Recently, 40,000 kg of Shimen tangerines were shipped to Mauritius after passing inspection by the Changde Customs Authority. This marked the first entry of Shimen tangerines into the African market.

During the peak season for tangerine exports, the production workshop of Hunan Xiangjia Juyou Agriculture Co., Ltd. is bustling with activity. "We can process 500 tonnes of fresh fruit daily," said Chen Lingjiao, the company's general manager. The workshop is equipped with two 6-channel intelligent tangerine sorting lines and one 4-channel weighing and sorting line for tangerines with leaves, which can precisely grade tangerines by internal and external quality indicators such as diameter, weight, color, blemishes, and sugar content. In the operation room, the "identity data" of each tangerine is displayed on the computer screen. Basket cleaning and tangerine packaging are handled intelligently and automatically. The company has been continuously exporting Shimen tangerines to North America, Central Asia, and Russia, and this year it entered the African market for the first time.

In response to the characteristics of fresh fruit exports, the Changde Customs Authority has strengthened control at the source, rolled out 18 measures to support agricultural exports, provided document pre-review and round-the-clock appointment-based inspection services, and enhanced "origin-port" coordination, so as to ensure "barrier-free" customs clearance for fresh fruit.

According to Changde Customs statistics, from January to October this year, Changde exported a total of 29,000 tonnes of fresh fruit products including navel oranges, tangerines, and grapes, with a total value of 220 million CNY.

This article is from Hunan Provincial Government. www.enghunan.gov.cn. 

Translator: Pang Yuehui 

Chinese source: Hunan Daily