Sihouguo Vegetables

Sihouguo Vegetables

　　Sihouguo Village in Yuhe Town, Yuyang District, Yulin City, Shaanxi Province, is a comprehensive agricultural development demonstration village. It has successively been awarded honorary titles such as “Advanced Grassroots Party Organization,” “China’s Characteristic Economic Village,” “Advanced Village in Vegetable Industry Development,” and “National One Village One Product Demonstration Village.”

　　Since Yulin City initiated the “Hundred Villages Demonstration, Thousand Villages Promotion” project for one village one product in 2007, the initiative has rapidly developed across the city. Seizing this opportunity and leveraging its locational advantages, Sihouguo Village in Yuhe Town, Yuyang District, focused its efforts on developing facility-based vegetable farming. In 2009, the village was listed as a science and technology demonstration village for million-mu facility vegetable production in Shaanxi Province. Currently, the village has built 180 solar greenhouses, averaging two and a half greenhouses per household, yielding over 1,800 tons of off-season pollution-free fresh vegetables annually, with an annual output value reaching 6.4 million yuan. The per capita net income of the entire village is 13,000 yuan, of which income from facility vegetables accounts for 92.8% of the per capita net income. The village’s facility-grown vegetables have been certified by the provincial Department of Agriculture as a pollution-free vegetable production base, and its tomatoes, cucumbers, and zucchinis have obtained pollution-free product certification.