Pizhou City, Jiangsu Province, located on the north side of the north-south dividing line, is a "cornucopia" for garlic cultivation because of its four distinct seasons, flat terrain and fertile land. There are more than 130,000 garlic farmers and 400,000 garlic practitioners here, and the "white garlic" produced is sold well in overseas markets such as Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and South America because of its good shape, crisp quality, few petals, and storage resistance.
On the eve of the Spring Festival, when all households have begun to be busy with the New Year, the garlic processing workshop of Jiangsu Xinruiyuan Food *** located in Suyangshan Town, Pizhou City is still in full swing, and the workers are preparing for a batch of 319 tons of garlic orders, carefully picking, carefully packing ......After passing the inspection and quarantine of the customs department, the head of Pizhou white garlic will be sent to Penang, Malaysia.
Le Liqiang, deputy chief of the second inspection section of Xuzhou Customs, which belongs to Nanjing Customs, appeared on the front line of inspection and quarantine work as usual. "If the enterprise is motivated and the farmer income increases, our work will be more valuable! Le Liqiang, who said with a smile that he has formed an indissoluble bond with this garlic since he joined the work in 2013, knows that the most important thing for the export of fresh garlic is the word "fresh".
In order to ensure the smooth customs clearance of fresh and perishable agricultural products, Le Liqiang and his colleagues sorted out the list of fresh agricultural products with export characteristics in Xuzhou City, tailored the supervision plan for "fresh, live, and urgent" garlic and other agricultural products, and made an appointment for inspection and priority inspection with "7 24 hours" to "ensure that there is a single and go, and in any case, let Pizhou white garlic clear customs at the fastest speed". Behind these measures is the duty and dedication of countless customs officers like Le Liqiang.
In 2023, the international garlic will rebound significantly, and the export value of Xinruiyuan Food will also rise, with a year-on-year increase of more than 42%. "Thanks to the 'green channel' of the customs, the products we declared can get the electronic account number and relevant inspection and quarantine certificates on the same day, which greatly saves the customs clearance time. Wang Qiuli, sales manager of Xinruiyuan Food Company, said that Pizhou white garlic is very popular in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam and other ASEAN countries.
It is not just a company that starts the "garlic" plate of increasing income and getting rich. In 2023, Xuzhou Customs will supervise the export of fresh-keeping garlic for a total of 1.9 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 528%, radiation driven more than 100,000 farmers, through the construction of demonstration bases, Xuzhou export food quality and safety level has been significantly improved, many farmers to build a "vegetable garden" and puff up the dream of "money bags" to be realized.
After completing the inspection and quarantine of garlic exported by Xinruiyuan Food Company, Le Liqiang rushed to the agricultural product demonstration base non-stop to guide the enterprises there to strengthen the field inspection, pest control and self-inspection and self-control of the planting link - in order to ensure and further improve the quality of exported garlic, Xuzhou Customs actively promoted the construction of the demonstration base for export agricultural products. In 2023, Xuzhou will add a new demonstration area of 120,000 mu, including 1 national export agricultural products demonstration zone, 1 provincial export agricultural products demonstration zone, 15 provincial export agricultural products demonstration bases, demonstration planting area of more than 11 million mu, export agricultural products demonstration base area ranks first in Jiangsu Province.
The inspection and supervision of large-scale demonstration bases is not only time-consuming and laborious, but also may be omitted from intercropping varieties. Le Liqiang told reporters that at present, Xuzhou Customs has enabled smart "drones" to carry out the supervision of planting farms, which has improved the positioning accuracy, saved more than 40% of the planting area measurement time, and greatly improved the supervision efficiency. "The data collected by the drone can be imported into the 'cloud platform' for the supervision of registered plantations, which can be accessed through multiple terminals such as computers, mobile phones, and tablets for rapid indexing, statistics, and analysis of plantation data. Le Liqiang introduced it like a few treasures.
In addition to growing garlic, many local farmers in Pizhou are also engaged in processing work in garlic processing enterprises. Under the technical guidance of Xuzhou Customs, Jiangsu Fuduomei Biotechnology, which mainly exports dehydrated garlic powder, black garlic, salted garlic and other garlic deep-processed products, has effectively avoided the risk of large fluctuations in the garlic raw material market, and high value-added products such as exports have continued to grow, ensuring the interests and planting enthusiasm of garlic farmers. The company employs more than 500 people in seasonal employment alone, and farmers have an annual wage income of 45,000 yuan in addition to the income from growing garlic.
At the beginning of the new year, Le Liqiang told reporters that he and his colleagues are stepping up research and collection of policies and technical trade measures for the export of garlic products for deep processing products, so as to help garlic farmers open up more overseas markets and "make Pizhou garlic a veritable golden 'garlic' plate."
Reporter Liu Xin.