CCTV News: Winter is the harvesting period for sea buckthorn, and the lower the temperature and the colder the weather, the better the harvesting effect. In the past two days, the temperature in Poplar City, Xinjiang has dropped to more than minus 20 degrees Celsius, and fruit farmers are busy speeding up the harvest of sea buckthorn.

Every 5 a.m., the 10,000-acre sea buckthorn planting base in Baipod City, Xinjiang begins to get busy. Fruit farmers wear headlights and start harvesting sea buckthorn in the cold night.

The sea buckthorn fruit has thin skin and many juices, and the branches are covered with thorns, making it extremely difficult to harvest. Sea buckthorn fruit also contains a lot of sea buckthorn oil, which can only be frozen and hard at more than minus 20 degrees Celsius. Only at this time can you knock it down with a wooden stick, which is called "knocking fruit" by the locals.

When harvested in autumn or early winter, fruit farmers will cut the sea buckthorn fruit with sea buckthorn branches and send it to the cold storage for freezing and then threshing. But this will cut off many branches and affect the harvest in the second year. Therefore, many fruit farmers still choose to "knock fruit" in the late winter. Every time the "fruit knocking season", nearby farmers will come to participate.

At present, the sea buckthorn planting area in Poplar City, Xinjiang has reached 52,000 mu, and the fruit-bearing area is nearly 30,000 mu. The local area also established a sea buckthorn industrial cooperative, built cold storage and sea buckthorn processing production lines, the deep processing rate of sea buckthorn reached more than 45%, and products such as sea buckthorn seed oil, sea buckthorn slurry were developed.

Xinjiang Manas: Winter catches the net to welcome a good harvest

Recently, Xinjiang Manas Winter Catching Festival started fishing, and tourists experience the scene of "the fish full of the warehouse welcomes a good harvest" in the ice and snow.

Early in the morning, on the lake near Xiaohaizizhai Jueyu Island in Manas County, Changji Prefecture, under the command of the fishermen, the fishermen worked together to drag the fishing nets full of fat silver carp and grass carp out of the ice, and the fresh fish were joking in the net.

With the joy of a bumper harvest, the fishermen carried fresh fish to prepare for the on-site auction. In winter fishing, the head fish auction is the highlight. The heaviest fish pulled out on the first website is called "head fish". The head fish symbolizes good luck and wealth. In order to win this good lottery, tourists on the scene raised their bids and increased prices. In the end, the headfish sold for 1,888 yuan.

It is understood that the local area has held winter catches for six consecutive years.