Wuchuan potatoes are protected geographical indication products. Wuchuan Potato is a geographical indication certification trademark.
“Our Wuchuan potatoes are not only on the dining table, but this year they have been designated as catering foods and exhibits at the Shanghai World Expo.” A few days ago, reporters came to the home of Fan Aizhu, a large middle-shed grower in Wuchuan County, Hohhot City, Inner Mongolia. When it comes to Wuchuan potatoes, Lao Fan’s pride is palpable.
In Sanhequan Village, Wuchuan County, the fields are full of busy figures like Lao Fan. Some farmers are plowing the ridges, some are packing boxes, and the sheds are filled with freshly dug potatoes. . Farmers said that at least 4,000 kilograms of commercial potatoes can be harvested from each mu of greenhouses, and they have already been purchased at a price of 3 yuan per kilogram.
“Hale Town Sanhequan Village has built 200 acres of mid-sheds in the past two years. In 2009, the income from mid-sheds per mu exceeded 4,500 yuan. Farmers’ enthusiasm for growing mid-shed potatoes has surged. Yilang, this year we also specially introduced the new potato variety 'Feurita'," said Di Guoxiong, 1st of Hale Town, Wuchuan County, excitedly introducing the "foreign varieties" of Wuchuan potatoes.
Wuchuan County is located at the northern foot of Yinshan Mountain and has a mid-temperate continental monsoon climate. Due to sufficient sunshine and a large temperature difference between day and night, the natural conditions are more suitable for the growth of high-quality potatoes, which have high nutritional content. However, the long-term reliance on traditional agriculture development model cannot allow Wuchuan Potatoes to achieve breakthroughs in terms of output, brand, and efficiency.
What to do? "Based on local reality, we are following the road of modern agriculture, proposing the development strategy of 'establishing a county with potato industry', carrying out refined and efficient planting, and focusing on the potato industry as a key project in the county to increase farmers' income." Wang Xuefeng, Secretary of the Wuchuan County Party Committee He said that in recent years, the county's potatoes have rapidly expanded from more than 100,000 acres in the past to more than 700,000 acres now, with an annual output of nearly 800 million kilograms of fresh potatoes. The planting of potatoes in the middle shed has become a step in Wuchuan County's transition from traditional agriculture to modern agriculture. leap.
It is understood that in order to realize the refined and efficient planting of Wuchuan potatoes, Wuchuan County has listed the construction of middle sheds as the "No. 1 project" of the county's rural economic work, as an important starting point for changing the development mode. Let the whole county work together to promote it. In 2008, in accordance with the requirements of the relevant departments of Hohhot City to vigorously develop disaster-proof agriculture, a 1,500-acre mid-shelf planting model pilot project was organized and implemented. That year, the first crop yielded more than 4,000 kilograms of potatoes per mu, and the subsequent crop mainly planted white radish, celery and other vegetables. The average net income per mu for two crops is about 3,600 yuan, which is about three times more efficient than similar field cultivation.
Having tasted the benefits of modern agriculture, Wuchuan people carefully summarized and improved their experience in pilot planting in medium sheds. In 2009, they built another 8,000 acres of medium sheds, bringing the total area of ??medium sheds in the county to nearly 10,000 acres. "The first batch of potatoes in the middle shed are harvested one and a half months in advance, and vegetables will be planted later. The middle shed is equipped with equipment such as water-saving irrigation and soil testing formulas. The potatoes produced have Wuchuan's green food brand, and all of them have been planted to order, so there is no need to worry about selling. "Fan Aizhu's words express the sentiments of many farmers in Wuchuan.
Actively promote standardized planting to provide strong impetus for Wuchuan potato industry. Up to now, the county's middle-shed potatoes have implemented the "seven unifications" planting and cultivation model, namely unified seed seeds, unified farming methods, unified dense planting, unified soil testing and formula fertilization, unified micro-sprinkler drip irrigation, unified hoeing and soil cultivation, unified Pest and disease control. This year, Wuchuan County continues to increase its efforts in the construction of medium-sized sheds, and has built another 2,500 acres of medium-sized sheds, mainly "five-point sheds", all equipped with water-saving micro-spraying facilities, bringing the county's medium-sized shed area to 12,000 acres, involving 8 towns, 78 administrative villages, 5,750 rural households, and more than 23,000 farmers.
In addition, optimized breeding has put Wuchuan potatoes on the road to high-yielding and efficient development. This year, Wuchuan County also took the county seed potato breeding center as the leader to actively implement virus-free potato seed potato breeding and promotion projects, and focused on creating a 25,000-acre Shangtuhai high-efficiency facility agriculture demonstration project area and Geding cover agricultural comprehensive development Agricultural demonstration project areas such as the model area and Deshenggou Baokun Organic Agriculture Manor have fundamentally improved the core competitiveness of Wuchuan potatoes and further consolidated the foundation of characteristic and advantageous industries.
In the past few years, Wuchuan County has attracted investment online, gone out to promote products, and established supply channels with supermarkets in dozens of large and medium-sized cities.
After careful cultivation, in 2008, Wuchuan Potatoes successfully registered a geographical indication certification trademark and became 1. Fresh potatoes exclusively for Paralympic athletes. Wuchuan County has also been designated as a national-level green potato standardized planting demonstration base by relevant departments. Today, the famous Wuchuan Potato is showing its unique charm to the audience at the Shanghai World Expo.
Range of origin.
The Wuchuan potato production areas are Keke Ligeng Town, Xiwulan Bulang Town, Hale Town, Ermenzi Township, Halaheshao Township, Deshenggou Township, and Daqingshan Township in Wuchuan County, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Nine towns and townships, including Shangtuhai Township and Huolaishan Township, currently have administrative areas under their jurisdiction.