Why Xinjiang's Ruoqiang Jujubes Became One of the Nation's Top 100?
Why Xinjiang's Ruoqiang Jujubes Became One of the Nation's Top 100?
Why Xinjiang's Ruoqiang Jujubes Became One of the Nation's Top 100?
2023 November 30 10:33 China News Network
Urumqi, Nov. 28 (Xinhua) -- Recently, the 2023 China Geographical Indication Agricultural Products Regional Public Brand Brand Reputation Evaluation List was released. A total of four geographical indication agricultural products from Xinjiang were on the national top 100 list. Among them, "Ruoqiang red dates" ranked 30th.
Brand reputation is the perception of consumers, mass media, social platforms, etc. for branded products and the favourable evaluation of products.2023 China Geographical Indication Agricultural Products Regional Public Brand Brand Brand Reputation Evaluation, a total of 32 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government) 4471 landmark public brands were shortlisted.
"Ruoqiang red dates" why become "national top 100"? Recently, the reporter visited the "hometown of Chinese jujube" Xinjiang Ruoqiang, looking for answers.
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Ruoqiang used to be a must-pass place of the Silk Road, the fortress of the East-West trade, and the ancient state of Loulan, which was mentioned in history but mysteriously disappeared, was located in its territory. Thousands of years later, people did not expect that the date has become another business card of this small city.
Right now, Xinjiang Ruoqiang County 233,800 acres of jujube harvest is nearing the end of the work, into the peak of the purchase and sale. Ruoqiang County Agricultural and Rural Affairs Bureau party group members, deputy director Li Chuncheng said, this year, merchants gathered, jujube before the tree has been sold out, another year of harvest.
Ruoqiang County is between the Taklamakan Desert and the Kumtag Desert, one of the driest areas in the world at the same latitude. "Twenty years ago, such a bumper harvest was unthinkable." The yellow sand and poverty in the eye, the scorching heat floating in the vast earth, but such hardship has not been able to stop Ruoqiang people seeking wealth.
In 2000, Ruoqiang introduced more than 200,000 jujube seedlings from Xinzheng, Henan Province, and since 2001, Ruoqiang County has established the "jujube industry development strategy", and in the following years, the local people waved shovels and danced pickaxes and planted a piece of the "sea of jujube" at the edge of the desert. The "sea of jujube". From unintentional to fruitful, jujube has become a veritable "green bank" in the area.
Advanced mechanisation level of jujube planting
In Ruoqiang ten thousand mu jujube demonstration base, the reporter noticed that the jujube forest erected a small Internet of things equipment, iron rod inserted into the soil, hanging a white instrument on the rod. This is the "Internet of things monitoring equipment" which has just been put on duty in July this year.
This equipment is equipped with insecticide lamps, pest monitoring system, soil moisture monitoring station. Zhao Lianbin told reporters that the date garden has a "bodyguard", you can use your mobile phone to understand the field temperature, humidity, light intensity, precipitation, insect pests and a series of situations. "The hard work of facing the soil back to the sky will be gradually far away."
At present, his jujube garden also uses electric pruning shears, open furrow fertiliser machine, misting machine, harvesting machine and so on. Look at the harvester, will be a full and tight jujube rolled into the "abdomen", grains to the warehouse, Zhao Lianbin smiled on the brow: "This efficiency is too high, in the past, the local jujube harvesting mainly rely on manual knocking pick up, pick up jujube 'artifacts! 'Harvester is both hoover and hair dryer, each person can collect 400-500kg of jujube per day, saving effort."