In midsummer, Litang County, Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province entered the most beautiful season of the year. Recently, the on-site meeting of the production and marketing of agricultural special products in Ganzi Prefecture was held in Litang County. Nearly 100 well-known leading agricultural enterprises, e-commerce enterprises and more than 20 travel agencies gathered in Litang County, and 114 purchase orders were signed on the spot, with a total contract value of 1.51 billion yuan.
At this trade fair, Litang County Party Committee and government seized the rare opportunity to vigorously promote Litang’s "polar fruits and vegetables" special agricultural products, so that more Litang high-quality special agricultural products can "go out of the plateau, go to the country and go to the world" and drive Litang people out of poverty and become rich.
On the eve of this trade fair, the Research Report on Analysis and Evaluation of Nutritional Components of Plateau Agricultural Products in Litang County, which was completed by the Institute of Food and Nutrition Development of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (hereinafter referred to as "Food Nutrition Institute"), explored the unique quality of plateau agricultural products in Litang County with scientific data and further increased the gold content of the "polar fruits and vegetables" brand in Litang County.
Poverty alleviation, aiming at "polar fruits and vegetables"
Litang County, located in the southwest of Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, is a deep poverty-stricken area with "three districts and three states". According to the central government’s decision to tackle poverty, China Academy of Agricultural Sciences organized 10 institutes and 12 expert teams to help 12 poverty-stricken counties in Ganzi Prefecture. At the same time, the Institute of Food Nutrition and Litang County formed a helping pair to speed up the transformation from "blood transfusion" to "hematopoiesis" in poverty-stricken areas through scientific and technological assistance.
At the beginning of March this year, in accordance with the deployment of the key scientific and technological assistance work of "three districts and three states" of China Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Liu Zheng, secretary of the Party Committee of Food Nutrition Institute, led a team to Litang County to carry out assistance work. After investigating the agricultural base on the spot, they hit it off with Geledoji, secretary of Litang County Party Committee. The two sides decided to "give full play to the resource endowment characteristics of Litang County, tap the agricultural products resources with plateau characteristics, and build ‘ Polar fruits and vegetables ’ Brand ".
"Litang has a unique geographical location and climatic conditions and has the natural advantage of developing high-end fruit and vegetable industry. First of all, it has a high altitude, with an average altitude of more than 4,300 meters. It is one of the highest cities in the world and is called ‘ City of the sky ’ The ecological environment is unique; Secondly, the average annual sunshine time is long, reaching 2638 hours, about 110 days, which are beneficial to the full photosynthesis of fruits and vegetables; Finally, the fertile soil, the snowy mountains, and the coordinated development of animal husbandry industries such as cattle and sheep provide good organic nutrients for the growth of fruits and vegetables. " During the trade fair, Liu Zheng told the reporter that the Institute of Food Nutrition has the only laboratory for evaluating the nutritional function of agricultural products in the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, and is working on the detection and evaluation of the nutritional quality of high-quality agricultural products. The characteristic agricultural products in Litang County are also good research samples.
According to Zheng Xianfeng, the county magistrate of Litang County, "polar fruits and vegetables" is a regional concept, which refers to the "roof of the world" that grows in the world except the Antarctic and the Arctic — — Organic fruits and vegetables on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. At present, fruits and vegetables such as watermelon, small tomato, Shanghai green, Chinese cabbage, sweet bean, broccoli, white radish, potato and mushroom have been successfully planted.
With the support of science and technology, brands are more valuable.
"Litang County ‘ Polar fruits and vegetables ’ The quality is good, but in the end, there has been a lack of a scientific basis, and we can’t say it clearly ourselves. " Weng Deng, director of Litang County Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Rural Affairs Bureau, has been worried about this problem. In order to cultivate the brand of "polar fruits and vegetables" in Litang county, in July this year, the bureau entrusted the Institute of Food Nutrition to conduct a comparative study on the nutritional quality of agricultural products with plateau characteristics in Litang county and agricultural products in plain areas.
Zhu Dazhou, deputy director of the Analysis and Research Office of the Institute of Food Nutrition, told the reporter that according to the determination of nutritional components of small tomatoes, radishes, mushrooms, cucumbers, strawberries and other fruit and vegetable products in Litang County, and the comparative analysis with agricultural products in major plains such as North China, Southwest China and South China, they found that the plateau agricultural products in Litang County have three outstanding characteristics: First, the mineral content in fruit and vegetable products is significantly higher than that in low-altitude areas. For example, the calcium content in Litang cucumber is 350.6 ml/kg, which is 68% higher than that in low altitude areas. Second, the content of vitamin C in fruit and vegetable products is significantly higher than that in low altitude areas. For example, the content of vitamin C in radish in Litang County is 20.3 mg per 100 g, which is 97% higher than that in low altitude areas. Third, the sugar content of fruit and vegetable products in Litang county is significantly higher than that in low altitude areas, which is sweet and delicious, and can be best reflected when eaten fresh. For example, the content of soluble sugar in Litang Mulberry Yellow Tomato is 9.07%, which is 50% higher than that in low altitude areas.
Nutrition research shows that minerals are essential nutrients for human body. The unique nutritional quality of "polar fruits and vegetables" in Litang county has broad development prospects in the new era when residents are increasingly concerned about nutrition and health.
Consumption upgrades, and characteristic industries have broad prospects.
Driving through agricultural science and technology parks such as Litang Kangzang Sunshine and Maggie Ami at an altitude of more than 4,000 meters, contiguous vegetable greenhouses stand on the grassland of vast expanse, releasing infinite vitality. In the greenhouse, advanced agricultural facilities were moved from the inland to the plateau, and high-quality fruit and vegetable products such as organic watermelons, tomatoes, sweet beans and radishes were planted, which effectively promoted the people to increase their income and become rich.
"With this nutritional analysis and evaluation research report from the Institute of Food Nutrition, our development has been enhanced ‘ Polar fruits and vegetables ’ The strength of the industry. " Zheng Xianfeng said that relying on cold chain logistics, Litang has become an important production base for agricultural industrial transfer in Chengdu and a pilot base county for direct supply of Sichuan food to Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.
At present, Litang County vigorously promotes the development of "polar fruits and vegetables" industry around the goal of "people can increase income, enterprises can make money, products have a market, quality is guaranteed, and the industry is sustainable". According to Zheng Xianfeng, from the practical needs, "polar fruits and vegetables" are highly compatible with consumption upgrading and have broad market prospects; From the operational point of view, the related technologies of "polar fruits and vegetables" industry are becoming more and more mature, which can attract more elements to gather and is conducive to further promotion; From the actual market point of view, for a long period of time, as long as the quality is guaranteed and the production capacity is available, there will be no worries about the market and orders; From the development trend, processing, market wholesale and transportation can increase the economic added value of fruit and vegetable industry, which will be the direction of future efforts.
"In the next step, I expect the Institute of Food Nutrition to continue to play the role of national authoritative scientific research institutions, connect resources, support the development of characteristic agricultural products in our state, and create a new model for the development of agricultural industry in plateau areas." Liu Chengming, secretary of the State Committee of Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, is full of confidence in the future development. (Reporter Hu Mingbao)
