Core tip
Cars, salmon, red twigs ... These foods, which once crossed the sea to reach our people's table, are gradually becoming henan's “hard food”. With the increasing level of modernization of the entire agricultural chain in henan, the production of many high-end food products is gradually setting bankruptcy limits and price thresholds at the table of ordinary people. Starting immediately, the newspaper launched a series of reports entitled “henan on hard food”, which demonstrates how henan's scientific and technological innovation activates the productivity of new agricultural quality, breaks through and masters the technology at the heart of the critical chain of planting and fosters the development of local production of high-end food products。
What's the difference between a european car and a chinese cherry? It can be understood that growth takes place at different geographical latitudes, with different varieties and maturity periods。
In the early morning hours of 1 february, the village of magnificent river, xin an county, neared zero outdoor temperatures and mist. However, the curtains of the cherry shed on the side of the road were pushed and warmed up, with the white fog over the glasses. In it is only a cherries branch that is thick, and the pink fruit that is covered with branches, which makes it seem as if it were a warm spring。
"we'll be on the market before spring." the president of the board of directors of tianhing agricultural science and technology development co. Ltd., henan province, liu on-kwan, told the journalist. As “china's first premature cherry prefecture”, the open cherries of new an county, even though they were the earliest to mature, have to wait until around april, and are now grown through new varieties, technology and sheds, with the fragrance of fruit hanging on spring eve。
“winter is a dry season for the production of high-end fruits in the country, but spring season coincides with a high consumption season, and we have to move as needed.” liu now explains the original intent of cherry re-planting: “we use the cherry growth data model as the centrepiece for a precise whole-way intervention in the environment of the shed, with precision control of temperature, humidity, simulation of cold winter conditions, early hibernation of the cherry tree, then gradual warming, awakening, and one step at a time leading to the flowering of the fruit tree, which will eventually mature before spring season.”
And that it is scarcely expensive. This shipment of cherries, which has successfully taken over the high-end consumer track and can be sold at a maximum of $280 per pound, remains in short supply。
However, the difficulties of the “break” season are far beyond imagination. “the cherry cultivation is not like a test, the tolerance rate is zero, there's a missing link, and it may end with no grain.” the winter results imposed higher and more demanding demands on cherry varieties and field management, according to liu。
According to qing dynasty's collection of ancient books, the new cherries began in toung han and became a tribute to china from han dynasty, and the zhang dynasty was praised for their quality as “the flower of the human race is the police and the delicious fruit of cherries”. Today, 32 millennia of ancient trees and more than 3,200 centenary trees still remain in the 17. 5 km of cherry ditch in xin an county, constituting the country's largest existing cherries。
But even with the gold sign, the new cherries were in a development dilemma. "we used to eat with gold bowls." mr. Zhang xiaowei, secretary of the magneto town party, came out of nowhere. The traditional cherries of new ant, small and thin, are broken with little attention to picking, and are of mixed quality, unstable tastes, unsustainable storage and transport, and market competitiveness is declining year by year。
In an effort to break the trap, new an county launched a cherry breeding programme, which led to the birth of dozens of high-quality, locally grown cherries, such as "brooks" and "santina" — the "smartina" — that are suitable. Today, the size of the cherries can be as high as 3. 6 centimetres, with a sweetness of about 20 per cent and a stable quality。
“in these years, the imported car is popular, with many people unable to distinguish between cherries and car chords, which are the same, although the geographic latitudes lead to different maturity periods. Imports are generally on the market from november to december each year, while the national sweet cherry matures around april.” zhang xiaowei smiled and explained, "our new cherries are picked when they are fully mature in the trees, they are absolutely not of import quality, and they are fresher, and they taste more of fruit."
Today, the new cherries are growing more than 100,000 acres, not only to rejuvenate the millennium “gongs”, but also to boost the employment of large numbers of farmers, from “specialty fruit” to “rich fruit”。
New cherry
On the side of the yellow river and in the heart of the mountain, the geographical environment has brought to light the reputation of the new anan, china's pre-rural cherry first county. Building on traditional advantages, new cherry cultivation has undergone a shift from small to large cherries, from single to multiple varieties. Today, new cherries are grown in an area of over 104,000 acres, producing more than 80 million pounds of cherries annually, with a combined annual value of 2 billion yuan. (reporter liu yijie)
