I can't say from which year, Uighur farmers in Luopu County planted roses in front of and behind their houses. I don't know what year it is. In the season when flowers are in full bloom, the singing and dancing Uighurs use white sugar with rose petals to brew a rose sauce sweeter than love.
On August 25th, the reporter just walked into the home of Nurman, a village in Bashiyigezi, Kashi Town, Yulong. Before I could wipe my sweat, a faint fragrance made people forget the heat.
Nurman is a big rose grower in the village. With 20 mu of roses and a unique rose sauce production method, this family of seven earns 10,000 yuan a year.
Nurman said that rose sauce is a traditional food that Uighurs love. Especially breakfast, a bowl of green tea, rose sauce dipped in Naan, tea fragrance, Naan fragrance, maotai fragrance and sweet sugar, is simply wonderful. After breakfast, everyone smells of roses for half a morning. It is said that rose sauce also has the effect of clearing away lung heat and caring skin.
Realizing that his words aroused the reporter's appetite, Nurman stood up and walked into the room. In a short time, a big bowl of dark red rose sauce was served, and the yard was filled with rich rose fragrance. The reporter put a little bit in his mouth with chopsticks, which was wonderful.
In recent years, the annual rose jam brewed in Nurman is about 10 ton, and then it is sold to some large companies at the price of about per kilogram 10 yuan, bottled and packaged, and then sold to the north and south of Xinjiang.
Mi Riguli, deputy secretary of the Party Committee of Yulong Kashi Town, said: "The roses in Xinjiang are in Hotan, and the roses in Hotan are in Lop." Almost every Uighur household in Luopu can make rose sauce, but the taste and taste of rose sauce are different, because besides roses and sugar, there are also technical problems in processing. The general procedure is like this. Every year from May 20th to June 20th, when the roses are in full bloom, the flowers are picked back, fresh petals are selected, kneaded according to the ratio of one kilogram of petals to two kilograms of sugar, then sealed in a container and exposed to the sun for more than 30 days, and the rose sauce is made.
According to reports, at present, 7,500 mu of roses have been planted in Luopu County, of which 7,000 mu is in Yulong Kashi Town. Calculated by 200-250kg flowers per mu, the annual output of rose jam in Luopu County can be imagined. Luopu county also plans to refine and process rose essence, rose oil and rose tea.
No one doesn't like roses, and the products made of roses will also be favored by the market.
French businessmen in Yutian, France, ate it last year and asked for 200 kilograms this year. On March 3rd, abdullah mohammed, a farmer in Aguiler Township, yutian county, received a long-distance call from Liu Yitong Jones, a French businessman, saying that he wanted to order 200 kilograms of rose sauce. Last year, in June+10, 5438, Jones visited Tian County. When he saw 30 acres of roses planted in abdullah mohammed, he immediately bought 3 kilograms of rose jam made in abdullah mohammed, and after returning to France to eat it, he never forgot it. As early as the early 1960s, yutian county's rich light and heat resources and the roses moistened by the Keriya River passing through the city had a good reputation for high quality and high yield. At present, the rose planting area in yutian county has reached10.4000 mu, which is paid by some farmers. In the countryside of yutian county in March, you can smell the fragrant and charming roses everywhere. Now Yutian's rose series products are more and more favored by domestic and foreign markets. By 20 10, the planting area of roses in yutian county will be expanded to 25,000 mu, and roses will be the golden key for Yutian farmers to get rich.