Cover reporter Chen Yuanyang
On April 30th, in Fengyu Town, Yanjiang District, Ziyang District, Sichuan Province, a series of citrus trees grew quietly, and small turquoise fruits were hidden in the leaf bushes, just waiting for more than 4 months to taste the sweetness and delicacy of "Yanjiang Honey Orange".
Grown in pieces of Yanjiang mandarin
As early as mid-April, the Intellectual Property Planning and Development Department of the Sichuan Provincial Market Supervision Bureau went to Ziyang to investigate and guide the brand construction of "Yanjiang Honey Orange" and promote the development of Yanjiang characteristic industries. It is understood that Yanjiang mandarin orange is the earliest citrus variety listed in the southwest, obtained the "national geographical indication protection product", at present, the planting area of the whole region has exceeded 300,000 mu, and the planting area of the main citrus producing area of Fengyu Town has reached 130,000 mu, with more than 10 varieties, known as "the hometown of China's early maturing mandarin".
Since the 1990s, Yanjiang mandarin oranges have allowed orange farmers to make a lot of money. In recent years, with the continuous expansion of the scale of planting, uneven quality, weak brand promotion, disorderly sales organization and other issues have also plagued the further development of the Citrus Industry in Yanjiang. How to improve quality and upgrade, Yanjiang District has set up a special citrus association to unify standard construction, unified technical training, unified agricultural material management, etc. At the same time, the local government also integrates the geographical resources of the former Beiji Town, Fengyu Town and Zhongyi Town, with the creation of a national agricultural park as the development positioning, and accelerates the construction of the "Foshan Orange Sea" modern agricultural industrial park integrating citrus planting, processing, management and citrus culture.
The villagers raised two college students from citrus
"Let's go, let's go inside my garden." In the bell ringing village of Fengyu Town, 57-year-old villager Ding Jizhong has been dealing with citrus for 34 years, and when he heard that the reporter came to interview Yanjiang Mandarin, he warmly invited him.
In 1987, after retiring from the army, Ding Jizhong returned to his hometown and began to learn to plant mandarin oranges, "The first time was when the government sent 100 seedlings, and all of them were planted after receiving them." Ding Jizhong also remembered that although the family had a total of more than 7 acres of land at that time, he only took less than half an acre to experiment, "At that time, most of them were mainly planting grain, and planting fruit trees was still afraid of failure." ”
However, when the mandarin oranges were ripe, Ding Jizhong carried about 100 catties to zizhong qiuxi town to sell, and the result surprised him, "At that time, it was almost sold for nearly a hundred yuan, which was comparable to the price of meat." "Subsequently, Ding Jizhong continued to expand the scale of planting, and constantly learned new planting techniques, and the quality of his mandarin oranges became better and better, and every time it was ripe, the merchants directly came to the door to buy." By 1996, all the land in my family had been used to plant fruit trees, and I myself was constantly renewing the varieties through grafting. ”
"Now the net income per mu is about 10,000 yuan." Looking back on the years he planted fruit trees, Ding Jizhong is very proud. A small mandarin orange not only supported the family's income, but also allowed him to cultivate two college students.
Yanjiang mandarin
Ding Jizhong's experience is just a microcosm of the orange farmers in Yanjiang, and the reason why the citrus industry has grown is closely related to the local terrain and climate. According to Chen Jiajun, deputy director and senior agronomist of Fengyu Town Agricultural Comprehensive Service Center, Yanjiang is located in the shallow hills in the middle of the Sichuan Basin, in the middle reaches of the Tuojiang River, with an altitude of 350 to 450 meters. It belongs to the central subtropical humid climate zone, with four distinct seasons, no severe cold in winter, no heat in summer, and many nights of rain. Due to the obstruction of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau and the Longquan Mountain Range, cold air activity is inhibited, and autumn rain rarely occurs. The Tuojiang River flows through the whole territory from north to south, forming a unique community climate environment, which not only makes the acid reduction of Yanjiang mandarin orange fast, the solid acid ratio is large, the flavor is rich and unique, and the chlorophyll degradation is fast, and the formation of anthocyanins is early, resulting in early and uniform coloring of Yanjiang honey orange. "Studies have shown that the climate of Yanjiang is the most suitable cultivation area for mandarin oranges."
Chen Jiajun and the staff of the Citrus Association check the growth of early ripening mandarin oranges
It is precisely because of this unique climatic condition that the Yanjiang mandarin orange matures and markets 15 to 20 days earlier than the mandarin oranges in chongqing, Hubei, Hunan, Shaanxi, Guizhou, Jiangsu and Zhejiang and other real estate areas under the same type of climatic conditions.
Create "Foshan Orange Sea" and create a national agricultural park in the future
At present, citrus has developed into the most prominent characteristic agricultural industry in Yanjiang District, with a citrus planting area of 300,000 mu. However, with the continuous expansion of the planting scale, uneven quality, weak brand promotion, disorderly sales organization and other issues are also plaguing the further development of the local citrus industry, how to improve quality and upgrade?
According to the relevant person in charge of the Yanjiang District Agricultural and Rural Bureau, the local government has not only set up a special citrus association, unified construction standards, unified technical training, unified agricultural material management, etc. At the same time, the local government also integrates the geographical resources of the original Beiji Town, Fengyu Town and Zhongyi Town, and accelerates the construction of the Foshan Orange Sea Modern Agricultural Industrial Park, which integrates citrus planting, processing, management and citrus culture.
Why is it called "Foshan Orange Sea"? The third largest seated Buddha in Sichuan Province, the BanyueShan Giant Buddha, is located in it, with a height of 22.24 meters and a chest width of 11.2 meters, and the giant Buddha is surrounded by citrus trees.
Half Moon Mountain Buddha
In Gaodong Village, Fengyu Town, once a remote and small village with no name, it is now famous with the empowerment of modern agricultural industry. On the basis of ensuring the original characteristics of the village, the local infrastructure and industrial planning in the village have been carefully polished, and the infrastructure conditions in the village have been significantly improved. At the same time, Yanjiang District effectively relies on the Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, the Institute of Citrus and other technical institutes, improve citrus varieties, cultivate new varieties, introduce and plant more than 60 citrus varieties from all over the country, implant agricultural culture genes into the overall situation of industrial development for the first time, build a citrus culture science base, and reshape the Yanjiang citrus culture brand. This has also attracted many people to return to their hometowns to start a business, and Wang Junqiang is one of them.
Wang Junqiang's cultivation of oranges is full of branches
It is understood that Wang Junqiang was once a painter in Sichuan Nanjun Automobile Group Co., Ltd., and his monthly salary was about 8,000 yuan before that. After several expeditions, he decided to resign and return to his hometown of Gaodong Village to grow citrus.
"Like the road is much better than before, it feels like a new look." As a new orange farmer, Wang Junqiang did not follow the trend of planting early ripening mandarin oranges, he chose Wo mandarin, "This late-maturing variety belongs to citrus, with a long sales period, can be staggered to avoid competition." ”
Late ripening variety – Mandarin orange
At present, Wang Junqiang's oranges are in the peak season of listing, and the retail price is about 4 yuan per catty. In Wang Junqiang's fruit forest, the reporter also found a strange phenomenon, the tree that has not been picked, and a new round of fruit, "not only the flowers and fruits are the same tree, equivalent to two seasons of fruit and tree." ”
The fruit is the same plant in both seasons
Up to now, Foshan Orange Sea Modern Agricultural Industrial Park has developed 3 types of early, middle and late ripening citrus varieties such as Xingjin, Miyamoto, Ehime, Harumi, Wo Citrus and other 7 varieties of 120,000 mu, cultivated and driven service enterprises 9, planted 42 cooperatives, 58 family farms, 36 village collective economic organizations, 146 citrus managers, and 28,000 small farmers.
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