取得效益

Facing the continuing drought in 2009, the fennel in Haiyuan Town, Xi'an County highlighted its characteristic of drought-resistant, avoiding calamity, water-saving. Last year, only the fennel resulted in 630 yuan of net-income per-capita, accounting for 38% of the total income per capita.
Among the many crops, the cultivation cost of fennel was the lowest and just around 60 yuan per mu. During the whole growing season, it only needs to pour water once the water once and non-pesticide was used, which prove that it was a prominent drought-resistant water-saving crops. The area for fennel planting in Xi'an town was no more than 20000 mu. In 2005, the town experienced a rare drought in the history, the government encouraged farmers to carry out industrial restructuring, fennel cultivated area increased to 27300 mu, total output reached 5077.8 tons, production value was up to 22 million, income per mu was 700 yuan, income per capita was 630 yuan. This year, farmers planted fennel with unprecedented enthusiasm, 30 new driven well was made, the total area of fennel planting reached 51000 acres, twice as the number of last year, the number of farmers planting fennel was over 3285 this year, expecting to increase 700 yuan in income per capital this year.

Guo Huan was once the village's "number one" poor household in Yuanhe Village, Haiyuan County, Xi’an Town. This year, under the help of his brother Kuo Ren, he planted eight acres of fennel and sold at a good price, he picked up the confidence of life and bought a tractor. The fennel was sold 5.5 per kilogram, which was the highest price in history and inspire farmers to purchase agricultural machinery, during the past two months, only the Yuanhe Village bought more than 60 units of tractors.

Government's participation in industrial development focused on the sales section; in addition to provide convenience for acquisition, the government also makes the fennel farmers become the biggest "winners." When harvest was around the corner, the government invited the nearly 10 businessmen to attend the buying and selling forum for the town, they even provided free accommodation for a major merchants from Hunan. An Yong who comes from Beiba Group, Xi'ann Village planted 12 acres this year and sold more than 1,100 yuan per mu, which was 100 yuan over last year, but he was still a sense of regret: "I sold it too early this year, foreign businessmen were more than the previous years, the price was jacked up, Liu Yingquan sold 3600 yuan for two acres.

"Farmers don’t need to worry about the sales when the price is high, which was inseparable with the new market in the town" On 14^th Nov, Liu Zhi who just bought an amount of fennel said in the wholesale market in the county that this is the last business this year, farmers basically have no inventory in hand. He described that in the past, traders went to the village to buy fennel and it was inevitable for them to lower price, this year, the government fund to level the land, which attracted private investment into the market, at least 7,000 tons of fennel was gathered for trade, the competition of many buyers uplifted the prices. "I spent 70,000 yuan to build a 400 square meters warehouse and earned 170000 yuan in two months.

set off a wave of buying agricultural machinery. The town party secretary Wang Youman said: "during the past two months, more than 130 households small bought tractors, only the Yuanhe Village has purchased more than 60 vehicles."
In the Xi’an Town fennel specialized wholesale market, the reporter saw Chen Zhaolin. He told the reporters that he had planted fennel for three years, the income has been very good, especially that the fennel’s price was very high this year, he also started to purchase and trade the fennel. This year, the fennel he planted brought nearly 100000 yuan for him. Chen Zhaolin said: “this year the demand for fennel was very much, the sale and the price have been very good, for those who plant fennel here, most of them earned more than ten thousand Yuan, in order to build a foundation for planting fennels next year, lots of villagers bought tractors for mechanized farming.”
It is known that this year, for the 50300 Chinese acre of fennel, the average yield per mu was nearly 200 kilograms. At the beginning of October, after fennel going on the market, the price of per kilogram kept rising from 5 yuan and up to a maximum of 6.4 yuan, sales income was more than 50 million yuan and the average income from fennel of 4176 households reached 12900 yuan.

It is known that this year, for the 50300 Chinese acre of fennel, the average yield per mu was nearly 200 kilograms. At the beginning of October, after fennel going on the market, the price of per kilogram kept rising from 5 yuan and up to a maximum of 6.4 yuan, sales income was more than 50 million yuan and the average income from fennel of 4176 households reached 12900 yuan.

Until today, the history of planting fennel in Xi’an town Haiyuan was more than 40 years. In the point of view of farmers, the fennel is the characteristic industry which leads to rich life for them.

To date back the history of planting fennel in Xi’an town, Haiyuan County, it had to start from the sixties and seventies of last century, At that time when people's were in people’s commune, a farmer called Lirong in Yuanhe Village, Xi'an town, use his private plots to plant a little fennel with vegetables, after the harvesting moon, he sold the fennel at a price of 0.4 yuan per kilogram to the Haiyuan county supply and marketing cooperation and receive an income of 40 yuan. At that time, 40 yuan was undoubtedly an astronomical figure for the local farmers.

It is driven by the interests, Wang Zhankui also followed Lirong to plant small fennel in his private plots.
It’s precisely began from that, the plant of small fennel in Xi'an town increased from two points, four points to half an acre.

In the early 1980s, after practicing of household responsibility system, the farmers finally had their own land. But in order to live, the farmers didn’t dare to toss about, they only planted fennel in a small scope to earn money to subsidize the family. In 1983, the Yuanhe middle school planted fennel in the three Chinese acres of land and sold 1.8 yuan per kilogram and earned more than 1900 yuan that year. Therefore, the local farmer imitated the middle school's way to plant fennel. From half Chinese acre, one Chinese acre to several Chinese acres, the fennel planting size continued to expand year by year.

In 1991, the fennel price increased from 0.4 Yuan per kilogram to 10 Yuan per kilogram, the fennel price reached the highest in all previous years. According to the local farmers’ experience, the fennel was water-saving and the income was high. Planting fennel is such a good thing, farmers were very happy in planting it.

The water stored in the reservoir was the saving water for the Yuanhe village and even the peripheral villagers. Because of the successive years of arid, there was no water to store, the reservoir’s water-holding capacity droped year by year. A villager in Yuanhe Village, Xing Tingxiao told the reporters, when the reservoir’s water-holding capacity is sufficient, it can solve the irrigation problems of 20000 Chinese acre land, but now it can only irrigate 7000 Chinese acres land. Xing Tingxiao said: “according to the factors of climate, the soil and so on, it’s suitable to plant fennel.

In recent years, our city took the fennel as a superior characteristic industry and supported to its development, through the government's guidance and policy support, farmers in Xi’an town have more enthusiasm to plant fennel and the scale of it was also getting bigger and bigger. in 2008, the area of fennel reached 80000 Chinese acres in this town, the income per capita reached 782 yuan.

Along with the expansion of the scale of fennel planting, the sales have become the big sickness of Xi’an town people. Therefore, some individual farmers started to work hard for the sales, depended on the good faith and the high quality, the Haiyuan fennel finally sells well in outside market. They established supply relationship with the large scale seasoning like Wang Shouyi’s fragrances and the pharmaceutical manufacturing plants, the fennel therefore sold in distant markets places such as Gansu, Guangzhou.

In recent years, as the establishment of the fennel specialized wholesale market and the sales cooperative organization, the fennel in Haiyuan County also gradually marched into the industrial production development path. In 2008, the Caesar Business firm Limited company built up a 2000 Chinese acre standardized and non-environmental damage fennel base and provide for Germany seasoning company specially. A German company specially send technical experts to inspect and carry on the technical guidance in the Heyuan.

This year, the Caesar Business firm Limited Company plans to develop 5000 Chinese acres of standardized and non-environmental damage fennel demonstration base and supplies goods especially to Germany Company.

In order to guarantee the reputation of Haiyuan County’s green and non-environmental damage fennel “and expand the fennel development opportunities and win a further approval of domestic and overseas businessmen, the Haiyuan farmer are positively exploring.

At the end of September, we saw the golden yellow all over the country, unfolded a happy harvest picture. It’s precisely the harvest season, many farmers were busy in harvesting everywhere, after harvesting, the fennel piled like a hill.

Hu Yanfei who from Huwan Village, Xi’an Town was harvesting happily with his family, in the village, Hu and his family planted the most fennel, 8 Chinese acres irrigable lands have all been planted and they planted another four Chinese acres. Hu is astute and good at planting, so his fennel grew very well and yielded 200 kilograms per mu. The reporter asked: “are you willing to plant it or the government’s requirement? The irrigable land was all used to plant fennel, are you really willing to? “Hu said to the reporter that: “we both responded to the government’s summon and we were willing to do it. Now we need to calculate the economical benefits on farming, planting fennel is much better than planting wheat, why not planting more?

The fennel is the special product of Haiyuan County, which is drought resistance and has high economic value. Mayor Luo in Xi’an town introduced that Haiyuan County had the tradition of planting fennel, but it was fragmentary, the widespread planting was after the 1990s. First, because of the arid climate here, the output of wheat droped year by year, farmers had to seek new ways; second, the farmers had the commodity consciousness and the Haiyuan fennel gradually became famous and formed in scale in production, foreign merchants visited the village and purchased, the marketing channel has been unimpeded, farmers did not worry about the sales. Moreover, the government supported it vigorously, which also played a very big promotion effect. This year the county carried out the agriculture industry restructuring and developed high economic value agriculture, fennel was planted vigorously. Except the Yuanhe in Xi’an town, Xiaohe, Futao and Huwan all planted fennel in big area, two countries like Shutai and Guanqiao also planted a lot. The total planting area has amounted to 37000 Chinese acres, the output may amount to more than 5000 tons and the gross income will not be lower than 25 million yuan. Only in their town, there were 2500 households planting fennel, accounting for 2/5 of the total households, the fennel has become the main resource of their income. In recent years, the dill selling price was quite good, with 5 yuan per kilogram and reached to 8 or 9 yuan when increased, for those farmers who planted 20-30 Chinese acres, the one year income could be 10,000 yuan to 20,000 yuan.

From Hu Yanfei, the reporter knew that in this area, almost every administrative village has a reservoir, but the water-holding capacity is limited, the wheat must irrigate three times, but it will still suffer from drought, the harvest is bad; but to plant fennel, only needs one irrigation; to plant wheat need to invest more in seeds and fertilizer than fennel but the income is lower, planting fennel is labor saving, people may save more time to do other things and earn more money. This is the reason why the fennel planting can form into a scale.

Zhao Guowen and his family are also harvesting the fennel. Their family has planted 8 Chinese acres of fennel, as a result of the reservoir water scarcity, the irrigation was late, in addition, plant disease was not prevented and controlled promptly, their fennel was obviously more inferior than other familys’, yields per mu cannot surpass 150 kilograms. Zhao Guowen's wife introduce the situation while complaining her husband, then she also bloomed a smile on her face and said:“we will plant more and look after them carefully, definitely it’ll not be worse than other familys’”.

There was a good-looking young wife who was helping Zhao Guowen and his family to harvest, said that she was from Zhang Haifu’s family in the old castle town village. Her family has fewer lands and only planted 2 Chinese acres of fennel this year, but it grew very well, the yield per mu may amount to above 200 kilograms. She said that their family leader said that next year they will try to rent more land and plant more fennel.

It is known that Haiyuan County's fennel is in great demand this year; businessmen from different places, such as Shanxi, Gansu, Inner Mongolia, Shandong, Anhui all come to purchase.