Xiangshui shallow water lotus

Xiangshui shallow water lotus is a specialty of Xiangshui County, Yancheng City, Jiangsu Province. Shallow water lotus in Xiangshui County is white, tender, crisp and fragrant, and it is especially easy to process and store. Xiangshui County, located in the northeast of Jiangsu Province, belongs to the continental monsoon climate zone, at the southern edge of the warm temperate zone, bordering the Yellow Sea in the east, with a slightly maritime climate, mild and humid, moderate rainfall, abundant sunshine and long frost-free period. At the same time, the county is an alluvial plain of the Yellow River in history, and the soil is mostly sandy loam with high phosphorus content and high available potassium content. The unique climate and soil conditions provide a favorable growth environment for the growth of shallow water lotus. Xiangshui County intensified the adjustment of agricultural industrial structure, designated shallow water lotus as the leading industry, built production bases, set up leading enterprises, and opened up sales markets, so that shallow water lotus's production gradually took shape, and developed towards the integration of production, processing and marketing. In recent years, the county once planted more than 30,000 mu of shallow water lotus. Xiaojian Town has built a contiguous shallow water lotus demonstration base within 500 meters of National Highway 204; In Sifeng, Tiandang, Fuxing, Guo Zhuang and Caizhuang villages, 6,000 mu of shallow water lotus Demonstration Park will be built; Among them, each village forms a planting belt with more than 500 acres of lotus roots. Shallow water lotus, Xiangshui County implemented the brand-driven strategy. In 1998, it registered the "Sifeng" brand shallow water lotus trademark and entered the Internet. In 2002, it was rated as pollution-free agricultural products by the province; In 2003, it was recommended as a national pollution-free product, which made "Sifeng" brand shallow water lotus famous all over the country and sold directly to more than 20 provinces and cities, and formed a stable supply relationship with food processing enterprises and vegetable wholesale markets in more than 10 large and medium-sized cities inside and outside the province, established a fixed supply window and expanded the market share. Xiangshui shallow water lotus is a certification trademark of geographical indications.
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