Tianshui City, Gansu Province, held the 2020 Flowering Cow Apple Grand Prix, and selected the "King of Flowering Cow," which eventually sold for 21,800 yuan.

The price was higher than the 19,800 yuan paid for a single apple last year.

Netizens laughed and said, "A mouthful of a month's salary."

The mention of flower cow apples, may be a lot of people's minds at once reaction, but if the mention of imported snake fruit, you will not be unfamiliar.

And the flower cow apple, in fact, is with the imported snake fruit appearance is extremely similar to a kind of apple, it is Gansu Tianshui in the fifties from the introduction of foreign apple varieties, and the U.S. snake fruit belongs to the same marshal door, but due to the environment and climate is different, creating a different apple flavor:

First of all, the flower cow apple head than the imported snake fruit is full of rounded, smooth and large.

Secondly, thanks to the advantages of local cultivation, the freshness of Hanabiu apples is unmatched by imported snakefruit.

Imagine, imported snake fruit from abroad "across the sea" to our country has lasted half a month, but also through the wholesalers, middlemen, supermarkets / fruit vendors and other barriers, after nine hundred and eighty-one difficulties to come to your hands. The flower cow apple, from Gansu Tianshui orchard origin direct, fresh from the tree, immediately with the fastest speed delivery. The difference is that you don't need to talk about it.

Additionally, the most popular feature of Hananiu apples is that they can be eaten in two ways.

Fresh from the tree, the flesh of the Flowering Cow is dense and crunchy, with a rich apple aroma and a sweet, crunchy texture, and the fullness of the apple juice heals the tired soul and makes people linger, making it ideal for young people who are tired from work to replenish their energy.

Placed for a period of time flower cow, the texture becomes delicate and soft, powder sweet lubrication, this time is most suitable for poor teeth of the elderly as well as children, to the baby to do complementary food is also an excellent choice. Directly with a spoon to dig and eat, a spoonful of a mouthful of sweet, full of life's little happiness!

Flowering cow apple is China's first in the international market to obtain the official trademark of the apple varieties, as early as 1965, the flower cow apple transported to Hong Kong test marketing, by virtue of its superior taste a hit, successfully occupy the local market.

After the local market evaluation, the Flowering Cow apple crowns the crowd, the quality exceeds the U.S. Snake fruit, and won the title of "the world's ace apple", and became the world's top three brands of well-known apples comparable to the U.S. Snake fruit, Japan Fuji.

Flowering cow apple "a fruit of two" features, not only condenses the advantages of the United States Snake fruit and Japan Fuji in one, but also other aspects are far better than the two.

Compared with the slightly sour taste of Japanese Fuji apples, the rich sweet apple flavor of the Flowering Cow apple is superior. And compared with the U.S. snake fruit, the price of China's local flower cow apple is obviously more advantageous.

Benefiting from the favorable environment and climate, Tianshui, Gansu Province, has become the hometown of Asia's largest marshal system apples - the flower cow apple.

The local altitude is between 1,000 and 2,100 meters above sea level, with a warm-temperate semi-humid and semi-arid climate.

Because of moderate rainfall, large temperature difference between day and night, coupled with deep soil and abundant light, has produced the unique Hua Niu apples, which not only have a strong aroma, but also have fine flesh, small kernel, juicy, clean and beautiful, crunchy texture, and have the unique flavor of alpine farming.

In the early years of the flower cow apple is known as the apple world "Hermes", the price is as high as a dozen dollars a catty, sold to more than twenty dollars a catty is not a problem. The price is almost the same as the imported U.S. snake fruit.

Just last year, the flower cow apple once in a social platform during the e-commerce activities, one day sales broke a million records.

But this year, the economy is generally dismal, although the price of the U.S. snake fruit is still high, but the market treatment of our local flower cow apples is obviously dismal, and even down to the point of no one to buy.

The industry has asked, "From not being able to afford to eat to no one to eat, flower cow apple in the end what happened?"

Just on the supermarket, the ordinary flower cow apple (domestic red snake fruit) sold to 8.8 yuan / catty, imported U.S. red snake fruit is as high as 18.8 yuan / catty, while Gansu origin of high-quality flower cow apple but sales do not go out.

Tianshui, Gansu province, as a village wrapped in mountains, farmers work hard for a year and have little income, the only solace is the hand-grown flower cow apples.

Farmers and farmers aunts get up early every day, from cutting trees to fertilization to watering and medication, spend a lot of energy, just to produce the taste and color of the fruit, whether they eat, to the elderly, to the baby to do complementary food, and even the holiday gift, are excellent choices.