Yulin Mountain Apples

Yulin Mountain Apples

Yulin Mountain Apples are a geographical indication agricultural product.

　　The hilly and gully areas in southern Yulin are among the optimal apple-growing regions, possessing suitable conditions and competitive advantages for developing high-quality mountain apples in terms of altitude, soil, sunlight, temperature, precipitation, and air quality. As early as 2012, the provincial Party committee and government designated the four counties of Suide, Mizhi, Zizhou, and Qingjian as “Shaanxi Province Quality Apple Production Demonstration Base Counties.”

　　To promote the transformation of Shaanxi’s fruit industry from a large-scale sector to a strong one, and under the policy constraint that the development of the forestry and fruit industry should not compete with grain cultivation for land, the agricultural and forestry departments of Shaanxi Province joined forces. Leveraging the advantage of over 2 million mu of sloping farmland in the northern Shaanxi region that is suitable for developing fruit cultivation under the new round of the Grain for Green Program, they established a mountain apple demonstration zone spanning more than 3 million mu in the hilly and gully areas of six counties including Mizhi in the southern part of Yulin City and eight counties including Yanchuan in the northern part of Yan’an City, creating the largest high-quality mountain apple demonstration zone in the country.