In Shenzhen, in a store in Baiguoyuan, boxes of bright and ruddy red jade strawberries are neatly placed on the counter, which is so fresh that it makes people feel excited.
Every high-quality and delicious strawberry is hard-won. Nanjing Golden Manor, the strawberry base 1,300 kilometers away, is planted in a standardized way to ensure the quality of strawberries. The strawberries picked here are transported through the cold chain and directly to the major storage centers of Baiguoyuan across the country.
From the production area, to the warehouse distribution center, and then to the store, spanning thousands of miles, the food safety guarantee of fruits is always the most important and runs through the whole process. In Baiguoyuan, all fruits must go through three safety inspections, and Baiguoyuan pursues zero tolerance for fruits that do not meet food safety standards. And this is not the end, food safety protection continues to the after-sales service. As Hundred Fruit Garden said, "We want to start from every link to ensure that high-quality, safe and delicious fruits can safely enter the hands of consumers." ”
Good strawberries start with planting.
Lishui District in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province is located in a hilly area, with a warm monsoon climate and abundant water from the Qinhuai River, which has made the local strawberry industry develop rapidly. The base has an annual output of more than 7,000 tons of strawberries, and fifty percent of the top 100 fruit orchards.
In the current winter, the strawberry base is lined with greenhouses wrapped in transparent plastic. The farmers send the strawberries they have picked to the purchasing warehouse not far away, and technicians shuttle through the greenhouses to check the growth status and harvest status of the strawberries.
In the Golden Manor greenhouse, strawberries are grown on high ridges. Photo by Beijing News reporter Liu Huan.
The strawberries in the greenhouse are hung on both sides of the high ridges, and farmers can pick them without bending down. Li Defu, director of the production technology center of Golden Manor, introduced that this is a high-ridge cultivation, which is a newly developed strawberry planting method, which can improve the efficiency of manual operation, make strawberries shine evenly, reduce loss and prevent insects and diseases. "We wanted to convey the idea of growing strawberries in a 'suit and leather shoes'. ”
Strawberries are inseparable from planting management to maintain consistent quality. The glass greenhouse R&D base here conducts various tests such as seedling cultivation and cultivation, fill light, temperature and humidity control, and collects strawberry growth dataPay attention to soil management, add organic fertilizer and beneficial bacteria to the soil during the soil trimming period to improve soil fertility.
Strawberry pests and diseases are the biggest headache for farmers and need to be managed through agricultural and biological control. Li Defu introduced that agricultural control is to sort out plant leaves, improve ventilation, and reduce pests and diseasesLaying mulch film and floor cloth for insulation to reduce the growth of weeds and parasites;Irrigation water sources should also be filtered and sterilized by ultraviolet light to reduce water source germs. Biological control mainly achieves the effect of trapping and killing insects by placing sexual attractant devices in greenhouses.
It can be said that "from the beginning of seedling raising, every link such as soil, irrigation, fertilization, planting, and picking needs technical management to get a safe and delicious strawberry." Wu Zhongping, chairman and general manager of Golden Manor Company, emphasized.
Behind the standardization of planting, it is inseparable from the empowerment of Baiguoyuan. A few years before Wu Zhongping planted strawberries, Yu Huiyong, chairman of Baiguoyuan Group, suggested that he do a good job in planting, promote scientific planting methods to farmers, and make high-quality strawberries. In the end, Wu Zhongping decided to build a base. And Baiguoyuan also spares no effort to send planting technology and technicians to the Golden Manor to ensure the quality of the planting end.
Not only strawberries, but also apples, kiwis, oranges and other fruits, we hope to help the development of the fruit industry through technology empowerment. The original intention of Baiguo Garden is to hope that everyone can eat good fruits, and also hope that more and more technicians can take root in the fields to do high-quality agriculture. Baiguo Yuan said.
Fresh and direct across thousands of miles.
Green heads, broken skin scars, insect eyes do not need to be fruit, medium fruits are generally 15g-20g, large fruits are more than 20g, and the sugar content of Baiguoyuan's signature strawberries needs to reach more than 12 degrees (note: that is, the soluble solids content of strawberries is 12% or more). "Farmers remember the harvesting standards of the 100 fruit orchards. At the purchasing center, the staff removes the strawberries that do not meet the standards.
The strawberry cold chain logistics vehicle entered the Dongguan warehouse distribution center. Photo by Beijing News reporter Liu Huan.
After the first acceptance, the strawberries then enter the packaging center of the cold storage, some of the strawberries are packed into small boxes on site, and the other part of the strawberries are pre-cooled in the cold storage. Technicians sample strawberries on site for sugar content testing, as well as to check whether there are pests, diseases, rot, etc. For the samples with unqualified sugar content, the next round of screening or direct fruit treatment will be carried out.
At about 6 o'clock in the afternoon, Zhang Mingde, the driver of the cold chain logistics vehicle, was waiting for the delivery of goods in the cold storage. The strawberries picked on the same day need to be transported by cold chain to the warehouse distribution center of Baiguoyuan. As the forklift loads baskets of strawberries onto the cold chain truck, he expertly turns on the refrigeration temperature control switch inside the truck to keep the temperature below 5 degrees. Strawberries are delicate, and the suitable temperature is 2-4 degrees. In order to prevent damage caused by bumps in the road, the speed of the vehicle is generally controlled at 80 kilometers per hour.
Two hours later, the cold chain car was fully loaded, and Zhang Mingde set off. His destination this time was 1,300 kilometers away from the Baiguoyuan Dongguan Warehouse Distribution Center. At the same time, the staff of the Dongguan warehouse distribution center received a message from Zhang Mingde, informing him that he was expected to arrive during the day the next day.
A series of standardized operations of cold storage pre-cooling and drivers are also the experience of Baiguoyuan's joint experts for many years. In the early days, when Baiguoyuan transported strawberries, the loss rate of strawberries per car to Shenzhen was as high as 60%, Yu Huiyong paid attention to this problem, and sorted out the packaging, transportation, distribution and other links one by one to find ways to improve. Therefore, the pre-cooling of the cold storage was increased, the temperature of the core was reduced, and then loaded into the cold chain car, and the speed limit of 80 kilometers per hour was formulated. These improvements have reduced the strawberry loss rate to less than 20%.
Four degrees of blind and one safety" to ensure quality.
All the way to the cold chain transportation, the strawberries that arrived at the Dongguan warehouse distribution center could not be directly unloaded. Fan Fengfeng, deputy director of the post-harvest R&D center of Baiguoyuan Group, explained that here, the temperature of the strawberry cold chain truck and the temperature of the fruit core should be measured at the first time, and the strawberries should be quickly sampled, and the goods will be unloaded only after they are qualified. The results of the rapid test are generally obtained in half an hour, mainly to "see" and "check", to see the brightness and damage of the fruit surface, and to detect the sugar content of the fruit and pesticide residues.
After the strawberries enter the warehouse distribution center, Fu Xiaodan, director of the post-harvest R&D center of Baiguoyuan Group, is responsible for arranging inspectors to take strawberry samples and then conduct quantitative detection of 193 pesticide residues and heavy metals.
In the Baiguoyuan Testing Center, technicians conduct fruit pesticide residue testing. Photo by Beijing News reporter Liu Huan.
The strawberry cold chain is delivered to the Baiguoyuan store, and the food safety guarantee has been **. The clerk inspects the fruits in the store and operates in accordance with the fruit packaging standards and storage standards. Lai Jinquan, manager of the 3rd store in Guanlan Gelan County, Longhua District, Shenzhen, said that food safety standards should also be complied with when entering the store and after-sales. "If consumers are not satisfied with the fruit, they can carry out the 'three no-returns' without receipts, no physical objects, and no reason. ”
Like strawberries, all fruits sold by Hundred Fruit Farm must pass through three safety checks. Fan Fengfeng introduced that before supplying goods every year, the first-class merchants need to send the samples to the tripartite testing agency for inspection, submit a qualified food safety testing report, and check the first access qualification. The second test, qualified fruits are allowed to be picked and delivered to the warehouse of Baiguoyuan, and the quality control is carried out for warehousing acceptance and qualitative safety testing, and 29 warehouses and distribution centers of Baiguoyuan are equipped with quality control and rapid inspection rooms. The third pass is that after the fruits are put into the warehouse distribution center, the personnel of the testing center will conduct 100 kinds of quantitative pesticide residue testing on the stored fruits in accordance with the food safety management requirements of Baiguoyuan. In addition, Baiguoyuan has also set up a pathological disease laboratory to cultivate, identify, and prevent pathogenic bacteria of common fruit diseases. "The company will implement 'four degrees, one taste and one safety' for all fruits, that is, a comprehensive test of freshness, sugar acidity, tenderness, crispness, aroma and safety. ”
For fruits that do not meet food safety standards, Hundred Fruit Farm adopts zero tolerance. "Food safety is the bottom line, and if the pre-harvest fruit sample fails to pass the test, the orchard will give up the orchard's fruit;If a problem is detected after warehousing, the batch of fruits will be sealed and fed back to the first merchant for processing. ”
From the field to the consumer, Baiguoyuan's food safety guarantee for fruits runs through the whole process. Scientific and safe planting technology allows the planting end to grow high-quality fruits;Strict harvesting and transportation standards to reduce fruit loss;Meticulous quality inspection system to control the gate for the warehousing fruits.
As Chairman Yu Huiyong said, the success or failure of the fruit retail industry lies in the details. Baiguoyuan's fruit selection, warehousing and distribution system, safety testing standards, fruit post-harvest research and development and other refined management ensure the safety and taste of fruits, "let the world enjoy a good life of fruits".
Text: Liu Huan. Edited by Zhu Fenglan.
Proofread by Lucy.