Mayang enjoys the reputation of "the hometown of sugar oranges". Hunan Mayang has superior agricultural production conditions, mild climate, four distinct seasons, and unique soil and climate conditions, which have created Mayang sugar orange with unique quality and distinctive local characteristics. Mayang citrus has enjoyed a high reputation in Ming and Qing Dynasties. Sugar orange is welcomed by the market for its excellent variety, rich and sweet taste, thin skin, few stones, no stuffing and crisp meat.
Mayang sugar orange was once rated as an excellent product by the citrus and seedling quality inspection supervision and testing center of the Ministry of Agriculture; 200 1 applied for the certificate of origin trademark, became a national geographical indication product, and won the honorary title of famous trademark in Hunan Province in 2008.
Several famous sugar orange producing areas
1, Mayang, Hunan
Mayang Miao Autonomous County in Huaihua, Hunan Province, which enjoys the "hometown of longevity" and "hometown of sugar oranges", is the main producing area of sugar oranges. Mayang county has a mild climate and four distinct seasons. The unique soil and climate conditions gave birth to Mayang's unique scenic fairy fruit-sugar orange, which made Mayang's unique quality and distinctive local characteristics.
2. Hongjiang, Hunan
Hongjiang city is the origin of sugar oranges, and is known as "key county (city) of high-quality citrus base" and "city (county) of sugar oranges". The selected Qianyang sugar orange was named "Orange in Orange" because of its crisp fruit and sweet fruit like rock candy. Now the promotion area of sugar orange in China exceeds 6.5438+0 million mu.
At present, hongjiang city has cultivated 203,000 mu of Qianyang sugar orange, mainly distributed in towns and villages such as Qiancheng, Yanlong, Jiangshi, Anjiang and Shawan, with an annual output of more than 300,000 tons and an annual output value of 984 million yuan. Qianyang Tangju won the National Science Conference Award, the National and Provincial Agricultural Fair Gold Award for many times, and was awarded the title of "Famous Fruit" by the Fruit Association. It has successively won the "Gold Award for Geographical Indication Products of the Year", the title of top ten public brands in agricultural areas in Hunan Province and the title of top 100 public brands in agricultural areas. Academician Yuan Longping personally spoke for Qianyang Sugar Orange.