Blueberry cultivation has gradually become an emerging and advantageous industry in Tonghua City

Tonghua Daily News (reporter Zhang Guowei) In recent years, Tonghua City has strengthened measures, fully promoted the construction of blueberry high-quality standardized production bases, built a complete and extended industrial chain, created the brand benefits of Tonghua blueberry products, and gradually cultivated the blueberry industry into an emerging characteristic advantageous industry in Tonghua City. At present, the city's blueberry planting area exceeds 10,000 mu, the fresh fruit harvesting and storage capacity reaches 6,000 tons, and the deep processing capacity reaches 4,000 tons.

Cultivate leading enterprises and promote the integrated development of the blueberry industry. From the geographical environment point of view, Tonghua City is located in the southeast of Jilin Province, Changbai Mountain, excellent ecological environment, abundant rainfall, fertile soil, rich acidic soil resources and suitable climatic conditions, there are nearly 1 million mu of hillside woodland, including nearly 200,000 mu of land, suitable for blueberry growth, with large-scale development of blueberry production of natural conditions. At present, Tonghua City has a provincial-level modern agricultural leading enterprise. Tonghua Heyun Modern Agriculture Co., Ltd. was established in 2002, with a registered capital of 41.62 million yuan, is a blueberry breeding, breeding, planting, processing in one of the whole industry chain company, is China's first through the cooperation between school-enterprise industry, education and research to create blueberry industrialization development of enterprises, is the only municipal government approved in Tonghua City drinking water source protection area to develop efficient ecological agriculture enterprises, but also the only blueberry industry in China to pass and implement the EU · International Ecological Certification Center organic food standards enterprises. The company has been rated as the national organic food production base, the national high-quality fruit base, the national star creation world, the Jilin Province agricultural products special excellent zone, the Jilin Province standardization comprehensive demonstration area, the Jilin Province first, second and third production integration demonstration point unit, and the provincial key leading enterprise of agricultural industrialization. The company's blueberry scale, technology and industrialization level rank among the top three in China's blueberry industry, and the sales volume of blueberries fresh fruits ranks second in the country. The company has invested a total of 300 million yuan to build a 6,000-mu organic blueberry planting base, a 6,000-ton blueberry collection and storage base, a 4,000-ton product deep processing base and an annual 4 million excellent seedling breeding base. The company has developed deep processing products such as fruit juice, jam, fruit wine, dried fruit, blueberry lutein and other products, which has improved the added value of the industry and ranked first in product quality in the country.

Technology leads the way to promote the innovative development of the blueberry industry. Tonghua City relies on Tonghua Heyun Modern Agriculture Co., Ltd., highlighting scientific and technological innovation work, after more than ten years, from the selection of blueberry excellent varieties, the creation of new germplasm, the high-quality and productive cultivation technology supporting new varieties, the key technology and application of blueberry fresh fruit preservation processing, to the research and development of deep-processed products, and extensive cooperation with domestic and foreign experts, a complete production technology system has been formed. Jointly established a demonstration base of the International Key Laboratory of Sino-US Cooperation with Cornell University and Shenyang Agricultural University; Jointly established a research center for blueberry breeding, new germplasm creation and high-quality and high-yield cultivation technology in Changbai Mountain area with Jilin Agricultural University; Jointly established with Shenyang Agricultural University the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" Science and Technology Support Program Project of the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China "Research and Industrialization Demonstration Base of Key Technologies for High-value Manufacturing of Berry Products", the Demonstration Base of Key Technologies of Berry Quick-frozen Processing and Product Development, and the Berry Processing Demonstration Base and Teaching and Scientific Research Practice Base of the Ministry of Agriculture's Public Welfare Industry (Agriculture) Special Project "Berry Storage and Origin Processing Technology Integration and Demonstration"; It has undertaken the national major special project "Blueberry Biological Breeding High-tech Industrialized Production Demonstration Project". In recent years, he has published 9 academic papers in national journals, obtained 5 invention patents, won 1 provincial scientific and technological progress first, second and third prizes, and passed the provincial and ministerial approval of 3 new varieties of blueberries.

The development of the blueberry industry has brought obvious social and ecological benefits. The city's 10,000 mu of blueberries, the annual output value of 80 million yuan, the average output value of 8,000 yuan, is 5-10 times the output value of planting ordinary crops. The development of Tonghua blueberry industry has promoted the significant improvement of the water quality of the Ha Ni River in Tonghua City. The Hasi River is a drinking water source for 600,000 people in Tonghua City, and a national second-level protected water source. Planting 6,000 mu of organic blueberries in the Ha Ni River Basin is equivalent to adding 6,000 mu of ecological forest in the protected area, reducing the annual chemical fertilizer application by 90,640 kg, reducing the amount of pesticide application by 6,000 kg, using livestock and poultry manure to make 6,000 tons of bio-organic fertilizer, returning 8,000 cubic meters of straw to the field, and forming a high-standard farmland of 6,000 mu of arable land, and increasing the organic matter content in the soil from 2-3% to 10%.