CHINA’S MAIDEN MANGO INDUSTRY CONFERENCE COMES TO FRUITION IN BAISE, GUANGXI

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 5 (Bernama) -- The first China mango industry conference was recently held in Baise, Guangxi, with Tianyang district and Guangzhou Pilot Food Investment Co Ltd having signed the framework agreement at the meeting.

The framework agreement is on the comprehensive development and utilisation project of fruits in Tianyang District, Baise City (phase II), with a total investment of 500 million yuan, according to the Publicity Department of Tianyang District in a statement. (100 yuan = RM65.33)

Located in the west of Guangxi, Tianyang District of Baise is the first hometown of the mango in China. Given a sub-tropical monsoon climate with warm winter and long summer, and abundant sunshine, Tianyang is dubbed ‘natural greenhouse’ and is abundant in fruits and vegetables.

Relying on its exceptional climate, Tianyang District has made great efforts to develop the two dominant industries of mango and tomato. Mango is harvested from June to August annually, and tomato from November to next April.

‘One Red and One Green’ helped farmers continuously increase their incomes, whereby in 2020, the total planting area of mango was 408,000 mu with an output of 280,000 tonnes; the main bulk vegetable is tomato, which is marketed from November to April.

Meanwhile, in 2020, the vegetable planting area of the whole region is 398,000 mu with an output of 875,800 tonnes. Mango and tomato have become the two pillar industries of the district.

Mango is in hot sell in Tianyang Wholesale Market of Agricultural and Sideline Products, a large-scale comprehensive wholesale market, which mainly deals with wholesale, purchasing and selling through agency, joint purchasing and selling, agency storage and transportation of fruits and vegetables.

The products are sold to more than 230 large and medium-sized cities in China, and Vietnam, Russia, Hong Kong and other countries and regions.

With the ongoing development of e-commerce, Tianyang closely relied on e-commerce network and established Tianyang Ganjie E-commerce Co Ltd, built the ‘Commercial County’ e-commerce service platform, and established the ‘Tianyang Characteristic Market’.

It supported the construction of Alibaba Baise Industrial Belt, Taobao Baise Market and WeChat business, and has been constantly improving the e-commerce logistics system.

Since the mango came into the market in 2021, the daily delivery volume of e-commerce network sales of the fruit is more than 10,000 orders, with daily sales of nearly RMB 1 million.

-- BERNAMA