Smart Orange Garden Produces Boutique “Hundred Yuan Orange”

At the Bitaoju Agricultural Orchard Planting Base in Fasi Street, Jiangxia District, over 8000 Ganping orange trees live in the “house”. The “roof” is covered with black shading nets, and sprinkler heads are hung on the “beam”. Every two days, fruit trees are regularly sprayed for cooling to ensure that the soil moisture meets the standard. In just 4 months, Ganping will be mature, and the largest Ganping can grow to over a pound. If sold individually, one can sell for over a hundred yuan. “He Leifang, the technical director of Bitaoju Orchard, told reporters that mature Ganping has a golden color, a flat appearance, thin skin and tender flesh, and is a” noble among oranges “. It is usually listed around the Spring Festival and is highly popular in areas such as Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen.

In order to plant Ganping, we have specially built a temperature control greenhouse, which provides sun protection and cooling in summer and warmth in winter to ensure the high quality of Ganping He Leifang introduced that Ganping is a new variety of orange tree introduced from abroad, which is relatively niche and has high economic value, but it is very difficult to cultivate. Currently, the planting area of Ganping in China is less than 10000 acres, mainly concentrated in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions.

In 2018, with the technical support of the Fruit and Tea Research Institute of the Provincial Academy of Agricultural Sciences and the Wuhan Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Bitaoju Orchard introduced Ganping varieties and built a 150 mu smart orange garden.

Entering the temperature control greenhouse, the reporter saw that the orange tree, which was about 1 meter tall, was lush and lush, with green fruits hanging all over the branches. However, some of the fruits showed cracking, revealing tender white flesh. This is a normal phenomenon, and now it is the peak period of Ganping fruit cracking. In summer, when the temperature is high, the skin of Ganping fruit cannot keep up with the growth rate of the flesh, and there will be fruit cracking. “He Leifang introduced that fruit cracking has always been a problem in the cultivation process of Ganping, but under the guidance of forest and fruit experts, the fruit cracking rate of Ganping in orchards has decreased from 60% to 30%.

Through shading nets and strict water and fertilizer control, we have formed a microclimate suitable for the growth of Ganping in temperature controlled greenhouses, creating a long-term stable warm and humid environment. “He Leifang said,” Ganping has a characteristic that every fruit is a ‘morning fruit’, growing upwards, and the skin is very thin. If it is directly exposed to the sun, it can cause sunburn and affect the taste of Ganping

At noon on August 15th, He Leifang was monitoring temperature changes in the orchard. The data showed that the outdoor temperature was 35 ℃ and the surface temperature was 58 ℃, while the surface temperature in the greenhouse was only 25 ℃.

In order to achieve a good cooling effect in summer, the greenhouse adopts a “grass growing cultivation” method. The ground is covered with clover, which not only locks in water and moisturizes, reduces surface temperature, but also increases soil organic matter after fermentation and decay, providing nutrients for the Ganping orange tree.

According to reports, in addition to the orchard base in Fasi Street, the company has also collaborated with the Provincial Academy of Agricultural Sciences to build and manage a 100 acre smart orange orchard at the Jinshai Gate in Jiangxia. Through controllable digital technology, the temperature, light, carbon dioxide concentration and other information in the citrus growth environment are presented in real-time on the cloud platform. Simply setting temperature and humidity data in the system can achieve intelligent park management and produce the best tasting Ganping.