The China-Laos Railway has significantly boosted fresh vegetable exports coming from Tonghai County, located in Yunnan Province in Southwest China as per Huanqiu’s website. Huanqiu website. Fresh vegetables are delivered via refrigerated containers, which are then shipped and then shipped to Thailand as well as Malaysia.

Tonghai is a major producer of vegetables with a long history more than 2,000 years of cultivating vegetables. Tonghai’s climate is unique and allows local farmers to harvest their crops as often as 4-5 times per year.

In the words of Wang Huamin the deputy chief for Tonghai County, the vegetable cultivation area by 2023 reached 19,120 hectares with the total yield of 1.15 million tonnes. About 30% of the harvested harvest goes into Southeast Asia and the Middle East.

“Currently we export over 10 kinds of vegetables such as tomatoes, broccoli as well as Chinese cabbage. The daily shipments are around 100 tons” stated Zhang Xiuxiu, general manager of Wanhe the local import and export business.

Zhang said that after the introduction of railways the cold chain vegetable transportation has been a routine service. A majority of the deliveries were previously transported by road, but now they are rail transportation.

Tonghai County is home to 37 firms that deal in the import of vegetables as well as export. The county can process up to 800,000 tonnes of vegetable each year. The local authorities are aiming to the development of high-altitude agriculture and to take advantage of benefits offered through China-Laos Railway. China-Laos Railway.

Source: russian.people.com.cn