Shaanxi kiwifruit refuses to be picked early, exports double in the first half of the year in China

From September 11 to 13, the Second China Kiwifruit Expo was reportedly held in Mei County, Baoji. In recent years, in order to sell at a high price early, Shaanxi kiwifruit has been picked and sold early from time to time. Early-picked unripe kiwifruit tastes sour, has a poor taste, lacks edible value, misleads consumers, disrupts the normal market sales order, and leads to shrinking sales and price declines in the later market, which seriously damages the economic interests of the majority of fruit farmers. Xi'an Zhouzhi and Baoji Mei County, as the two major kiwifruit producing areas in Shaanxi Province, have issued "early harvest ban orders" for many consecutive years, clarifying the harvesting time and harvesting standards. Since August this year, governments in many places in Shaanxi, such as Xi'an Zhouzhi, Baoji Mei County, Weinan Linwei, etc., have successively issued notices and related initiatives on strictly prohibiting the early picking and early selling of kiwifruit. ...