Mountain kumquat and green plum

Mountain kumquat and green plum

　　Mountain kumquat and green plum were widely planted when our city promoted the development of mixed fruit processing industries, reaching their peak in the mid-1980s with a total planting area of 20,000 mu. Since the 1990s, however, due to factors such as falling prices for mountain kumquat and rising temperatures (green plum thrives in dry, cold winter climates), the cultivation of both has significantly decreased. Nowadays, mountain kumquat is basically no longer planted, and green plum is grown on only about a thousand mu. (Gaoming)