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Chongqing News

Tongliang: lotus roots harvest bring smile on farmers’ face

2020-09-04 09:51:57

CHONGQING (CQNEWS) -- Now, it is the season for lotus roots to mature and go on the market. Tuqiao Town of Tongliang District has harvested 10,000mu of lotus roots. In Liuying Village and Qinglin Village where lotus roots are planted here and there, lotus farmers were busy in picking lotus roots. This year’s high yield and high price of lotus roots have delighted local lotus farmers.

Lotus roots (Photographed by Zhang Yonghong)

Liuying Village is a large lotus root planting village in Chongqing, with a planting area of more than 3,000mu, among which the ornamental lotus is more than 500mu, leaving an impression to people that “there are ten miles for enjoying lotus and appreciating urban landscape”. This village not only supplies about 60% of lotus roots in Chongqing market, but also forms a characteristic industrial chain from delicious food to beautiful scenery. The village’s lotus roots have also been registered the trademark “Longxiang Lotus Root”, and successfully entered a number of large supermarkets. Led by Liuying Village, Tuqiao Town’s lotus planting area reached 15,000mu.

Depending on the cultivation of lotus roots, the local area has created the lotus and the original countryside scenic spot with the widest ornamental planting area and the most varieties in southwest China. It integrates suburban leisure tourism, famous and excellent ornamental lotus, famous and excellent aquatic ornamental plants and “Lotus” culture exhibition. It has successfully established a national AAA tourist attraction, held eight consecutive lotus cultural tourism festivals, and attracted more than 200,000 tourists every year to appreciate lotus flowers. (Translated by Liu Hongyan, Fathom Language Limited)

Editor:Jiang Yiwei