Why does honey flow on the vine?

The sweetness of grapes is everywhere - Turpan, Xinjiang, known as the "Fire Continent", is intoxicated with the season of flowing honey.

Turpan, Xinjiang, known as China's "hot pole", is the hometown of Chinese grapes. At present, it is the season when the Turpan grapes are ripe and on the market, and the clusters of delicate and lovely grapes have come out of the fields, and it will not be long before they appear in the fruit plates of residents all over the country.

When the morning sun shines through the turquoise vines and shines on the crystal clear "seedless white", Shatar Yasen, a fruit farmer in Yaer Village, Gaochang District, Turpan City, begins a sweet day of labor, picking, packing, transporting and ......Looking at the fruity grape basket behind him, Shatar Yasin couldn't hide his joy: "Seedless white sugar is very high, and many outsiders like to eat this. Every year before the harvest, some bosses come to me to order, and they don't worry about selling at all.

As one of the oldest cultivated plants in the world, Turpan has been popular for grape cultivation since the Eastern Han Dynasty. The sugar content of the high-quality seedless white grapes produced here averages 22 degrees and peaks at 24 degrees, which is nearly double the sweetness of ordinary grapes at around 12 degrees.

What kind of effort does a grape have to go through to turn it into "honey"? The answer is naturally inseparable from the natural geographical conditions of Turpan. Located in the low-lying basin of central Xinjiang, Turpan is particularly suitable for grape growth due to its high temperature, long sunshine hours and large temperature difference between day and night.

At the same time, Turpan's unique geographical location makes Turpan rich in groundwater reserves, making grapes very high in sugar.

Despite the thick and sweet meat, it used to be difficult for Sha'tar Yasin to get the grapes out of the house: "The farmers don't know how to manage the grapes, they don't have trellises, and the grapes are all lying on the ground." At that time, the grapes were rotten a lot, and they could not be sold. ”

In order to preserve this sweetness, the trellis was modified to raise the trellis to make it airy and light-transmitting, which could greatly improve the yield and quality of the grapes. The grower's trellises are getting higher and higher, and their incomes are getting better and better. "One acre of land can earn six or seven thousand yuan, which is three or four times as much.

Shatar Yasin said.

Seedless white has a high sweetness, but it is also more "delicate", and it is easy to rot on the road if it is not done well, which is also a problem that has always restricted Turpan seedless white grapes from "walking". In response to this problem, in recent years, Turpan has developed 70 logistics and delivery enterprises, including 17 cold chain storage enterprises, which can store 10,000 tons of seasonal fruits and dried fruits in Turpan at one time.

The freshly picked grapes are immediately sent to the fresh-keeping warehouse for 24 hours, and then loaded into special refrigerated trucks, where the sweetness is spread in all directions with the rolling wheels.

In 2018 alone, Turpan City sold 10,000 tons of table grapes, achieving sales revenue of 100 million yuan, 150,000 tons of raisins, and an annual wine production capacity of 50,000 kiloliters.

The small grapes are releasing more and more energy in the land of Huozhou, and Shatar Yasin has a longer-term plan for the future: "In the future, I will turn my yard into an experiential vineyard, where tourists can pick and taste, and enjoy singing and dancing, and then my family will have another income."