Passion fruit is a tropical fruit, rich in influence, and also has medicinal value, in addition to fresh fruit sales, peel can be used to make pectin, dietary fiber; fruit seeds can be used to refine essential oils; fruit, roots, stems, leaves used as medicinal materials, treatment of depression.
According to the "2021-2026 Research Report on the Application Market Demand and Development Opportunities of China's Passion Fruit Industry" released by the New Thinking Industry Research Center, passion fruit planting cycle is short, high efficiency and low cost, becoming the main agricultural income increase crops in China, and the planting area has been rapidly expanded, and the output reached 640,000 tons in 2018. Due to the rapid growth of passion fruit production capacity and rising production, there is currently overcapacity, and the output of passion fruit has remained at about 600,000 tons after 2018, and there is no room for significant increase in production in a short period of time.
With the growth of the per capita income of Chinese residents, the demand for fruit consumption continues to rise, fruit consumption is gradually developing in the direction of high-end and differentiation, niche varieties such as passion fruit are favored by the market, and market demand continues to rise. At present, passion fruit consumption is mainly based on fresh fruits, and the demand for fresh fruits accounts for about 81%. Relying on online platforms such as Tmall and JD.com, passion fruit is sold throughout the country, and the market demand is relatively high.
In addition to fresh food, passion fruit is used in new tea drinks, because passion fruit has a sweet and sour taste, and can be combined with a variety of fruits, the application demand in fruit tea beverages continues to rise. In 2020, the scale of China's new tea market will reach more than 100 billion yuan, and passion fruit plays an important role in it, and the market application space is huge.
In terms of planting, as a tropical fruit, passion fruit is mainly planted in the southeast coastal and southwest regions, mainly concentrated in Guizhou, Guangxi, Guangdong, Fujian and other provinces, of which Guangxi is the main production area of passion fruit in China, and the output accounts for about 50% of the total domestic output, followed by Fujian Province. At present, the varieties of passion fruit grown in China mainly include several varieties such as "full of stars", "Nong No. 1", "Purple Fragrance No. 1", "Golden Passion Fruit", etc. At present, the golden passion fruit is favored by the market.
The processing rate of passion fruit in China is low, and the processed products are relatively primary, mostly passion jam, passion fruit wine, passion fruit juice, passion fruit preserved fruit. Only about 20,000 tons of passion fruit will be used for processing in 2020. At present, the processing technology of passion fruit is relatively backward, and the deep processing products such as pectin and fruit seed oil with high added value are almost blank, and there is still room for development in the field of deep processing of passion fruit in the future.
New Thinking industry analysts said that passion fruit as a kind of auxiliary crop, in China has been promoted, the past five years of rapid growth in planting area, in 2018 reached a peak, and then due to overcapacity, the growth rate of planting area slowed down. China's passion fruit is mainly based on fresh food, processed products account for a relatively small proportion, and most of them are primary processing, the added value of products is low, and there are blanks in deep processing products, and there are still development opportunities in the field of deep processing in China's passion fruit industry in the future.