Jinxiang,Shangdong--The Home of Garlic in China

Jinxiang County is located by the beautiful Weishan Lake, Shandong Province, enjoying easy and convenient traffic and telecommunications conditions, rich natural resources, and great vatieties of agricultural produce. Statistically speaking,There were 300 thousand acres in 2002,the average output is 1mt per acre and the total amount was 300 thousand mts. Apart from the seeds and food edible,it can offer an export standard: 120 thousand mts, garlic deep process 80 thousand mts.

Jinxiang's garlic is famous all over the world for its characteristics such as big size, white peel, holding-together clove, durable storage, fragrant and moderately hot flavor，about 70% of Chinese exported garlic is from Jinxiang. It won a silver metal in 1992's China Agriculture Fair and was recognized as a famous brand of China by the Chinese Committee of Recognition of Famous Brands in 1996 and as a green food with A class by Chinese Center for Development of Green Foods.  Jinxiang County was named as "the home of garlic in China" by the nation in 1996.

The area for planting garlic has been expanding since 1985. In 1997, the garlic-planting  area was up to 33,333 ha. and the outputs of garlic bolt and garlic bulb were up to 85,000  ton and 500,000 ton, respectively. Jinxiang County has become the main garlic base with  70% of whole national garlic exports, exporting its products to more than fifty countries and regions such as the United States, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Hongkong.