Ruyang sweet potatoes are agricultural products with geographical indications.
Ruyang sweet potato is a specialty of Ruyang County, Luoyang City, Henan Province. Ruyang sweet potatoes have good appearance, good taste, good storage resistance and high yield. Ruyang sweet potatoes have the characteristics of "noodles, sand, fragrance, and sweetness" and are very delicious.
Ruyang County is located in the west of Henan Province, with jurisdiction over 3 towns and 12 townships, with a total population of 407,800, including an agricultural population of 366,000. The main food crops are wheat, corn, and sweet potatoes, of which the annual sweet potato planting area 100,000 acres, with a total sweet potato output of 134.21 million kilograms. The county currently has 2 leading sweet potato flour processing enterprises, 2 professional processing villages, more than 300 farmer brokers, 4 professional farmer cooperative organizations, and industrialized management organizations that have driven 40,000 farmers, accounting for 43.7% of the county's farmers. , the county's output value from sweet potato industrialization reached 120 million yuan. The sweet potato industry, which was not favored by others in the past, has become a pillar industry for farmers in Ruyang County to get rid of poverty and become rich, and has also brought huge benefits to the county's economic development.
Ruyang County currently has two sweet potato processing enterprises, Shuangyang Sanfen Co., Ltd. and Rending Starch Factory, two sweet potato professional villages in Da'an Luo'an and Shangdian West Street, and three in Da'an, Shangdian and Baishu. In the processing base, there are 6 households specializing in fresh potato processing with a processing capacity of over one million kilograms. The county's cumulative fresh potato processing capacity exceeds 35 million kilograms, and it produces 5.83 million kilograms of starch and starch products, with an annual output value of 29.19 million yuan.
In 2006, in order to promote the development of sweet potato industrialization, Ruyang County created the Ruyang sweet potato brand and registered the "Qinglonggou" trademark. The registration of the trademark has brought the industrialization of Ruyang sweet potato into a new stage of development. It has also made the Ruyang sweet potato brand famous, formed a scale effect, increased the market competitiveness of Ruyang sweet potato, further expanded the market, and made the sweet potato more popular. The industry has entered the track of rapid development.