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Yizhang County sees bumper harvest of navel oranges

2023-12-02

It is now the harvest season for navel oranges. At the navel orange planting demonstration base in the west of Yizhang County, fruit farmers and merchants are busy picking, sorting, loading, and transporting navel oranges.

 

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Yizhang navel oranges are highly favored by consumers for thin skin, sweet and sour taste, rich aroma, crispy and juicy flesh, and rich nutrition. It has the highest content of flavonoids and carotenoids among similar navel orange varieties in China. Many tourists come to experience the pleasure of picking navel oranges in the base.
 
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Yizhang County is the main production area of the Southern Jiangxi-Southern Hunan-Northern Guangxi navel orange advantageous industrial belt planned by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of China. 
 
Yizhang navel oranges have become an advantageous industry for the economic development of Yizhang County. 
 
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The county has planted navel oranges of 297,000 mu (19,800 hectares), with an annual output of 235,000 tons and a comprehensive output value of 2 billion yuan. 
 
It is a “golden business card” for boosting the agricultural and rural development in the county.