Walnut Grafting Technique for Collectible Walnuts Enriches Farmers in Taishitun, Beijing

Currently, in Liuheyu Village, Taishitun Town, Miyun County, Beijing, the collectible walnut trees grafted by villager Zhao Chengxue are lush with branches and leaves and full of fruit.

In recent years, with the rise of the craze for playing with walnuts, the price of collectible walnuts has risen along with it. Villager Zhao Chengxue of Liuheyu Village saw the business opportunity early on and in 2010 experimentally grafted 200 collectible walnut trees, making a profit of 500,000 yuan. Starting in 2011, he invested more than 5 million yuan in succession and introduced more than 10 famous and superior varieties from Hebei, including Lion Head, Official Hat, Tiger Head and Chicken Heart, grafting more than 800 mu of wild walnut trees on the mountain land he contracted.

Today, more than 15,000 walnut trees on the mountain land have all been grafted into collectible walnut trees and have begun to bear fruit one after another, making it the largest collectible walnut base in the Beijing suburbs. Many veteran collectible walnut collectors from the capital also come here attracted by its fame to select walnuts. Zhao Chengxue told this writer that this year the income from these walnut trees can reach 1.5 million yuan, and in the future he also plans to combine the cultivation of collectible walnuts with local tourism development, developing the walnut business in different forms.