In 2016, 55838 tons of canned bamboo shoots were exported by Jieyang Bureau, with a value of $129 million, up 14% and 41% respectively from the same period last year. Under the background of increasing pressure from the downward trend of foreign trade, the canned bamboo shoots showed a good trend of increasing volume and price, and for the first time entered the "billion yuan" club.

 

Jieyang is the largest bamboo shoot planting base in Guangdong Province, which has the reputation of "home of bamboo shoots in China". Thanks to the good local soil, climate and other environmental conditions, with the joint efforts of inspection and quarantine departments and enterprises, canned bamboo shoots are popular overseas, known as "the first green health food". Exports are not subject to quota restrictions. In the international market, supply exceeds demand. Over the years, export volume has steadily increased, which has become a highlight of foreign trade exports.

 

 

 

Jieyang Inspection and Quarantine Bureau strongly supports the development of characteristic agricultural economy in Jieyang, cultivates new growth points of foreign trade exports, and promotes farmers to increase their income. The Bureau has actively strengthened its policy and technical advantages by setting up a backbone technical team to regularly visit bamboo shoot plantations to investigate bamboo shoot diseases, insect pests and pesticide use, to study and formulate a control plan for bamboo shoot pests, to guide bamboo shoot farmers to do a good job in pest control, to ensure the right use of medicines, less use and accurate use, and to ensure the quality of bamboo shoot canned products from the source.

 

The United States is the main market for bamboo shoot canned export in Jieyang. There are strict regulations and requirements for products. The FDA organizes spot checks on food importing enterprises in the United States every year. Only through inspection can the export of bamboo shoot canned in Jieyang be allowed to the United States market, which has a major impact on the export of bamboo shoot canned in Jieyang area. For this reason, the inspection and quarantine department provides precise assistance to enterprises, actively provides them with inspection skills, technical laws and regulations consultation, guides enterprises to implement rectification measures, improves quality management system, improves production environment, and increases hardware investment. Through the implementation of "HACCP" certification work, help export food enterprises to improve quality and efficiency, improve the quality management level of enterprises, and enhance the international competitiveness of products.

 

At present, 10 of the 11 canned bamboo shoots export enterprises in Jieyang have passed the HACCP conformity validation of low-acid canned bamboo shoots imported from the United States. All the five canned enterprises passed the FDA inspection smoothly, effectively promoting the healthy development of export agricultural products in Jieyang.