Yantai Big Cherry is the earliest fruit listed in spring after China Cherry, so it has the reputation of "the first fruit in spring". Its fruit is bright, crystal-clear and beautiful, red as agate, and yellow is rich in nutrition if it is frozen. Fruit is rich in sugar, protein, vitamins, calcium, iron, phosphorus, potassium and other elements, and is known as the "treasure in fruit". Yantai cherry is delicious and has good preservation effect at low temperature.

On June 5438+February 10, 2007, the former General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine approved the implementation of geographical indication product protection for "Yantai Big Cherry". ?

Since 20 1 1, Yantai has built 16 large cherry city demonstration bases for four consecutive years, and built two demonstration bases for standardized production of "vegetable basket" of the Ministry of Agriculture, and achieved good results.

In 20 16, the cultivation area of Yantai big cherry reached 308,000 mu, ranking second in the country, and the output was176,000 tons, ranking first in the country. The online sales revenue of the whole cherry season was 378 million yuan.

The historical origin of Yantai big cherry;

Cherry has been cultivated in China for more than 3000 years. In the Book of Rites and the Moon Order of the Zhou Dynasty, it is recorded that "I am ashamed of Han Tao, so I recommend sleeping in the temple", and the "Han Tao" here is cherry. It can be seen that cherry was regarded as a precious fruit to sacrifice to society at that time. Cherry is delicious, but the fruit is too small and the maturity is too short, so it is often out of the market.

From 65438 to 80' s, European sweet cherry introduced by overseas Chinese began to be cultivated in the eastern suburb of Yantai. After more than 100 years of cultivation, Yantai big cherry with large fruit and delicious taste has been formed, which is suitable for fresh eating and processing.

During the Eleventh Five-Year Plan (2006-20 10) and the Twelfth Five-Year Plan (20 10/5), Yantai Municipal Finance allocates RMB100000 yuan every year to support the breeding of excellent cherry varieties and the construction of demonstration bases.

Refer to the above? Baidu encyclopedia-Yantai big cherry