China (Jinxiang) Garlic Industry Development Forum opened in the solemn Great Hall of the People on 26th of April, the Ninth CPPCC National Committee Vice Chairman Wang Wenyuan, a few of foreign ambassador in China, garlic deep processing health protection experts of domestic and foreign countries , garlic merchants from all over the world, the main principle and major media from a total of more than 200 people gathered together developed enthusiastic and fruitful discussion on the small garlic head. The main topic of Garlic Industry Development Forum is “green and organic, deep processing, anticancer and health care, it mainly discuss on how to make garlic deep processing, develop and promote garlic health care series products, talked over on how the garlic better benefit the people around the world . Leaders and experts attending the meeting agreed that, as the world’s major garlic production, processing and export base, Jin Xiang, should fully play its incomparable advantages, stress its unique features, avoid the disadvantages, and actively committed to the garlic planting, research, processing and trade, give more space to garlic deep processing and health care, makes the garlic industry development of Jinxiang to a new level.
One principle runs through it all is：
Safety Green Organic
On the forum, experts pointed out that the dumpling poisoning incident in February of this year is a fatal blow to the export of frozen foods in China, until now, China’s frozen food total export volume and foreign exchange volume respectively decreased by 19% and 12.7%, the final survey results show that the incident has nothing to do with China’s exports of dumplings, but the “dumpling poisoning” incident has sounded a warning to the Jin Xiang: as China’s largest agricultural export sum garlic, security should always be taken off! With the acceleration of China’s opening-up, the technical barriers for trade becoming increasingly apparent. At present, most countries have attached great importance to the safety of imported agricultural products, it has strict restrictions on the detection of drug residues, the inspection methods have changed form detecting the simple acceptance of product to detecting the production base. In recent years, there have been Japan, the United States, the European Union and other countries put forward a number of stringent quarantine requirements on China’s garlic exports, the garlic of Jinxiang passed smoothly, and the export compliance rate reaches over 98%.
Jinxiang is the largest garlic planting area in China, average year the garlic planting is about 700,000 acreage. In recent years, Jin Xiang takes the natural, green, pollution-free as the goal and actively promote green ecological agriculture development, it has developed an economic and environmental harmonious development, man and nature harmoniously get together, and sustainable development road. The county set up a garlic technology institute, established garlic Engineering Research Center in Shandong Province, and it also employed the agricultural experts of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shandong Agricultural University as the consultant of government technology, gives guidance to the agricultural development. Transferring the agricultural technology capable forces to guide in agricultural production first line to offer guidance, developed a scientific and strict garlic production standards and technical regulations, in the management, it implements the six unifications: unify environmental quality, unify production goods, unify key technologies, unify product standards, unify monitoring methods, unify product identification. This country pay s attentions to the activation ecological construction, devotes to developing ecological agriculture and constructing ecological food base, it has successively established 500,000 acreage pollution-free garlic production base and 30,000 mu organic garlic production base, start from reducing pesticide application rate, to thoroughly uses fertilizer and pesticide, so Jin Xiang garlic truly becomes pollution-free food and organic food. On December 2007, Jin Xiang 300,000 acreage green food and materials (garlic) standardized production base passed the national acceptance. On the basis of agricultural products quality inspection, it has established the first garlic pesticide and fertilizer residual inspection center in southwest of Shandong, it carry out the strict market access system for the garlic goes into the market.
With the constantly rising of consumption level, organic food becomes more and more popular. Producing and developing organic garlic is the basis of opening up the garlic international market. Therefore, Jin Xiang fully exerts natural resources advantage, and established a number of organic garlic production and processing bases fully makes use of existing scientific and technological achievements, improving the overall effectiveness of garlic industry. Actively promote the company + base + farmers mode, Wang Cheong and other more than 50 companies have established their own production base, of which Hong Chang company established the first organic garlic production base in China and was certified as a municipal-level technology demonstration garden.
The experts attending meeting stress that it should establish a series of supervision measures on several links such as agricultural cultivation, production, distribution, consumption, but, between link and link it prone to happen disconnection phenomenon, Jin Xiang should be requested to establish supervision links. If problems happened in any links, it all can be traced back to the channel source product.
Persistent pursue is:
Deep and fine processing Industrial upgrade
On this forum, Miss Yuan Ying, the professor of China Agricultural University and Deputy of Secretary-General of China Agricultural Preservation and Processing Branch Department, made a lecture entitled Current Situation and Prospect of China Garlic Processing. Ni Yuanying highly praised the fruitful achievements of Jinxiang garlic developed from the garlic agriculture to garlic industry, and put forward very pertinent suggestion on the world’s garlic industry development trend.
The second cluster development strategy in Shandong Province Forum held in Jinan on the morning of March 9 of 2008, Jinxiang garlic industry was named One of Top Ten Influential industrial clusters in Shandong Province. Miss Ni Yuanying pointed out that Jin Xiang garlic industry is no longer the dominant traditional agricultural planting, but it has formed a set of one-stop modern industry chain of standardized planting, scientific and technological research and development, preservation storage, deep processing and the international market circulation, .
Currently, there are more than 600 processing enterprises major in garlic and vegetable in Jin Xiang, the cooperate champion of provincial and municipal reaches 29, under the leadership of them, there are 106 enterprises who have their own operation import and export right in Jin Xiang county, and there are over 200 private enterprises employing above 100 fixed workers annually or more than 200 private enterprises, with more than 1200 constant temperature storerooms, year storage capacity reaches 1.2 million tons, annual processing capacity is over 400,000 tons, and also has developed garlic oil, allicin, garlic power and other kinds of deep processing products as many as 40 kinds, all the year round not only has frozen garlic and frozen fresh garlic for export, but also throughout the year it can provide garlic products high-quality raw materials to produce garlic oil, allicin, garlic powder, garlic can, pickled garlic and so on.
Jin Xiang Hong Chang Fruit and Vegetable Co., Ltd is the largest garlic export enterprises, it has been six consecutive years passed the Japanese AFASSEQ certification, the exports to Japan in 2006 amounted to 6,000 tons, and the export price is the highest in China’s export of garlic, its fine packaging products in Japan supermarket is very popular Japanese supermarket, the sales accounted for 70% of garlic sales in Japan supermarket. According to the introduction of Chairman Chen Qinghai, this year the company has invested nearly one thousand million into expanding garlic deep processing production, strives for export exchange doubled. Jin Xiang Dong Yun Food Co., Ltd. has developed garlic powder for the U.S. market last year; the sales reached 200 tons, the company’s chairman Han Yunqi said that garlic powder sold well in the U.S. market, same year the sales are expected to reach 1,000 tons. The secretary of Jinxiang Cao Jingqun said the Country Party Committee and County Government actively guide the enterprises to develop deep processing, and it has achieved great results, garlic oil, garlic powder, garlic and other deep-processed products are highly popular in the international market, the development of garlic storage and processing industry has become the reservoir to regulate and control garlic market at home and abroad, it has developed active and effective role to avoid market risk, maximize protect the interests of garlic farmer.
Sincerely hope is:
Anticancer and health protection Benefit the mankind
In this Development Forum, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhongshan University Tumour Prevention Center Director, and Mr. Zeng Yixin gave lecture entitled Cancer prevention and the role of garlic, and also gave key explanation from anti-cancer role of garlic and garlic drug development aspects. Meanwhile, Mr. Zeng Yixin has explained supercritical fluid extraction, molecular distillation, and micro-capsule technology and garlic new processing technologies in detail, and proposed the subject to develop high-grade, non-pollution and organic garlic products. Mr. Zeng Yixin pointed out that Jinxiang garlic has a big white skin, fresh juice and dense flavor, pure piquancy, rich nutrient and other prominent features, it has more than 20 nutrient elements needed by the body such as protein, niacin, fat, magnesium, phosphorus, iron, potassium, it has several times higher than garlic medicinal value, it is considered by experts as the best natural antibiotic food and health food. Among them, selenium element has the highest content in garlic products, and the best natural antibiotics and anticancer foods, widely used in food, beverage, pharmaceutical, household and chemical industry.
Chairman Meng Xianxia of Jinxiang Hong Tai Group feel moved and says: “the garlic oil extracted from garlic sold 1500,000 U.S. dollars per ton in the international market, even though in the last year the garlic price was downturn it still can be sold for 500,000 dollars. Americans buy garlic from our company, and then use the garlic oil to make garlic oil capsules, and sell to China in the form of high-end health products, the profit increased no less than ten times! So, doing garlic health products has promising future!
With the continual improvement of people’s health living standards, the garlic products with unique health care are much favored by people of the world, the world’s garlic industry gathered the view of the world attention, its production, consumption boom is rising, Jin Xiang has the reputation of hometown of Chinese garlic is facing with unprecedented opportunities!
