It is another year of harvest season, located in Huaikou Street, Jintang County, Sichuan Xizhong Olive Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Xizhong Olive) olive base, the olive trees all over the mountains are full of heavy fruits, and the bent branches cover the forest road, all telling the story of the harvest.
Recently, in order to accurately grasp the yield of olive, the Jintang County Agriculture and Rural Bureau organized professionals to measure the yield of some olive trees in the germplasm gene mother garden of Abekina Liang in Xizhong.
At the production site, the villagers either stood under the tree or climbed on the branches of the tree to hand-pick the olive fruit to ensure the quality of the fresh fruit.
Villagers told Jin Jin that the ripe olive fruit is fragile and prone to fermentation after damage, which affects the quality of the olive oil. To ensure the integrity and freshness of the fresh fruits, all the olives are hand-harvested.
A plump olive from the branch through the hands of the workers, gently landed on the collection curtain, after the preliminary screening and then all framed, weighed, after accurate measurement, the gratifying results were released: the two olive trees produced 64.44kg and 71.02kg of fresh fruit respectively, an average increase of more than 30% compared with last year, which made everyone on the scene excited.
Behind the increase in output, the key lies in the progress of technology management. According to Wu Xiaolin, chairman of the company, although the continuous high temperature and drought this year lasted for a long time, the olive has the characteristics of drought resistance and barrenness, and the company focused on the two key periods of olive flower bud differentiation and fruit expansion stage to carry out timely drought resistance and water replenishment.
The drought measures in place have prompted the olive to flower and set fruit well, and the scorching sun and high temperature in July and August are just conducive to the oil conversion of olive fruits, so this year's olive production has increased a lot compared with last year.
In addition to the progress of technical management, excellent varieties are also an important part of increasing production. Founded in 2009, Xizhong Olive is the first enterprise to plant olive in Chengdu, with a planting area of more than 3,000 acres, and has formed a full-cycle standardized technical system for olive.
In the past 15 years, Xizhong olive has introduced more than 100 olive varieties from Spain and other places for breeding, and selected and bred 6 suitable and excellent varieties that are most suitable for the local climate and soil conditions of Jintang, which have the advantages of high oil yield, strong resistance to disease and fast fruit hanging, laying a solid foundation for the sustainable development of the olive industry.
"Abekina is a provincial excellent variety in Sichuan, and we have created a mother garden of Abekina's improved breed, and the area of this variety planted in our base is also relatively large. According to the previous harvest, Abekina performed the best, but other varieties are not bad, and the overall olive production in the entire planting base is expected to increase by about 30%-40%. Wu Xiaolin said that this year's harvest is a foregone conclusion.
Looking forward to the future, Wu Xiaolin hopes to continue to do a good job in the selection and breeding of improved varieties and standardized management between fields, strengthen the Jintang olive industry ecosystem, and at the same time, march towards the construction of the olive deep processing industry chain cluster. "Olea europaea is a treasure all over the body, rich in oleuropein and hydroxytyrosol and other chemicals that are beneficial to the human body, and has great prospects in the field of intensive processing of the big health industry. Now our products are mainly low-temperature physical cold-pressed olive oil, but also some primary products such as olive tea. Next, we plan to focus on biomedical extraction, health food processing, skin care and daily chemicals, etc., to develop new products and enhance the added value of the olive industry. ”
Reporter / Cheng Jie, He Yuheng, Ning Chao
(Source: Jintang WeChat public account)