When did the apples in Luochuan, Shaanxi Province be picked this year? in 1948, a general brought the apple seedlings back to Luochuan.

My hometown is in Luochuan. Luochuan apples usually ripen in mid-late August.

People regard Luochuan as northern Shaanxi because it belongs to Yan'an. However, Luochuan people call the north of Ganquan as northern Shaanxi, which is based on the strong nasal pronunciation and remaining minority vocabulary in the northern Shaanxi dialect, but Luochuan speaks the Qin opera in Guanzhong.

I love my hometown Luochuan deeply. But rationally speaking, with its northerly latitude, high altitude and broken terrain, Luochuan's planting industry is not as good as Qinchuan eight hundred miles in Guanzhong, and animal husbandry is not as good as Saibei's vast grassland. therefore, Luochuan has been regarded as a bitter place for a long time. To a large extent, I came to work in Guanzhong to jump out of the farm and get rid of the hard days of eating coarse grains.

It was only after studying agricultural history that I really realized that "everything is suitable for agriculture." As long as the varieties suitable for local cultivation are selected, agriculture will still make great progress. This point, Luochuan Apple's rise is a strong proof.

Since modern times, there are two surnames qu and Wang in Luochuan County, and most of the gentry tycoons come from these two families. Luochuan is located in Yan'an and Xi'an, so many negotiations between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party rely on qu and Wang families. Some of the two families served in the National Government, but their thoughts tended to be progressive, so they made use of identity cover to do a lot of useful things for the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border region.

Qu family has a person named qu Shen, who graduated from Beijing University of political Science and Law and Northwest Army Academy in his early years, and was the deputy commander and director of the political Department of the 106th Division of the National Army. Although qu Shen works in the army, he is keen on social welfare, and he will spare no effort to do so as long as it is beneficial to the national economy and the people's livelihood.

In 1945, Li Xinan, an orderly supported by qu and Shen, studied apple cultivation and beekeeping techniques in Lingbao County, where the army was stationed. In 1948, qu stretched out his money to buy apple seedlings and sent Li Xinan back to Luochuan to conduct a cultivation experiment in Ashi Village, thus opening the first page of "Luochuan Apple".

From this period of history, if Li Xinan is the founder of Luochuan Apple, flexion and extension is the "diesel engine" that promotes this cause.

Luochuan has forest and sand fruit, and the first apples are indeed rare. Several peach, pear and apricot dates are planted in the farmyard, which are purely for the family to eat. Specializing in growing apples, using complex pruning and cultivation techniques to increase yield, and realizing commodity value through large-scale planting are things that our ancestors never thought of.

Under the initiative, demonstration and drive of Li Xinan, some village communities have set up apple orchards and have an income. In an era when each working day is worth a few cents, this is the envy of the village. My hometown neighbor village has the famous Qing (Qingniu Village) Yao (Yaoxue Village) orchard, which is surrounded by miles of high walls and appears mysterious.

The middle school runs a farm and works at leisure. In order to taste the taste of apples, a group of friends climbed over the wall and jumped into the orchard of the production team. Unexpectedly, it was easier to get in than to get out of the orchard. In the end, they were "caught in the urn" and sent to the school leader. The headmaster compared us to "people who came down from Mount Emei" (Mao Zedong ridiculed Chiang Kai-shek's government after the Anti-Japanese War), meaning to rob the common people of the fruits of their labor without fertilizing or watering.

After the reform and opening up, farmers have the right to manage their own contracted fields, the enthusiasm for production is high, and the apple industry in Luochuan has been vigorously developed. As a typical agricultural county, compared with the surrounding counties, Luochuan has long been a poor county with financial subsidies. The agricultural and forestry specialty tax, which is mainly operated by apples, once became the main revenue of the county finance. During this period, the county and township governments spared no effort to promote the apple industry, but the tax burden on farmers was overwhelmed.

Around 2004, as a member of the expert group of the Agriculture and Industry Committee of the Provincial people's Congress, I went to Luochuan to investigate the exemption of agricultural tax. The county leaders once worried that the government could not operate after the exemption of fruit tax. Of course, the policy of benefiting farmers is universal, and Luochuan is no exception. The exemption of agricultural tax (especially agricultural and forestry special products tax) has removed the last shackle that restricts the development of Luochuan apple industry.

Now in Luochuan, there are all apples in the distance. Flower appreciation in spring, green in summer and fruit taste in autumn have become a beautiful scenery. According to statistics, Luochuan County has a total cultivated area of 640000 mu, with an apple planting area of 500000 mu per capita, with an annual output of 850000 tons and a total income of 4 billion yuan. It is the only green apple base county in the country.

In 2015, the per capita net income of farmers in Luochuan was 12987 yuan, 90% of which came from apples and related industries, which is rare in China's counties with agriculture as the leading industry.

Young and middle-aged farmers in Luochuan seldom go out to work. Apple thinning flowers, bagging, picking season, but also high wages to hire migrant workers. Except for the household registration, the fruit farmers in Luochuan are still in the countryside, and their clothing, food, housing and transportation are almost no different from those of urban people.

In the era of shortage economy, Apple put up a fence to prevent abuse and theft. Today, the apple orchard has torn down the fence and knocked down the fence. "Xie Tang Qianyan, the former king, has now flown into the homes of ordinary people," and there are no caregivers. You have it, I have it, and everyone has it. People who used to crave apples and think about apples are eating too much now. When some rural tourists enter the park to watch, the garden owner will kindly recommend and taste the fruits of his labor, and a few words praising Luochuan apples will make the host's face filled with a smile of pride and satisfaction. If you ask why you are so generous, they will say that this is an advertisement for Luochuan Apple.

Luochuan Apple is also different according to the wholesale price of apple size! Tell a cheap, big and sweet apple wholesale place ~ Changwu County!

Changwu County is close to Gansu, the reason why the temperature difference between day and night of apples on the Loess Plateau is very sweet, relatively located in the westernmost part of Shaanxi, and the county is mainly to plant apples, apple customers have gone, the largest apple 90 is only about 2 yuan, so No. 70 is cheaper than small apples! Taobao also has an online store to buy and try, and the local wholesale price is pitifully low!