(Look at China along the highway) "The Hometown of China's Gold Medal Longan" Gaozhou, Guangdong: Dried longan meat fragrant at home and abroad
China News Service, Maoming, December 5th, title: "China's Gold Medal Hometown of Longan" Gaozhou, Guangdong: dried longan meat fragrant at home and abroad
Author Liang Sheng Liang Jingjing
"China's Gold Medal Longan Hometown" Gaozhou City, Maoming, Guangdong, is the main producing area of longan meat (ie longan meat) in China.
Reporters have visited for several days and found that the local longan meat fragrant in four seasons, and the products are shipped out through major highways every day, and they are sold well in all parts of the country and overseas markets.
Long Guoyuan, director of the Gaozhou Municipal Agriculture and Rural Bureau, said that longan meat is a well-known authentic medicinal material in Gaozhou, and is also a national geographical indication protection product. It is known as "Southern Ginseng" because of its functions such as nourishing qi and nourishing blood, invigorating the spleen and replenishing the heart. .
The history of longan processing in Gaozhou dates back to the Han Dynasty and became popular during the Republic of China. In addition to dried longan meat, processed products include dried longan, longan tea, and longan fruit powder.
At present, Gaozhou has formed a longan meat processing town, a processing village, and a distribution market. Longan processing and trading are kept on file throughout the year, and the annual transaction volume exceeds 20,000 tons.
The largest longan processing and trading center in China is located in Fenjie Town, Gaozhou.
Bianjie Town is not only the birthplace of Chuliang longan in the world, because of its large fruit, small nucleus, thick flesh, crispy and sweet, since the 1980s, the Chuliang longan mother tree in the town has been bred by grafting, ring branching, etc. , Promoted to all parts of China and Vietnam, Myanmar, Malaysia, Cambodia, Thailand, Laos and other countries, the global planting area exceeds 2.5 million mu, making Chuliang longan the largest longan variety in China and even the world.
He Muying, the person in charge of Zhenjiangji Fruit Cooperative, told reporters that the longan processing process mainly includes several steps: sorting materials, pruning and washing the fruit, peeling the shell and removing the meat, and drying or sun-drying.
Because the cooperative is a traditional workshop that uses purely manual shelling and meat extraction, it requires hundreds of skilled manual workers to work in line every day, and the price of longan meat produced is relatively stable, with a price of about 130 yuan (RMB, the same below) per kilogram. Every year around the Spring Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival and other major festivals, longan is the peak season for sales.
He Muying said that before the Shenhai Expressway and Baomao Expressway were opened, the annual longan harvest season, dealers from all over the country gathered together in the border town market, freight vehicles were constantly flowing, and the traffic was almost paralyzed. Buyers and sellers had headaches.
After the opening of the expressway, the situation has changed drastically. Relying on the location advantages of the dual expressway, the traffic in Bianjie Town is smooth, the logistics is developed, and the longan industry is getting bigger and bigger.
Compared with before the opening of Baomao Expressway in 2015, the business volume of Jiangji Fruit Cooperative has more than doubled, producing 100,000 kilograms of processed products such as dried longan meat and dried longan each year.
It is understood that the longan processing and trading volume in Gaozhou is very large. In addition to digesting the longan produced locally and in surrounding counties, 300 to 400 tons of fresh longan fruits are transported from other places along the expressway for 10 months of the year. Processing in Fenjie Town, Gaozhou, forming China's largest longan processing and trading center.
Li Zuyuan, deputy director of the Gaozhou Municipal People's Congress and secretary of the Party Committee of Fenjie Town, said that in recent years, Fenjie Town has continued to polish its business card as "the birthplace of longan in the world and the first town in China for longan processing".
It has built China's strongest longan processing industry, with an annual output of over 12,000 tons and an annual output value of over 1.2 billion yuan, which has led to employment of 30,000 people, and farmers have generally benefited.
At the same time, Bianjie Town also relies on the longan processing industry to attract the development and growth of related industries such as agglomeration packaging products, storage and refrigeration, and e-commerce logistics, gradually forming a good ecological industry chain, and promoting the integrated development of special catering accommodation and rural tourism.
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