In the old state towns of the mount joan of the sea, the midday temperature reached 35 degrees celsius. Thousands of acres of ponds, leafy layers, and pink flowers shake in heat waves. The foreman was wearing a bellow, stomping into a water field deep in his waist and grafting under a beale. After a few minutes, lianpon was sent to a freezer not far away and the temperature dropped sharply to 4°c. This “sweet cooling” determines whether a lote can still be sweet a thousand miles away。
This is the first time that hainan has planted fresh fruit-eating berries on a large scale. "sweet lotus", originally known as zhegen jiang hang state, with a whole range of conservation techniques, crossed the strait of jonglei and landed in tropical fields. When consumers take a 21. 9 dollar box of fruit lotus from a supermarket shelf, it may be difficult to imagine that the lotus was in a pond in hainan 48 hours ago。
Sweet lotus to find a way--
From hangzhou ha tong to haiguchita
Fruit lotus, different from the variety of lottebeans ordered by street carts. The traditional lotus is sore that it is used to cook soup for porridge; it is so sweet that it can be 9 to 11 degrees, and it's so sweet that it can be eaten as a snack。
The species was discovered and nurtured by hong zhi ho, born in 1989, and his father hong lihong. In 2019, the father and the son founded the zhejiang zhangzhou zhang zhang zheng zheng zheng zheng zheng zheng zheng zheng zheng zheng zheng zheng zheng zheng zheng zheng zheng zheng zheng zheng zheng zhen zheng zheng zheng zhen zheng zheng zheng zhen zheng zheng zheng zheng zhen zheng zheng zhen zhen zhen zhen zhen zhu zhu zheng zheng zhu zhu zhu zhu zhu zhu zing zheng zing zing zing zing zhu zing zin zhu zhu zhu zhu zhu zhu zhu zhu zhu zhu zhu zhu zhu zhu zhu z “it took my father two years after he retired, to travel all over hubei, hunan and fujian to find this wild hybrid species.” hong ji ho said。
The fruit is not easy to sell at first. In 2020, new retail outlets, such as the hangzhou box mason supermarket, were quickly gaining ground. Over a five-year period, the planting base was expanded from 50 acres to more than 2,500 acres, with annual sales exceeding tens of millions of dollars, with products spread from one town to the whole country。
However, increasing demand at the end of the consumer spectrum has not kept up with capacity. The zhejiang area usually starts picking only in the summer and lasts three months after the end of the supply. “at the beginning of the spring and summer, as soon as the weather turns hot, the consumer wonders about the sweetest fruit.” zhejie, the chief procurement officer, said, “but at this point, two months before the zhejiang goolen matures.”
At this time, a “marriage” is being tied up in hainan, some 2,000 kilometres away。
In the village of qilian, haeguchi old state, there have been attempts to plant a lot of land since 2023. And wendor's land, where the village of jiron is, is low-lying, so that it will rain upon it, and the harvest of rice will be small. The then general secretary of the village party, leung liang, and the local leader of wealth-raising, xu jin-lin, worked together to plant 280 acres of traditional lotus, with sales revenues exceeding $500,000。
“but traditional varieties have limited added value and price instability. Simple farming, without initial processing, will not last long.” at the end of 2024, the vice-president of the old county, xie jianjian, learned about lotus farm online and contacted his father and son. Xu jin-lin had previously had business contacts with her and made a connection。
As a result, for the first time, the hong ji ho team set foot on the land of the old state town. The then deputy secretary-general of the village party, gandif, took them to the water and fields, and took them to the old primary school site of the village, which had been idle for many years. “this is only a few minutes from the base to make it easier to get cold; and half an hour from the airport of milan to make it easier to transport.” gandif said that hong zhi ho was on the ground。
He took a study tour to hangzhou. There, they were inspired by the fact that the local lotus industry was also making wine, powder and tea, and that the entire chain was paved. At the same time, in the case of zhejiang, mid-march, sea-south water temperatures could reach 15 degrees celsius, about two months earlier than in the zhejiang region, with natural supply conditions at the wrong time。
The two sides hit each other。
In 2025, the old state towns government applied for industrial funds to convert the school premises into a lotus processing plant, invest fixed assets and provide equipment by enterprises. Hong zhi ho has officially extended his business to hainan, growing about 1,500 acres of land in old county towns and three slopes. In mid-may this year, the village of jilian officially began harvesting fruit。
Run with the hot..
A six-hour tasted protection code
Seeding, not necessarily. The fruit is heavy in a "fresh."。
“labour is a seed, and when you leave the lubricant, you breathe well, quickly consuming its soluble sugar and organic acid.” hong zhi ho said the window was only six hours away from picking to quality. After the window period, the lotus brownies, the dryness, the bitterness." that's why it's not good to buy a lot of lanterns on the side of the road. Lian poon will not be far away. A product is not commodity-friendly without the ability to transport remotely.”
For the first time last year, the team suffered from a loss: the flight of lianpon back to hangzhou for processing, during which a great deal of water age was lost and of substandard quality. Hung zhiho was determined to move the hangzhou whole production processing system to hainan, to build a pre-processing warehouse in the field, and to complete the entire process in situ, from extraction to sealing boxes。
At the heart of the system is the three-tier cold. The first level is in the field: immediately after the harvest, it is sent to the adjacent freezer to cool quickly and to “cool down” the lotus before their breathing becomes worse. The 15-minute processing plant is the second stage, with workers stripping the land manually under constant temperature control. Level 3 cooling occurs before the box is packed。
Why do we have to cool down in three steps instead of one step? “we did a comparative experiment with the agricultural institute of zhejiang province, and plants cannot cool to very low temperatures at once, otherwise they will lose water quality and must be given a phased cycle of adaptation.” hong zhi ho says。
After the third stage of precalculation, the lichen is packed with air and fresh packaging to slow down the oxidation of brown and the loss of the flavor. Hong zhi ho called the “sleephouse” of lotus. Then, through the cold chain of a box of horses, lotus will be able to fly to the country and “sleep” to consumers。
“36 hours to the warehouse, 48 hours to the shelf and only one day to the shelf.” fukuo, head of the procurement of vegetables, said that “it is extremely demanding on the channels, with stable orders, full-way cold chains, strict day-to-day turnover, without any link”
Today, the first of hainan's “sweet lotus”s have been installed simultaneously at the box shop in beijing, shanghai and hangzhou. Data show that the sales of “sweetie lotus” are doubling each week. With the exception of the long triangle, the south-west and north-west markets are equally bright。
In the first half of this year, the lotus industry faced new challenges. As a result of the price of aviation fuel, the volume of sea-gate flights has been reduced considerably compared to the same period last year, and lotus has been able to “scrambling power” on the market in parallel. Hung zhi ho stated, in the short term, that both businesses and retailers had reduced their profit expectations, “but the industry's landing in hainan was inevitable, and the difficulties of the phase did not affect the long-term layout”
And the roots of the earth -
♪ growing sweet industry in idle land ♪
It is crucial to see what it brings to this land when technology hits the ground and a lot of land actually takes root in the hot ground。
The gandiff, who replaced the general secretary of the icheng village party in march of this year, has made a debt: lyric farming has bought fresh lubrices at a price of $8 per pound, almost twice as much as traditional lanterns in the past; industrially driven villagers work for about 80 workers per day and processing plants for about 100 people; land transfer rents are paid to farmers $4. 5 million a year; and 15 other villagers grow their own lichens, earning about $20,000 a year. “this year the entire village is expected to earn more than $2 million.” gandiff says。
The village's family had 10 acres of land in the mine-lettery estate, which used to be rain-fed, growing only one rice a year at a cost of just $400 per acre. Today, the land is being transferred out to grow a lot of 9,000 yuan a year for rent alone, and she also collects a lot more than 100 a day from her estate. “at home, there is work, there is a steady income, there is hope for life!” said jompo。
The driving effect extends around. The entire town of old state town has grown from 280 acres in 2023 to almost 1,500 acres today. Preliminary estimates indicate that the area under cultivation throughout the province also increased from about 3,000 acres three or four years ago to almost 5,000 acres. “all the people of the sea knew before was that the lotus could cook, and now they have fruit, none of them said it was bad.” xie jianjian said。
Not all of the picks are made of high-end fruit. Some half of the total production of the older lotus is suitable for soup stew, and the line called "cream" will be sold to the local market at the seafront and out-of-town distribution channels. The value of a lubricant has been fully released, following the supermarket fruit channel and the old as traditional table vegetables。
The government has stepped up its efforts to take root in the south of the country by providing services. Road water in front of the plant affects transport and is immediately allocated for hardening; the workshop is short of workers and 100 people from the villages are immediately organized to work; the business needs a legal entity to register and immediately arrange for coordination of the registration process. “the difficulty with the company was raised, and we were able to help solve it first, so that the company could take root like lotus.” the mayor of the old state, wang chang ri。
Gandiff has a longer-term calculation. The old town is located in the old state of mount rock, where the cold springs are rich in resources, water quality and the quality of the agricultural produce they grow is excellent. The downstream fields are suitable for “loin rice rotations”, the first half of the year is a plant, and the second half is a season of rice. “there are thousands of acres of water fields throughout the village, which can be used as a model for development as long as there is sufficient water.” gandiff says。
In his presentation, xie qianqian, the old state town also plans to make the lotus base a tourist stop, to develop rural tourism routes, combining local cold spring resources with special products such as the dragon well “triangue” melons, “we want to be a specialty industry that combines planting, processing, marketing and working together”
At the end of july, hainan closed the season, cutting down the field before the typhoon in august and planting a season of rice. In march of the following year, seedlings were brought back and a new round of lotus cultivation resumed。
Hae namlian in summer and jiang namlian in autumn. The two-dwelling ponds are connected, and the sweet fruit-leave continues from early summer to late autumn。
In the evening, the poaching pond of wendour lays a layer of gold. Lean leaves are stacked, flowers are stalked between leaves. For more than 2000 chinese people have grown lotus, beauties and fruits. Zhou tung wrote it “out of silt and clean”, which is the emotional gift of a man; for the villagers of the village of jilian, the low-lying lands that were abandoned three years ago are now full of flowers, which means rent, wages and camping at the door. The same lotus, the ancients have given them wind bones, and today they reap their own livelihood。
A fruitline from the zhejiang to the sea has taken root in the north of the country。
Daily people's journal (31 july 2026)
