Xinyi cultivates more than 200,000 acres of Sanhua Plum

At the end of last year, Xinyi Sanhua Plum was elected as one of the "Top Ten Best Fruits in Lingnan" (ranked second) by a high vote. This spring, , Xinyi City successfully held the first Lihua Tourism Culture Festival. These two actions made Xinyi Sanhua Plum famous far and wide, with both flowers and fruits.

The birthplace of Xinyi Sanhua Plum is Qianpai Town. The starting point for planting Qianpai Sanhua Plum is Danuo Village, and the "natal family" is in Sanhua Town, Wengyuan. From scratch, from existence to excellence, from market development to brand building, the development of Xinyi Sanhua Plum has gone through 38 years so far. In these 38 years, it has gone through five stages of development, including trial planting, expansion, and improvement, and achieved three extraordinary historical leaps.

Introduction of trial species. In the autumn and winter of 1974, Qianpai Commune introduced 500 Sanhua plum seedlings from Sanhua Town, Wengyuan, and arranged them all for trial planting in the Danuo production team of Qianpai Brigade. 400 plants were collectively trialed by the production team, and 100 plants were planted by farmers on their own land. Trial planting will be supported by Qianpai Supply and Marketing Cooperative and relevant units in Xinyi County. At that time, Ling Jiashu (now 87 years old), an agricultural technician of the Danuo production team, was the number one contributor to the trial planting. He planted the trial-planted Sanhua plums at his doorstep, carefully cultivated them, cared for them day and night, and understood the attributes and growth conditions of the Sanhua plums. . Three years later, all 500 Sanhua plum plants planted in the trial survived and were put into production. At that time, the average selling price of Sanhua plums was about 0.4 yuan per city catty, and the annual output of a single plant was about 50 city catties. About 45 Sanhua plums were planted per mu of land, which means the annual output value per mu was about 900 yuan; at that time, the price of rice was The market price per mu is 0.3 yuan, and the annual output per mu is about 1,500 yuan per mu (the climate in Qianpai Town is extremely cold, and cold dew winds come early, causing serious harvest losses), which means the annual output value per mu is about 450 yuan. In contrast, the output value of Sanhua plum grown in mountainous areas is doubled compared to that of rice grown in paddy fields.

Expand planting in the mountainous areas of Qianpai Town. After the success of the trial planting of Sanhua plum in Danuo Village, the planting soon expanded to the surrounding areas of the town from near to far. This stage is the initial promotion and expansion stage. The planting scope is limited to the mountainous areas. Traditional rice farming is still maintained in the paddy fields in the town. The farmers' production consciousness is still "taking grain as the key link". By 1989, the planting area of ??Sanhua plum in the town was thousands of acres.

Planting in Qianpai Town has been expanded again, achieving the first leap. After about 10 years of independent planting expansion by farmers, in the 1990s, under the influence of the market economy, Qianpai Town identified Sanhua Plum as the key variety of the agricultural economy, and farmers' small-scale farming consciousness of "taking grain as the key link" was reversed. The ideology was unified to "focus on economic construction", and the town realized large-scale expansion of planting from land to field. In the 11 villages in the three management areas of Qianpai, Suodong and Zhudong, almost every household has planted Sanhua plums on their fields. The traditional farming model of rice cultivation has been completely changed. At that time, the four villages in Dadongpian were not suitable for planting Sanhua plums due to climate differences. The local government built an off-season vegetable base and a flower base in the area to make up for the lack of income of local farmers and promote balanced economic development in the town. By the end of 1998, the planting area of ??Sanhua plum in Qianpai Town was about 30,000 acres. At this stage of development, Qianpai Town has achieved large-scale leap-forward development, which has radiated and promoted the development of surrounding towns and villages. In the past few years, farmers in Pingtang, Baishi, Heshui and other towns have introduced Sanhua Plum from Qianpai. Planting.

Vigorously promote planting and make the industry stronger and bigger. This stage of development is the second leap in the development of Xinyi Sanhuali, and it is a leap of strategic significance. In 1999, Xinyi City Sanhua Plum Production Site Meeting was held in Qianpai Town. The meeting established Sanhua Plum’s leading position in the city’s fruit industry. From the same year to the following year, the Xinyi Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government implemented special funds to establish a large-scale high-quality Sanhua plum nursery in Suodong Village, Qianpai Town, using local high-quality Sanhua plum varieties to graft and cultivate plum seedlings to supply the development of other towns. Planting. This stage is also the stage of survival of the fittest. Only 11 towns in the city are suitable for planting Sanhua plums. The towns suitable for planting have developed Sanhua plums in large areas. In addition to Qianpai Town, Chashan, Zhusha, Hongguan and other towns have also developed into the main producing areas of Sanhua plum. In the past 10 years of development, Xinyi City has vigorously implemented the excellent fruit project, and has organized and carried out the "Top Ten Excellent Individual Sanhua Plum" selection activities or other similar evaluation activities for many years. At the same time, it has provided financial and technical support to the main projects. The production areas have improved fruit trees and guided fruit farmers to gradually plant unified and improved varieties to achieve improved varieties and comprehensively improve the yield and quality of Sanhua plums. In 2000, Qianpai Town printed exquisite Sanhua plum packaging boxes to promote it. Since then, Xinyi Sanhua Plum has entered the market with its bright image and excellent quality, and has gained a good reputation at home and abroad.

In 2004, Xinyi City registered the "Xinyi Sanhua Plum" trademark through the State Administration for Industry and Commerce; in 2005, Xinyi City won the title of "China's Leading County (City) in Sanhua Plum Industry"; in 2008, Xinyi City Pai, Chashan and other towns have established one national-level standardized Sanhua plum production base, two provincial-level bases, and three municipal-level bases. By 2010, the Sanhua plum planting area in Xinyi City had exceeded 220,000 acres.

Achieving the third great leap, a gorgeous "turn around", flowers and fruits are fragrant, and spring and summer are prosperous. Last year, Xinyi Sanhua Plum was selected as one of the "Top Ten Best Fruits in Lingnan". Since last year, Qianpai and other major producing areas have set off an unprecedented craze for contracting mountain farms to plant Sanhua plums in succession. At the beginning of the new year this year, the Xinyi Municipal Party Committee and Government seized the great opportunity of the booming rural eco-tourism and used the reputation of Sanhua Plum to sing flower songs, promote tourism and strengthen the economy, and successfully held the "2012 Xinyi Plum Blossom Tourism and Culture Festival". It has achieved gratifying social and economic benefits, making Sanhua plum flowers and fruits have the same fragrance, and making the fruit industry and tourism industry complement each other. This move has greatly enhanced the popularity of Xinyi Sanhua Li.