Where are the main producing areas of bananas in China?
Banana is a tropical fruit, mainly distributed in southern China, namely Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Fujian, Yunnan and other places.
Banana is a common fruit and one of the best-selling varieties in fruit. China has a vast territory and rich natural resources, and bananas are produced in many places because of different geographical environments. Of course, there are many varieties of bananas, and bananas in different places have their own characteristics.
China is rich in bananas.
Fujian Tianbao Banana
Origin: xiangcheng district, Zhangzhou City, Fujian Province, a special product, a symbol product of chinese national geography.
Variety: Tianbao high banana and Tianbao short banana.
Characteristics: Tianbao banana pulp is rich in nutrition, with thin skin, fragrant taste, sweet juice, soft meat and small core.
Planting history: Tianbao banana has a long history of planting. According to historical research, as early as the early years of the Tang Dynasty (685). Ding Ru, a bus driver in Zhangzhou County, wrote a sentence "The banana is golden and the longan is fat" in "Twenty Rhymes of Poems for Leisure". This shows that xiangcheng district has been planting bananas for more than 300 years.
Guangdong Machong Banana
Origin: Ma Yong, a specialty of Dongguan City, Guangdong Province, is a geographical indication of national agricultural products.
Variety: Ma Yong banana
Features: The fruit comb is neat, the fruit fingers are not damaged, the skin is yellow or golden yellow, shiny, the flesh is smooth, the taste is sweet and the fragrance is rich.
Planting history: The planting history of banana in Mayong is very long. According to historical records, Dongguan began to grow bananas in the Yuan Dynasty, and bananas are "fragrant and sweet". During Jiaqing period of Qing Dynasty, it was recorded that there were more bananas in Mayong and Li Jiao.
Gaozhou banana
Origin: Gaozhou has a long history of banana cultivation, which was first born in Jiang Cao.
Variety: Gaozhou is famous for banana, longan and litchi, and it is one of the four excellent banana varieties in Guangdong.
Features: crescent-shaped, sallow in color, large and thin in skin, tender and smooth in meat, sweet in taste, rich in protein, fat, phosphorus, calcium and other vitamins and nutrients.
Planting history: "Lang Jun wants to ask Jiang Cao Road, only take Bajiaoyin", which has been circulating in Gaozhou for a long time. Bananas have been planted in Gaozhou for more than 400 years.
Nanning banana
Origin: Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, specialty, national geographical indication agricultural products.
Variety: cinnamon, gold powder 1, chicken feet.
Features: the peel is golden yellow and smooth; The pulp is milky white to milky yellow, soft, waxy and sweet, with rich flavor.
Planting history: Nanning has a long history of banana planting. Banana cultivation in Nanning, Guangxi is recorded in ancient books such as Magnolia Taiping (997- 1984) and Compendium of Materia Medica.
Hekou banana
Origin: A specialty of Hekou Yao Autonomous County, Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, and a landmark product of China ethnic geography.
Variety: Hekou banana
Characteristics: The plant is tall, the comb shape is neat, the fruit index is many, the fruit shape is short and curved, and the fruit is fresh and full. Its meat is delicate, tender and sweet. Moreover, the banana peel in the estuary is green, yellow, shiny and clean.
Planting history: 1958, China introduced new banana varieties from Vietnam and planted them in Hekou Yao Autonomous County. In the mid-1980s, Hekou Yao Autonomous County of Yunnan Province was designated as the key fruit (banana) production base of Yunnan Province by the Yunnan provincial government.