Fruit "eye-catching" has its own tricks

Editor's note: with the restructuring of the planting industry, many farmers have focused on vegetables, fruits and other cash crops. What on earth can you grow to make money? It is necessary to "push backwards" from the market and aim at the market, so as to avoid growing products that cannot be sold.

So, what are the conditions for a wide variety of fruits on the market to attract the eye? Please look at--

Grapefruit is sold by one, more than a hundred each

The price is so high.

The seedless pomelo in Chengmai County, Hainan Province is sold for 288 yuan and 388 yuan respectively, and the cheapest secondary fruit costs more than 60 yuan.

What's the reason? This variety is improved by repeated cross-grafting of Malaysian crystal honey pomelo and Chengmai local bitter pomelo.

A grapefruit costs more than 100 yuan. The seedless honey pomelo in Chengmai County, Hainan Province is not worth a kilo. According to the fruit grade, the price is 288 yuan for two and 388 yuan for two, and the cheapest secondary fruit costs more than 60 yuan.

Eating pomelo in autumn is the choice of many people. The whole body of grapefruit is a treasure, and the efficacy of grapefruit is recorded in the Compendium of Materia Medica: diet, removing evil qi in intestines and stomach, relieving alcoholism, treating drinkers' breath, not thinking about eating and eating, resolving phlegm and relieving cough. And in China and Japan, South Korea and other Asian countries have the habit of making grapefruit into tea.

In addition to listing one month earlier than mainland pomelo, Chengmai seedless pomelo is also recognized by the market because of its green skin and white meat, thin skin and easy peeling, crisp and tender seedless, fragrance and juicy, moderate sour and sweet. Chengmai fruit farmer Geng Dalin, who has grown seedless pomelo for 14 years, believes: "if you want the price to be good, variety is the key."

Geng Dalin was the first person to grow seedless pomelo in Chengmai County. after growing rice in Guangdong in 2002, Lao Geng, who did not admit defeat, decided to come to Hainan. After market inspection, Geng Dalin felt that due to his own limited funds, it is definitely not possible to produce staple crops such as grain and vegetables, and it is still necessary to make fine fruits with tropical characteristics for long-term development.

"grapefruit is resistant to storage and easy to transport, has a long time on the market and has strong risk control, unlike tropical fruits such as mango, litchi and papaya." In the end, Geng Dalin chose grapefruit, which was seldom populated in Hainan at that time. Although many people warned him at that time that pomelo had long been grown in the mainland and had formed a brand, and that his tropical advantage was not as prominent as other fruits, the stubborn Geng Dalin felt that it was important for people without me, but sooner or later someone would follow suit. If you want to be invincible, it is most important for people to have my talents.

Although China is rich in grapefruit variety resources, there are not many varieties suitable for tropical and subtropical climate in Hainan. In order to compete with mainland grapefruit, Geng Dalin chose Malaysian crystal pomelo, which has the same tropical climate as Hainan. The seedling was released in 2002, and the variety characterization was formally completed in 2012, realizing the large-scale listing. Geng Dalin used 10 years, through repeated cross-grafting of Malaysian crystal honey pomelo and Chengmai local bitter pomelo and other varieties to improve the characteristics of seedless honey pomelo varieties finally stable, and applied for registration of the "Yamaguchi Green Glaze" trademark.

In Geng Dalin's seedless pomelo planting base, the reporter saw several liquid beverage bottles hanging from each tree, with small holes drilled at the top of the bottle. Take a closer look, the bottle is full of moths. Because there are no pesticides, in order to ensure the quality, safety and quality of grapefruit, Geng Dalin explored a series of green prevention and control measures, such as mowing grass and returning fields, raising chickens under the forest, applying more organic fertilizer, covering cloth bags, killing insects with high-pressure water guns, and so on.

"it's delicious and healthy, so it naturally sells well." Geng Dalin calculated the account for the reporter that in order to increase the light of the tree, dense planting of honey pomelo is not recommended. 30 trees per mu, 30 standard fruits per plant, each fruit is sold for 100 yuan. Three years after planting, the output value of honey pomelo mu can reach 90,000 yuan, and the cost can be recovered to achieve profit in the same year.

In recent years, the Chengmai county government has accelerated the development of high-efficiency agriculture with tropical characteristics, listed seedless honey pomelo as the county's pillar industry since 2013, and continuously increased financial support for planting seedless honey pomelo. The government gives key support in land circulation and financial assistance, and the new species is supported by 1000 yuan per mu, which is distributed in three years. At present, the planting area of the county has reached more than 4000 mu.

In 2015, the Hainan provincial government issued the "Research report on expanding and strengthening High-efficiency Agriculture with Tropical characteristics", which clearly proposed the development of 100000 mu of honey pomelo in the province during the 13th five-year Plan period. In order to promote the seedless pomelo industry to take the road of standardization, industrialization and branding of the integration of industry, industrialization and research, Chengmai County and the School of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture of Hainan University established Chengmai Honey Pomelo Research Institute in that year to strengthen the cultivation of excellent varieties and formulate planting standards for honey pomelo. To provide scientific and technological support for expanding and strengthening the honey pomelo industry.

An Xuanyu, head of Chengmai Honey Pomelo Research Institute, said that at present, the institute has established a tropical honey pomelo germplasm resources garden, introduced tropical honey pomelo germplasm resources such as Malaysia and Thailand, and continuously selected and bred honey pomelo varieties that are more suitable for climate growth in Hainan by studying their growth habits.

"Seedling breeding is the first step and the most critical step in preventing and controlling Huanglong disease and ensuring the healthy development of seedless pomelo industry." An Xueyu said that with the support of the government, the institute has specially set up a non-toxic nursery to supply seedlings to growers throughout the county, ensuring product quality from the source and ensuring the healthy development of the industry. At the same time, the provincial planting management standards of seedless honey pomelo and the two county-level local standards of fresh fruit classification and grafted seedling cultivation have been established and completed, and strive to build and improve the whole industry chain standard management system of seedless honey pomelo.

An Xuanyu said frankly that because the quality and brand of Chengmai seedless pomelo have been recognized by the market, and because the output is limited and demand exceeds supply, point-to-point direct sales are still the main way, supplemented by sales on Taobao, Wechat and other online platforms, mainly aimed at high-end consumer groups in northern, Shanghai, Guangzhou and other big cities. With the gradual increase of planting area and yield, it is necessary to establish the price system and market management system of seedless pomelo as soon as possible.