SOE’s high-standard vegetable greenhouses boost farmers' incomes

Farmers were busy harvesting peppers at the Luojiaqiao Industrial Park – the 25,000-mu (1667 hectares) high-standard vegetable production base in Guiyang – operated by State-owned Guiyang Agricultural Investment Group on June 25.

"In the past, growing peppers was highly weather-dependent, and our income was unstable. After a whole year of hard work, we still couldn't earn much," said Liu Changping, a resident of Luojiaqiao village. After the vegetable base was built, the village's land was given over to centralized management, allowing villagers to receive stable rental incomes while finding jobs close to home.

Now, Liu has transitioned from an ordinary farmer into an agricultural worker managing 23 greenhouses and an 80-mu planting area. "With technical guidance, yields have increased, and incomes have become more stable. I now earn more than 4,000 yuan ($588) a month, and life is getting better," he said.

Completed and put into operation at the end of 2019, the Luojiaqiao Industrial Park covers Luojiaqiao and Minle villages, with 3,674.79 mu of transferred land and 275 high-standard greenhouses. Adopting a company-cooperative-farmer co-operation model, the industrial park uses smart agricultural technologies to achieve standardized and digitalized production. It is expected to produce nearly 5,000 metric tons of vegetables and generate over 20 million yuan in annual output value in 2026.

To date, 95 percent of Luojiaqiao village's land has been integrated into the base. The industrial park has distributed 59.81 million yuan in benefit-sharing dividends and helped 643 households, totaling 1,624 people, increase their incomes each year.