Our county is the hometown of China's Shatian grapefruit, a few days ago, 220,000 mu of Shatian grapefruit mature harvest, 250,000 tons of fresh fruit listed, the comprehensive output value of 3 billion yuan, grapefruit planting area, output in Guangxi ranked first, Shatian grapefruit has become a famous rich fruit.
The town of Ziliang is full of harvests, and the orchards are full of heavy, golden Shatian grapefruit hanging from the branches. Xie Mingni is a famous local shatin grapefruit planter, planted 120 acres of grapefruit, this year there are 30 acres of fruit, Shatian grapefruit production of up to more than 200,000 catties.
"My family's grapefruit is grown with organic fertilizer, the quality is relatively good, more popular, and now I have sold three-quarters of the Sha Tin grapefruit through online and offline sales, and the output value is expected to exceed 1 million yuan this year." Xie Mingni introduced.
Sha tin grapefruit is a golden signboard of our county's characteristic agriculture, and the Shatian grapefruit industry has become the most regional characteristic rich people's industry in our county. In recent years, the county government has actively explored the way of standardization, standardization and industrialization of Sha Tin grapefruit production, and built a visual traceability system for sha tin grapefruit to ensure the quality of fruit. Since 2017, the government has invested in the construction of the Sha Tin grapefruit sorting center, all freshly picked grapefruit will be strictly screened by machines and labor, and graded according to conditions such as sweetness, size and "appearance" to ensure high quality and good prices and increase the income of fruit farmers.
In recent years, Rong County has successively held the sha tin grapefruit regional public brand release and the Shatian grapefruit industry development conference, successfully created the Rong County Sha tin grapefruit Chinese characteristics of agricultural products advantage zone, and become the Construction Unit of Sha tin Grapefruit Industry Strong Town approved by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs. The local government has also realized the one-stop service of "production, supply and marketing" of grapefruit through associations and cooperatives, and has taken the methods of door-to-door purchase of grapefruit, live streaming with goods, e-commerce, and holding exhibitions to help fruit farmers open up market sales channels.
Cao Wanshui, a fruit seller from Henan, introduced that he basically comes to Rong County every year to purchase Sha Tin grapefruit, and this year's procurement plan is expected to be about 300,000 kilograms, and good quality and grapefruit flavor have become the main factors in his choice to purchase Shatian grapefruit in Rong County.
Nowadays, there are more than 80,000 employees in Shatian grapefruit in the county, and a number of Shatian grapefruit "ten thousand mu towns" and "thousand mu villages" and a large number of fruit planting "100,000 yuan households" and "million yuan households" have been formed.
Regarding the development of the grapefruit industry in shatin in our county, county magistrate Luo Li said in an interview with the media, "Our county firmly holds the industry to cultivate this "cow nose" of rural revitalization, implements the financial support policy of "expanding the amount" of grapefruit, and rewards 500 yuan per mu for the development of new contiguous pomelo orchards of more than 5 mu, guiding the majority of farmers to actively participate in the development of the shatin grapefruit industry, and the average annual income of fruit farmers has increased from 20,000 yuan to 32,000 yuan. Next, our county will rely on the good foundation of "Rongxian Shatian Grapefruit Advantage Zone with Chinese Characteristics", vigorously build Shatian Grapefruit Special Excellent Zone, and gradually form a whole industrial chain from Shatian grapefruit planting to deep processing and sales, while vigorously developing leisure agriculture and rural tourism, broadening the channels for farmers to increase income, and boosting rural revitalization. ”