Product Features Quality Characteristics

Yangshuo kumquat, together with Shatian pomelo, summer orange, ponkan, persimmon and chestnut, is known as the six famous fruits of Yangshuo. It is famous for its straight and beautiful tree shape, evergreen all year round, golden and bright fruits with attractive luster, tender and crisp quality, moderate sweetness and sourness. Yangshuo kumquat belongs to the genus Kumquat of the citrus family of the Rutaceae family. Each 100 grams of pulp contains 40-50 mg of vitamin C, vitamins A, P, aromatic oils, carotenoids and other substances. In addition to being eaten fresh, kumquats can also be processed into juice, candied fruit, canned fruit, preserved fruit, jam, fruit wine, etc. Plant Characteristics

Yangshuo kumquat, also known as kumquat, belongs to the Rutaceae family and is a famous fruit plant. Especially in Guangdong and Hong Kong, many people buy products during the Spring Festival for good luck. Kumquat is an evergreen shrub. Flowers solitary, white, fragrant. The fruits are mostly oval, golden yellow and shiny, and some varieties are edible. Mostly reproduced by grafting. Nutritional value

Yangshuo kumquat fruit is rich in vitamin A, which can prevent pigmentation, improve skin gloss and elasticity, slow down aging, and avoid skin sagging and wrinkles. 80% of the vitamin C in kumquats is found in the peel. The peel is very effective in detoxifying the liver, protecting the eyes, and protecting the immune system. Moreover, the peel of kumquats is sweeter than the pulp. Medicinal value

"Compendium of Materia Medica": "Reducing Qi and quickening the diaphragm, quenching thirst, relieving alcohol, and eliminating odor. Pi is the best."

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"Chinese Medicine Illustrated Book": "Cure chest and epigastrium pain, palpitations, vomiting, poor appetite, sobering up, etc. It can also cure whooping cough. "

"Zhejiang Medicinal Plants": "Regulates qi, relieves depression, resolves phlegm, and sobers up alcohol."

Yangshuo kumquat is not only beautiful, but its fruit is rich in nutrients. Vitamin C, kumquat glycosides and other ingredients play a certain role in maintaining cardiovascular function and preventing vascular sclerosis, hypertension and other diseases. Yangshuo kumquat can enhance the body's ability to resist colds, prevent and treat colds, and lower blood lipids. Suitable for people with chest tightness and stagnation, no desire to eat, or those who feel full after eating, drunk and thirsty; suitable for people with acute and chronic bronchitis, hepatitis, cholecystitis, and high blood pressure. It has special effects in treating eye diseases, coughs, asthma, and preventing arteriosclerosis.

As a dietary health product, kumquat preserves can whet your appetite. Drinking kumquat juice can produce fluid and quench thirst. Adding radish juice and pear juice to the drink can cure coughs. Kumquat has sweet and warm medicinal properties, can regulate qi, relieve depression, and resolve phlegm. Its medicinal methods include: to treat chronic bronchitis, stew kumquat with rock sugar in water and take it. To treat indigestion, take decoction of kumquat, burnt malt and burnt hawthorn in water. To treat chronic hepatitis, kumquat and Scutellaria barbata can be boiled into a thick juice and taken with sugar. If you have cold stomach pain, you can take a decoction of kumquat and evodia. Decoction of kumquat, Patchouli and ginger together can cure nausea caused by cold. Decoction of kumquat and Codonopsis pilosula in place of tea can help prevent miscarriage.

People with weak spleen and qi should not eat too much, and people with diabetes should not eat more. Those with broken and sore mouth and tongue, swollen and painful gums should not eat this product.

The medicinal value of Yangshuo kumquat can be summarized into ten major effects:

1. Yangshuo kumquat has the effect of relieving coughs and moisturizing the lungs.

2. Yangshuo kumquat has the effect of regulating qi and strengthening the spleen.

3. Yangshuo kumquat has the effect of digesting food and strengthening the stomach.

4. Yangshuo kumquat can enhance the body’s ability to resist colds and prevent colds.

5. Yangshuo kumquat has the effect of sobering up and quenching thirst.

6. Yangshuo Kumquat has the effect of lowering blood lipids and blood pressure, preventing hardening of blood vessels and reducing blood pressure. Because kumquats are rich in vitamin P, which is an important nutrient for maintaining blood vessel health.

7. Yangshuo kumquat has the effect of preventing pigmentation, maintaining skin and slowing down aging. Because kumquats are rich in vitamin A.

8. Yangshuo kumquat peel has auxiliary effects on improving liver detoxification function, eye care, and immune system health care.

9. Kumquat seeds can be used medicinally to treat eye diseases, lymphatic tuberculosis, pharyngitis, etc.

10. Kumquat root has the effect of promoting qi and dispersing stagnation, and can cure stomachache, vomiting, hernia, etc. Origin environment

Yangshuo County is located in the northeastern part of Guangxi and the south-central part of Guilin City, between 24°13′-25°40′ north latitude.

It borders the suburbs of Guilin City and Lingchuan County to the north, Gongcheng County to the east, Lingui County and Yongfu County to the west, and Lipu County to the south. The maximum span from east to west is 51.5 kilometers, and the maximum span from north to south is 62 kilometers. . Yangshuo County is located in the mid-subtropical monsoon climate zone, with abundant heat, abundant rainfall, sufficient sunshine, mild and humid weather, and four distinct seasons. The karst areas and low-altitude areas in the county have long summers and short winters, while the northeastern and southwest high-altitude mountainous areas have long winters and short summers, with moderate spring and autumn. This unique climate, water and soil conditions are very conducive to the production of kumquats. The central, eastern and southern parts of the county have flat terrain and good water conditions, making them the most important grain-producing areas. Baisha Town, located in the center of the county, has a hilly area of ??150 kilometers with a gentle slope, thick soil layer and high potassium content. It is the central kumquat production area in Yangshuo. Historical origin

Yangshuo County is the largest kumquat producing area in China. It is known as the hometown of kumquats and is the first kumquat county in China. Yangshuo kumquats are famous for their large fruit shape, excellent quality, delicious color and beneficial effects. Known both at home and abroad for its health, kumquats have been cultivated for more than 140 years.

Before the 1980s, the planting area of ??kumquats in Yangshuo County was small and not large-scale. It was only planted in Baisha Town, with low yield and low price.

Since the 1990s, the kumquat industry in Yangshuo has developed rapidly and gradually reached a large scale. In addition to Baisha Town, the planting area in other towns and villages has also continued to increase.

Since 2001, Yangshuo County has issued a series of files and measures such as "Several Opinions on Further Strengthening Agricultural Work in the County", increasing support for advantageous and characteristic agricultural industries year by year, and establishing special projects. The agricultural development fund, which reached 45 million yuan in 2011, is arranged annually. Kumquats are listed as key financial support industries in the county for support. For new kumquat species, the county finance will provide subsidies at the standard of 300 yuan/acre. . Investing 50 million yuan, we completed the 52-kilometer-long fourth-grade cement road in Jinjue Baili New Village and the hardening of 72-kilometer-long 60 natural village roads, changing the tradition of selling kumquats on shoulders and on bicycles in mountainous areas. history. Invest 5 million yuan to establish a kumquat drip irrigation and water-saving irrigation system in mountainous areas.

Since 2001, Yangshuo County has organized and implemented comprehensive technical research on high-yielding and high-quality kumquat cultivation with canopy film preservation as the main content (i.e., the "three avoidance" technology of rain protection, cold protection, and sun protection). The success has broken through the bottleneck that has restricted the development of the kumquat industry for a long time. We have formulated local planting standards for "Yangshuo Kumquats", comprehensively promoted pollution-free, high-yielding and high-quality kumquat cultivation techniques, established a national kumquat standardized production demonstration garden and a district-wide "three avoidance technology" demonstration garden, and guided farmers to carry out "creating famous kumquat brands" , "Guarantee the Kumquat Brand" campaign, guided fruit farmers to establish 63 kumquat professional cooperatives and register 45 kumquat trademarks. The largest professional fruit wholesale market in Guilin has been established, covering an area of ??250 acres, with an investment of 150 million yuan. There are more than 400 merchants engaged in kumquat purchase, and Yangshuo kumquat products are sold to all parts of the country. There are three foam box factories and one plastic basket factory. The boxes and baskets produced can not only meet the demand of Baisha market, but also supply the fruit markets of surrounding counties.

Since 2003, Yangshuo County has held a kumquat trade fair every year and commended the "Top Ten Kumquat Growers" and the "Top Ten Kumquat Sales Households". At the same time, the platform of the ASEAN Expo was also used to promote Yangshuo kumquats to the ten ASEAN countries. Production situation

In 2011, the Yangshuo kumquat planting area exceeded 100,000 acres, the total output value exceeded 1 billion yuan, and the average output value per mu was 10,000 yuan.

By the end of 2012, the kumquat planting area in Yangshuo County reached 10,533 hectares, 16 times that of 2000, with a total output of 162,000 tons and an output value of 1.35 billion yuan, creating 16 famous brands such as Guban and Jiaobalin. There are administrative villages with annual per capita net income exceeding 10,000 yuan and four natural villages with annual per capita net income exceeding 20,000 yuan, including Longtanmen and Daping.

In 2014, Yangshuo kumquat production increased from more than 20,000 mu in 2004 to 181,000 mu, and the yield per mu increased from 1,500 kilograms to more than 2,300 kilograms. The county’s total annual output reached 216,000 tons. The output value has increased from more than 200 million yuan to 1.5 billion yuan, the annual per capita income has increased from 3,000 yuan to 20,000 yuan, and the annual total output has increased from 30,000 to 40,000 tons to 216,000 tons, accounting for about 65% of China's kumquat output.

In 2016, the kumquat planting area in Yangshuo County was 188,000 acres, with a total annual output of 301,000 tons and an output value of 2.12 billion yuan. It was sold throughout the country, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and exported to Russia, ASEAN and other countries. . Product Honors

In 2000, Yangshuo kumquats were rated as the first batch of famous brand agricultural products by Guilin City.

In 2001, Yangshuo kumquats were rated as "famous brand products" at the China International Agricultural Expo.

In 2002, Yangshuo Kumquat was recognized by the Guangxi Autonomous Region as a 10,000-acre pollution-free production base.

In 2003, Yangshuo kumquats were recognized as "the first batch of pollution-free agricultural products in the country" by the Ministry of Agriculture and the National Product Quality Certification Committee.

In 2011, Yangshuo kumquats won the title of "Consumers' Favorite Regional Public Brand of Chinese Agricultural Products in 2011" and Guilin City's "Top Ten Most Popular Products by the Public".

In December 2011, Yangshuo County won the title of "National Agricultural Standardization Demonstration County" (demonstration product: kumquat).

In 2015, Yangshuo kumquats won the title of "Top 50 Public Brands in China's Fruit Region in 2015" at China's first fruit industry brand conference.

In 2016, Yangshuo kumquats won the title of the top ten quality and reputation landmark brands in the national fruit and vegetable industry.

On November 15, 2019, Yangshuo Kumquat was selected into the Chinese Agricultural Brand Directory. The scope of regional protection of geographical indications

The scope of protection of Yangshuo kumquat geographical indication products is based on the "Notice on Delimiting the Regional Scope of Origin of Yangshuo Kumquat Products" (Shuo Zhengfa[ 2005] No. 28) shall prevail, which is the current administrative area under the jurisdiction of Yangshuo County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Quality and technical requirements

(1) Variety

The largest variety of gold bullets.

(2) Site conditions

The altitude is below 750 meters, the parent material is sandy loam developed from siliceous rock or sand shale, and the organic matter content is ≥1.0%; relative to groundwater Bit greater than 1.0 meters, pH 5.0 to 6.5.

(3) Cultivation and management

1. Seedling propagation: seedling propagation and grafting propagation.

(1) Seedlings: Seeds are collected from high-quality single plants that are free from quarantine diseases and insect pests and are of pure varieties for sowing and raising seedlings.

(2) Grafted seedlings: Use Citrus aurantium aurantium anvil or original anvil to collect branches as scions from high-quality mother trees that are free of quarantine diseases and insect pests and have pure varieties, and graft seedlings.

2. Planting: The planting density is ≤1650 plants per hectare, and the planting time is from February to March every year.

3. Soil management and fertilization: The orchard implements deep plowing and soil modification and tree tray covering. Fertilization is mainly based on organic fertilizers and supplemented by chemical fertilizers. Organic fertilizer application amount: ≥30 tons per hectare.

4. Shaping and pruning: Shaping adopts multi-main branch semi-circular head shape or natural cylindrical shape; pruning is mainly thin pruning to ensure ventilation and light transmission of the crown.

5. Cover the tree crown with film to keep the tree fresh: In the early stages of fruit coloring in mid-to-late October, cover the tree crown with plastic film for rain-proof cultivation to prevent fruit cracking and fruit drop until the fruit is harvested.

(4) Fruit harvesting and grading

Fruit harvesting will be carried out in batches starting from November. Fruits that mature first will be picked first. After harvesting, the following standards will be followed: Perform grading.

Kumquat Grading Table

Grading

Project

Superior Grade

First Grade

Fruit-shaped

Upright

Oval or oval-elliptical, neat shape

Upright

Oval or egg-shaped

Round, neat shape

Upright

Oval or egg-shaped, no obvious deformity

Color

Orange-red or

Orange-yellow

Bright color

Consistent coloring

Orange Yellow

Good color

Even coloring

Orange yellow, light yellow, yellowish green is allowed, but it should not exceed one quarter of the total area of ??the fruit surface< /p>

Single fruit weight (grams)

≥22

≥18

≥14

(5) Quality characteristics

1. Sensory characteristics: The peel is smooth, the oil cells are small and dense, the fruit shape is oval or egg-elliptical, the color of the fruit is orange-yellow to orange-red, and it has a special kumquat aroma. The peel is crisp and refreshing, and the pulp is honey-sweetened.

2. Physical and chemical indicators: soluble solid content ≥ 13%, total acid content ≤ 0.8%, solid-acid ratio ≥ 15.0:1, edible rate ≥ 95%, premium single fruit weight ≥ 22 grams, The first-grade single fruit weight is ≥18 grams, and the second-grade single fruit weight is ≥14 grams. Use of Special Mark

Producers within the protection scope of Yangshuo Kumquat Geographical Indication Products may apply to the Quality and Technical Supervision Bureau of Yangshuo County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region for the use of the "Special Mark for Geographical Indication Products", which will be approved by the National Quality Inspection Bureau. The General Administration announced the approval.