Xingguo Gray Goose is a geographical indication protected product. Xingguo Gray Goose is a geographical indication certification trademark. Xingguo Gray Goose is an agricultural product with geographical indications.

The Xingguo gray goose has gray feathers. It is named after its origin in Xingguo. When first born, the goose has a yellow and white spot as big as a soybean on the tip of its beak and blue feet. The adult goose has a green beak, yellow feet, gray back, off-white chest and abdomen, and rippled back and wing feathers. There is an obvious sarcoma on the forehead of the male goose, which looks like he is wearing a small hat. The abdomen of the female goose has obvious abdominal folds. Xingguo gray goose is not only beautiful in body and attractive in appearance, but also has tender meat, crispy bones and white skin, delicious taste, high nutritional value, and contains unique protease. In the early 1980s, it was rated as the best goose breed by experts at the Guangdong Foreign Trade Association, winning the crown among geese and enjoying a good reputation in domestic and foreign markets. Xingguo gray geese are tolerant of coarse food and will eat both wild and cultivated grasses and vegetables. They like to herd in groups, have strong resistance to stress, and have good maternal instincts. The female goose will take the initiative to call the male goose to mate before laying eggs. She will lay 10-12 eggs each time. She naturally holds a nest, has good hugging ability, and has the instinct to care for the goslings. The growth rate is fastest in winter and spring. Winter geese generally gain more than 55 grams per day and can be released from the cage at about 65 days old. Spring geese gain more than 50 grams per day and can be released from the cage at about 70 days old. Generally, they can grow up to 4 kilograms, with large ones reaching 5 kilograms. People in Xingguo have been raising geese for more than 1,700 years, and they are known as the "Hometown of Gray Goose". Since the Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, with the implementation of the reform and opening up policy and the development of the market economy, the people's enthusiasm for raising geese has become increasingly high. The Xingguo County Party Committee and the county government lost no time in taking the development of gray goose breeding as an important measure for the county's rural areas to get rid of poverty and become prosperous. In 1995, the number of gray geese raised in the county exceeded 3.5 million, and 3 million were actually released from cages. The "Land of Gray Goose" is simply the "Land of Gray Goose". By the river or stream, you will see geese playing in the water, chasing and playing. On lawns and hillsides, you will see geese bowing their heads to feed and singing loudly. This majestic picture of thousands of geese and the formation of ten thousand geese makes people excited, delighted and amazed!

People in Xingguo will use goose meat as a main course during festivals or banquets with guests. It is an indispensable delicacy in restaurants and hotels. Goose meat is delicious whether fried, braised or marinated. Grilled in oil and chopped in white, the taste is still delicious. Xingguo Laobiao is also good at mixing goose meat with rice noodles, served with chili sauce, minced green onions, and shredded ginger, and then steaming it on a cage bed, giving it a unique flavor. Many people like to eat the fragrant goose head, goose wings and goose paws with the following wine. The goose mixed with pickled cabbage, garlic and chili are also particularly delicious. Although goose meat and goose offal are delicious, some people think that killing geese is "troublesome to plucking feathers", so the case of rows of bare geese in the wet market came into being. The goose butcher puts the gray geese that have been killed and plucked dry feathers on the table. You can buy as much or as little as you want. The real meat is very popular among customers and has become a feature of Xingguo Food Market. Not only are the gray geese edible, but also their down and feathers. Good stuff, down jackets and duvets made of it are great for keeping out the cold. The goose feather fans that Kong Ming never leaves his hands are now exported to Southeast Asian countries! Raising gray geese is a way for people in Xingguo to make money. People often say: "To make a family prosperous, you must have a good wife, a good pig woman, and a group of "Good Goose Lady." People in Xingguo have a special liking for gray geese, so many stories about gray geese in Xingguo have been left behind. There is such a record in history: more than 1,700 years ago, a group of cranes from the Yaochi in the sky secretly flew down to earth to play. They saw the magnificent scenery of Xingguo Mountain and the beautiful water of the Lijiang River, so they landed in the river to play in the waves. A young and beautiful female crane saw a rhododendron blooming very beautifully on the bank, so she swam over to enjoy it. Little did she know that there was a drooling man hidden behind the flower! The man opened his big mouth and looked at her fiercely. The crane rushed over, and at this critical moment, a very brave gander swam over quickly and saved the crane. The crane was deeply moved and willingly stayed in the mortal world to marry the gander and reproduce.

After thousands of years of careful selection and breeding, Xingguo gray goose has become an excellent local goose breed. In order to preserve the excellent genes of Xingguo Gray Goose, the county government established the Xingguo Gray Goose Original Breeding Farm in 1986 to carry out selective breeding and serial development of Xingguo Gray Goose. It was included in the national Spark Plan that year and was listed as a national agricultural product in 1988. Ministry Harvest Plan. Through pure breeding of goose species and careful selection, the reproductive performance and growth rate of Xingguo gray geese have been improved. After two inspections and re-inspections by the Jiangxi Provincial Department of Agriculture, the Xingguo Gray Goose Original Breeding Farm was rated as the only local original breeding goose farm in the province so far. The site is now renamed Xingguo Gray Goose Development Corporation.

The reputation of Xingguo Gray Goose in domestic and foreign markets is declining, and the price has been rising year after year.

The supply exceeds demand. In order to speed up the goose raising business, the county government advocates using winter idle fields to plant grass and raise geese. One acre of winter idle fields planted with Italian ryegrass can raise 120 geese, increasing net income by more than 1,000 yuan. "The number of Xingguo gray geese will reach 10 million by the year 2000. This is an inspiring plan.

Regional scope

The origin and main production areas of Xingguo gray geese It is distributed in various towns and villages within the jurisdiction of Xingguo County, Jiangxi Province. The central production areas are Luojiang, Changgang, Butou, Gaoxing, Gulonggang, Longkou, Yongfeng, Jiangbei, Dinglong, Chenggang, and Xinglian. Fangtai, Chongxian, Longping, Dongcun, Juncun and other 16 townships are home to 304 villages in 25 townships. Xingguo County is located in the Wushan Mountains to the east of the Luoxiao Mountains and in the south of Jiangxi Province. , the geographical coordinates are located in the north of Ganzhou City between 115°01′-115°51′ east longitude and 26°03′-26°41′ north latitude. It is adjacent to Ningdu in the east, Yudu in the southeast, Gan County in the south, and Wanzhou in the west. An, bounded by Taihe in the northwest and connected to Yongfeng and Ji'an in the north, is 84 kilometers long from east to west and 71.5 kilometers wide from north to south, with a total area of ??3215 square kilometers. It is 82 kilometers away from Ganzhou City and 346 kilometers away from the provincial capital Nanchang. Xingguo is an economically underdeveloped area in southern Gansu. A national key county for poverty alleviation, with a production scale of 5.4 million pigeons and an annual output of 32,400 tons.

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