Guilin has become the world's largest export base for monk fruit Products are exported to the United States, the European Union, Japan and South Korea

Guilin, March 5 (Xinhua) -- During the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, Guilin City, Guangxi Province, vigorously developed the processing industry of luo han guo, and built luo han guo into a high-quality regional public brand of guilin's characteristic agricultural products, achieving remarkable results. According to the data provided by the Guilin Municipal Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Affairs on the 4th, in 2020, the total output value of the whole industrial chain of Guilin monk fruit has exceeded 10 billion yuan, becoming the world's largest production, processing, distribution and export base of monk fruit.

The picture shows villagers grabbing luo han guo. (Data map) Photo by Shi Nongbing, China News Service

Guilin has the advantage of developing the luo han guo industry, with an annual output accounting for about 85% of the country, and is known as the "hometown of luo han guo".

Guilin City established the Luo Han Guo Industrial Technology Innovation Alliance and the Guilin Luo Han Guo Industry Ecological Innovation Alliance, increased capital investment, and carried out standardized breeding and seedling breeding of Luo Han Guo, the construction of production demonstration bases, and the research of fruit processing technology. Advanced technologies such as standardized high-yield cultivation, out-of-season cultivation, and spray pollination of selenium-rich monk fruit have been widely promoted and applied.

Guilin Municipal Finance arranges 10 million yuan of special funds in the annual budget to support new agricultural business entities and service entities to strive for brand, development and growth. At the same time, vigorously promote the large-scale, standardized, branded and industrialization development of luo han guo, and actively promote the "enterprise (cooperative) + base + farmer" and "order production + six unified points" model, the industrial chain of luo han guo raw materials is orderly and healthy development, driving the formation of Yongfu, Lingui, Longsheng as the main planting area of 100,000 mu, output of 1 billion to 1.2 billion luo han guo mainly, and radiation Guilin surrounding cities and counties and Hunan, Guizhou and other provinces and other regions.

Guilin City has guided dozens of monk fruit processing enterprises to settle in the Guilin Economic Development Zone to gather and develop, and the annual deep processing capacity of luo han guo has reached more than 600 million. More than 20 leading luo han guo processing products have passed the record of China's national export food production enterprises, the UNITED States FDA-GRAS certification, BRC certification, etc., and are exported to the United States, the European Union, Japan, Singapore, South Korea and Malaysia and other countries and regions. Yongfu Luo Han Guo was listed in the first batch of advantageous zones for agricultural products with Chinese characteristics, and was selected as one of the top 100 regional public brands of Agricultural Products in China.

It is understood that in May 2020, the Guangxi Luohanguo Industrial Cluster was selected into the list of advantageous and characteristic industrial clusters in 2020, and the industrial cluster continued to grow. By the end of 2020, the total planting area covered by the Guangxi Luohanguo industrial cluster will be 298,400 mu, and the planting base area will be 259,600 mu, accounting for 87% of the planting area of the whole industry, of which the demonstration standardized planting base area is 119,400 mu; there are 115 farmers' professional cooperatives, including 13 demonstration cooperatives of farmers' professional cooperatives at or above the provincial level. In 2020, 132 projects will be implemented with a total investment of 377 million yuan, of which 94 million yuan will be used by central funds, 2.4 million yuan will be local integration funds, and 281 million yuan will be self-raised by enterprises. (End)

Source: China News Network