【Explanation】Autumn and winter are the seasons for sweet potato harvesting. Recently, the alpine sweet potatoes in Wuhua County, Meizhou City, Guangdong Province ushered in a bumper harvest.
In the sweet potato storage center of a company in Meizhou, the reporter saw several sorters standing in front of the sweet potato automatic weighing machine, screening the newly harvested sweet potatoes by quality and weight.
Not far away, baskets of sorted sweet potatoes are ready to enter the room temperature warehouse.
[Concurrent] Liu Sishun, Marketing Director of the Company's Sales Department
There is a special testing center in the Greater Bay Area (the "vegetable basket" distribution center) for Hong Kong and Macau. Each batch of our sweet potatoes is tested and then put into the freezer, and then according to the order for (Hong Kong and Macau). For shipments, like this year, we will harvest 5 million to 6 million catties of sweet potatoes, of which about 1.8 million to 2 million catties can be supplied to Hong Kong and Macao. This sweet potato will be sent to our Hong Kong and Macao compatriots from our picking and sorting to primary selection. It only takes 48 hours on the table.
[Explanation] In an agricultural product processing cold chain warehouse logistics park, one of the vegetable basket production and processing bases in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, there are functional areas such as clean vegetable processing plants, large-scale cold storage, and logistics distribution areas.
The reporter saw a basket of sorted and tested vegetables temporarily stored in the cold storage, waiting for the finished product to be shipped.
[Concurrent] Zhao Xiaolong, Director of the Company
For the vegetables picked from our own Anliu base, each vegetable basket has a farmer’s picking card. Which farmer picks it, and different baskets represent different farmers. Then there is a qualified card here, which represents This is an effect of a field and an area.
[Explanation] It is understood that Meizhou is a major agricultural city in Guangdong Province, while Wuhua County is located in the southern part of Meizhou, which is the county closest to the city in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
Based on the location advantage, the Meizhou distribution center for the "Vegetable Basket" products in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is located in Wuhua County.
In the distribution center, the reporter saw that a huge electronic screen of the real-time monitoring platform of the vegetable basket base in Wuhua County showed the growth of crops such as golden pomelo, rice, sweet potato and vegetables in the county, connected to the "electronic eye" set at the edge of the field for real-time monitoring Base atmospheric temperature, atmospheric humidity, atmospheric pressure, soil conductivity, illuminance, and soil moisture.
[Concurrent] Liu Yuanbo, a staff member of the Meizhou Distribution Center of the "Vegetable Basket" product in the Greater Bay Area
("Vegetable basket" products) are three standards coming here, one is for Hong Kong and Macau, the second is the traceability standard, and the third is the customs supervision.
The most important thing is to trace the source. As soon as you see the QR code and the trademark in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, you can scan the code.
What you want to buy, enter this market, from sales to consumption to circulation, it can be supervised in the whole process. There are pigeons flying in the sky, pigeons running on the ground, and sweet potatoes such as vegetables grown for Hong Kong and Macau. Eggs and rice are common agricultural and sideline products.
[Explanation] According to reports, Meizhou officials have taken advantage of the city’s ecological agriculture to do a good job in the construction of the "vegetable basket" Meizhou distribution center in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and use this as an opportunity to launch regional brands such as "Meizhou Pomelo" and "Kedumi" , Plans to build the best "big farm" and the most beautiful "back garden" in the Greater Bay Area.
(Reported by Cai Minjie and Wei Jeff from Guangdong)
Editor in charge: [Zhou Zhaojun]