Iron Gate Facing-Heaven Chili Peppers

Iron Gate Facing-Heaven Chili Peppers

　　Iron Gate Facing-Heaven Chili Peppers are a specialty of Tiemen Town, Xin’an County, Luoyang City, Henan Province. The chili pepper base in Tiemen Town covers a planting area of 23,000 mu, involving 15 administrative villages, with a total annual output of 4,000 tons. Xin’an’s Iron Gate Facing-Heaven Chili Peppers are known for their excellent color, high quality, and strong economic returns.

　　Chili pepper cultivation in Xin’an County started in 2000 and has a history of eight years. By 2007, the countywide chili pepper planting area reached 30,000 mu, with major large-scale planting towns including Tiemen, Licun, and Cijian.

　　After several years of development, the Tiemen Chili Pepper Market has gradually taken shape. In 2006 and 2007, the county and town invested in building a specialized chili pepper trading market in Chencun Village, Tiemen Town. During the chili pepper purchasing season, along an 8-kilometer stretch of the Tieci Road, the chili pepper trade is bustling and thriving. Merchants from all over the country come here for business. At peak times, the number of chili pepper buyers stationed in Tiemen can exceed 80, with an annual trading volume of over 3,000 tons and transaction value exceeding 60 million yuan. Aside from domestic sales, some of the chili peppers are exported overseas via distributors through cities such as Xiamen and Guizhou.

　　Over the years, Tiemen Chili Peppers have successively obtained the National Ministry of Agriculture’s Pollution-Free Product Certification, Henan Province’s Pollution-Free Agricultural Product Origin Certification, and registered the “Tiefeng” brand for pollution-free chili peppers. In 2005, Tiemen Town was recommended as Henan Province’s Famous and High-Quality Chili Pepper Town. For several consecutive years, it has been recognized as an Advanced Town in Industrial Structure Adjustment by Xin’an County. The project “Introduction and Pollution-Free Cultivation Technology Research and Application of Facing-Heaven Chili Peppers,” a collaboration between Tiemen Town and the Luoyang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, won the Second Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress from Luoyang City.