The Spring Festival is approaching, people are buying the peak period of New Year's goods, at this time it is also the peak season of the sales season of the signature specialty black pear in Lixin Town, Gangu County, since entering the wax month, more than 130 tons of black pears in Lixin Town have basically been sold out, becoming the darling of the New Year's gift, and the local people have embarked on the road to get rich.
Mapo Village is a famous black pear village in Lixin Town, Gangu County, benefiting from the unique black pear growing conditions, almost every 200 households in this village are processing and producing black pears. After the autumn equinox, the villagers will place the ripe red pears on their own bamboo and wooden frames for natural fermentation, and after the winter solstice, the fermented red pears will slowly become soft and black, and the whole village will be filled with sweet and sour pear fragrance.
Chen Suolin, a villager from Mapo Village, Lixin Town, Gangu County, said: Our Lixin black pears are red pears when they are picked at the autumn equinox, and after more than a month of fermentation on the shelf, they will become soft inside. Wait until around the winter solstice, it will turn black, which is our authentic black pear practice.
This naturally fermented black pear is cold, juicy, sweet and sour, and has the effect of dissolving phlegm and relieving cough. In recent years, Lixin Town has actively fought for cold storage and other projects, improved the cold chain transportation chain, supported and guided leading enterprises to play a leading role, so that black pears can move towards industrialization and refined development path, and help growers increase their income and get rich.
Liu Jianbin, mayor of Lixin Town, Gangu County, said: In recent years, Lixin Town has vigorously built and publicized the characteristic industry of "Lixin Black Pear", adopted the business model of cooperatives and farmers, and Lixin Black Pear has become a famous agricultural product in the county, and has been selected into the "Sweet" agricultural product brand directory, and has been identified as the first batch of high-quality agricultural product production bases by the Gansu Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs. At present, the town has planted more than 1,000 acres of Lixin black pears, with an output of more than 130 tons and an output value of more than 2 million yuan.