China Logistics and Purchasing Network: Best released "Agricultural Goods" plan "millions of subsidies" to help Lijiang soft seed pomegranate out of the mountain

On the afternoon of August 18th, at the launch conference of Yongsheng soft seed pomegranate held in the ancient city of Lijiang, Yunnan, Best Group released the "Agricultural Good Walk" plan, and signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the People's Government of Yongsheng County on "Million Aid Agriculture" . According to the agreement, Best Group will provide a million yuan subsidy to create a delivery plan for Yongsheng soft seed pomegranate, reduce the logistics cost of fruit farmers from the construction of rural express logistics infrastructure, express fee subsidies, etc., and help Yongsheng soft seed pomegranate to build Landmark business card.

Located 150 kilometers away from Lijiang city, Yongsheng County is the largest green food production base in Lijiang. It is known as "Western Yunnan Granary" and "Home of Fish and Rice", but it is also a key county for national poverty alleviation and development work. In 2014, the county increased the promotion and cultivation of soft seed pomegranates by transferring land and other methods. The planting area exceeded 50,000 mu. This year, 40,000 mu has begun to bear fruit, with an estimated output of 31,000 tons.

However, subject to factors such as remoteness and inconvenient transportation, the logistics cost of Yongsheng Soft Seed Pomegranate has remained high. The quality of export transportation is also a major problem for fruit farmers, which directly affects the income growth and enthusiasm of fruit farmers. In response to the local logistics and transportation problems, Best fits the local conditions and created a one-stop fresh logistics solution from the aspects of packaging, warehousing, distribution, transportation, distribution, etc., and promoted the "Internet + warehouse and distribution integration" service to achieve Yongsheng Soft-seed pomegranates are freshly picked and grown straight.

In the place where Yongsheng soft seed pomegranate is produced, Best Group will build supporting facilities such as a distribution center and a rural post to further improve the rural basic logistics system. It is understood that the professional fresh food distribution service center jointly built by Best Group and the local soft-seed pomegranate cooperative is the largest pomegranate professional service center in western Yunnan. It has built a warehouse with pre-cooling, storage and preservation, and grading packaging functions. It can store up to 500 tons of fresh fruit , And the introduction of fully automated fruit washing, fruit selection equipment, to provide fruit farmers with professional fruit selection, sorting, pre-cooling and packaging guidance.

BES also went deep into the pomegranate production areas of 5 townships such as Chenghai and Sanchuan in Yongsheng County to create 10 "neighborhood stations" to facilitate the scattered delivery of pomegranate expresses by fruit farmers. In addition, according to the characteristics of soft seed pomegranate skin thin, customized packaging boxes of different specifications suitable for e-commerce sales were added, and anti-collision measures were added to reduce bumps during transportation. At the same time, increase the collection frequency, realize direct delivery from the origin of the Kunming transit center, and open 12 additional provincial car lines, reduce intermediate transit links, shorten the transit time, to ensure that consumers are still fresh when they receive pomegranate.

It is reported that Best Group will further reduce the logistics cost by directly subsidizing the express delivery fees of fruit farmers and subsidizing the post, while promoting the increase of local fruit farmers' income, and at the same time protecting the profits of the operators of the neighboring post, and continuing to provide fruit farmers and consumers with efficient and convenient terminal express Logistics Services. In order to help farmers solve the problem of online sales of pomegranates, BEST cooperated with the local Jinshajiang Fruit Industry Association to sell through e-commerce platforms, and took multiple measures online and offline to help fruit farmers open up sales channels and help soft seed pomegranates to reach the table of origin. It is estimated that in the Yongsheng pomegranate sales season in 2019, the shipment volume of Pomegranate Pomegranate is expected to reach 400,000.

In Taiji Village, a 115-km drive from Yongsheng County, 24-year-old Zhang Hongji runs the village's only express collection point, and is also one of the postage subsidies for the "Million Aid Farmers" program. His family planted 5 acres of pomegranates. Last year, he sold his own pomegranates in Weidian and delivered them by express delivery. Although less than 1 acre of pomegranates were sold in one sales season, this part of the sales revenue accounted for the entire pomegranate sales revenue of his family. More than 40%. This made him see the hope of increasing income through "Express +Pomegranate".