On the morning of November 29, Zeng Qiang, a ginger farmer from Minfu Village in Weiyuan, Neijiang, checked the boiler temperature through a mobile app and confirmed that everything was in order. Minfu Village has been planting early ginger for over 30 years. In winter, the village uses underground pipelines to circulate hot water for heating, allowing the early ginger to hit the market half a year ahead of schedule.

This year, Minfu Village implemented a 'Coal to Electricity' project, replacing coal-fired boilers with intelligent electric heating boilers to reduce labor costs. Farmers can now monitor the temperature through their mobile phones, eliminating the need for round-the-clock vigilance. The electric heating not only saves on electricity costs but also achieves zero carbon emissions.

Currently, Minfu Village has completed the conversion of four boilers from coal to electricity and plans to further expand the initiative. A new cold storage facility has been built in the village, storing over 1,600 tons of ginger seeds, reducing the cost of ginger seeds by two-thirds. The cold storage facility allows for the planting and selling of ginger to be advanced by two months, enhancing market competitiveness.

Weiyuan actively cultivates local ginger varieties, and the experimental base project has passed acceptance. In the future, the self-sufficiency rate of local ginger seeds is expected to exceed 50%. The ginger planting area in Minfu Village covers more than 1,200 acres, with an early ginger output of about 7,000 tons, and the expected output value is 200 million yuan.

Xindian Town has established a training center for modern agricultural parks specializing in ginger and pepper, as well as an e-commerce live streaming incubation base, providing technical training and sales guidance to support the development of the early ginger industry.

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