Chen Mountain Red-heart Fir

Chen Mountain Red-heart Fir

Chen Mountain Red-heart Fir is a geographical indication protected product.

　　In recent years, the Chen Mountain Forest Farm in Anfu County, Jiangxi Province, has focused on the strategies of ecological county development, green growth, and industrial forest revitalization. Centered on strengthening and optimizing the Chen Mountain Red-heart Fir brand, and aiming to build four major bases for high-quality seed breeding, premium seedlings, superior large-diameter timber, and deep product processing, the farm strives to become the largest high-quality forest seed breeding base in the province.

　　　　Focusing on the main line and promoting outreach to advance seedling base construction

　　　　Centered on the main line of expanding, strengthening, and optimizing the Chen Mountain Red-heart Fir industry, the Chen Mountain Forest Farm has focused on two key tasks.

　　　　First, using the platform of stimulating domestic demand across the province to comprehensively promote Chen Mountain Red-heart Fir seeds and seedlings. Seizing the opportunity of the province’s “One Large and Four Small” afforestation and greening project, the farm supplies 14 million Chen Mountain Red-heart Fir seedlings to the whole province annually; leveraging the recovery of ecologically damaged areas from snow and ice disasters, it provides 5,500 kilograms of Chen Mountain Red-heart Fir seeds to the entire province every year.

　　　　Second, using project construction as a lever to solidify and strengthen the Chen Mountain Red-heart Fir industry. From 2008 to 2010, the farm completed the implementation of the Chen Mountain Red-heart Fir High-quality Forest Tree Seed Breeding and Promotion Project. In 2008, the farm carried out thinning and clearing of 1,659 acres of seed production mother tree stands and established 530 acres of demonstration forests; in 2009, it built 80 acres of superior tree stump selection zones, 4 acres of clonal super seedling scion orchards, 15 acres of superior tree collection areas, 124 acres of comparative test forests for clonal and seedling seedling plantations, 200 acres of large-diameter timber cultivation demonstration forests, and 20 acres of cutting nurseries. It collected over one million scions and produced one million cutting seedlings. This year, it completed 55 acres of progeny test forests, 200 acres of large-diameter timber cultivation demonstration forests, 10 acres of light substrate container-grown large seedling cultivation, 250 acres of superior tree stump scion orchards, 30 acres of clonal cutting nurseries, and accomplished grafting, bud removal, shaping, and pole-setting tasks on 250 acres of second-generation seed orchards, striving to enter the fruit-bearing period next year.

　　　　Leveraging advantages and fostering innovation to promote industrialized seedling production

　　　　Chen Mountain Red-heart Fir is a rare species among China’s firs, a national high-quality forest tree variety, and a geographical indication protected product of Jiangxi Province. To expand and strengthen the Chen Mountain Red-heart Fir industry, the forest farm has established a joint-stock company and an industry association to comprehensively advance coordinated industrial development.

　　　　The forest farm improved the light, water, fertilizer, and hygiene conditions within 4,650 acres of mother tree stands, continuously enhancing the genetic quality and yield of seeds, achieving an annual harvest of 6,000 kilograms of high-quality Chen Mountain Red-heart Fir seeds.

　　　　Through various preferential policies, the forest farm has increased efforts to cultivate premium seedlings. Affected by the global financial crisis in 2008, the farm adopted a “base + farmer” and “materials + technology” approach, launching support measures for Chen Mountain Red-heart Fir seedling cultivation. It opened up a 600-acre Chen Mountain Red-heart Fir seedling base in the Chen Mountain forest area and Henglong Donggu, and this spring has provided over 30 million seedlings to the entire province and even surrounding provinces.

　　　　At the end of November last year, the Jiangxi Chen Mountain Red-heart Fir Development Co., Ltd., jointly funded by the farm and its employees with 10 million yuan, began operations at the county forestry factor market. Led by the farm and joined by state-owned forest farms and leading seedling growers, the Anfu County Chen Mountain Red-heart Fir Industry Association has built a bridge between state-owned forest farms, companies, and forest farmers. Meanwhile, the county party committee and government issued the “Implementation Opinions on Accelerating the Development of the Chen Mountain Red-heart Fir Industry,” providing a high-quality seed subsidy of 400 yuan per acre from the county finance for units and forest farmers using Chen Mountain Red-heart Fir high-quality seeds for seedling cultivation; and a seedling subsidy of 30 yuan per acre for units and forest farmers using premium seedlings for afforestation.

　　　　Focusing on priorities and promoting publicity to establish branded seedling cultivation

　　　　To build the Chen Mountain Red-heart Fir brand, the forest farm established a scientific research task force and a publicity reporting team. Over the course of more than two years, the scientific research team completed three studies: “Reflections on the Industrialized Construction of Chen Mountain Red-heart Fir,” “The Current Status and Development Strategies of Chen Mountain Red-heart Fir,” and “A Preliminary Study on the Application of Tobacco Bud Inhibitor—Butralin—for Bud Suppression on Chinese Fir Seed Orchard Rootstocks.” The resulting papers have all been published in provincial-level forestry science and technology journals. The forest farm has also used various forms to vigorously promote the Chen Mountain Red-heart Fir brand in the media, continuously enhancing its visibility and reputation. The trademark registration for the “Chen Mountain” series of products has proceeded smoothly.

　　The production area of Chen Mountain Red-heart Fir includes the administrative regions of three forest farms—Chen Mountain Forest Farm, Aoshang Forest Farm, and Wugong Mountain Forest Farm—in Anfu County, Jiangxi Province, as well as five townships: Pengfang Township, Yangmen Township, Jintian Township, Yantian Town, and Yangxi Town.