Guiding Honey

Guiding Honey

Guiding Honey is a geographical indication protected product.

　　Honey is a natural health product rich in nutrients such as glucose, protein, fructose, organic acids, minerals, and various vitamins. It offers benefits including clearing heat and detoxifying, calming the mind and soothing the nerves, relieving coughs and reducing phlegm, moistening the lungs and promoting saliva production, lubricating the intestines and facilitating bowel movements, beautifying the skin and enhancing complexion. Regular consumption can promote longevity and is suitable for all ages and genders throughout the year. It is known as a “natural food,” “mass tonic,” and “milk for the elderly.” Honey is also widely used in industries such as food, beverages, medicine, cosmetics, light industry, agriculture, and animal husbandry.

　　Jiaoling County has a long history of beekeeping among its farming households, making it a traditional and well-established industry. Known as the “Hometown of Chinese Honeybees,” the area features lush mountains and clear waters with abundant nectar-producing plants. These include longan, Chinese tallow trees, duckfoot trees, wild osmanthus, citrus, eucalyptus, and sumac, which are distributed across the entire county, providing unique advantages for the development of beekeeping.

　　Currently, there are over 1,200 beekeeping households in the county, raising more than 40,000 beehives (mainly concentrated in towns such as Lanfang and Sanzhen), producing 1,000 tons of honey annually. Honey has become a local specialty agricultural product.

　　Honey is one of Jiaoling County’s top ten longevity foods. The reasons for this recognition include: first, it is a traditional specialty agricultural product of Jiaoling; second, the product is green, healthy, flavorful, and of high quality; third, it carries certain cultural connotations related to longevity; fourth, it has a certain production scale, good economic benefits, and is well-known both within and outside the county, playing a significant role in boosting local economic development; fifth, it has stable sales channels and a broad market, serving as one of the main ways to increase farmers’ income and enhance agricultural efficiency.

　　The production area of Guiding Honey covers the entire current administrative region of Jiaoling County, Guangdong Province.