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BEIJING, Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

With the flourishing peach industry, local farmers in Menyin County in east

China's Shandong Province enjoy both the sweet peach aroma and handsome incomes

during the summertime.

Boasting favorable geographic conditions, Mengyin has dedicated to peach

industry since 1980s. Forty years on, it has become the largest county in the

country in terms of peach planting area and peach output.

Mengyin's peach industry has followed a high-quality development path. It has

developed 500,000 mu (about 33,333 hectares) of premium peach base by setting

up peach-related scientific research platforms, training professional farmers

and applying scientific approaches.

To accommodate to dynamic market demands, Mengyin has constantly adjusted and

optimized its peach planting structure. Every year, 2 to 4 new varieties will

be promoted across the county. From early spring to early winter, 200 varieties

of Mengyin peaches are on sale in the market.

Thanks to the partnership with e-commerce platform Taobao, the Mengyin quality

peach has gone viral in China and the overseas market, such as Singapore,

Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, India, Russia and Japan, with daily e-commerce

deals of over 80,000.

The increasing popularity of honey peaches has driven the rapid development of

transportation, logistics, storage, deep processing, and rural tourism in the

county, where over 100,000 local people have sought a fortune.

Besides efforts in boosting the peach industry, the county is also promoting

rural tourism.The peach county tour sees more than 2 million tourists annually

and generates industrial value of over 1 billion yuan (about 147.23 million

U.S. dollars).

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SOURCE  Xinhua Silk Road

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