Chu Orange Manor - Chu Shijian's Yunnan Ailao Mountain rock sugar oranges; Chu mandarins go on the market at the end of November, Yunguan oranges in early December
At the end of November each year, the Chu oranges of the season begin to be harvested, and compared with most oranges on the market, the taste is even better. Chu Shijian's Chu Orange Manor is located on Ailao Mountain. Originally just a planting base, the Chu Orange Orchard has even become a tourist destination in Xinping that one cannot miss visiting.
At the end of November each year, the Chu oranges of the season begin to be harvested, and compared with most oranges on the market, the taste is even better. Chu Shijian's Chu Orange Manor is located on Ailao Mountain. Originally just a planting base, the Chu Orange Orchard has even become a tourist destination in Xinping that one cannot miss visiting.
In the spring of 2013, the construction of the “Chu Orange Manor” project was officially launched. The newly built Chu Orange Manor is divided into 5 parts: the hotel area, the farmhouse entertainment area, the ecological breeding area, the leisure fishing area, and the orchard area. Among them, the hotel area, farmhouse entertainment area, and leisure fishing area are the key construction parts.
Chu Orange Manor is divided into two parts. The new building at the top of the mountain can provide business meetings and receive high-end tourists, and can accommodate up to 80 people staying overnight at the same time. On the mountainside, a restaurant mainly offering farmhouse-style dining is built, and every dish is selected from the wild mountains and ditches of Ailao Mountain. Relying on Chu Orange Manor, an eco-tourism scenic spot integrating cultural display, conference reception, tourism training, and leisure sightseeing has been built here.
Chu's Agriculture was established under the leadership of Mr. Chu Shijian, dedicated to using modern agricultural technology and a standardized management system for fruit cultivation, while also carrying out research on high-quality fruit variety breeding, cultivation technology, deep processing technology and techniques, and other aspects. Under it are the star brands “Chu Orange” and “Yunguan Orange.”
“Chu Orange”
In 2003, the elderly Chu Shijian planted the first batch of rock sugar oranges in Gasa Town deep in Ailao Mountain, naming them Chu Orange. After years of careful cultivation, Chu Orange won market acclaim for its characteristics of thin peel, abundant juice, golden sweet-sour ratio, and clear sweetness that melts in the mouth, becoming one of the sweet orange brands most loved by Asians, and in 2017 it achieved an excellent result of nearly 300 million in single-product output value.
“Yunguan Orange”
In 2015, the Chu Orange team set out to build the Longling production base, covering an area of 10,000 mu. A new generation of Chu Orange people rushed to the front line, adopting the standardized management of Chu Orange Manor plus a management system adapted to local conditions to develop the new brand “Yunguan Orange.” In 2017, a provincial key academician workstation: the academician workstation of Deng Xiuxin, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, chief scientist of the modern citrus technology system, and president of Huazhong Agricultural University, was officially established at the Longling base, using scientific planting technology to help advance the project. By 2019, the base had achieved an output of 6,000 tons, with 3,000 tons of selected finished products, and a finished product rate of 50%.
Chu's Agriculture, a brand forged with craftsmanship over more than ten years, is settling with every step. Having gone through glory, it still moves forward with the heart of a farming person.
To further improve the fruit quality of Chu Orange, Chu Orange Manor cut down 37,000 fruit trees in 2015, ensuring ventilation and light transmission between the fruit trees, and fruit quality has further improved since 2016.
Judging from the various data indicators in 2017, both output and quality will improve even more. The average fruit diameter reached 6.5 cm, and the proportion of premium-grade fruit increased substantially.
Judging from the various data indicators in 2017, both output and quality will improve even more. The average fruit diameter reached 6.5 cm, and the proportion of premium-grade fruit increased substantially.
Chu Orange is a beautiful calling card of Yunnan Province's plateau characteristic agriculture. From 2002 to now, Chu Orange has been rooted in the fertile land of Xinping and remains ever new, continuously releasing new momentum for the development of plateau characteristic agriculture.
Under the strong influence of Chu Orange, the masses' enthusiasm for developing citrus planting has surged to an unprecedented level. The Xinping County Party Committee and County Government seized the opportunity and leveraged this momentum for development, increasing policy support, and citrus planting has shown a trend of blossoming everywhere across Xinping's land, becoming a new highlight of Yunnan's plateau characteristic agriculture in recent years. It is reported that Chu Orange citrus planting is mainly distributed in the low-heat river valley areas of Huaning County, Xinping County, Yuanjiang County, and Yimen County in the Nanpan River basin and Red River basin. As one of the important planting areas, Xinping County had a citrus planting area of 93,791 mu as of July 2017, close to one-half of the city's total planting area of 209,000 mu. By the end of the year, the fruiting area is expected to reach 41,000 mu, realizing an output value of 396 million yuan. In 2017, Chu Orange Manor is expected to produce 11,000 tons.