Establishment of Ecological Cultivation Modes for Persimmons in Dabie Mountain Area
The Dabie Mountains,centered around Luotian County and Macheng City of Hubei Province,is the only origin of sweet persimmons in China,with unique ecological and climatic conditions.On the premise of not reducing arable land and forest area,three kinds of stereoscopic ecological cultivation modes of persimmon were established in Dabie Mountain area and authorized by national invention patents.Three kinds of ecological cultivation modes of persimmon trees in mountainous areas were introduced in order to make full use of the natural resource endowment in Dabie Mountain area.Among them,a method for rapid orchard formation of persimmons(patent number:ZL201610325895.5)could effectively reduce the slow seedling stage of persimmon seedlings and shorten the establishment period through direct planting of rootstocks,achieving the rapid orchard formation,that is,sowing seedlings with rootstocks(Diospyros lotus),planting,and grafting and establishing the orchard in the same year.A persimmon-rice three-dimensional planting method(patent number:ZL201610315732.9)and an ecological cultivation model for leisure and sightseeing in mountain persimmon orchards(patent no.:ZL201810444935.7)have formed a agroforestry production model with persimmon industry as the main body.The established mountain persimmon+rice and mountain persimmon+daylily composite systems have become an important tourism landscape for many mountain pastoral complexes,and the mountain persimmon+rice three-dimensional planting model has also realized the marginal soil of mountain paddy fields.
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