Sichuan Sweet Agriculture Co Ltd [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

Established in 2014 in the Ziyun industrial park, Cangxi Economic Development Zone, Sichuan province, Sichuan Sweet Agriculture Co covers an area of 48 mu, or 3.2 hectares, and has a building area of 27,000 square meters and a total investment of 91 million yuan.  

The enterprise focuses on the cultivation, processing and sales of fruits, vegetables, edible fungi, potatoes and medicinal materials, and strives to become a provincial-level leading enterprise in the industrialization of scientific and technological agriculture.

Since its establishment it has built six deep-processing production lines for agricultural products such as fruits, vegetables, edible fungi, potato and taro, and is equipped with complete and advanced facilities in cold chain logistics. 

The annual production and processing capacity of the company exceeds 8,000 tons, and its operating income in the past three years has risen to 30 million yuan per year. 

The factory has gained HACCP quality management system certification and received a national SC food production license. The company is entitled to produce various products suitable for food preservation, quick freezing, drying, vacuum freeze drying, and gas-containing dishes.

Exhibition hall of Sichuan Sweet Agriculture Co Ltd [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

With strong support of the county's Party committee and government, the company exports its products such as red kiwi fruit, konjac, edible fungus, and vegetables to countries and regions such as Japan, South Korea, the United States, Southeast Asia, Australia, Singapore, New Zealand and the European Union, as well as China's Hong Kong and Taiwan.

The company continues to innovate, and holds seven patents in the technology and production of red kiwi fruit, Chuanming ginseng, edible fungus and konjac.

It has invented key technologies in kiwi fruit drying and product development and konjac deep processing and has gained two scientific and technological achievements. 

The company also holds seven patents in food processing equipment and one in food packaging and has registered four trademarks including "Jun Zi Yuan" (Mushroom Garden), "Mo Xiao Yao" (Magic Little Monster) and "Wufeng Yeya" (Wufeng Wild Bud).

The company established a Fruit and Vegetable Vacuum Freeze Drying Engineering Technology R&D Center in Qinba Mountains in Guangyuan and an Agricultural Products Processing Engineering Laboratory. Its awarded titles include "National High-tech Enterprise", "National High-tech Small and Medium-sized Enterprise" and "Provincial Agricultural Industrialization Key Leading Enterprise" as well as "Sichuan Province Precision Poverty Alleviation Demonstration Enterprise".

The company's products have won the titles of "3.15 Food Quality and Safety Standardized Unit of Sichuan Province in 2019" and "Famous and High-quality Agricultural Products of Sichuan Province".

In the past three years, it has been rated an "Advanced Collective in Foreign Trade Import and Export in Cangxi" and an "Advanced Unit in Safety Production in Cangxi".