People eat yellow peach always have a question: Why did the yellow peach come out from the can, no fresh fruit to sell? "The largest peach planting area in Hubei," answered the fruit grower: "all peaches can be processed only with yellow peach. We have sold more than 8 yellow peach to processing plants, and seldom sell fresh fruit.

 

Yesterday, the reporter learned from the Provincial Department of Agriculture, Hubei after building Asia's largest citrus industrialization base, began to build the second strong fruit industry - yellow peach industry. At present, the total planting area of yellow peach in Hubei is 200,000 mu, distributed in Suizhou, Zaoyang, Yidu, Jingmen, Laohekou and other places. The total output is 270 thousand tons, the agricultural output value is 480 million yuan, and the output value of processing is 1 billion 200 million yuan. Planting area, output and output value ranked second, third and second respectively in the whole country. Jingmen Qujialing has planted 38,000 mu of yellow peaches, with an annual output of 50,000 tons, ranking first in the province and in the forefront of the country.

 

Qu Rongpo, director of the Qujialing Yellow Peach Base, said, "There are many kinds of peaches, such as honey peach, nectarine, white peach... Neither can be processed except yellow peaches, because their flesh is not hard enough or thick enough to easily turn into mud and look bad. The yellow meat is thick, tough and slightly acidic, which is suitable for processing and can be removed by processing. The yellow color is also good, and it becomes the only canning material for peaches. That's why all kinds of peaches sell fresh fruit, but yellow peach sells canned goods.

 

In the past, all the peaches in Qujialing were processed. This year, some supermarkets in Wuhan began to try to sell fresh fruit. The retail price was 7.8 yuan per kilo, but the supply was very small, and the processing volume still accounted for more than 80%. Processing enterprises said that canned yellow peaches are more durable than fresh fruit and export better. Canned yellow peaches produced in Hubei are exported to European and American markets.