The planting prospects, benefits and suitable growing regions of the Roxburgh rose

The Roxburgh rose is a wild fruit unique to Guizhou, known as the "king of vitamin C." To seize this business opportunity, Ye Jun, who lives in Goupitan Village, Goupitan Town, Yuqing County, invested more than 800,000 yuan in his hometown. After several years of exploration, he succeeded.

At the Roxburgh rose planting base, patches of Roxburgh rose can be seen everywhere among the dense trees.

Ye Jun, 43, told reporters that he had been working away from home since 1997. In 2013, by chance, he saw at a friend's fruit shop that Roxburgh rose was not only high-priced but also very popular with consumers. After that, he resolutely returned to his hometown, invested more than 800,000 yuan, and started growing Roxburgh rose at home.

After several years of careful management, the more than 110 mu of Roxburgh rose planted in 2013 has now begun to generate economic returns.

Roxburgh rose grower Ye Jun: The weather is very good. This year, each mu can reach 4,000 jin. What is being sold now is 2.4 yuan per jin, and the price is quite good too.

Besides the fruit's economic value being much higher than that of ordinary crops, the Roxburgh rose also has very low soil requirements during cultivation. When the soil is too fertile, it grows too luxuriantly and the fruit is more likely to drop; semi-desert soil is the best.

In addition to low soil requirements, the Roxburgh rose is also relatively simple to manage. Planted once, it bears fruit for many years, and its peak fruiting period can last as long as 12 to 16 years. The current market demand exceeds supply.

Roxburgh rose grower Ye Jun: Manufacturers come directly to haul it away and process it further, taking it directly to make dried Roxburgh rose and Roxburgh rose juice.

After learning about this situation, local villagers all came to him asking to develop planting. For this reason, Ye Jun also cultivated more than 800,000 Roxburgh rose seedlings in his own base and provided planting technology to local villagers free of charge.

Roxburgh rose grower Ye Jun: We have promised them all that we will help them free of charge and provide services free of charge. We lead the local ordinary people to develop together and create economic income together.

Sales channels are the key

For farmers growing fruits and vegetables, what they fear most is that the products they grow cannot be sold and go bad in the fields while they watch helplessly. To solve this problem, while developing the planting of Shalite golden fruit pears, Guizhou Shangchanghe Fruit Industry Co., Ltd. also took preventive measures and jointly developed and produced Shalite pear wine with Renhuai Aixin Distillery, thereby relieving fruit growers of their worries.

Recently, Guizhou Shangchanghe Fruit Industry Co., Ltd. invited large growers of Shalite golden fruit pears from various places to Renhuai Aixin Distillery to hold an on-site discussion on the newly developed and produced Shalite pear wine.

The fruit growers told reporters that Shalite golden fruit is a very good variety. It not only stores for a long time but also has high yield, bringing great benefits to fruit growers. However, what is worrying is that after fruit yields increase, fruit growers also worry that what they have worked hard to grow cannot be sold.

Jiangxi fruit grower Qi Xinxi: The purpose of coming here to hold this seminar and learn is to deeply process it into wine. This wine can be stored, can be promoted across the country, and can even go abroad. If this is done, the ordinary people will have benefits and will not be afraid anymore. No matter how much they grow, it can be turned into wine. Even if the price is a bit lower, there is a guarantee.

Wu Xiaoqiang, a large grower in Chaole Town, Meitan County, also said that this approach by the company has lifted a heavy stone from the hearts of the fruit growers.

Fruit grower Wu Xiaoqiang: As a large grower of Shalite golden fruit, this lets us see that we farmers have hope. This cooperation between enterprises, plus cooperation with us farmers, can help our farmers shake off poverty, become prosperous and move toward a moderately prosperous life as soon as possible.

It is understood that since 2011, Guizhou Shangchanghe Fruit Industry Co., Ltd. has been developing the planting of Shalite golden fruit pears in Guizhou. However, because Shalite golden fruit pears bear fruit early and show results quickly, the planting area of Shalite golden fruit pears has grown from more than 300 mu at that time to more than 6,000 mu now, bringing great economic benefits to fruit growers.

In order to ensure the economic income of fruit growers, in 2016, Guizhou Shangchanghe Fruit Industry Co., Ltd. took preventive measures and took the lead in cooperating with Renhuai Aixin Distillery to jointly produce and process pear wine, thereby solving the ordinary people's worries about excess fruit.

Wang Lunfeng, manager of Guizhou Shangchanghe Fruit Industry Co., Ltd.: Our pear trees are increasing more and more, and soon they will enter the high-yield period, with per-mu yield reaching more than 10,000 jin. Therefore, we entrusted Aixin Distillery to develop Shalite Yingbin wine in order to solve the ordinary people's difficulty in selling and fundamentally remove their worries after planting our Shalite golden fruit pears.

Reporter: Xiaomei, reported by "Live Zunyi"