Where is the origin of Qiandongnan Jinqiu pear?

The Jinqiu pear has a golden yellow, crystal-clear appearance, white, crisp, tender and fine flesh, abundant juice and a sweet taste, and stores well. It is known as the “King of Southern Pears.” So where is the origin of Qiandongnan Jinqiu pear? Friends who do not know may wish to take a look.

I. Origin of Qiandongnan Jinqiu Pear

The Qiandongnan Jinqiu pear comes from Hongjiang City (formerly Qianyang County). It is a naturally mutated pear tree; after farmers discovered and reported the superior variety in the late 1980s, experts from Anjiang Agricultural School in Hunan Province selected and bred it. Today it is planted and produced in provinces and cities including Guizhou, Sichuan, Guangxi, Hubei, Jiangxi, Chongqing and Yunnan.

II. Main Value of the Jinqiu Pear

The Bencao Tongxuan records that pears “when raw clear the heat of the six bowels, and when cooked nourish the yin of the five zang organs.” Eating about 400 grams of late-autumn yellow pear daily can provide various nutritional health benefits, such as strengthening the stomach and aiding digestion, moistening the lungs and relieving cough, clearing heat and resolving phlegm, relieving and waking from alcohol, and preventing and fighting cancer.

III. Distribution of the Jinqiu Pear

The Jinqiu pear originated in high-altitude mountain areas (400m). When the fruit ripens, the climate is cool, and the fruit stores well. It forms a complementary relationship with citrus production, which is suited to low altitudes, and is an industry for farmers in high-altitude mountain areas of Hunan Province and other southern provinces to escape poverty and become prosperous. Hunan Province has an area of 210,000 k㎡, of which hilly and mountainous land at about 50m above sea level accounts for 2/3. The undeveloped hilly and mound land in the Qiandongnan Autonomous Prefecture, where Guizhou borders Hunan, is nearly 10,000 km, providing broad land resources for the development of the Jinqiu pear. At present, the Huaihua region has listed the development of the Jinqiu pear as one of the pillar industries for hilly and mound land development, and the Qiandongnan Autonomous Prefecture in Guizhou is also actively preparing for development. In the near future, the development of the Jinqiu pear will make its due contribution to the economic revitalization of Hunan and the Qiandongnan Autonomous Prefecture in Guizhou.

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