Tianshan North and South Harvest Season, Fruit Fragrance
Reporter Cao Hua In the golden autumn and September, the north and south of Tianshan ushered in the harvest season of forest and fruit. The sweet and attractive fruits were enticing, and the fruit farmers picked, shipped and sold, showing a gratifying harvest scene. According to the statistics of the Forestry and Grassland Bureau of the Autonomous Region, the total fruit output in our region is expected to reach about 8.7 million tons this year. At present, walnuts, fragrant pears, peaches and almonds are in the peak harvest season. Packaging, transportation and other enterprises (cooperatives) have taken measures such as contacting buyers and sellers inside and outside Xinjiang, ensuring the supply of production and living materials, and opening "green channels" to do their best to store, transport and sell fruit. Right now, it is the critical period of Korla fragrant pear harvesting. In the past few days, party members, cadres and volunteers at all levels in Korla have carried out volunteer service activities to help farmers pick pears in various fragrant pear orchards. At present, about 80% of Korla fragrant pear harvesting has been completed. All the fragrant pears will be harvested by the end of September. Members of the professional cooperative of planting farmers in Meishudayuanzi, Korla, are picking fragrant pears. Photo by Yue Siying "This year's Korla fragrant pear sugar content can reach 13.5 degrees, and the highest can even reach 15 degrees. In recent years, Bazhou has accelerated the transformation of scattered fragrant pear planting to large-scale and intensive planting, and nearly 100,000 mu of low-yield orchards have passed the unified Management and standardized planting have greatly improved the quality of fruit products, making the commercial fruit rate of Korla fragrant pears increased to more than 80%, and the sugar content, appearance and taste have reached the best level in history." Bayingoleng Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture Korla Fragrant Pear Association Chairman Sheng Zhenming said. In the contiguous pear orchard of the professional farmers' cooperative in Meishu Garden, Korla City, the members are busy picking pears, loading trucks, and warehousing. Merchants from all over the place have sold out. "My family has 13 acres of orchards, which were transferred to the cooperative for unified management this year. In the cooperative, I not only learned the fragrant pear planting techniques, but also received a fixed income every month. After the fragrant pears are sold in the later stage, there will be dividends. It's getting better every year," said Azgul Wupur, a member of the cooperative. In the Hotan area, 1.73 million mu of walnuts have entered the mature picking period, and farmers are busy picking, peeling, cleaning, and drying walnuts. Nur Aihemaiti Yiming, a villager in Gucheng Village, Bagqi Town, Hotan County, with a happy harvest on his face, said that his family's walnut income is expected to be 28,000 yuan this year. The grapes in the Keramu Township of Boshi City, Kashgar ushered in the harvest season. Photo by Dong Xiao At the Tiancheng Vineyard in Liangsangong Village, Langan Township, Huocheng County, clusters of plump and plump grapes hang on the branches. Workers begin to harvest grapes in late September. There are 310 acres of red grapes planted in the vineyard, with an estimated output of 300 tons. At present, more than 100 tons are harvested and stored in the warehouse, which are mainly sold to coastal cities, and some are exported to the Southeast Asian market. Han Yunhua, a Beijing merchant who has been engaged in fruit acquisition in Xinjiang for a long time, told reporters that the epidemic that started in August had a certain impact on fruit harvesting and transportation. get better. "In the Beijing market, Korla fragrant pears are currently one of the most popular fruits. I have purchased about 400 tons of Korla fragrant pears, which will be delivered to the Beijing market in the near future, and will continue to increase purchases according to market demand. , to meet consumers' demand for Korla fragrant pears." According to statistics, up to now, Xinjiang has harvested about 4.71 million tons of fruit, accounting for 54% of the total output. It is expected that in October, Xinjiang forest fruit will usher in a peak in sales.