On September 15, pear farmers in Dasizhuang Village, Zhao County, Shijiazhuang City, sorted and packed snowflake pears. Photo by correspondent Zhu Tao
Hebei News Network, September 15 (Hebei Daily reporter Ren Xueguang correspondent Nie Congchao) "Large size, good fruit type, high sugar, today's No. 1 entry fruit is a veritable pear king!" "This morning, in Dasizhuang Village, Xiezhuang Township, Zhao County, Shijiazhuang City, a pear king competition is being staged. After several rounds of careful calculations, several pear experts unanimously elected the pear king and auctioned it on the spot. "At present, The snowflake pears in Zhao County have reached the best time to pick, and friends from all walks of life are welcome to come and pick them." At the scene, Zhao Jianghui, head of the Zhao County Dasizhuang Fruit Technology Professional Cooperative, issued an invitation.
Zhao County is the hometown of China's snowflake pears named by the State Forestry and Grassland Administration, with a total area of about 250,000 mu of pears and fruits, of which 137,000 mu are snowflake pears, with an annual total output of about 600,000 tons of pears and fruits, an annual total income of 3 billion yuan, a pear and fruit industry that drives more than 140,000 employees, an industrial added value of more than 500 million yuan, and an annual export of more than 82,000 tons of pears and fruits.
Dasizhuang villager Mi Chunhong has been planting pear fruits for more than ten years, and this year, she joined the Zhao County Dasizhuang Fruit Technology Professional Cooperative. Stepping into the pear orchard contracted by Mi Chunhong, looking up, the branches of the pear trees are covered with golden snowflake pears. "In accordance with the unified requirements of the cooperative, we have applied less fertilizer, less watering, and less spraying in the planting management, which not only ensures the quality of pears and fruits, but also reduces the workload, the key is that the price is still high, and this year's income is expected to quadruple compared with previous years." Mi Chunhong said.
On September 15, pear farmers in Dasizhuang Village, Zhao County, Shijiazhuang City, were selling live in Pear Garden. Photo by correspondent Zhu Tao
In recent years, the Zhao County Party Committee and the county government have taken a series of measures to improve the quality of pears and fruits. Through vigorously supporting the construction of farmers' cooperative organizations, we will unite peasant households with self-production, self-management, and decentralized operation, implement the "six unifications" management model of "unified technical standards, unified production management, unified purchase and use of agricultural materials, unified packaging and harvesting, unified storage and processing, and unified brand sales", comprehensively popularize standardized production technology, and form an industrialized operation system integrating production and marketing with leading bases, bases with farmers, and production, supply and marketing.
"At present, our cooperative has a total of 96 households, more than 1400 acres of pear orchards, through formula fertilization, scientific pruning, artificial pollination, pollution-free integrated pest control and other technical measures to improve the quality of pears and fruits, pear fruit buyers and pickers are very recognized, this year's 10 pieces a box is expected to sell at 50 yuan, 20 pieces a box of 65 yuan." Zhao Jianghui introduced that the cooperative also registered the trademark of "Zhao Hongguopin" to broaden market sales channels through brand effect.
At present, Zhao County has 2 regional public brands of "Zhao County Snowflake Pear" and "Zhao County Huangguan Pear", 1 organic pear fruit, 6 green food enterprises, more than 20 pear and fruit trademarks, and 197 various pear and fruit cooperatives. The county has a total of 1377 mechanism cold storage warehouses, 460 packaging enterprises, and an annual production capacity of more than 22 million sets. The four provincial and municipal leading enterprises represented by Hebei Lunuo Food Co., Ltd. and Zhaoxian Chengji Food Co., Ltd. have an annual processing production line of 150,000 tons of pear fruit, and the main products cover pear wine, preserved pear, pear juice, etc.
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