Guiyang's high-quality produce reaches Hong Kong and Macao

Local villagers sort cherry tomatoes before shipping to Hong Kong and Macao. [Photo/Guiyang Daily]

On the morning of Sept 15, in the steel-framed greenhouses of Sanhe village, Kaiyang county, Guiyang, capital of Southwest China's Guizhou province, strings of red and plump cherry tomatoes were being carefully picked, sorted, packaged, and loaded onto trucks by workers.

A few hours later, a batch of high-quality fruits and vegetables from the mountainous areas of central Guizhou will reach the tables of residents in Hong Kong and Macao. This is a daily scene in the operations of Guizhou Xuheyuan Digital Agriculture Development Co and an example of Guizhou's products successfully entering the Greater Bay Area market.

As a high-tech agricultural enterprise focusing on the integration of smart agriculture and digital technology, Xuheyuan has relied on Kaiyang's selenium-rich resources and high-altitude off-season climate advantages to develop off-season high-end agricultural products since the beginning of this year. It has now built two bases in Kaiyang and Huaxi, and is advancing in parallel using different cultivation models.

Sanhe village base in Kaiyang covers an area of nearly 90,000 square meters and is independently operated by the company. The entire base adopts a soilless substrate cultivation system, with a yield of 9 to 11 kilograms per square meter and a delivery price of 40 yuan ($5.62) per kilogram.

The company introduced internet of things, big data and other technologies to build a smart agricultural management system, realizing intelligent control of the entire process from environmental monitoring, water and fertilizer integration, to pest and disease early warning.

By using soil testing and formulation fertilization to precisely regulate nutrition, combined with facility-based and digitalized planting, it ensures that products are naturally selenium-rich, green, and healthy.