China's cultivation of pistachio varieties is the Tang Dynasty from Central Asia introduced into cultivation, has been more than 1,300 years, belongs to the Central Asian taxa, the performance of drought-resistant, heat-resistant, light-loving. Growing season requires an average temperature of 24 ~ 26 ℃, summer can resist 40 ℃ high temperature, winter can withstand a short -30 ℃ cold. China's cultivation of pistachio although a long history, but mostly sporadic planting, mainly concentrated in the south of the Xinjiang Tianshan Mountain Kashgar and Tian, Aksu region, to Shushi County and Shule County planted more .
Pistachio can be propagated by seed sowing, grafting, dividing, pressing and rooting. Young trees into the fruiting age is late, if planted is the solid seedling needs 7 ~ 8 years to start fruiting, planting the root tiller seedling about 5 years, grafted trees 3 ~ 4 years, the general yield of about 15 kilograms of nuts.
Located in the Weihe River Valley, Gangu County for the people of pistachio farms, after 14 years to explore the use of the growth of Longnan mountains full of yellow lotus wood grafted American pistachio tree success, cultivated only 3 years on the results of the seed pistachio tree seedlings. Pistachio base in Gangu successfully introduced and successful fruit, so that Gangu become China's only good seed pistachio breeding base. Pistachio is native to Central Asia, West Asia's precious tree species. Pistachio is full of treasures, fruit, skin, kernel, leaves have high health effects. Leaves can also be extracted tannins, dyes and spices. The trunk material is fine and hard, with beautiful color, which is the ideal wood for making wood carving crafts and high-grade furniture.
In 1990, Xie Xiwen, already 64 years old, gradually reclaimed a piece of barren land into a "farm for the people".
In 1995, the United States pistachio in Lanzhou and other places after the introduction of planting failure, by the Provincial Academy of Sciences Institute of Biological Research to the introduction of 24 plants for the people's farms, due to the lack of Chinese language information for technical guidance, the death of 7 plants, survival of 17 plants.
In 1996, the Provincial Foreign Experts Administration invited Dr. Louis Ferguson of the Fruit Research Center of the University of California to come to Weimin Farm in Gangu, explaining in detail the difficult problems of American pistachio, and providing technical guidance on cultivation and grafting.
In 2004, the end of the year Dr. Ferguson again came to Gangu County, listening to Xie Xiwen old man said there have been nearly a hundred female plants hung on the red pistachio, a strong OK, not too familiar with the Chinese language, said, "terrific, Chinese farmers, terrific, Xie Xiwen." In the fall of 2004, Xie Xiwen old man introduced another 1 million grafted American pistachio seedlings, grafting more than 20,000 successful. China's pistachio introduction project responsible for Professor Kiyuan came to the farm research, examined the farm to cultivate grafted pistachio seedlings, fully affirmed the introduction of the farm grafting the complete success. It is reported that the American pistachio has a very high economic value, the international price of a kilogram of pistachio worth 200 yuan.
The pistachio trees in the garden in 2006 were dark green leaves, large kernels, emitting a pungent fragrance. Nowadays, in the pistachio demonstration garden, there are American varieties (already fruiting), Israeli varieties (already fruiting), Illinois varieties, Spanish varieties, which compete with each other for flavor and beauty. Today, the farm has more than 60,000 pistachio seedlings: two-year-old and one-year-old, up to 50 centimeters high, with green leaves and shoots.
Pistachio finally alive, pistachio finally fruit ... pistachio in China to live and fruit of the good news attracted the other side of the ocean of the United States experts, pistachio industry big country of Israel, Iran's experts to the farm to inspect and guide, and praised the farm planted pistachio and their country planted as good as the growth of the farm.
For the people of the farm, a year there is the production of pistachio seedlings 100,000 capacity, wood (yellow wood), scion, to meet their own, *** to foreign aid, pistachio grafting team studied hard to practice the real skills, figuring out different seasons of grafting methods, each person every year to graft pistachio seedlings 30,000 grafting the survival rate of more than ninety percent. In 1994, Gangu County introduced the United States pistachio domestication cultivation, in 1999 the male plant bloomed, in 2000 the female plant bloomed and results, for the domestic only introduction of successful and bloom and fruit examples. 1999 August, the director of the research center of the United States University of California, pistachio expert Dr. Louis Feigerson, in March 2003, Israel pistachio senior adviser Mr. Am to Gangu after a field visit are Gangu has a warm climate, sufficient light and good soil texture, which is suitable for pistachio cultivation area. Up to now, Gangu County has developed pistachio demonstration garden 500 acres, of which 60 acres of the first results of the garden; nursery 30 acres, annual output of 100,000 seedlings. At present has basically mastered the pistachio's botanical characteristics, biological characteristics, seedling breeding technology, productive cultivation technology, pest control technology, has really become a larger pistachio seedling breeding base and demonstration base. At the same time in the provincial academy of agricultural sciences under the guidance of experts, for the people's farms to start seedling breeding and the introduction of varieties of work, preferential selection of yellow yellow for grafting rootstock, the establishment of rootstock seedling breeding nursery, to carry out grafting method of the test and seedling domestication work. For the people's farms in the careful exploration of seedling and cultivation techniques at the same time, for the north of Shaanxi Province and our province Longnan and other places to provide seedlings.
In order to give full play to the regional advantages, the development of domestic pistachio industry, Gangu County plans to use 3 to 5 years, the new pistachio demonstration garden 5000 acres, the full-fruiting period of 300 kilograms of commercial fruit per acre, according to the lowest price of 40 yuan per kilogram, each acre of annual income of 12000 yuan, 5000 acres of demonstration gardens annual income of 60 million yuan . Lyrics name: happy old man happy fruit
- Gangu County for the people of pistachio farm Xie Xifeng Zan
Author: Xie Zitu Deng Donghu Xie Deyang
Xi Huang's hometown
Huangdao high slopes
There is a flowery old man with a dream
Let the Chinese people eat pistachio fruits borne on the Huangdao earth
A piece of barren land With the hard work
Two huts to rest shelter
Cultivated into the "for the people farm" acres and acres
Planted from the introduction of foreign saplings planted
Eat in the farm
Live in the farm
Decade of searching for more than ten years of labor
Welcome the successful harvest of pistachios Usher in a successful harvest of pistachios
Big nuts
Garden full of pistachios
Ancient old man happy
Folks days more and more prosperous
More and more prosperous ah more and more prosperous
Happy old man ---- open - heart - fruit Xie Zitu, formerly known as Xie DaPing, the net name of the Nanjing Citizen Xie Zitu, male, was born in 1962, Department of Gansu Province, Tianshui City, Gansu Province, Gangu County, Xinxing Town, Qijia Village people, ancestral home in the county Anyuan Town, Yinpo Village, maternal grandfather surnamed Sun, home in the county Xinxing Town, Sun Jiaping Village. 1985 graduated from the Jilin University of metal materials and heat treatment, and now serves in the High-tech Zone of Nanjing City, MAHLE Engine Components (Nanjing) Limited, Engineer. In his spare time, he enjoys editing Baidu words and creating lyrics, and is a Baidu web editor and amateur lyricist. By October 2012, 245 versions of Baidu lyrics have been edited and passed. 2012 June created the children's song "Woodpecker", with lyrics by Xie Zitu (co-writer) and music by Deng Donghu. Woodpecker" in July 2012 participated in the "Relay China - National Excellent Children's Original Lyrics and Songs" sponsored by China Children and Youth Culture and Art Foundation Caring for Rural Left-behind Children Special Fund Management Committee, and won the Silver Prize for lyrics in Beijing on August 18th 2012, and was awarded the Silver Prize for lyrics in Beijing. Won the Silver Prize for lyrics in Beijing, and the song will be included in the large-scale publication of children's music works "Relay China - National Excellent Children's Original Lyrics and Songs" to be launched at the end of the year. The song "Song of Nanjing Metro Line 3" is the second lyrics he has written, which was started on June 1, 2011 and basically completed in October 2012, when he wrote the lyrics of "Happy Old Man Happy Fruit".