[Rural Revitalization] From the field to the market, Xinjiang promotes the jujube industry to help fruit farmers increase their income

　　【Explanation】The planting of red dates has a history of thousands of years.

Flower in spring, fruit in autumn.

Either eaten fresh or sold dry.

Year after year, it has not changed.

Due to its large planting area and high-quality jujube, Maigaiti County in Kashgar, Xinjiang has always been a popular product in the autumn and winter fruit market.

In order to develop the jujube industry on a large scale, a series of new measures have been introduced locally to effectively guarantee the fruit farmers' hard work for a year.

　　[Explanation] On December 1, in an orchard in the county, Abulaiti Amat, who owns 23 acres of red date growers, shared his one-year harvest.

　　[Concurrent] Abuliti·Amat, a red date grower in Maigaiti County, Xinjiang

　　Red dates (income) are good this year. There are at least more than 600 kilograms per mu of land, and (estimated) 15 tons of red dates.

If you sell it for nine yuan a kilogram, you can earn more than 130,000 yuan.

　　[Explanation] On the newly-opened red date drying field of more than 500 acres in the local red date trading center, freshly picked red dates are spread all over the area. Cleaning, drying, storage, packaging, and sales have formed an agglomeration effect. More than 10,000 people are sweating here. Working.

The extended industrial chain and multi-channel procurement and distribution allow fruit farmers to get more benefits during the harvest season.

　　[Concurrent] Wang Wei, Deputy General Manager of an Ecological Agriculture Supply Chain Co., Ltd. in Xinjiang

　　Our Fruit Industry Group will purchase more than 80,000 tons of red dates in Maigaiti County this year. Through the supply chain company of our Fruit Industry Group, we will sell the dates of Maigaiti County to the national market for a centralized sale.

　　[Explanation] Because red dates contain particularly high vitamins, they have the title of natural vitamin pills.

Fresh dates can be sold by grading, and dried dates can be filled with dried fruits to be processed into fast-selling products such as "walnut dates" and "hawthorn dates". The development of the red date industry in the desert has not only achieved ecological improvement, but also increased benefits, and rejuvenated the countryside. Add more vitality.

　　[Explanation] Maigaiti County, located on the southwestern edge of the Taklimakan Desert, has high-quality sandy soil and abundant sunlight resources, making it a eugenic area for jujubes.

The county's red dates planting area exceeds 560,000 mu and the output exceeds 250,000 tons, making it a veritable capital of red dates.

　　Yang Tao reports from Kashgar, Xinjiang

Editor in charge: [Zhang Kaixin]