Black Beans from Shishan

Black Beans from Shishan

Black beans from Shishan are a geographical indication certification trademark.

　　Black Beans from Shishan

　　Shishan Town Agricultural Technology Service Center, Xiuying District, Haikou City

　　Black beans, as a traditional agricultural product, have been cultivated in Shishan Town for a thousand years. In recent years, as Haikou has advanced the standardization, scaling, industrialization, and branding of agriculture, Shishan Town has leveraged its local selenium-rich, longevity-promoting, and green resources to build a volcanic health agricultural brand. It has packaged and designed every aspect of black bean production—from variety selection, quality control, supply and marketing, to distribution—infusing the Shishan black beans with unprecedented industrial vitality.

　　Haikou, a tropical coastal city located at 19 degrees north latitude, enjoys unique natural advantages such as abundant sunlight, heat, and a humid climate. Shishan Town in western Haikou encompasses the island’s distinctive volcanic belt. Over millennia of wind and rain, volcanic soil has accumulated here, rich in dozens of natural minerals, making it a natural treasure trove of selenium-rich earth.

　　Li Shigao, Director of the Haikou Municipal Agriculture Bureau, said that Haikou will focus on developing four agricultural brands in the volcanic region—Yongxing lychee, Yongxing wampee, volcanic dendrobium, and Shishan black beans—capitalizing on the area’s selenium-rich characteristics.

　　Shishan black beans are a typical crop of this land. Generations of Shishan residents have worked with volcanic soil and maintained the tradition of growing black beans for a thousand years. Out of their love for the volcanic soil and deep understanding of black beans, they have developed an age-old, unique method of cultivation.

　　Manual weeding without chemical agents, and seeds selected through generations... Local farmers choose the most primitive and seemingly crude methods to cultivate volcanic black beans, yet these methods preserve the natural nutrients and fertility of the soil to the greatest extent, ensuring the beans’ natural, pollution-free, and high-quality attributes.

　　“After harvest, the black beans are tested uniformly at the Plant Hospital of Shishan Internet Agriculture Town,” introduced Chen Dajiang, director of the Shishan Town Agricultural Service Center. Shishan Town strictly manages the quality control of black beans, ensuring that every step—from planting, pest control, packaging, transportation, to sales—meets the standards before the beans are allowed to go on the market.