The total output value reached 1.9 billion yuan, and the influence of Ziyang Yanjiang citrus brand was significantly improved.

Yanjiang citrus modern agricultural park.

All-media collecting activities of citrus industry in Yanjiang.

Citrus management.

Citrus export packaging factory in Huguang Village, Nanjin Town.

Yanjiang District 2024 Citrus Export Business Training Conference。

Village level fruit technicians check the growth of grafted seedlings。

Citrus industry and transportation in Gaodong Village.

Full media reporter Zhu Tao

In recent years, Yanjiang District has vigorously promoted the project of improving the quality and efficiency of the citrus industry. Following the development model of "government guidance, market leadership, and social participation", the "five actions" of variety improvement, quality improvement, brand promotion, industrial support, and organizational improvement have been taken as the starting point to comprehensively promote the iterative upgrading and deep processing of Yanjiang early maturing tangerines, cold chain logistics, e-commerce sales, export filing and other supporting chain development, forming a full chain and highly integrated development trend of the citrus industry, and achieving steady improvement in the quality of the citrus industry.

At present, the total citrus planting area in the whole region is 270000 mu, with a total output of 460000 tons and an output value of 1.9 billion yuan. It has formed a main early maturing citrus production area with Fengyu Town as the core and a late maturing citrus core area with Zhonghe, Danshan and other towns as the core. By vigorously promoting the planting of citrus varieties such as Daya, Wogan, and Blood Orange, different varieties of citrus can be supplied to the market from early August of the first year to May of the following year. The products are exported to countries such as Russia, Kazakhstan, Indonesia, etc., and the brand of "China's Early Maturing Citrus Hometown" is becoming increasingly popular.

Breakthrough through variety improvement

Boosting the quality and efficiency of Yanjiang citrus fruits

Recently, several workers in the Yanjiang District Citrus Modern Agriculture Park located in Gaodong Village, Fengyu Town, Yanjiang District were carrying out maintenance work such as heart picking and pruning on citrus trees that had completed variety improvement.

This citrus tree underwent a pilot grafting of the Ehime new variety in March this year, and overall growth is very good, "said Wang Jing, a village level fruit technician in Gaodong Village. The Ehime new variety improved in this pilot project belongs to the early maturing variety of citrus, with characteristics such as delicate flesh, easy peeling, and rich flavor. After entering the peak fruiting period, it can achieve a yield of 6000-8000 kilograms per mu, with broad market prospects and effective promotion of public income.

Compared to traditional Yanjiang honey oranges, the new variety of Ehime has obvious advantages in taste, quality, sweetness, yield, and other aspects. Especially, the economic benefits are very considerable. Last year, this Ehime was sold for up to 15 yuan per kilogram. "Luo Ze, a fruit farmer from Renzheng Village in Fengyu Town, is one of the earliest fruit farmers in Yanjiang District to plant the new variety of Ehime. Currently, the Ehime variety planted by his family has entered its peak fruiting period. Therefore, he has a say in whether the variety is worth promoting.According to Lan Ping, a senior agronomist at the Agriculture and Rural Bureau of Yanjiang District, in order to further promote the quality and efficiency improvement of the citrus industry in the entire district, and focus on solving the problems of multiple citrus varieties and poor quality, Yanjiang District has taken the "three modernizations linkage" strategy as a guide and carried out pilot improvements of the Ehime new variety as the "flagship product" of citrus improvement in the entire district, following the approach of "government guidance, market leadership, and social participation". In March of this year, the entire region adopted a unified branch supply, grafting technology, organic fertilizer application, and management technology model in 6 towns and 20 citrus gathering areas. High exchange grafting technology was used to graft different mother plant varieties, and 1500 acres of citrus were piloted and improved into the new variety of Ehime.

Next, Yanjiang District will follow the promotion strategy of "core area+radiation area" and expand from the core area to the surrounding areas by 2025, promoting the development of 4000 acres of new Ehime varieties; In 2026, carry out whole village and whole area promotion, planting