Qitaihe, Heilongjiang: Promoting food processing with scientific and technological innovation

In the workshop of the special grain processing plant, the machine roars, the steam rises, and the clean and shiny stainless steel large-scale stir-frying equipment is stir-frying brightly colored red adzuki beans; In another area, workers are carefully selecting and cleaning beans, and automated production equipment such as cooking, filling and packaging is constantly running
.
A few days ago, Boli Food Industrial Park in Qitaihe City, Heilongjiang Province, was full of prosperous food processing industry
.

In the product display area of Lebao Food Co.
, Ltd
.
, colorful grain products are overwhelming.
Gao Fengshan, the general manager of the company, said with a smile: "It's rare to see so many things made of grains and grains in a subset, right?" This is precisely why
the product can capture the market.
People now eat white rice and white steamed buns, and these delicious and nutritious grains are also their needs
.
It is understood that this enterprise settled in the park in 2015 and is a local enterprise, which spontaneously organized the red adzuki bean cooperative
created by 40 local members.
By 2016, they had driven 1,100 farmers to plant adzuki beans and other specialty crops, and the current planting area of adzuki beans has reached 30,000 mu, and black beans 7,500 mu
.

Where do these brightly colored beans come from so much attraction? Gao Fengshan calculated an account and revealed the "mystery"
.
At present, the market price of 500 grams of adzuki beans is about 4 yuan, which can produce 17 bags of 1 yuan per bag of small food and 20 bottles of 3 yuan per bottle of drinks, with a total value of nearly 80 yuan, and the added value has soared nearly 20 times
.
Now, more and more people are joining their ranks of getting rich
.
Gao Fengshan said proudly: "At present, more than half of our products are sold through the Internet, and consumers are very recognized
.
Next, we will hire scientific and technical personnel to continue to develop new products
.
”

Lijian Stevia Company, which is also in the park, uses local specialty blue indigo fruit to produce and process jams, oral liquids, lozenges, health wine and other products
.
The stevia produced by the enterprise is a natural sweetener extracted from Asteraceae herbs, which has the characteristics of high sweetness and low heat energy, and is widely used in food, beverage, medicine and other industries
.
According to reports, the enterprise is a provincial key enterprise in agricultural industrialization, with a total investment of 110 million yuan, and it is expected that the annual sales revenue after the completion of the project will be 270 million yuan, 36 million yuan in taxes will be paid, and 200 new jobs will be created
.
At present, part of the main project of the project has been completed, internal decoration is underway, part of the processing equipment has been installed in place, and the deep processing and production
of blue indigo fruit will be realized at the end of this year.

At present, 8 enterprises have settled in this park, and 6 have been put into operation
.
The enterprises that settle here have a common point, that is, the use of advanced technology to continuously develop and innovate local characteristic resources and carry out deep processing
.
Their arrival has brought economic benefits, jobs, and opportunities
to increase income and become rich.

Qitaihe City is planning to guide and support leading enterprises to increase investment in scientific research, establish technology research and development institutions, improve core competitiveness, support small and medium-sized processing enterprises to actively introduce, digest and absorb advanced technologies, processes, equipment, talents and management, accelerate the pace of frontier technology autonomy, key technology industrialization, engineering technology localization, and cultivate independent brands
.

(Source: Heilongjiang Daily)

China Food News(November 23, 2022, Version 04)

(Editor-in-charge: Gao Na).