Farmers sort out a mountain of red chili peppers in Wenxian county, Longnan, Gansu province. [Photo provided to gogansu.com]

Farmers in Wenxian county, Longnan, Gansu province are busy picking, cleaning, drying and sorting a bumper harvest of red chili peppers.

The county has 723.38 hectares of land planted to peppers.  It has an estimated output value totaling more than 65 million yuan ($9.33 million) a year.