Reversal of fortunes
Huichang has achieved remarkable results in fighting poverty by cultivating agricultural products.
Huichang county in Jiangxi province has been singled out for national-level poverty alleviation relief and development measures, with the Luoxiao Mountain region having an exceptionally high number of poverty-stricken counties in particular.
Li Fashun, 44, is a local villager in Nantian village, Gaopai township. Coming from a low income family, he applied for a poverty alleviation loan under the guidance and assistance of the village's poverty alleviation officials, which allowed his family to plant navel oranges.
Seeing an improvement in his income, Li set up a fruit cooperative with several of his fellow villagers in 2018. Besides planting navel oranges himself, he bought navel oranges grown by other villagers to sell externally, helping to lift the villagers out of poverty.
There are still a lot of fruit farmers like him who rely on planting to escape poverty in Huichang. At present, the planting area of navel oranges and orange pomelos in the county is more than 13,333 hectares, of which 11,667 hectares are oranges and 1,667 hectares pomelos.
