Hetao and sunflower's hometown North America have the most similar growing environment: four distinct seasons and a cold climate; Sunny, rainy and hot in the same season; The plain is vast and there are many water systems; The soil is fertile and lightly salinized.

As a result, the expansion of sunflower in Hetao showed an amazing speed.

The popularity of sunflower in Hetao made Hetao people discover that the seeds of sunflower are extremely high in oil content and delicious, which can be fried or pressed. As a result, Hetao began to introduce, cultivate and popularize excellent varieties of oil sunflower and expand the planting area of oil sunflower.

The development of sunflower in Hetao has changed the diet structure of Hetao people. Today, we can eat Hetao dishes that are good at frying and stewing, and sunflower oil has contributed a lot.

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Achievements of Hetao sunflower:

Although sunflowers are grown all over the world, the sunflower seeds in Hetao are large and well-proportioned, with good plumpness, good quality, high crude protein content and low crude fat content. Simply put, they are oily but not greasy, and have a fragrant taste, which meets the requirements of European consumers for leisure food.

Especially for American baseball players who like to put a handful of sunflower seeds in their mouths and skillfully transport them one by one between their teeth with their tongues, the full and even Hetao sunflower seeds are simply a great experience.

In the first half of 20 18, in Wuyuan county alone, the export volume of sunflower seeds reached 56 170 tons, and the export value reached 64.95 million US dollars. In the first ten months, the city exported a total of 282,700 tons of sunflower seeds with a value of 334 million US dollars.

Small sunflower seeds have crossed the ocean from here to more than 40 countries and regions such as Britain, the United States, Germany and Australia. Many foreign merchants have learned about "Hetao" through sunflower.

The first sunflower seed product quality and safety demonstration zone in China; The first sunflower technology research institute in China; The largest sunflower seed trading center in China? A series of famous titles make "Hetao Sunflower" truly deserved. And 120 sunflower seed processing enterprises and 55 trading markets support the annual trading volume of1430,000 tons of sunflower seeds, making Hetao sunflower seeds dominate the pricing power of domestic sunflower seeds.

Sunflower has become an industry here, and it radiates to culture.

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