Lingbao City, Henan Province: "eat dry and squeeze" an apple tree

Part of the fruit from the apple tree is sold as fruit, and the other part is processed into concentrated fruit juice for export. Pectin can be extracted from the remaining fruit residue, and the branches trimmed every year can be used as raw materials for the production of shiitake mushrooms. In recent years, Lingbao City, Henan Province has accelerated the full utilization of agricultural resources, lengthened the industrial chain and increased the added value.

Lingbao existing orchard area of 1.15 million mu, annual output of 1.6 million tons of fruit. After years of development, there are currently 6 fruit processing enterprises above the scale of Lingbao, with an annual processing capacity of 400000 tons and a digestible capacity of 1.8 million tons, which has been rated as the "top ten counties and cities" for fruit and vegetable processing in China.

Fruit processing enterprises for the development of the fruit industry, but also let fruit farmers eat "reassurance", at the same time led to the expansion of fruit planting area year after year. Every fruit ripening season, every village in the city has set up fruit purchasing points, and fruit juice processing plants have been set up in Yangdian, Yangping, Xiyan and other big apple production towns, which not only reduces transportation costs, but also facilitates fruit farmers' sales and increases fruit farmers' income.

Using a large number of apple branches trimmed every year, Lingbao developed edible fungi. After more than ten years of development, the annual production scale has reached 1 billion bags, forming 12 specialized villages of edible fungi, such as Yangjia Village, Jiaocun Town, Gantou Village, Xiyan Township and Qiangjia Village, Yangping Town.

The expansion of production scale and the continuous enrichment of experience have aroused the interest of businessmen to invest in edible mushroom processing projects. Fujian businessmen have successively invested in Fujian Qian, Hengjia, Jiafu and other edible mushroom processing and export enterprises. Coupled with the project with an annual output of 30 million bottles of Lentinus edodes paste and 20 million bottles of canned Lentinus edodes, which is under construction in Chengdong Industrial Park, the city has gradually formed an industrial cluster of Lentinus edodes processing.

Only the agricultural product sorting and export project invested by Minqian Company in Xiyan Township has processed 3000 tons of Lentinus edodes, 800 tons of cauliflower and 80 tons of fungus annually, and the products are exported to Malaysia, Vietnam, Hong Kong, China and other countries and regions. Less than a year after its completion, it has exported 2600 tons of Lentinus edodes, cauliflower and Auricularia auricula, earning US $39 million, or 260 million yuan, from exports.

In addition to selling fresh mushrooms and processing and exporting dried mushrooms, the city has introduced Xinke Food Project, with an annual processing of 6000 tons of shiitake paste products. Changsheng Company successfully developed ready-to-eat Lentinus edodes chips in April this year, which is well received by the market and fills the gap in the lack of end products in the city's edible mushroom industry.

What if the mushroom stick not only takes up space, but also pollutes the environment? Yangping Town has built a new Chaoyang biotechnology organic fertilizer project with an annual output of 100000 tons by using abandoned bacterial sticks, with an annual treatment of 30, 000 tons and an output value of 120 million yuan, realizing the recycling of ecological bacteria industry and helping soil improvement and environmental protection.

The development of agricultural processing enterprises has also led to the continuous expansion of the planting area of agricultural products and the continuous increase of farmers' income. The Baolihao food processing project, invested by Spanish businessmen, makes use of the rich resources of asparagus, fruits and vegetables in Xiyan Township, processing 10, 000 tons of fruits and vegetables and 8000 tons of asparagus annually. This year, the company also introduced new varieties of asparagus from France and planted 500 mu there, with an estimated income of 10,000 yuan per mu in two years' time.

Relying on 300000 mu of walnut orchard, the city has built a walnut intensive processing project, mainly producing organic walnut, walnut oil, walnut snack food, walnut kernel and other products. In April this year, the company invested 12 million yuan to plant 33 million mu of high-quality walnuts in Yangjiahe Village, Zhuyang Town, realizing the industrialization development of "base + farmers + enterprises".

In addition, the Lingbao jujube produced in the city is processed into jujube tea and jujube slices, Eucommia ulmoides is made into Eucommia drinks, Eucommia capsule, Eucommia male scented tea, yellow peaches are canned, grapes are made into wine. The city relies on projects on agricultural resources, and the road of intensive processing is getting wider and wider.

He Yingjie and Wang Gaohong