In the more than 200 mu (about 13.33 hectares) of organic ecological vegetable base, more than 20 left-behind old people are busy picking fresh eggplants, peppers and beans, loading them into trucks, which will be transported to Changsha. The income from vegetables produced is 4,000 to 5,000 yuan per mu (about 0.067 hectare) and farmers can earn 90-120 yuan a day for working in the base. 

 

 

Yuantian village is merged with Guangyi Village. As a provincial-level poor village, there are 12 villager groups and 513 households with a total of 1,584 people. It has 1,306 mu (about 87.07 hectares) of paddy fields, 200 mu (about 13.33 hectares) of dry land, and 22,000 mu (about 1,466.67 hectares) of forest land. It is a typical remote mountain village with more people and less land, more mountains and less fields, more droughts and less floods, and 80% of the village’s youth labor are out for work.

 

In recent years, the village cadres worked together with 68 party members, group heads and more than 50 capable people in the village to transfer more than 1,500 mu (100 hectares) of land as a whole, which is run by the village cooperative.

 

 

The 200 mu (about 13.33 hectares) of green vegetable base, 300 mu (about 20 hectares) of small fruit base, 100 mu (about 6.67 hectares) of lily medicinal materials base, and 800 mu (about 53.33 hectares) of selenium-rich rice production base have become the pillar industry of this village, with significant economic benefits. In 2022, the village’s average annual income was 24,000 yuan from land transfer, dividends, and work in the bases, and the village-level collective economic income exceeded 1 million yuan. This year, there is a stronger momentum. 

 

Yuantian Village has benefited from its ecological advantages for economic growth. It has won more than ten national and provincial honors in terms of poverty alleviation, rural governance, beautiful countryside construction and others.