“The plateau featured fruit and made a big industry.” The reporter learned from the Forestry Department of Qinghai Province that the western province has basically completed the “Eastern sea buckthorn, western wolfberry” forestry industry system, small sea buckthorn fruit, pods have become farmers and herdsmen income increase. "uprising industry".

In the special natural environment of the Qinghai Plateau, seabuckthorn and alfalfa as an ecological and economic tree species, with its unique biological characteristics, have good ecological, economic and social benefits. According to Dang Xiaoyong, director of the Department of Forestry of Qinghai Province, in recent years, Qinghai relied on the “Three Norths” project and the return of farmland to forestry and other key projects, and intensified efforts to strengthen the construction of seabuckthorn and alfalfa bases in line with the development of the forestry industry in the “East Seabuckthorn and Western Gan”. , gradually expand the related industries, drive farmers and herdsmen to increase income.

According to reports, Qinghai Province respectively completed the development plan for seabuckthorn and alfalfa industry last year and was approved by the provincial government for implementation. At present, the province's seabuckthorn forest area has grown to 2.23 million mu, accounting for about 10% of the total seabuckthorn forest in the country, of which nearly 1 million acres can be used; the planting scale reaches 220.6 thousand mu, of which more than 70,000 mu has been In the fruit-producing period, the annual output of dried fruit is 10,500 tons.

Dang Xiaoyong said that while strengthening the base construction, Qinghai also relied on a group of leading enterprises such as Tsinghua Bozhong to deeply process resources such as seabuckthorn and goji berries to form a new model of “company + base + farmer households”, which achieved considerable benefits. According to statistics, only a single industry, the annual output value reached 500 million yuan, per capita income of 1,500 yuan.