Yangmei Season, in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai circulated such a sentence: Mixed well, it depends on whether anyone will send you Xianju Yangmei in June. Xianju bayberry, as the "ceiling" of the domestic bayberry industry, can be eaten for a few days of the year in June.
On June 14, the first batch of 500 kilograms of Dongkui Yangmei worth 80,000 yuan was loaded from Dazhan Township, Xianju County, and will be airlifted to Dubai, United Arab Emirates via Shanghai Pudong Airport. It is reported that this is the first batch of Bayberry exported abroad in Taizhou this year, and the price of local supermarkets is as high as 60 yuan per piece.
It is reported that this batch of bayberry comes from Xiandai Agricultural Development Co., Ltd. of Xianju County, Taizhou, which is a large-scale bayberry production enterprise started by college students, planting more than 110 acres of bayberry. The company's core operation team is basically a group of post-90s and post-95 Xianju youth, on the basis of their parents' Yangmei professional cooperative, they founded the "Sweet Wild Preferred" Xianju Yangmei brand in 2020, opening up new channels such as online live broadcasting and online delivery, expanding the domestic market, exploring new export models, and injecting young impetus into the development of agricultural product trade in their hometown.
Chen Ye, chief of the third section of taizhou customs comprehensive business, said: "Before picking, we will sample the bayberry fruit in advance and conduct laboratory testing on pesticide residues to ensure the quality and safety of the exported bayberry. On the day of harvest, the appearance quality is also checked. Rapid inspection and quarantine to maximize the protection of fresh export of bayberry, so that foreign consumers can taste 'xianmei' for the first time. ”
It only takes 2 days from the picking of bayberry to the table of Dubai consumers, thanks to the "bayberry export green channel" opened by Taizhou Customs. In order to ensure the quality of exported bayberry, Taizhou Customs will move the supervision forward, as early as the fruit setting period of bayberry, it will inform the intended orchard and packaging factory in advance of the process matters of registration and annual verification, and make preparations to help the orchard establish and improve the quality management system for the production of bayberry. In the past, it took half a day from the base inspection declaration to the clearance of the certificate, but now it takes only 2 to 3 hours to clear customs.
It is reported that this is the third year that the company exports bayberry, mainly to Dubai, Singapore, Canada, the United States, Australia. The total export of Bayberry from Dubai is about 500 kilograms in 40 boxes, worth 12,000 US dollars, equivalent to more than 80,000 yuan. Among them, each box contains 30 boxes of exquisitely packaged bayberry, and each box has 15 pieces of Dongkui bayberry in size of about 20 to 25 grams of standard Dongkui bayberry.
"These bayberry can be sold at a local supermarket for 8 to 10 US dollars, equivalent to about 60 yuan." The head of the company said, "On June 17, we will have a batch of bayberry of equal value exported to Singapore, and on June 19, another batch will be exported to Canada." ”
Xianju bayberry can be roughly divided into three categories:
(1) Water chestnut bayberry, also known as black charcoal bayberry, it is mainly listed in early June or mid-June, the overall size is not large, the color is mainly black and purple, small core, thick flesh, soft entrance, sweet taste are its characteristics.
(2) Dongmei bayberry, the size looks almost the same size as ping-pong balls, its characteristics are large, the core is slightly larger, the color is red, and the sweetness is one or two points less than the water chestnut bayberry, which is about seven points sweet and three points sour.
(3) Crystal bayberry, in fact, is a poplar tree, which is known as the Hermès in the bayberry, which sold for hundreds of yuan a catty in previous years.
According to the Qianjiang Evening News reported on June 9, Yangmei experts from the Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences told reporters that there are two main varieties of Bayberry in the province's 1.32 million mu, 53% dongkui bayberry and 28% water chestnut planting bayberry. They produced 640,000 tons last year, with an output value of 4.7 billion yuan. This year, due to the continuous low temperature and low temperature in January and February, the flower bud differentiation is slow; In March, the bayberry period suddenly encountered high temperatures, resulting in a significant decrease in the pollination rate of bayberry and a decrease in production; The prevalence of onion disease and fissure has led to a reduction in the production of Dongkui bayberry, with production in many producing areas exceeding 50%.