Longan

Putian is located in the East of Chinese coastline, Taiwan Strait, because of its unique geography, climate, resources should be planted very rare sub-tropical fruit trees such as longan. There including longan, loquat, lychee, pomelo is the four traditional fruit of Putian. The oversea has always been known inside and outside. Putian’s longan cultivation has a long history began in the Han Dynasty, dating back two thousand years.

Dongfeng Temple in Putian County, there was longan cultivation and processing technology leading position in the nation, such as grafting, grafted seedlings, breeding, Gui-Yuan dry processing. Putian is one of main production base of longan. In 1999, the city area of nearly 12,000 hectares of longan, production area of 6,000 hectares, it is expected annual output of about 3 million tons, of which 18,000 tons is used for drying. It can be processed ‘Xinghua Gui Yuan dry’products 0.6-0.7 million tons.

Putian longan cultivated area because it is unique, that it gave birth to a number of varieties and excellent quality. The city has more than 80 varieties, as the country most. Putian is located in the appropriate area of longan cultivation of the northern edge of sunshine, rainfall, temperature difference between day and night, is conducive to total soluble solids (mainly sugar) accumulation, so the Gui-Yuan Xinghua origin than other sweet flavor, and cultivated Many fine varieties.