SanSu Lake Citrus

SanSu Lake Citrus

　　SanSu Lake Citrus -- A 2015 National Famous, Special, and High-quality New Agricultural Product

　　Meishan SanSu Citrus Professional Cooperative, located in Dongpo District, Meishan City, hometown of the famous Northern Song Dynasty literary figures, calligraphers, and painters known as the Three Sus, boasts titles such as "China's Navel Orange Hometown," "China's Famous Fruit," and "Hometown of Tribute Citrus." The SanSu Citrus Professional Cooperative is a citrus-focused production, processing, and sales cooperative jointly formed by fruit companies, fruit brokers, and fruit farmers on the foundation of the Meishan Municipal Agriculture Bureau's High-quality Fruit Breeding Garden. It serves as a citrus technology experimental demonstration base of the Citrus Research Institute under the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, a provincial-level model cooperative of Sichuan Province, a council member of the Sichuan Provincial Federation of Farmers' Professional Cooperatives, and an advanced unit of Sichuan Province’s Science Popularization for Rural Prosperity. The cooperative has established facilities such as steel-frame greenhouses, integrated water and fertilizer systems, and plastic mulching. It employs green pest control technologies, including physical insecticides, to produce eco-friendly citrus. The cooperative’s SanSu Lake-branded “Meizhou Citrus” series features a rich variety of cultivars to meet diverse consumer needs, with fruit available for up to eight months of the year.