It's the ripe season of yellow peaches again. Driving on Xinyi Road in Fengjing Town, Jinshan District, I saw rows of yellow peach trees lush and tall, and the plump fruits were hidden in the shadows of the leaves, emitting a seductive peach fragrance. Walking into a peach orchard, Sun Xizhou, head of the Shanghai Maple Fruit and Vegetable Planting Professional Cooperative, is busy selecting yellow peaches and preparing to send freshly picked yellow peaches to the city.
According to Sun Xizhou, this year's yellow peach in the second expansion period, that is, 30 days before the fruit ripening, less rain but more sun, resulting in the average yellow peach is about 1-2 two smaller than in previous years, but the quality is better than in previous years, "the continuous accumulation of sugar and other nutrients is more concentrated, we call this 4 two to 5 pairs of yellow peach 'small sugar ball', the juice is rich and the peach flesh is firm, is the summer summer heat product." Sun Xizhou introduced.
In addition to the continuous high temperature weather, another important factor that makes the yellow peach quality better and the taste better is that this year, more than 1800 mu of yellow peach forests in Fengjing Town have completed the "upgrading".
According to Wang Yalin, deputy director of the Agricultural and Rural Service Center of Fengjing Town, the peach tree grows at the beginning of three years, bears fruit after three years, produces abundantly after five years, and declines after ten years. Fengjing yellow peach since 2007 began to plant, after the first year of the "colostrum stage", the third to the seventh year of the "golden period", to the tenth year had to face the practical needs of "renewal planting", Wang Yalin said, "With the first ten years of planting experience, not only the varieties need to be updated, the management model and sales model need to be updated, so since 2017, Fengjing Town has started the renovation of old trees, the whole process lasted 3-4 years, has been fully completed." ”
The fruit trees in Sun Xizhou Orchard were first planted in Fengjing Town, and then began to start a business in the field of yellow peach cultivation in Fengjing Town. Through careful management and ecological cultivation, he effectively ensured the quality of yellow peaches, and the "splendid" yellow peaches he planted won the title of "Maple King" for many consecutive times. However, with the increase of tree age, the taste, nutrition, size and other indicators of yellow peach will show a downward trend. So after the first batch of peach trees turned ten years old, Sun Xizhou began to replace the old plants, and completed the "replacement" of more than 200 acres of peach forests in 3 years.
At the same time, under the guidance of experts from the Institute of Horticulture of shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Sun Xizhou upgraded his yellow peach field management technology. The new peach saplings are first cultivated in the greenhouse with nursery bags for a year, and when they gradually adapt to the local climate and develop healthy and strong, they are colonized into the field. This technology can also delay the "retirement" of old trees and improve the land output rate.
"In the past, peach trees were low in shape, and only 30 peach trees could be planted in an acre of land; Now we prune the trees into a tall posture, and one acre of land can colonize more than 80 peach trees, an increase of nearly 3 times. Sun Xizhou told reporters. In the past, plagued by the low and low peach trees, the field spraying fertilizer, picking, etc. can only rely on manual labor, and as the cooperative gradually equipped with automated irrigation and picking machinery, the peach tree "stands up" long, improving the land utilization rate. The peach trees managed by agricultural machinery not only saved labor costs, but also plummeted in the rate of bad fruit, and the yield per mu increased from 3,000 jin to 4,000 jin. Nowadays, the new generation of yellow peaches that began to be cultivated in 2019 has entered the production period, and the yellow peach "colostrum" has come again, which also makes this year's Maple Jing yellow peach take the boutique route of "small and sweet" and "small and beautiful".
Fengjing Town is actively exploring the sales model of the whole industrial chain of yellow peach to further improve the added value of yellow peach. "On the one hand, we have cooperated with enterprises in the jurisdiction to successfully develop yellow peach flavored beer, the color of yellow peach flavor beer and yellow peach juice are close, and there is no taste of alcohol in the mouth, but a sweet and sour taste." Mass production has been successfully achieved. On the other hand, we have explored the secondary fruit that will be produced during the picking process, fermented to make yellow peach liquor, and the finished product has been quite popular in the past 2 years. This year will also be actively promoted. Wang Yalin looked forward to the development direction of Fengjing Yellow Peach.
At the same time, many peach farmers are also trying to explore cooperation with food bloggers, paying more attention to the sense of experience and process, in the form of "blockbusters", on-site operation, posting the production process of "whole peach feast", yellow peach pizza, yellow peach egg tart, yellow peach toast... The golden flesh adds a fresh texture to the various desserts, which is quite attractive.
According to reports, with the assistance of the team of the Fruit Research Office of the Institute of Pomology of Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Fengjing introduced and promoted the planting of 6 varieties such as Jinchun and Jinxiu, and tried to plant 3 new varieties, and the varieties of different fruit periods were carefully matched, so that the "yellow peach season" of Fengjing continued from early June to mid-to-late September.
Although the planting area of yellow peach in Fengjing Town is much lower than 5-6 years ago, it is because in the process of replanting, more attention is paid to the planting environment of yellow peach, and the land planting is selected far from industrial manufacturing and pollution sources, and the construction of modern Fengjing characteristic new towns that Fengjing is promoting takes "high-level green ecological space" as an important feature and content, which ensures the naturalness of the yellow peach planting environment and promotes the yellow peach industry to be refined and stronger. Lu Lei, director of the Agricultural and Rural Service Center of Fengjing Town, said.
Author: Fan Liping Zhu Liyan Bo Xiaobo
Editor: Zhang Yi