Boye ancient pear tree: pear fruit into Dashang supermarket

Recently, there is a busy scene in the Millennium Ancient Pear Garden in Shawo Village, Boye County, Hebei Province. Here, yellow crown, imperial concubine, red fragrant crisp and other pears have ripened one after another, and fruit farmers are busy picking, weighing, sorting and packing for shipment to the Wal-Mart supermarket in Shanghai.

"Old trees have a higher yield than ordinary pear trees, and they have bright color, thin, juicy, succulent skin, crisp taste and better taste, and have been selling well at Wal-Mart in Shanghai. This year I have purchased more than 200,000 kilograms of Huangguan pear and red crisp from here. " Du Hongqiang, a businessman from Suning County, Cangzhou, said.

The arable land of Shawo and Feng Village in Boye County is sandy soil, which is the most suitable for planting fruit trees. Yali pear trees are planted in the county, which has a history of more than 1000 years. According to the measurement and identification by the experts of the Provincial Forestry Department, there are nearly 80 000 ancient pear trees over 100 years old in this area, of which more than 2500 are over 200 years old. according to the evaluation standard of ancient trees over 100 years old, the pear tree community in Boye can be defined as the original ancient pear tree community. In recent years, under the guidance of forest fruit technical experts, fruit growers have grafted some Yali pears into market best-selling pears such as "Huangguan pear", "Guifei pear" and "red fragrant crisp". At present, the pear fruit in this county has formed a trapezoidal pattern of early, middle and late ripening, with more than 10 varieties such as yellow crown, Guifei pear, red fragrant crisp in mid-late August, and snow pear and Yali pear mature in September and October.

Fruit growers in the county adhere to standardized production and pollution-free management, fertilize livestock, poultry and other farm fertilizers, and use pesticides with low toxicity and residue period of no more than 7 days to control all kinds of insect pests. In order to control the weight of each pear in 0.35-0.40 kg, fruit growers strictly follow the technical essentials to thinning flowers and fruits, so that the number and size of fruit per pear tree are controlled within a certain standard range. Also changed the past plastic film bags into special paper bags, at the same time set up more than 10 fruit professional cooperatives, registered "Jinfu", "Meijiafeng" and other trademarks.

In order to increase the income of fruit farmers and enhance the popularity of Boye ancient pear trees, since 2014, relying on the forest and fruit industry, the county has held a pear picking festival in Baonan Plain every August, attracting more and more businessmen to purchase pear fruits. Boye pear fruits sell well in more than 20 large and medium-sized cities, including Beijing and Tianjin, and major supermarkets such as Wal-Mart.

Cheng Panan, a fruit farmer in Shawo Village, said happily, "most of the 200 mu of pear orchards I contracted are more than 100 years old, and some of them are more than 200 years old. The rate of good fruit is more than 95%, and the yield per mu is 4000 kg. According to this year's purchase price, coupled with the income brought by tourists picking, the mu income can reach more than 10,000 yuan, and the net income is more than 300,000 yuan. " Forestry experts in the county calculated that the total income of nearly 10,000 mu of pear trees in the county this year can reach 70 million yuan, fruit trees alone, and the per capita income of fruit farmers can reach more than 5000 yuan.