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WUHU, China, Sept. 25, 2023 /Xinhua-AsiaNet/--

On September 23, the sixth "Chinese Farmers Harvest Festival" main event was

held in Wanzhi District of Wuhu City, Anhui Province.

The theme of this year's Harvest Festival is "Celebrating the Harvest and

Promoting Harmony", and the main event will include 10 series of activities

such as a mass celebration of the harvest, the National Agricultural Science

and Technology Equipment Achievement Exhibition and the Chinese Farming Culture

Exhibition, rural food tasting, the Harvest Festival Autumn Consumption Season,

and the Farmer's Sporting and Fitness Competition, according to Wuhu Media

Center.

For the first time, a mascot named "Hehe&Meimei" was set up for this event. The

mascot takes the three major staple grains "rice, wheat and corn" as its

modeling elements.

In the "tasting harvest - countryside food tasting activities" 100 counties

famous snacks fair, from all over the province, more than 150 Anhui cuisine

on-site display of the city, so that visitors can enjoy the "Anhui good taste"

food feast. Among them, only Wuhu to prepare 77 local specialties. Wuhu cuisine

both the clear taste of the Jiangnan water town, along the fresh flavor of the

river cuisine, the mellow taste of the farmhouse stove, as well as a variety of

snacks of the local flavor.

Wuhu City has been known as "the hometown of fish and rice in the south of the

Yangtze River", is one of the "four major rice markets", within the territory

of the "Wuhu rice" "Nanling rice Wuhu rice" and "Nanling rice" have been

awarded geographical indications for agricultural products. Wuhu is also the

national wisdom of agriculture pioneer city. At present, the Wuhu rice planting

area reaches 280,000 mu. By 2025, full coverage of 600,000 mu of technological

rice planting area will be realized.

Source: Wuhu Media Center