Deep in winter, farmers of a specialized cooperative are busy uprooting and gathering lotus roots in muddy water covering some 500 acres in Zhangduhu Street, Xinzhou District, Wuhan, central China’s Hubei Province.
Set up in 2014, the cooperative has now built up a standardized base for lotus root planting and cultivation with an annual output of over 4,000 tons, contributing in many aspects to agricultural development there, providing 150 jobs every year and increasing local farmers’income.
Recently, 40 tons of lotus roots were collected daily by the cooperative to be delivered to Hubei, south China’s Guangdong and cenral China’s Henan provinces for the upcoming Chinese New Year season, said Xiong Renquan, head of the cooperative.(Photo by Ye Donghui and Tai Shengpeng/Xinhuanet)
