Huama Vegetable

Huama Vegetable

　　In recent years, Jingyang County in Shaanxi Province has leveraged its resource advantages to focus on the vegetable industry. In accordance with the county’s “One Village, One Product” development plan, it has promoted tailored “One Village, One Product” initiatives based on local conditions, accelerated the cultivation of distinctive industries, and emphasized the production of pollution-free vegetables—mainly through the use of solar greenhouses. This has elevated the county’s vegetable industry to a new level. Among these, Huama Village in Yunyang Town is particularly well known.

　　Huama Village is located about 5 kilometers east of the southern part of Yunyang Town, a renowned vegetable-producing town in northwest China. It is one of Jingyang County’s 1,000-mu high-efficiency facility vegetable demonstration bases and also a key model village under the National Vegetable Standardization Demonstration County Project. The village has a population of 2,063 and arable land covering 3,540 mu. Currently, the village dedicates 2,970 mu to vegetable cultivation, accounting for over 85% of its total arable land. There are 500 winter-warm greenhouses (covering 1,450 mu), including 240 steel-frame greenhouses (covering 820 mu), and a pollution-free vegetable base spanning 2,500 mu. The village adopts unified planning and scientific planting methods for vegetable production, implementing staggered sowing and decentralized supply to ensure a year-round supply of vegetables, balanced market availability, and the avoidance of peak seasons while filling in off-season gaps. In 2011, the per capita net income of the village reached 13,200 yuan, with over 90% derived from vegetable production. Model vegetable farming households earned an average of 70,000 yuan per year, with the highest income reaching 100,000 yuan.

　　While continuously enhancing the reputation of its vegetables, Huama Village has also helped spur the development of facility vegetable bases in more than ten surrounding villages. The quality of vegetables has been steadily improving, which has significantly boosted the rapid development of high-efficiency facility vegetable bases across the county and benefited nearly 10,000 local residents. Nowadays, Huama Village vegetables are renowned for their high yield, excellent quality, and pollution-free standards. The produce is not only sold to major cities within the province but is also exported as far as Hong Kong and Macau.