Dabie Mountain Water Bamboo

Dabie Mountain Water Bamboo

　　Zhubu Town is located in the northern border area of Yuexi County, belonging to a high-altitude mountainous region with many cold-water paddies. Rice cultivation here often suffers from blight disasters. In recent years, the town has actively guided farmers to develop an awareness of agricultural differentiation, turning disadvantages into advantages and transforming confrontational agriculture into adaptive agriculture. It has vigorously developed off-season water bamboo grown at high altitudes. The total planting area of water bamboo in the town has reached 7,800 mu, accounting for 98% of the total paddy field area, achieving the development of "one village, one product" with water bamboo as the leading industry.

　　 The town has successively established 17 water bamboo associations and specialized cooperatives, with a total of 1,680 members. These associations and cooperatives manage 6,200 mu of water bamboo fields. They have also built an 800-ton cold storage facility and a fresh vegetable processing plant, effectively alleviating market sales pressure and shifting from a focus on fresh produce alone to a combined model of fresh and dried vegetables. The pollution-free “Dabie Mountain” brand water bamboo has been sold well in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Hefei, and other provinces and cities, winning widespread consumer favor. In addition, applying the principle of cyclic development between crop cultivation and animal husbandry, the town has established 1,200 mu of water bamboo field aquaculture bases (raising loaches and eels), and in conjunction with ecological pig farming bases, implemented projects for processing water bamboo stalks and building rural biogas facilities. This has initially formed an ecological, three-dimensional, circular agricultural model of “pig–biogas–water bamboo” and integrated loach farming in water bamboo fields.

　　 Currently, the town’s 7,800 mu of high-yield, high-quality water bamboo base has all passed the Ministry of Agriculture's pollution-free production area or product certification. The annual output reaches 12,000 tons, with output value exceeding 25 million yuan and net income of 14 million yuan. In 2011, the per capita net income of farmers in the town reached 5,125 yuan, nearly 40% higher than the county average, and the per capita income from water bamboo exceeded 3,000 yuan. Today, the town has achieved road access for every group, cement roads for every village, and over 80% of households live in new buildings. Cable TV and telephone coverage rates have reached 100%.