BEIJING, Oct. 8 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- China's Hui County farmers are able to turn waste into treasure, with a rapidly expanding pecan crafts processing industry ( http://www.gift-crafts-onsale.com/Products/ ) bringing new revenue sources for the region, according to Tootoo.com.
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Selling fast in the crafts market ( http://www.gift-crafts-onsale.com/ ), local people of Hui County turned small pecans into a big industry, providing new opportunities to increase revenue.
Pecan is a common wild species in the mountain area in Hui County, that bears a hard fruit that is uneatable. Artisans in the northern mountains of Hui County use the pecan fruit as processing raw materials and turn them into carved vases, pencils, banners, lions, gallops, and other crafts.
In recent years, Hui County has paid great attention to the tourism industry, in turn promoting pecan processing and handicraft items ( http://www.gift-crafts-onsale.com/ ) in fairs both within and outside the province. Hui County's pecan process works in Gansu Province won the "Lily "Award in the second "lily" arts and crafts exhibition. With a growing reputation, more and more consumers are interested in the pecan processing and handicraft.
With the expansion of a pecan consumer market, Hui County pecan handicrafts processing industry is becoming more and more prosperous. With more joining the art and crafts processing ranks, a series of township-scale processing factories have expanded year by year, and the number of shops specialized in selling Pecan handicraft
( http://www.gift-crafts-onsale.com/Buying_Leads/ ) outside the province are increasing quickly.
Under government support, the Hui County pecan crafts industries have turned from local enterprises to small workshops. They have set up professional pecan processing handicraft cooperatives in Gaoxiang village, which has 45 members now. In Hong Kong, the Oxfam Foundation has organized visits and field studies to help set up their own brand "Xinheyuan". Under a unified production workshop, the cooperatives adhere to the norms of technology, harmonization, unification and the price of packaging sales ( http://www.gift-crafts-onsale.com/ ), with a product showroom. Members can get the share by the means of production and technology; each person will receive a monthly income above 2,000 Yuan. At present, the cooperatives with an annual production capacity of up to 10,000 or more can get more than 2,000,000 yuan every year.
