Xinjiang is located in the north-westmost part of china and is also the furthest from the sea. Small precipitation, dry climates, long daylights and very poor day and night temperature, and unique geographic circumstances and climates have created the world's famous new frontier fruit。
Many of xinjiang's specialty products are still unknown, such as the takramas desert roses, pomegranates in pishan county, sand thorns along the tarimu river, and so on. In introducing the specialty of food, xinjiang used to say, “the grapes of torrupan, the melons of hamish, the roses of red dates”。
It's not home-grown
Xinjiang's date is not a home-grown “xinjiang specialty”. Since then, the people who traveled through the silk road have brought unexpected surprises to xinjiang. Red dates are one of them. The date was first in the form of military food, and over 2000 years in xinjiang。
In the late 1980s, when the state restructured the agricultural industry, cash crops such as red dates were introduced into xinjiang and cultivation was promoted. The red palms of xinjiang emerge from the same dates, depending on the favourable climatic and geographical environment of the land. In recent years, the xinjiang production and construction corps has been actively developing the red-tree industry in the south, expanding the area under its cultivation year by year, which has become one of the main pillars of the economic development and growth of workers in its main production areas. Since the supply of products is short of demand, the economic benefits are considerable, with groups and workers voluntarily planting red dates and rapidly expanding the area under cultivation。
The xinjiang production and construction corps is a provincial unit of the planning unit of the state council, with 14 divisions, representing 11. 9 per cent of the total population in xinjiang. The main area of the red daters of the xinjiang army is located south of tianshan, in the tari wood basin, in the vicinity of the takrama desert. The main areas of production are the aksu reclamation zone of the first division, the kulle reclamation zone of the second division, the kash reclamation zone of the third division, the hammi reclamation zone of the thirteenth division, the fourteenth division and the field reclamation zone。
The red dates planted in xinjiang are generally thin, with the entrance glycol thick and less fruity. There are many of them, in three groups: the dates of yamada, the dates of hamish, and the dates of joaqué。
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And the date of wada is called the date of the date of the sun, and the flesh is thick and dry. It's also the most visible red date on the market today, which is bigger than eggs. Watanabe dates are soft and sweet, and often used as snacks。
Hamish tree
Hamish's date is also known as hamish's date or the date of the bead, and most of its shapes are round, equally thick and dry, unfreshed. It's sweet. There's a taste of regenerative medicine. Hamish palms are extremely cuisine, and are recorded in many pharmacological monographs as medicines。
♪ if the ashes
If the date of the date of the date of the date of the day is called the date of the date of the date of the day, the date of the date of the day is called the date of the day of the day. It's small, but it's thick, thin, and it's tanned with a bright red. It is often used as a health food for blood. If the date is small, it represents the highest quality of the date。
Since 2010, there has been no significant increase in the area under red-tree cultivation, with the main varieties of red-tree cultivation being ash and jade dates. Of these, 46 per cent chose dates, 47 per cent chose dates and only 7 per cent chose other varieties. According to the xinjiang bureau of statistics, the area under cultivation for the xinjiang construction corps was relatively small and remained between 21 and 26 per cent between 2009 and 2015, but production was close to one half of xinjiang's total production。
The red dates are in rulau
Red dates, as a commodity, have only begun to grow for over a decade. The former dates were not used as commodities in the market. They plant date trees only in their own homes, mostly for their own consumption. It is difficult to grow red dates, and it takes three to five years for a tree seedling to produce a flower, with a series of planting techniques, such as mating, drying, triming, pest control, etc., to produce better-quality dates. It was only after the country's strong expansion that the red dates of xinjiang gradually moved into more families as a gift to relatives and friends and as a commodity that could be purchased at any time。
It is one of the most representative of the quality of the red dates in xinjiang. If that's the “building”, it's the most important stop on the ancient silk road. The west traveler's son's river, which breeds the children of his daughter's country, is in the land, as is robber, known as the sea of death。
Joaquin county owns about 220,000 acres of mangrove forest. High quality comes mainly from unique climatic environments. The dry, hot and hot weather in the desert and the cold air in mount alkin create a very suitable planting environment, and the water used for irrigation is also a mineral-rich spring in mount alkin. In october of each year, all the date-palm farmers reap the fruits of the year's work in a single day. If ash dates are picked in a unique way, in other areas the dates will be harvested in september, and if ash dates are hanged on trees, ripe dates will not be picked, and the trunk will fall。
In china, china's first largest county, china's best country for red palms, china's prime-tree industry, and china's top ten counties, the country's fruit and vegetables are no more harmful because of the production of red-trees, whose net income per farmer is ranked first in the 12 western provinces for four years in a row。
♪ a date farmer's work ♪
Opportunities and challenges for electricians
The rapid growth of e-commerce over the past decade has brought new dynamism to xinjiang's date. Xinjiang has moved from a traditional marketing model for farmers-cooperatives- wholesalers-sellers-clients to a farmer-platform-client model. Electrician platforms allow farmers to find marketing platforms more directly and make it easier for clients in need to visualize the details of commodities. Electrician platforms have brought more intuitive profits to date farmers, saving the cost of distribution to the middle layer and widening the market. Farmers have also increased their incomes from the information asymmetry of the past to the market price that allows them to catch red-trees in time to adjust their retail prices to terminals。
The development of e-commerce has promoted the visibility of xinjiang dates, making them readily available to consumers throughout the country. However, with the massive spread of electric power, the original market share has been affected. The sales chain, which had previously been in competition for profit points, the farmers who had grown had direct access to the terminals through the electrician, and the wholesalers who had sought more distributors through the electrician, were extremely competitive。
The fake new frontier
The electrician platform is a double-edged sword for the specialty of xinjiang. Specialty products (e. G. Raisins, figs, etc.) with obvious geographical characteristics have been avoided. And the specialty of red-trees, whose geographical characteristics are not obvious, cannot escape。
In many parts of china, there are large-scale cultivation areas with red dates, and many varieties in xinjiang have even been introduced from these areas. It is difficult for professionals to distinguish between the types and origins of red dates through observation and taste. It is common for some traders to sell the red dates of other production sites on the labels of the red dates of xinjiang, and it is common for them to sell them on existing electric power platforms, even if they do not know whether the red dates are from xinjiang。
The reason for the fake xinjiang dates is the poor price of the product itself. Xinjiang has been of better quality, and the price of the same dates in other regions has been lower than in xinjiang. In mass sales, the outlaws tend to imitate directly. There are currently two main methods of imitation in the market: red dates, which are packed directly with red dates from xinjiang, in other areas, are not widely eaten differently. The other is the return of origin by transporting the same dates from other areas to xinjiang, where they are sold in the original form or in the true xinjiang. This method, while cumbersome, is more subtle, and many professional traders will buy semi-false goods. E-commerce, on the other hand, allows businesses to connect directly with local farmers, benefiting both businesses and farmers。
During the growing and drying process, the date is exposed to the outdoors for a long time, covered with dust, and some merchants pour it into the water and dry it twice. Cleaned red dates appear to be large and bright on the outside because of water. This process is not a problem, but it is difficult to ensure hygiene and is extremely volatile when the date is wet. There are even illegal traders who use medicine to bubble dry dates for bright and good-looking purposes, and the taste can be stingy, and the red dates are cheap and often circulating in temporary vendors。
The red dates that were packed in the supermarket look big and usually come from the food factory. Large plants generally choose to operate with such machinery as wind blowing, bubble washing, brush cleaning, which also removes the mud from the red date surface without affecting the internal fruit of the red date。
Red date processing
How to identify the red date of xinjiang
The price of red palms in xinjiang is also due to quality problems on the electrician platform. New dates, for example, were more expensive than old dates. There are different types of red dates, different ranking rules and naturally different prices. And a date, in its kind, the greater the diameter of the fruit, the higher the weight of the single, the higher the rank. Generally speaking, the date can be divided into five levels: extra, tertiary, secondary, primary, special. The highest price is for the lowest grade and the best. The red dates are chosen in four ways: one smell, two look, three squeaks, four tastes。
As a first step, the smell of the red date, which has a fragrance of sweetness, indicates that it is dated or wet。
The second step is to see if the head of the red date is even, the colour is bright and the color of the red date is dark. If the head is not even, it suggests that there may be several mixings。
The third step is to squeeze the date with your hand, if it is easy to reach the date core, which means that the date is not of high quality, wet or damp, and that the red date of the new frontier, which is unwashed, is flexible and strong, regardless of its type。
In the fourth step, if it is felt that red date skins are broken into small sticky teeth and that fruit and meat are easily left behind, it is likely that the red date is not xinjiang。
The red dates of xinjiang are more popular in the cities of the south. And the date is not only a snack in the daily diet, but is more a feed for the food. In the south, red dates are made with soup, tea, cooking, such as curry, curry dates. In the north, red dates are brought to make wine, steam rice and porridge. In addition to date drying, many products are derived, such as red date wine, red date cake and red date tea. People throughout the country have played an important role in promoting the development of red palms in xinjiang。
The author is a xinjiang resident in shanghai who specializes in the electricity industry
