Duotian Scallions

Duotian Scallions

　　Duotian Scallions

　　Xinghua City’s Duotian Town is China’s largest scallion production base and known as the “Hometown of Scallions.” The island-like farmland here enjoys excellent ventilation and abundant sunlight, is surrounded by water on all sides for easy irrigation and drainage, and features loose soil rich in various trace elements — making it highly suitable for scallion growth. Duotian Scallions are a type of perennial bunching onion, propagated by division all year round, with optimal growing seasons in spring and autumn. “Duotian Scallions” are bright green in color, tender in texture, rich in aroma, and packed with nutrients. They also offer certain medicinal benefits, and their unique quality and flavor have secured them a place among dehydrated scallions.

　　　Duotian Town governs 22 administrative villages, 383 villager groups, with a total of 18,619 households and a population of 56,000, including 30,542 rural labor resources. The town has a total arable land area of 33,700 mu and over 31,000 mu of water surface for aquaculture.

　　 The leading specialty vegetable product of Duotian Town, “Xinghua Scallions,” are bright green in color, tender in texture, rich in aroma, and packed with nutrients. They also offer certain medicinal benefits. Xinghua Scallions can be grown all year round, with the highest yields and best quality in spring and autumn. The annual planting area averages 50,000 mu, producing 150,000 tons of fresh scallions per year. There are 12,100 households engaged in Xinghua Scallion cultivation, with an annual per-mu planting benefit exceeding 10,000 yuan.

　　 In 2002, the town’s 33,700 mu of “Xinghua Scallion” bases successively passed the Jiangsu Province Pollution-Free Vegetable Production Base certification. In 2005, it was recognized as a National Agricultural Standardization Demonstration Zone. Four scallion products have successively obtained Pollution-Free Agricultural Product certification, and two have been certified as Green Food. In 2006, “Xinghua Scallions” became a National Geographical Indication Protected Product. Duotian Town currently has 76 dehydrated vegetable processing enterprises, including 38 large-scale enterprises and 13 with self-operated export capabilities.

　　 Duotian Town has essentially formed an integrated trade-industry-agriculture and production-processing-sales structure centered around “Xinghua Scallions” for dehydrated vegetables, making it Asia’s largest dehydrated vegetable base. Dehydrated vegetable products, with “Xinghua Scallions” as the main product, are exported to more than 30 countries and regions, including the United States, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.