Walnut is the top grade for strengthening brain and prolonging life. Guests who come to Huanglong County can always receive a box of thin-skinned walnuts, which is a specialty of this county. This kind of walnut is not only convenient to eat, but also has low tannin content, high unsaturated fatty acid content, good taste and easy absorption of nutrients by human body, so it is very popular in the market. One kilogram walnut gift box processed and produced by Huanglong County Dried Fruit Company, the market price of each box is more than RMB 100, and the average price of each walnut is RMB 1 yuan. Thin-skinned walnut has become a business card of Huanglong, and calligraphers have given it the reputation of "Huanglong walnut is the best in the world". In recent years, Huanglong County has aimed at the high-end market of walnut nuts, adhered to the road of variety, standardization and large-scale industrial development, introduced more than 40 new varieties of dwarf early-eating walnuts, undertaken and completed a number of national and provincial walnut technical research projects, broke through many technical difficulties such as walnut grafting and standardized production, and turned Huanglong into a demonstration base for high-quality walnut production and walnut seed breeding in the whole province and even the whole country. Six walnut experts, including Hao Yanbin, chief expert of China Walnut and director of Beijing Forest and Fruit Research Institute, unanimously recognized that "Huanglong Walnut is at the leading level in China in standardized garden construction, large-scale development, improved seed planting and scientific management". In September, 2008, at the first China Walnut Congress held in Dayao, Yunnan, two walnut varieties "Xiangling" and "He Shan No.5" mainly planted in Huanglong County won "Gold Award" and "Silver Award" respectively. "Shenglong" brand walnut trademark registered by County Dried Fruit Company was recognized as "Shaanxi Famous Trademark" by Shaanxi Provincial Administration for Industry and Commerce in the same year. Huanglong walnut geographical indication product protection has also passed the expert review organized by AQSIQ.
This year, the walnut in Huanglong County is 654.38+0.2 million mu. According to the annual output and market forecast, the county's walnut output will exceed 5000 tons, with an output value of 200 million yuan. Farmers only have walnuts, and their per capita income can exceed 5,000 yuan. Taking advantage of the situation, the county newly developed 23,000 mu of improved varieties of walnuts in spring, bringing the total area of walnuts in the county to 230,000 mu, including early-bearing fine-grained walnuts 1.7 million mu.
While trying to expand the scale of walnut planting, Huanglong County has taken a series of effective measures to improve the industrial quality and efficiency since last year. This year, the county party committee and the county government formulated and implemented the objectives and tasks of building "1 10,000 mu demonstration garden, 20,000 mu new garden and 30,000 mu benefit garden", intensified the transformation of low-yield gardens with old varieties, increased the training of farmers' technical personnel and the assessment and reward of villages and towns, especially the subsidies to farmers were not only strong but also meticulous. In the process of building a new garden of 20,000 mu, the county will give 300 yuan a subsidy according to the highest planting quality for every mu of walnuts newly planted by farmers. The county has formulated the Detailed Rules for the Construction and Acceptance of Standardized Walnut Orchard, and implemented 76 county-level departments to ensure the construction of demonstration parks, requiring each department and unit to ensure the construction of a village, in which departments with more than 5 people ensure the construction of 100 mu demonstration parks, and units with less than 5 people ensure the construction of demonstration parks to promote high-quality industrial development. Departments at all levels give strong support to farmers in technical training, physical and chemical investment, funds, etc., and only one investment of * * * reaches 400,000 yuan.
In view of the fact that there are still a large number of hybrids and low-yield and low-efficiency gardens in the county, this year the county put forward the construction task of transforming low-yield gardens into benefit gardens. Take the way of township promotion and gradual transformation and upgrading, replace tall trees, and subsidize farmers by branches, with an average subsidy per tree 12 yuan. Encourage farmers to improve soil fertility, reasonable intercropping in walnut orchards, and improve the growth of walnut trees and the quality of walnut products. For those who can interplant tall crops without intercropping, 80 yuan will be given subsidies per mu, and technical support and subsidies will be given to improve soil fertility. It is understood that the county has implemented low-yield transformation of walnut orchards this year, covering an area of 80,000 mu.
These measures are gradually improving the quality of Huanglong walnut industry and walnut products.
"Huanglong's ecological environment is good, there is no industrial pollution, and there are few pests and diseases of walnuts, so there is no need to use any pesticides throughout the growing season, so Huanglong walnut can be called pure natural and very green food." Some experts once commented on Huanglong Walnut, which shows that the reputation of "Huanglong Walnut is the best in the world" is not an exaggeration.
The protection scope of Huanglong walnut geographical indication products is the administrative area under the jurisdiction of Huanglong County, Yan 'an City, Shaanxi Province.