Pepper sales overseas 108 countries and regions! - Guizhou has become an important part of the global pepper trade and index

In autumn, the town of Xiawzi is filled with chili. Close to the radius of dozens of kilometers, as far as more than 1,000 kilometers outside the production of chili, are concentrated here trading. Guizhou, where the town is located, is a province with a large scale of chili production and marketing.
From the pepper farmers who are busy picking peppers, to the drying line at full load, from the pepper brokers who are constantly on the phone, to the pepper index that is stable and upward, all parties summarize the good news: it is another pepper harvest year, and the purchase price is stable and rising, with an average of 3.4 yuan per kilogram and an average income of more than 4,000 yuan per mu.

A field is hot with heat
Chilli, a spicy red fruit, thrives in the green-hued mountains of Guizhou, lighting up the countryside with a touch of brilliant red.
In Suotang Village, Meitan County, more than 20 kilometers from Xiazi Town, Ximpu New District, Zunyi City, the 42-year-old co-operative director Li Wei always rides a motorcycle through the fields.
From planting some peppers in front of the house and behind the house for their own consumption, to 2018, a person began to grow 50 mu of peppers, and to this year, 500 mu of land was transferred to plant peppers, and Li Wei led Suotang people to make the pepper business bigger and bigger.
"This year, the Dried Chilli sells for 8 yuan per kilogram, which is equivalent to 2 yuan per kilogram of fresh peppers, of which you will pay 0.4 yuan per kilogram to pickers." "Mulching, planting, weeding and harvesting cost more than 100 yuan a day," Li said. "I paid more than 200,000 yuan this year."
Li Wei's expenditure is the villagers' income. During the chili harvest, most of the chilies harvested in Suotang Village are middle-aged and elderly women, which not only does not delay the able-labor workers to earn money, but also increases the family income, and also revitalizes the slope farmland that used to plant corn and be abandoned.
Everyone in the village knows that the annual income of tens of millions of yuan is carried out by Li Wei. He didn't know how to mulch, weeded four times a year, and carried a sprayer around in the field when the weather was too dry. "We can eat spicy, eat a little bitter is what?" Li Wei often told the villagers.
Guizhou has a large number of pepper villages like Suotang. This is a microcosm of how in recent years, Guizhou has established a series of industrial specialized classes to help the development of characteristic agriculture and promote the adjustment of industrial structure in accordance with the mechanism of "one key industry, one specialized class and one technical team". In addition to dried Chili peppers, they are also processed into various Chili products, Chili Oil, Chili Snack, and Paprika.
The Rural Industry Development Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs issued the Guidance Catalogue of National Rural Key Industries (2021 edition) this year, guiding all localities to strengthen the connection between rural industries and related policies such as finance, finance, talent and land, and determining the guidance catalogue of rural key industries in accordance with the principles of county boundaries, rural resources, farmers as the main source, and the integration of three industries.
This year, Guizhou planted 5.7 million mu of chili peppers, and it is expected to produce 7.8 million tons of fresh pepper, with an output value of more than 27 billion yuan. Looking forward to the "14th Five-Year Plan", Guizhou has established the goal of "primary production value of more than 30 billion yuan, secondary production value of more than 20 billion yuan, and tertiary production value of more than 50 billion yuan" in the pepper industry each year.