The watermelon festival is held every year, and the festival is different every year. The Daxing Watermelon Festival, which has been held for 20 times, is the pride of Daxing people's heart, and every watermelon festival, people will have new expectations. 2009, the 21st Beijing Daxing Watermelon Festival will be held from May 28, 2009 to June 1, 2009, and the 2009 Watermelon Festival will present 5 major highlights.
Highlight 1: new watermelon varieties bring different tastes
In the past two years, Daxing District Agricultural Research Institute continues to introduce new varieties of watermelon, each year, the introduction of 60-80 new watermelon varieties of watermelon, focusing on the thin-skinned melon, small seedless watermelon, high-quality transportation of small seeded watermelon introduction of screening and cultivation technology research. During the Watermelon Festival, 400,000 kilograms will be put on the market. Meanwhile, during the 2009 Watermelon Festival, one million kilograms of thin-skinned melons will be supplied to the market.
Highlight 2: Branded Clothing Sold at 50% Discount
May 30, 2009-June 1, 2009, Daxing District Branded Clothing Exhibition and Sale and Foreign Trade Export Enterprises E-commerce Platform Showcase will be held in Century Lianhua Bailian Qingcheng Mall, where Daxing District Branded Clothing Showcase, Showcase and Sale and Foreign Trade Export Enterprises of Daxing District will be carried out. There will be a display of Daxing District branded clothing, exhibition and sale, and online application demonstration of Daxing District foreign trade export enterprises and online transactions. The products on display and sale are ten brands of clothing in Daxing District, men's clothing, women's clothing, children's clothing and cashmere sweater. During the event, all garments participating in the exhibition and sale are sold at 50% off.
Highlight three: boutique sightseeing picking garden, farmhouse specialties for tourists to "eat"
Watermelon Festival, Daxing District will integrate tourism resources, focusing on the launch of the "vitality of the Daxing, the charm of the new city," a series of festivals and tourism activities. "Happy melon township leisure tourism activities" to Pangan Road leisure tourism industry belt as the axis, integration of tourism resources in towns, watermelon picking and other leisure tourism activities, focusing on the launch of 40 boutique sightseeing and picking garden, 10 farmhouse specialties and towns featured thematic tourism activities. Including: Leping Royal Melon Garden, the old Song melon interesting garden, Mulinson sightseeing garden, four seasons spring agronomy garden, Beijing equatorial wind cherry strawberry picking garden, stabilized imperial forest ancient mulberry garden and characteristics of the barbecue, the Pyle Manor pigeon characteristics of the feast, Yangfu Hotel cattle head feast, etc., for details, you can log on to the website of the Daxing District Tourism Bureau to check.
Highlight four: cultural activities center staged "entertainment season"
2009, the Watermelon Festival will not engage in the opening ceremony of the cultural evening, Daxing District will make full use of the advantages of the district cultural activities center, to create a watermelon festival "entertainment season "
Highlight five: more than a hundred companies recruiting
May 26, 2009, Daxing District human resources job fair will be held in Panggezhuang Township, Oriental Oasis Ecological Park. More than a hundred recruiters will participate in the job fair to provide active employment guidance, entrepreneurship guidance services for enterprises and institutions in the district and various types of job seekers such as migrant workers, urban unemployed, Daxing graduates, etc. and to promote the transfer of migrant workers to the secondary and tertiary industries. Hengxi Town is located in the southwestern part of Jiangning District, 32 kilometers away from Nanjing City, with a total population of 31,000 people. It has a total population of 31,000, with 8 villagers' committees and 1 community residents' committee under its jurisdiction. The town has 40,000 acres of arable land, 23,100 acres of forested land (excluding state-owned mountains and forests), and 17,900 acres of water, making it very rich in natural resources.
Hengxi has a long history. As far back as the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, the southern Hengshan is the battlefield of Wu and Chu's struggle for supremacy. According to historical records, in 570 B.C., Chu sent Duke Yingqi to attack Wu, occupying the vicinity of present-day Wuhu in Anhui Province and marching into the Hengshan Mountains, which is the earliest name of a place that appeared in Nanjing in the history books. The "Hengshui Bridge" on the old street once appeared in Shi Nai-an's "Water Margin", from which Hengxi Town got its name, and was called Hengshuiqiao Town in ancient times.
Hengxi is an old revolutionary area. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Su Yu, Fu Qiutao, Jiang Weijiang, Peng Chong, Zhong Zhiguang and other revolutionaries of the old generation fought in this area, and now there are remnants of the Jiang Family Ancestral Hall, Shangzhuang, etc. The former site of Hengshan County Anti-Japanese Democratic Government, the tomb of the anti-Japanese martyrs in Yuntai Mountain, the former site of the command headquarters of the Advance Detachment of the New Fourth Army, and the Yokoyama Bridge are all protected cultural relics units in Nanjing City.
Hengxi has beautiful mountains and water. There are two major mountain ranges, Hengshan Mountain and Yuntai Mountain. Coiled Dragon Lake is the largest freshwater lake in the suburbs of Nanjing, the lake area of 3,800 acres, water storage capacity of more than 10 million square meters, surrounded by mountains on three sides, overlapping mountains, green pines, green mountains reflecting the green water embracing the green, the breeze, the gas is soft and quiet streams, the lake in the fat fish, meat, taste, scoop a spoonful of sweet lake water to cook, the teeth and lips to stay fresh, and not yet finished. Within the territory of the mountains and water, there are hills and hills, plains and hills, light, hot water resources are abundant, the distribution of coordinated, abundant. That is, suitable for rice, watermelon, flowers and other temperature-loving plant growth needs, and can make a variety of livestock and poultry, fish flourish and forest, wood, fruit planting.
Jiangning District Hengxi Town is also known as the town of watermelon, in recent years, Hengxi seize the opportunity to fully tap their own resource advantages, according to local conditions and vigorously carry out the restructuring of agriculture, in the development of economic characteristics of the article, the proposed construction of "10,000 acres of melons, 10,000 acres of flowers and seedlings, 10,000 acres of economic forestry and fruit," the three million acres of base Struggle for the goal has achieved obvious results. This year, the town's watermelon area of 16,000 acres, economic forestry and fruit to reach 9,100 acres, flowers and seedlings have been more than 2,000 acres. In the watermelon industry presents four characteristics: First, better production conditions. Hengxi town this spring watermelon stubble implementation of 16,000 acres, including greenhouse facilities breakthrough 7,000 acres, nursery period, planting period compared to last year and in advance; Second, the new varieties, new technologies more prominent. The town introduced eight new varieties that year, the rate of good varieties 100 percent. After the success of square watermelon test planting, this year and test planting couple melon, colorful melon, blessing melon, which will become a new highlight of the watermelon festival; Third, according to the green food production requirements of the organization of the production in the town of Hengxi has been the overall advancement of the fourth municipal party committee and the municipal government of the construction of high-quality watermelon production base in Nanjing has new requirements and initiatives. Nanjing Watermelon Professional Association was established in Hengxi, Hengxi radiation driven the development of the city's watermelon industry.
"Nature" brand has become a well-known brand in the city. Especially "nature" brand watermelon has formed regional characteristics, Hengxi watermelon sweet, crisp, thin skin, juicy, good taste, rich in nutrients, has been recognized by the China Green Food Development Center for green food, by the Pollution-Free Agricultural Products Recognition Committee of Jiangsu Province recognized as "the first batch of Pollution-Free Agricultural Products of Jiangsu Province ", recognized by the province as green food production base. The Fifth Henan - Zhongmou Watermelon Festival and Garlic Trade Fair opened in Zhongmou County People's Cultural Square, this year's Watermelon Festival has a lot of rarities, exhibits are also rich in a lot of 34 foreign merchants contracted 40,000 tons of watermelon, garlic 180,500 tons. The reporter also learned from the meeting, this year's watermelon production in Zhongmou, foreign orders are also more than in previous years and concentrated, but Zhongmou County Agricultural Bureau said that this year, Zhengzhou people eat watermelon will not be affected by too much.
Zhongmou watermelon festival, garlic has become the protagonist
This year's watermelon festival and previous years are a little different - "small" garlic on the "big" watermelon.
In the watermelon festival opening ceremony site, merchants from all over the country gathered, the townships also organized a lot of melon farmers, garlic farmers to participate in the opening ceremony activities. As in previous years, Zhongmou County has recognized and rewarded farmers and units that have made merit in watermelon and garlic planting.
Milk watermelon sold individually, a 5 yuan
The west side of the square organized by the "Agricultural Science and Technology Corridor", "milk" watermelon, "bonsai" watermelon, "Fortune" watermelon, square watermelon, prismatic watermelon, cone watermelon and other new, strange, special new varieties of watermelon, attracted a lot of viewers stopped to watch.
This year's watermelon varieties are more than last year's, and the booths are filled with all kinds of watermelons. Learning that the reporter was looking for milk watermelon, an exhibiting watermelon broker hastily picked up a small melon and said, "This is." Milk watermelon from the appearance of round, color is very good, only the size of an adult man's fist, it is said that the skin is very thin, taste good, just the price is not expensive. "Sold by the pound, regardless of size, at $5 a pop."
Seeing the reporter's somewhat surprised expression, Hong Ailing, a cultivator of bonsai watermelons, said with a smile on her face, "This year I planted more than 200 pots of bonsai watermelons, which have now been ordered, and each pot is sold for 300 yuan."
Watermelon wine attracts Shenzhen merchants
The most eye-catching thing about this year's watermelon festival is the "watermelon wine". Native watermelon expert Tian Jinxiang said, after years of dedicated research and repeated practice, watermelon juice as the main ingredient, supplemented by glutinous rice, barley, peas, sorghum and other grain fermentation, developed a nutritional health effects of watermelon wine.
The reporter tasted a mouthful of watermelon wine with the appearance of ordinary white wine, with the taste of ordinary white wine, slightly watermelon flavor. Tian Jinxiang said there are different degrees of liquor from 28 ° to 42 °, as well as watermelon beer, watermelon fruit drinks and more than 10 varieties.
There were a lot of rare people gathered around the booth, and Mr. Lai from Shenzhen, who tasted six kinds of watermelon wine, signed a purchase and sales contract with him on the spot.
Tian Jinxiang told reporters that he will soon raise funds to build a factory to achieve large-scale production. Because of the lack of funds, he is still handmade workshop-style production, production is limited. "This watermelon deep processing project is very promising, mature watermelon needs to be sold as soon as possible to eat, otherwise it will be bad, it is a pity to throw it, which is also a melon farmer is a headache. The development and production of watermelon wine not only solves the problem of watermelon sales, but also greatly improves the added value of watermelon."
Garlic powder, garlic flakes, black garlic, these garlic deep-processing products also on the booth. Ms. Liao from Zhengzhou City tasted the garlic flakes and stuck out her tongue, saying, "I can't imagine that it's still so spicy when it's dried, and the flavor hasn't changed at all."
Despite the watermelon production cuts, but will not affect the Zhengzhou market
It is understood that this year, Zhongmou county garlic planting area of 300,000 acres, is expected to produce up to more than 300,000 tons. By the impact of the garlic sales market in recent years, than in previous years to reduce planting nearly 30%. This year, the county's watermelon planting area of 126,000 acres, is expected to reach a total output of 300,000 tons, the origin of the main concentration in Han Temple, Yaojia two townships.
Yesterday morning, invited to participate in the opening ceremony of the guests rode to Yao home township Yanjia village greenhouse watermelon field. Melon farmer Song Chunmei introduced: "My family of four people, planted more than 4 acres of greenhouse watermelon. Due to the impact of the spring climate, greenhouse watermelon production, although this year's watermelon price is higher than the same period last year, more than 20 cents, income is estimated to catch up with last year, but the difference will not be too big."
Standing beside him, another melon farmers told reporters: "This year's watermelon listed nearly half a month later than in previous years, but the price is higher than in previous years, and now the purchase price of 0.95 yuan per catty, has lasted half a month, in previous years, the purchase price at this time has fallen to 0.70 yuan per catty. And this year's watermelon sales than in previous years are good, I do not leave the ground on the order of half. The car to the ground are big cars, mainly sold to the field, such as Wuhan, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia and other places. Not only my melon this way, most of the melons of other families have received a lot of orders from abroad. I do not plan to spend too much energy this year to pull the melon to Zhengzhou to sell, not cost-effective."
According to him, this year, melon farmers attach great importance to the planting of specialty varieties of melons, but due to the low survival rate of specialty melons, the yield is not high, the taste of specialty melons and ordinary melons are not too different, but the price is higher, so the sales are not very good. Mainly still planted ordinary watermelon, "specialty melons can mainly attract people, the promotional effect is good."
Cui Shaoying, secretary of the Zhongmou county party committee, said: "This year Zhongmou can produce about 300,000 tons of watermelon, greenhouse watermelon has been sold half. Through online sales and docking with big shopping malls and supermarkets in Zhengzhou, and 500 watermelon sales points arranged by the Zhengzhou municipal government in contact, 80 percent of the melons will be sold at the place of origin."
Staff from the Zhongmou County Agricultural Bureau said people in Zhengzhou will not be too affected by eating watermelons this year.
On the opening ceremony, 34 foreign merchants and melon and garlic farmers **** signed 40,000 tons of watermelon and 180,500 tons of garlic.
It is understood that this watermelon festival will last 40 days. Watermelon Festival held during the period, not only to organize rich entertainment activities also organized a variety of economic and trade negotiations. In addition to the opening ceremony held on the day of eating watermelon, watermelon weightlifting, holding melon run, peeling garlic rice, carve garlic hu competition and the wind gongs and drums, lion dance and song and dance performances, will also be held in the watermelon ringmasters and melon king selection, the theme of photography, calligraphy, painting and other competitions and activities, the public can also be to the Zhongmou experience the township of watermelon and garlic style tour. Jiaodong Peninsula watermelon first town of Qingdao Mingcun Watermelon Festival opened. This is following the Qingdao Yunshan Cherry Festival, Shandong Pingdu continue to sing the agricultural "four seasons song", the third Mingcun Watermelon Festival is organized by the Pingdu Municipal People's Government, Mingcun Town People's Government. Qingdao Mingcun Watermelon Festival, will strive to combine the festival economy and local culture and tourism, in addition to more prominent Mingcun watermelon theme, but also carefully packaged a series of tourism projects to further enrich the connotation of the Mingcun Watermelon Festival, and gradually Mingcun Watermelon Festival to the market, to the country, so that the Mingcun Watermelon Festival has become a nationally renowned brand of tourism festivals. It is reported that Mingcun Dahuangbu watermelon base has been identified as the Qingdao Olympic Games food filing base, then, by here to promote the autumn delayed class watermelon will be as the Olympic Games food supply Olympic Games base in large quantities.
It is understood that since 2006, Qingdao Mingcun Watermelon Festival has been held for two consecutive sessions, have gained good festival benefits. The first two watermelon festival during the sale of watermelon 380 million kilograms, pulling the price of watermelon per kilogram average increase of 0.4 yuan, a total of 150 million yuan of additional income. This year's Mingcun Watermelon Festival to "summer of love - about Sanhe Mountain, *** enjoy the green love" as the theme, to take "government-led, business and social participation, market operation" way to run the festival! The festival takes the theme of "government-led, enterprise and social participation, market operation" to run the festival, and highlights the green, ecological and efficient industrial characteristics of watermelon in Mingcun, aiming to further increase the visibility of watermelon in Mingcun, and strive to make Mingcun Watermelon Festival a brand of agricultural festival in Qingdao, the province and even the country. During this watermelon festival in addition to organizing the traditional folk square arts and cultural performances, watermelon harvest bazaar, eating watermelon Grand Prix, moving watermelon contest, melon king competition and other projects, but also a new watermelon festival, the Olympics, Wenchuan earthquake relief as the theme of painting and calligraphy competitions and to the Olympics, agro-industry as the theme of the watermelon carving competitions, the whole event will continue to July 9, the time will be extended to.
Mingcun Town, Pingdu City, since the introduction of watermelon greenhouse planting technology in 1993, after more than a decade of development, more than 70% of the town's villages have become watermelon planting villages, with watermelon planting area of more than 45,000 acres. Among them, the large field watermelon 23,000 acres, watermelon annual output of 170 million kilograms, sales revenue of 180 million yuan, the town has become the first town of watermelon production in Jiaodong Peninsula.
At present, the town's watermelon area reaches 58,000 acres, forming a series of high-temperature shed, arch shed, simple shed, large field and autumn delayed production, the product listing time reaches more than 8 months, the total annual output of watermelon reaches 200 million kilograms, with a sales income of 220 million yuan. 2003, 'Jiaohe' brand watermelon was recognized by Shandong Province as a provincial-level pollution-free agricultural products; in 2004, the town has become the first town in Jiaodong Peninsula watermelon production. In 2003, 'Jiaohe' brand watermelon was recognized by Shandong Province as provincial pollution-free agricultural products; in 2004, it was recognized by the Ministry of Agriculture as national pollution-free agricultural products; in April this year, it was recognized by the Ministry of Agriculture as green food. Now, Mingcun Town has become an important greenhouse watermelon production base in the north of the Yangtze River and is known as 'the first town of watermelon in Jiaodong'.
The arable land in Mingcun Township is loamy and fertile, with rich underground water resources and pure water quality. Superior geographic location and natural environment for the development of efficient agriculture provides unique conditions. From the early 1990s, the town of Mingcun according to the local unique geographical location, the greenhouse watermelon as a breakthrough in the development of efficient agriculture, to take policy guidance, financial support, strengthen services, demonstration of the village and the typical household drive and other measures, to promote the development of watermelon industry on a large scale.
Technology is productivity. In the information technology of communication, modernization of science and technology today, this proposition is more prominent. In practice, the town of Ming village firmly grasp the science and technology "bull nose", with modern science and technology to improve the watermelon industry. In the village of Dahuangbu a watermelon trellis, green, a green watermelon dazzling, very lovely, Jingxin series, small series, seedless series, yellow flesh series, Jinzhong Guanlong and other five series, more than 30 varieties of watermelon straight to let a person marvel at the original watermelon family has so many "siblings". In the south of the village, is the town unified planning and construction of watermelon planting R & D center, just opened 12 high-grade demonstration model shed.