Wucheng Hot Peppers Are Getting Hotter and Hotter

2022-06-29 15:46

　　"Hot Pepper City" is one of the impression of Wucheng for its surrounding counties and cities. Wucheng has more than a hundred years of hot pepper planting history, and at its peak, 300,000 mu of hot peppers were planted. In the late 1990s, it gradually formed the largest hot pepper trading market in north area of the Yangtze River. In 2002, Wucheng was named the “Hometown of Hot Pepper” and the “First City of Hot Pepper in China” by the Ministry of Agriculture of the People's Republic of China.

　　With the development of the industry, the hot pepper industry in Wucheng gradually developed from planting and trading to production and processing, and formed a hot pepper industry cluster with Zhongjiao Yingchao as the core. "Wucheng hot pepper" was identified as geographical indication agricultural products by the Ministry of Agriculture of the People's Republic of China. Yingchao pepper price index has become the only price index in the national hot pepper industry, covering 19 varieties in 12 professional hot pepper markets in 8 provinces, becoming the "weather vane" and "barometer" of the price of hot pepper in area north of the Yangtze River.

　　In recent years, the construction of "hot pepper signature town" has brought vitality to Wucheng. With Wucheng as the core, a modern industrial cluster pattern has been formed with 1 national, 1 provincial and 2 municipal agricultural enterprises as the leading, 54 key enterprises as the support and 84 new business entities as the supplement.