Under the trend of new agricultural policies, the prospects of the sweet potato industry
With the rapid changes in science and technology and its in-depth application in the field of agricultural equipment, agricultural modernization equipment has become a hot spot for development.
Scientific use of resources is particularly important. Improving labor productivity and resource utilization relies on the advancement of technical facilities and standardized equipment that is ecological, efficient, high-quality, high-yield, and safe.
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, our country has embarked on a new journey of comprehensively building a modern socialist country, bringing rare opportunities for accelerating the modernization of agriculture and rural areas. The policy direction has become clearer. Comprehensively implementing the rural revitalization strategy, continuing to strengthen agricultural support and protection, accelerating the formation of a diversified investment pattern, and gathering more resource elements in rural areas will provide a strong guarantee for promoting agricultural and rural modernization.
Guide small farmers into the track of modern agricultural development. Give full play to the leading role of new agricultural business entities in small farmers, improve the agricultural professional socialization service system, build a policy system to support and serve the development of small farmers, and achieve an organic connection between small farmers and the development of modern agriculture.
Agricultural quality, efficiency and competitiveness have steadily improved. The agricultural production structure and regional layout have been significantly optimized, material and technical equipment conditions have continued to improve, the level of scale, intensification, standardization, and digitalization has been further improved, and the supply capacity of green and high-quality agricultural products has been significantly enhanced. The industrial chain and supply chain have been optimized and upgraded, and a modern rural industrial system has been basically formed.
my country is the world's largest sweet potato producer, with a harvest area of ??about 35 million acres year-round. my country's sweet potato industry has always accounted for about 60% of the world's planting area, and harvested about 80% of the world's total output. Many places have adopted the "cooperative, family farm, base, farmer" model to encourage and guide farmers to plant organic sweet potatoes by providing technical guidance and policy and financial support. The sweet potato industry has become a characteristic industry in my country that enriches people and revitalizes villages.
Sweet potatoes are very popular in the domestic market, and the market is extremely broad. There are large-scale planting bases for sweet potatoes, and more and more businessmen are coming to buy them. The sales volume is very impressive, and it is the main market direction at this stage.
1. Fresh food. Fresh food is the focus of sweet potato market development, and the price is relatively high. The product itself first requires a good-looking appearance, good cooked taste, neatly sized potato pieces, cleanliness, disease-free and pollution-free. Mainly sold to Beijing, as well as farmers' markets in major cities such as Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Zhuhai, Shantou, etc.
2. Processed snack foods. Fried potato chips, frozen potato cakes, dried sweet potatoes and other snacks made from sweet potatoes are rich in nutrients and good in taste. They are excellent processed foods. This does not have high requirements on the appearance of potato tubers, but the price is low. They are mainly sold to potato processing plants in Jieyang and surrounding cities.
3. Process the whole flour. Peel the sweet potato, dry it, crush it and process it into whole flour. It has beautiful color and rich nutrition. It is an excellent food processing raw material and can be used as the main ingredient or ingredient of various pastries. Processing of whole-flour sweet potato varieties requires high starch content, smooth potato skin, uniform flesh color, and low requirements on the shape of the potato tubers.
With the support of policies, the development of new agricultural industries will further release the demand for agricultural and sideline products in the market.