Right now, it's the season when crispy red plums are ripe for market. More than 1,000 acres of crisp red plums in Quntuan Village, Jianfeng Town, welcome the harvest, the heavy plums bend the branches, shuttle under the fruit trees to pick plum farmers, and the mountains and fields are full of harvest scenes.
The reporter walked into the crisp red plum planting base in Zhengjiacheng, Quntuan Village, Jianfeng Town, and saw that the plum trees all over the mountains were full of delicious crisp red plums, and the surface of the ripe plums was full of thin fruit frost, full and plump, crystal clear, hanging on the branches, making people salivate. A farmer is picking plums in a plum grove.
"We planted four or five acres of plums, and we had to pick more than 10,000 catties. The taste of this crispy red plum is really good, and the boss likes to come to us to collect it, because the quality is good, and it is 4 yuan a catty. Wan Jianqun, a villager in Quntuan Village, Jianfeng Town, who was picking plums, said happily.
The orchard is full of busy farmers, and at the foot of the mountain, buyers from other places are weighing, sorting and packing the plums sent by the farmers, ready to be loaded into trucks and sent to other places for sale.
"I am a fruit agency from Qingshen County, Meishan, and we still buy a lot of money every year, such as plums, rake oranges, Ehime, etc. In the past two days, I mainly came to collect plums, and every day after six o'clock I had to come here to collect 10,000 to 20,000 catties, some of which were exported to Viet Nam, and some were shipped to Shandong and Northeast China in China. Chen Sufang, a plum buyer, said.
It is understood that the crisp red plum, also known as "phoenix plum", has a purple-red peel, delicate and smooth flesh taste, slag in the mouth, rich juice, sweetness up to 16 degrees, and is resistant to storage and transportation. As one of the best early-maturing plum varieties, it has rounded edges and is highly resistant to disease. With good taste and high quality, it has been loved by many people, which also allows more and more people to enjoy the economic benefits brought by this characteristic industry. As the birthplace of crisp red plum, the first successful cultivation of crisp red plum seedlings is in Quntuan Village, Jianfeng Town, which has a history of nearly 30 years, and now there are more than 1,000 acres of plum varieties such as crispy red plum, May crisp, and bee sugar plum.
Source: Rong Media Center, Shizhong District, Leshan City