SWEET SUCCESS: MANGO INDUSTRY, A "GOLDEN KEY" TO PROSPERITY FOR CHINA’S BAISE CITY

KUALA LUMPUR, April 12 (Bernama) -- Mango industry has led Baise City in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region to rural revitalisation, after 40 years of development.

One of the major mango producing areas in China, Baise has rapidly formed a robust industrial chain in recent years, leveraging its advantages in mango cultivation areas, according to Baise Fruit Industry Development Center in a statement.

In 2023, the total mango area in Baise reached 1.37 million mu (roughly 913.33 square kilometres), accounting for approximately 24.19 per cent of the total mango area in China; the output was 1.25 million tonnes, representing about 27.8 per cent of the total national mango production.

The continuous breakthrough of double "million" targets in planting area and output has made Baise the largest mango production base among prefecture-level cities in the country. The rapid development of planting, output, and output value has stimulated the intrinsic power of the research and development system.

Focusing on key issues in the seed industry, Baise has not only built a big data platform for the mango industry but also implemented projects for digitalising this industry and established a smart cloud platform to develop digital agriculture.

In addition, efforts have been intensified to enhance germplasm resources, focusing on research in mango breeding technology and germplasm innovation, new technologies for facility planting, and a total of 107,000 farmers have been trained.

As of 2023, the city has introduced 14 enterprises for deep processing of mangoes, with the city's capacity for deep processing of mangoes has reached 300,000 tonnes, with an output value exceeding 1.5 billion Chinese yuan, significantly increasing the added value of products. (100 Chinese yuan = RM65.90)

Simultaneously, it has established the largest mango deep processing production area in the country. In 2023, Baise mango, with a brand value of 10.556 billion Chinese yuan, ranked 32nd on the national regional brand top 100 list, at the China Mango Industry Development Conference.

By constructing logistics cold chain and sorting bases, introducing logistics companies such as SF Express, Sanke, and CIMC to build large-scale warehousing logistics, adding 152,000 tonnes of room temperature warehousing capacity and 58,000 tonnes of low-temperature warehousing capacity, it has enhanced its capacity of risk control for the mango industry.

Baise, by creating a powerful characteristic mango industry cluster covering production, processing, circulation, research, and service, has developed "small mangoes" into a "big industry".

-- BERNAMA