Text/Yangcheng Evening News All-media reporter Zhang Wen Correspondent Tan Yuling Li Ying
In the past few days, the national grapefruit industry cluster area, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area vegetable basket project fruit base - Shaoguan Renhua County Changba Shatian grapefruit has begun to pick, full of fruitful harvest scenes, fruit farmers are busy picking, shipping, warehousing, admiring tourists in the picking experience with the fruit farmers to share the "grapefruit" in the revitalization of the rural industry "grapefruit" sweet.
Sha Tin grapefruit harvest. Photo: Long Quanming
"This year, the output of grapefruit in Changba Shatian is stable, the fruit shape, meat quality and taste are relatively good, and the sales channel is not a problem." Xie Kunyou, general manager of Jinzheyuan Ecological Park, said that the "claim exclusive teak tree" pre-sale launched by orchard innovation, a few months ago, there were 1,000 high-quality teak trees pre-sold out, and the amount of fruit hanging from each teak tree was guaranteed to be more than 100, and the sales income alone exceeded one million yuan.
Jinzheyuan is the first batch of "vegetable basket" production bases in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, relying on the construction of the provincial citrus industrial park in Renhua County, newly built into storage rooms, mountain rail transport vehicles, science popularization halls, green prevention and control facilities, and is committed to creating a modern agricultural ecological park integrating planting, outdoor expansion, tourism, science popularization display, agricultural experience, etc.
Fruit growers pick up Sha Tin grapefruit. Courtesy of respondents
Not far from the Changba Huixiang Shatian Pomelo Farmers Professional Cooperative, most of the Sha tin grapefruit on the mountain has been picked back, and workers are rushing to build a grapefruit deep processing project. "After more than a month, the yuzu deep processing facility can be completed and trial production, and then it can produce yuzu tea and yuzu cakes, extend the industrial chain, and enhance the added value of Sha Tin pomelo." Cooperative administrator Huang Wenting said.
It is understood that taking the construction of the national grapefruit industrial cluster area as an opportunity, Renhua County has accelerated the construction of high-quality agricultural product supply bases such as Jinzheyuan Ecological Park, Huixiang Cooperative, Heeryou Ecological Park, and Zhixiang Agricultural Park to accelerate the construction of a cluster area of green ecological cycles, processing, storage and circulation, e-commerce sales, brand building and promotion, ecological pastoral sightseeing, and leisure tourism.
Fruit tasting on site
The relevant person in charge of Renhua County said that at present, the planting area of Changba Shatian grapefruit is more than 25,000 mu, and it is famous for its large shape, bright yellow color, fleshy and sweetened slag, and rich honey flavor, and has been rated as "Chinese Famous Fruit", and has been awarded the titles of National Geographical Indication Protection Product, National Famous Special New Agricultural Product, China's Climate and Ecological Excellence, etc., and the supply is in short supply every year. In recent years, the yield, quality and efficiency of Changba Shatian grapefruit have gone hand in hand, providing more entrepreneurial employment opportunities for the local people, driving the economic development of one side, and becoming the "golden fruit" of the revitalization of rural industries in Daqiao Town.
Source | Yangcheng Evening News • Yangcheng Pie
Editor-in-charge | Zhang Degang