It’s a hot afternoon when Zhong Qilan walks out of his house sweating in the sun to check out his navel oranges that cover about 10 hectares of a mountainous area in Jiangxi province.
“In November, these oranges will turn yellow and it’ll be the time for harvest,” says Zhong, 51, pointing to the oranges on trees that are still green.
In this small village of Nantian, in Jiangxi’s Huichang county, Zhong has been growing navel oranges since 2004.
Now, his annual income is 1.5 million yuan ($230,000). It was 70,000 yuan earlier. Other than the fruit farm, Zhong raises fish and livestock, which bring him about 1 million yuan a year.
For more than 50 years, fish farming was the only industry that generated income for local villagers, says Zhong, who was born and grew up in Nantian.
Thanks to a poverty alleviation campaign in the village, the past three years have seen incomes increase.
In addition, a narrow…
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