Nanming district to promote sales of quality agri products

Representatives from Nanming district and Guizhou Vegetable Industry Group sign a cooperation agreement on May 18. [Photo/gywb.cn]

Nanming district in Guiyang -- capital city of Southwest China's Guizhou province -- signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Guizhou Vegetable Industry Group on May 18, targeting cooperation in production, logistics and marketing of high-quality vegetables.

According to district officials, using the template of a previous successful project between the district and Guizhou Modern Logistics Industry Group, the two sides will build a high-standard sorting and grading distribution center in Nanming.

It will expand direct purchase of ingredients for students' nutritional meals from vegetable growers and build a demonstration project to promote cooperation between schools and vegetable producers, so as to achieve the goal of "making agricultural products more affordable for residents and farmers' vegetable bases more profitable".

In addition to the project between schools and vegetable producers, Nanming district will also make use of existing cooperation projects in the logistics industry and its own geographical advantages.

This will be to expand the sales channels of agricultural products in poverty-stricken counties, strengthen the integration of production and marketing, expand logistics channels and make a contribution to winning the battle for poverty alleviation in the whole province.

Officials added that in future, vegetable growers in the poverty-stricken areas will provide 22,000 children and 90,000 primary and secondary school students with nutritious food ingredients under the management of Guizhou Vegetable Industry Group.

They said it is estimated that the daily vegetable supply will be more than 20 metric tons.