Fuquan Walnuts

Fuquan Walnuts

　　Fuquan walnuts are a specialty of Fuquan City in Qiannan Prefecture, Guizhou Province. The city has vigorously developed its characteristic forestry and fruit industry, with a focus on walnuts, and has fully launched the establishment of walnut orchards across the city’s ten-thousand-mu walnut industrial belt.

　　Fuquan has an average elevation of 1,020 meters and an annual average temperature of 14.7 degrees Celsius. With no severe summer heat or harsh winter cold, the climate is particularly suitable for walnut growth. To develop the rural economy, the state, based on Fuquan’s soil and climatic conditions, designated it as a walnut planting base in State Council Document No. 2 (2012), with a planned cultivation area of 200,000 mu. With the support of national policies, by early 2013, 60,000 mu had already been planted, and it is expected that by 2018 the city’s annual production of dried walnuts will exceed 80,000 tons.