White Water Honey Pomelo

White Water Honey Pomelo

　　White Water Honey Pomelo is a specialty of Baishui Town, Jishui County, Ji’an City, Jiangxi Province. The pomelos from Baishui Town are beautifully shaped, bright yellow and shiny when ripe, with fragrant, crisp flesh that is sweet and tangy, offering a unique flavor and rich nutrition.

　　The White Water Honey Pomelo was first produced at the Baishui Reclamation Farm base in Baishui Town, and is renowned for its “beautiful trees, fragrant blossoms, and bright fruits.” It was selected from the Jinsha pomelo. This variety features beautiful fruit shape, bright yellow and shiny appearance when ripe, fragrant and crisp flesh, a sweet and tangy taste, unique flavor, and rich nutrition (with 55.82 mg/100g of VC and 10.02% soluble solids content), outstanding health benefits, excellent quality, and strong market appeal. It matures early, stores well, and is hailed as a “natural canned fruit,” making it suitable for the Mid-Autumn Festival, National Day, and New Year markets. It is highly adaptable, cold-resistant, disease-resistant, and yields abundantly and stably. It is the main cultivar of the Ji’an Jinggang Honey Pomelo specialty industry, a “golden fruit” that helps local farmers achieve prosperity, and an excellent tree species that enhances agricultural efficiency, increases farmers’ income, and beautifies the countryside.

　　Currently, the county’s planting area has reached 58,000 mu, of which 3,200 mu are in fruit-bearing stage, with a yield value of over 15,000 yuan per mu. Since 2013, the county Party committee and government have actively implemented the “Hundred-Thousand-Million” and “Thousands of Villages and Tens of Thousands of Households” projects. By 2020, the planting area is expected to reach 180,000 mu, and once fully productive, the output value of White Water Honey Pomelo is projected to exceed 2 billion yuan.