Weiyuan seed potatoes are geographical indication protected products.

Zhengweiyuan County is located in the central part of Gansu Province, at the intersection of the south geosyncline of the West Qinling Mountains and the Loess Plateau. The county has a cold climate with a big difference between the north and the south. The north is cold and dry, and the south is high and cold. It is moist and humid, with deep soil, fertile soil, mild disease incidence, and few virus-carrying insects. The potato seed potatoes produced are of high quality, strong seed quality, with few diseases, and have great potential for off-site planting and increase production, making it ideal for potato seed breeding. The region is the supply base for improved potato varieties in Gansu and even surrounding provinces and regions, and is the “hometown of improved potato varieties in China”. At present, the potato industry has become a global "sunrise industry". This is a good development opportunity for Weiyuan potato breeding.

Nowadays, when you walk into Huichuan and Wuzhu, the main seed potato production areas in Weiyuan County, you can see thousands of acres of potato seed net sheds under standardized management with undulating silver and blue waves, and mechanized The cultivated seed potato fields have clear ridges and furrows and are growing happily. The potato flowers blooming everywhere are rich and fragrant, refreshing and become a beautiful "characteristic industrial style line" at the source of the Weishui River.

The unique natural geographical and climatic conditions of Weiyuan County determine its resource advantages for potato seed breeding. Facing the opportunities and challenges of building modern agriculture in the new century, the county party committee and county government planned the optimization and upgrading of the agricultural industry in accordance with industrialization thinking, focusing on the scale, industrialization and standardization of potato seed production. The county's potato planting area has increased from The previous less than 100,000 acres increased to 400,000 acres this year. In 2010, the county's total potato output value reached 410 million yuan, accounting for 46.38% of the primary industry. The per capita income of farmers from the potato industry was 1,267.43 yuan. The per capita net income of farmers was 47.86 of income.

Promote the combination of standardization and quality, adhere to the "green brand" and "standard brand" as the carrier, and have successively completed the "Weiyuan County Seed Potato" origin mark certification and registered the " The "Wuzhu" and "Weiheyuan" brand seed potato trademarks were named "China's Hometown of Excellent Potato Breeds" by the Specialty Hometown Organizing Committee of the Chinese Agricultural Society, and were recognized by the Gansu Provincial Department of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry as a pollution-free agricultural product origin in Gansu Province. Weiyuan The popularity of seed potatoes continues to increase, and the brand effect is gradually emerging. The seed potatoes produced are exported to more than 10 provinces and cities such as Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia, and the annual export volume of seed potatoes exceeds 400,000 tons.