As early as three thousand years ago in the Western Zhou Dynasty, our ancestors were already very concerned about food: when making mountain treasures and wild game, we should add some green onions; when stewing pork, we should put some garlic.
But the allium at that time, is a small garlic. The garlic we eat now was brought back from the Western Regions by Zhang Qian during the Western Han Dynasty. The history of garlic cultivation in Shandong can be traced back to the Western Han Dynasty, and has a history of more than 2,000 years.
As the main origin of garlic in China, Shandong Province accounts for nearly one-third of the country's garlic production. As the famous "garlic township", Jinxiang County, Jining City, has been known as "the world to see the Chinese garlic, Chinese garlic to see Jinxiang" reputation. At present, Jinxiang County and its neighboring planted garlic area of more than 2 million mu, contracted the national garlic and garlic products export market share of 70%.
After years of development, Jinxiang County has diversified from a single planting and production of garlic, forming a complete industrial chain of garlic refrigeration, deep processing and so on.
On the one hand, to strengthen scientific and technological innovation, the joint Academy of Agricultural Sciences and other research institutes, to create academician workstations, the establishment of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences experimental base, aerospace breeding bases, with 68 independent intellectual property rights in the field of garlic breeding, cultivation, sowing and harvesting machinery, deep processing and other areas, the research and development of black garlic products, garlic polysaccharides, selenium and garlic capsules and other functional garlic food and medicinal food and food products of more than 40 kinds, realizing the production of a whole industry chain from food to health care products, Pharmaceuticals of the whole industry chain production.
On the other hand, we broaden the marketing channels to create "offline + online" trading platform. Jinxiang County has more than 1,800 garlic storage and processing enterprises, more than 3,500 constant temperature storage warehouses, garlic cold storage capacity of more than 4 million tons; cross-border e-commerce business subjects exceeded 4,000, and the cumulative turnover of 68 billion yuan.
In recent years, Jinxiang County will be the garlic industry as a leading industry to enrich the people and strengthen the county, adhere to the concept of "brand is competitiveness", according to the "focus on, integrate resources, strengthen the cultivation, support the excellent and strong" idea, the implementation of the brand strategy for agricultural products, the establishment of the international garlic Planting cultivation, storage and processing, trade circulation, information dissemination and price formation "five centers" status.
At present, Jinxiang County has more than 900 enterprises with independent import and export rights, Jinxiang garlic exports to more than 170 countries and regions, and the foreign exchange earnings of single agricultural products have ranked first in the country for years.
