On April 16, the 4th Anting Town Huangdu Tomato Cultural Festival and the 2024 Jiading District Tomato Tasting and Evaluation Activity was held in the Huangdu Branch of the Anting Town Community Cultural Activity Center.
Song of Youth, Zi Xiaoke, Huangzhu, Baifei, Pufen 500...... In the tasting area, 40 participating varieties and 11 new varieties are lined up, and the red, yellow, green, purple, white and other colors are like a "tomato rainbow", which is dizzying. The tomato evaluation was divided into three groups according to the large, medium and small fruit types, and the taster comprehensively considered and voted on the tomato's appearance, sugar content, color, and taste.
"I can't imagine that there are so many varieties of tomatoes, and each one has a different taste and texture, some are sweet and sour, some are sandy, and they are more delicious than fruits. Ms. Wu, a citizen, said in surprise.
In the end, Taoxing won the gold medal in the large fruit category, Chunxiang No. 1 won the gold medal in the medium fruit category, Huang Guan 16, Huang Girl, and Qingxia 66 won the gold medal in the small fruit category, and Chunxiang No. 1 and Qingxia 66 won the most popular award in the public category.
It is reported that as early as the end of the 60s of the last century, the Huangdu area of Jiading Anting began to plant tomatoes, because of the high terrain and good soil quality, the tomatoes produced by it are large, full, thin, colorful, sweet and glutinous, juicy, welcomed by the market, and Huangdu tomatoes are also famous in Shanghai. Today, Huangdu tomatoes continue to evolve and grow, planting more varieties of tomatoes with bright colors and diverse flavors.
There is also a good "persimmon" fun market integrating cultural and creative, agricultural products and food at the selection site, and a tomato knowledge contest and lucky blind box lottery activities are carried out, so that the public can enhance their sense of participation and experience while tasting tomatoes. The event also released the cartoon IP image of Huangdu Tomato, aiming to create a new business card of Anting agriculture and attract more people's attention and love.
Huangdu Tomato Cartoon IP
At present, Anting Town is registering the Huangdu Tomato trademark and defensive trademark, and actively applying for geographical indication trademarks to expand brand influence and enhance market competitiveness. At the same time, it also signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences to jointly explore the innovation of Huangdu tomato planting technology and variety improvement. In the next stage, Anting Town will continue to dig deep and vigorously promote Huangdu tomato culture to inject new vitality into rural revitalization.
Correspondent: Zhang Xinyi
Editor: Shen Yue