers’ Harvest Festival.” Yesterday, our city held a press conference to announce that the first “Chinese Farmers’ Harvest Festival” celebration will be held on the Lunar Autumnal Equinox, which is September 23.
In June this year, with the approval of the Party Central Committee and the State Council’s approval, the annual Lunar Autumnal Equinox has been established as the “Chinese Farmers’ Harvest Festival” since 2018. This is the first festival dedicated to farmers at the national level. On September 23, the city will hold the opening ceremony of the first “Chinese Farmers’ Harvest Festival” celebration in Beidaihe Jifa Agricultural Ecological Tourism Park, inviting representatives of new professional farmers, farmer cooperatives and family farms, representatives of modern agricultural parks, leisure enterprises, grassroots agricultural technicians to participate in, commend the best agricultural technicians and the first top ten leisure farms selected by the city this year, and carry out agriculture-supermarket docking activities. The public can visit and experience the new achievements in the construction of facility agriculture and agricultural product quality traceability system.
Since the beginning of this year, the city’s agricultural achievements have been gratifying. In the first half of the year, the total output value of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery in the city has reached 10.42 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 7.06%. The per capita disposable income of rural residents has reached 7057 yuan, an increase of 9.0% year-on-year. All indicators have significantly exceeded the target at the beginning of the year. Funing pigs, Changli fur, vegetables, Lulong sweet potatoes, meat sheep, Qinglong Chinese herbal medicines, edible fungi, broilers, Shanhaiguan cherry and a number of county-specific industries have begun to take shape. The quality and safety level of agricultural products in the city has been comprehensively improved. During this year, the city was sampled once a quarter by the state. In the second and third quarters, 154 batches of agricultural products were sampled, and the pass rate was 100%.