Yuzhai Village, Changzhi Town, Tongxu County, Henan Province is located 45 kilometers southeast of Kaifeng. There are 4,500 people and 8,000 acres of cultivated land. It is one of the implementation villages of Kaifeng City’s Socialist New Countryside Construction Demonstration Village, Henan Province’s “One Hundred Villages and Ten Thousand Households Ecological Tourism Enrichment Project” project, and the Central Rural “Environmental Contiguous Comprehensive Improvement” project.
In recent years, Yuezhai Village has seized the major opportunities of new rural construction and insisted on cultivating the early-maturing and pollution-free apple industry as an important measure to develop modern agriculture and increase people's income. The village has built a pollution-free high-quality apple base of 8,000 acres, accounting for 92% of the total land area of ??the village. The per capita orchard is 1.8 acres, and the average benefit per mu is about 10,000 yuan. At present, the high-quality apple planting area in Changzhi Town has exceeded 12,000 acres, and a fruit tree planting, production and sales market has initially formed with Yuezhai Village as the center.
The apple trees now planted in Yuezhai Village include Gala, Meiba, Fujimu, etc., which are early-maturing and pollution-free varieties. The village has also established two professional apple planting cooperatives and carried out pollution-free production base certification. , has registered two brand trademarks, and implemented integrated management of production, supply and marketing.