Ansai Mountain Apple is a geographical indication certification trademark.
A few days ago, Ansai Mountain Apple successfully passed the review and was successfully registered as a national geographical indication certification trademark. This is another geographical indication certification trademark for agricultural products obtained by the county after "Ansai Millet".
Ansai County, Shaanxi Province is located in the hinterland of the Loess Plateau and has a long history of mountain apple cultivation. It is the best suitable area for apples among the country's apple producing areas that meets the seven climate indicators of the best suitable areas. As early as the 2005 Xi'an International Fruit Annual Conference, Qinguan and Fuji apples from Ansai County won the first and second prizes in the provincial joint evaluation. At the Yangling Agricultural Expo, the Fuji apples produced by Ansai won the Houji Award. In 2007, Ansai was identified as a high-quality apple production base county in Shaanxi Province. In 2011, Ansai County passed the certification of an organic apple production base of 5,000 acres.
As of the end of 2012, the cumulative apple planting area in the county reached 375,000 acres, covering 156 villages, involving 21,240 households of fruit farmers and 86,500 people. Four mountain apple planting specialized towns and 29 mountain apple majors were formed. Plantation Village. Last year, the per capita apple planting area of ??farmers in the county reached 2.56 acres, the apple output reached 80,000 tons, and the output value reached 320 million yuan. The per capita apple income of farmers reached 2,440 yuan.
Geographical indication certification trademarks can greatly improve the competitiveness and price level of agricultural products in domestic and foreign markets. Liu Hao, director of the Ansai County Fruit Industry Bureau, said that after Ansai mountain apples obtain the national geographical indication certification trademark, they will be even more powerful and the market prospects will be bright.