Xiantan Summer Orange

Xiantan Summer Orange

　　Xiantan Summer Orange is an off-season sweet orange with a bright yellow hue, fragrant aroma, balanced sweetness and acidity, and high juice content, making it suitable for both fresh consumption and processing. As a late-maturing, evergreen sweet orange variety that ripens in summer, it blooms in early May each year, with the fruit staying on the tree through winter and ripening the following May. It features the unique characteristic of having its harvest season coincide with its flowering and young fruit stages. Thanks to its excellent quality and affordable price, it enjoys a strong competitive edge in the market, with products sold both domestically and internationally and in high demand. The township currently has 15,000 mu of summer orange orchards, producing 18 million kilograms of fruit, over 80% of which are high-quality varieties such as Olinda and Midsweet. The local summer orange industry leads the region in both cultivation scale and fruit quality. In 2003, it obtained Grade A Green Food certification from the China Green Food Development Center, and in 2008, the “Xiling Summer Orange” trademark was registered, further enhancing the product’s added value.