Lintong pomegranates are mouth-watering.
Western Network News (reporter Liu Wang) today (October 15), 2021 Shaanxi fruit network characteristic season • Xi'an seasonal fruit "Shengshi Yuguo • Silk Road Fragrance" Lintong pomegranate publicity and promotion activities were launched, a number of different varieties of pomegranates on the scene participated in the evaluation of excellence, the color of bright, sweet and sour, less seed fertilizer residue and other characteristics of Lintong pomegranate makes people salivate.
In order to fully excavate the historical heritage and cultural connotation of "Lintong Pomegranate" and make the Lintong pomegranate industry bigger and stronger, in this Lintong pomegranate publicity and promotion activity, the organizer awarded and awarded relevant representatives of China's important agricultural cultural heritage - "Lintong Pomegranate Planting System".
The event site also held a signing ceremony for the integrated development of The pomegranate industry in Lintong and the centralized marketing of pomegranate online and offline marketing. Relevant units and enterprises have signed relevant agreements on online promotion, offline sales and raw material supply of Lintong pomegranates.
Lintong is the earliest planting place of pomegranate in China and one of the main pomegranate producing areas in the country, and is known as the "hometown of pomegranates". Lintong pomegranate was introduced and planted by Zhang Qian of the Han Dynasty to the Western Regions, starting from the Han dynasty and flourishing in the Tang Dynasty, witnessing the ancient Silk Road civilization and has a planting history of more than 2,000 years. Lintong pomegranate has won the titles of "National Geographical Indication Protected Product" and "Geographical Indication of Chinese Agricultural Products", and was included in the fifth batch of China's important agricultural cultural heritage list.
The pomegranate planting area of Lintong District is more than 80,000 mu, with an annual output of more than 80,000 tons of high-quality pomegranates, a direct output value of 640 million yuan, and a comprehensive output value of 1.5 billion yuan. It has cultivated processing enterprises such as Dan ruoer, Qin figurines and red pomegranates, and 18 provincial and municipal well-known brands such as Baifu rui and Lin Tong. There are more than 60 pomegranate production and sales enterprises and professional cooperatives in the whole region, pomegranate growers have reached 8,200 households, and 15,000 people are employed, and pomegranates have become the "golden eggs" that lead the Lintong masses to increase their income and become rich.
Editor: Liu Wang