Huida Lemon Lemon Sorting Line.
In the early winter, walking into the 10,000 mu lemon base of Baizi Town, Tongnan District, the tender yellow fruits are swaying with the wind, and the aroma of lemons is coming to the nose, and the farmers are shuttling through it, busy picking lemons.
Tongnan District, located in the northwest of Chongqing, is one of the main lemon producing areas in China, with a lemon planting area of 320,000 mu and 100 lemon standard orchards, which have led to the employment of more than 100,000 people and an average income increase of more than 20,000 yuan.
If the industry is prosperous, the countryside will be prosperous. In Tongnan, behind this small lemon fruit that supports the great cause of rural revitalization, there is a complete lemon industry chain: from seedling detoxification to large-scale planting, and then to deep processing into more than 350 kinds of products, which are exported to more than 30 countries and regions such as Russia, Germany, Singapore and Southeast Asia along the "Belt and Road".
Huida Lemon Lemon Sorting Line.
Cultivate non-toxic seedlings and protect the source of healthy growth
In Duhe Village, Baizi Township, Niu Jinzhi and his students are in an orchard to check and record the growth of lemons, as well as pests and diseases.
Niu Jinzhi is a professor at the School of Plant Protection at Southwest University, which cooperates with the Tongnan Lemon Detoxification Seedling Breeding Center to cultivate and promote high-quality seedlings for farmers. Niu Jinzhi introduced that Tongnan has been planting lemons since the 70s of the last century, but lemon seedlings have been cultivated by farmers themselves or purchased from other places for a long time, which is not only costly, but also prone to diseases, resulting in rough fruit surface and reduced yield. "To promote the high-quality development of the lemon industry, it is inseparable from the source of seedlings. Niu Jinzhi said, "Most of the reason why seedlings are sick is because they were infected with the virus when they were raised. To cultivate high-quality seedlings, detoxification is the key. ”
In order to make lemon plants robust, less sick, and "non-toxic", Tongnan District built its own lemon detoxification seedling breeding center in 2017. Relying on the technical strength of Southwest University, China Citrus Research Institute, Chongqing Academy of Agricultural Sciences and other scientific research institutes, we cultivate safe and high-yield seedlings for farmers.
Liu Minggui, senior agronomist of Tongnan Lemon Detoxification Seedling Breeding Center, introduced that specifically, the detoxified original seedlings should be cultivated through high temperature treatment and other methods under ultra-clean and sterile conditions. Then, high-quality rootstocks were screened, and the original seedlings were repeatedly grafted to cultivate the mother seedlings. Then collect the spikes from the detoxified mother, and select the best of the best to form virus-free seedlings. The finished seedlings cultivated in this way do not carry viruses, and they grow quickly and have strong resistance to stress, which can ensure the healthy growth of lemons from the source.
It is not enough to cultivate qualified varieties, but also to aim at the forefront of the industry, introduce new varieties to screen and cultivate, test and demonstrate. In the nursery garden, Liu Minggui opened a bunch of branches and leaves, and purple long strips of fruit came into view: "This is called finger lemon, and it is a new variety introduced." ”
With good seedlings in the upstream, planting in the middle and processing in the downstream will have confidence. Liu Minggui introduced that the breeding center has introduced a total of 15 new varieties, which can cultivate about 600,000 lemon detoxification seedlings every year.
Local villagers grow lemons to get rid of poverty and become rich.
Achieve large-scale planting and lay the foundation for quality production
High-quality and reliable seedlings have made Tongnan lemons "reborn", and the planting scale has increased to 320,000 mu at once.
However, how to improve the yield and quality of lemons can make many growers difficult. Since 2013, Tongnan has encouraged intensive management, guided growers to expand their planting scale through project subsidies and other means, hired experts to guide growers to learn large-scale management knowledge, and a number of large planters and leading enterprises have grown rapidly.
I transferred land to plant more than 10 acres of lemons, which is a small amount in the village. Zhou Furong, a villager in Qiaogou Village, Chongyan Town, said. Today, a lemon industry belt has connected 23 towns and streets in Tongnan, and more than 360 large-scale business entities planted more than 200,000 tons of lemons last year, and the nine fruit orchards have achieved large-scale planting.
At the beginning of the construction of the base, we aimed at the lemon standardized planting demonstration park, with the improvement of lemon quality and yield as the core, comprehensively improved the lemon planting technology and orchard management level, and promoted the scientific and standardized lemon planting process. According to the relevant person in charge of Baizi Town, the drainage and irrigation system, transportation system, and mechanical and electrical system of the park are readily available, and standardized production has been fully achieved.
At the same time, in order to ensure the quality of lemons, Tongnan District has also established a district, town and village supervision network system to achieve remote monitoring and diagnosis, and the fresh fruit branches have been tested by more than 200 international standards, with a pass rate of 100%.
Today, Tongnan has built 3 10,000-mu lemon standardized production bases, 10 1,000-mu large-scale plantations and more than 160 plantations of more than 500 acres.
Local villagers grow lemons to get rid of poverty and become rich.
Do a good job in finishing articles Forging industry development chain
On December 6, Chongqing Mengtai Biotechnology***, located in Tongnan High-tech Zone, 1The 60,000-square-meter workshop is spacious and bright, and a fully automated production line is producing new pectin products.
Pectin has a wide range of uses, but it is very difficult to extract pectin from lemons. This production line uses our self-developed lemon six separation and extraction technology. Sun Shiqiao, partner and technical director of Lemon Tai Biology, introduced that through this technology, dozens of high value-added products can be extracted and processed from the oil sac, outer skin layer, mesodermal layer, pulp and core of a lemon, so as to achieve 100% processing and utilization of lemons, so that the value of lemons can be multiplied geometrically.
Thanks to this technology, the added value of fresh lemon fruit has been greatly increased. Lemon Tai consumes about 100,000 tons of lemon fruit a year, which can produce 2,000 tons of pectin.
Lemon pectin is one of the many lemon deep-processed products in Tongnan. In order to avoid the risk of fresh fruit market and improve the added value of products, in recent years, Tongnan has been continuously developing new products around intensive processing to strengthen and expand the lemon industry. Today, Tongnan has developed more than 350 kinds of products in five major systems, including beverages, green food, beauty and skin care products, biomedicine and health care products, and has cultivated a total of 35 lemon processing enterprises.
On the production line of Chongqing Huida Lemon Technology Group, a lemon can be turned into more than 300 products. "The pulp is made into lemon drink, the peel is made into lemon honey tea, and the peel can also be refined into lemon essential oil, which can be made into facial cleanser, ** and other daily chemical products, and even bitter lemon seeds can be made into flower and fruit tea. Compared with selling fresh lemon fruits, the value of these products has increased several times or even dozens of times. Xu Xiaoling, deputy general manager of the company, said.
Technology empowers the development of the lemon industry. Up to now, Tongnan has independently developed more than 300 lemon deep processing technologies, has more than 38 national invention patents, and built 10 digital production lines for the lemon industry. The annual processing capacity of lemons is 300,000 tons, and the processing output value is 3 billion yuan.
The delegation of Linteln City, Germany visited Chongqing Huida Lemon Technology Group***
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Driven by the leader of the lemon industry, another domestic industry giant, Snow King Agriculture, a subsidiary of Mixue Bingcheng, also came to Tongnan. In the production workshop of Chongqing Snow King Agriculture, a basket of lemons is poured into the fresh fruit sorting machine, and after cleaning, sterilization, bagging and other links, it is sent to the Mixue Bingcheng stores across the country and even the world through cold chain transportation.
In the face of increasingly fierce competition in the beverage track, enterprises began to expand to self-built ** chains. As a wholly-owned subsidiary of Mixue Bingcheng, Chongqing Snow King Agriculture was officially put into operation this year. According to the person in charge of the company, it is expected that 60% of the lemons in the future will come from Tongnan.
Industrial revitalization is the top priority of rural revitalization. Taking the transformation of lemon as an opportunity, Tongnan District has increased industrial guidance and policy support, and has continuously expanded the main body of the lemon market.
Tongnan District is striving to build a multi-level and diversified processing system for green food and health care products, as well as the whole industrial chain of planting, processing, marketing, research and development, etc., to improve the level of deep processing of lemons and the added value of products, and to seize the domestic and international markets. The relevant person in charge of the Tongnan District Commission of Commerce said.
In order to help lemons "go global", in recent years, Tongnan District has actively explored the domestic and international markets, laid out 7 regional marketing centers offline, built platforms such as "China Lemon Trading Network" and "International Lemon Trading Center" online, and relied on leading enterprises to build a direct platform for foreign exports, built Chongqing Tongnan Bohai Lemon Trading Center, established lemon overseas warehouses and collaboration centers in Singapore, Hong Kong and other places, and Tongnan lemons and their processed products have been exported to more than 30 countries and regions such as Russia, Indonesia and Singapore. Since October 2022, Tongnan District has exported lemon 230,000 tons, export amount 2200 million yuan. The 2023 China Tongnan Lemon Industry Development Conference predicts that in 2023, the output value of the Tongnan lemon industry chain will exceed 7.5 billion yuan.
*: Chongqing and the World Provided by the Propaganda Department of the Tongnan District Committee.