Vegetables and Fruits

Vegetables and Fruits

　　Luxi City is located in the southern subtropical region, enjoying superior light, heat, water, and climatic conditions, making it highly suitable for the cultivation of premium, distinctive, high-quality, and new varieties of vegetables and fruits. Over the past decade, the municipal Party committee and government, in response to market demands, have proactively reduced grain planting areas and established vegetable and fruit experimental demonstration zones in three towns—Fapa, Fengping, and the suburban area. The city's agricultural research and technical personnel have accelerated the introduction, experimentation, demonstration, and promotion of new vegetable and fruit varieties and technologies. Vegetable and fruit cultivation has reached over 50,000 mu, with an increasing variety of produce and per-unit yield year by year. This has effectively alleviated local market "spring shortages" and "summer scarcity," meeting both local and surrounding regional market needs. Products such as tomatoes, green peppers, eggplants, Japanese melons, cucumbers, potatoes, lotus roots, cowpeas, and lettuce are also supplied to markets in Kunming, Dali, and Yangon, Myanmar. Winter and spring watermelon and muskmelon cultivation covers an area of 46,000 mu, yielding approximately 100,000 tons of high-quality produce annually, which is primarily sold to markets in the northeast, Jiangsu, Anhui, Hunan, Wuhan, Chongqing, and Chengdu. (Luxi)