Xundian Potato Culture Tourism Food Festival opens on June 15th

This weekend, there will be a Potato Food Festival competition in Xundian County, Yunnan! Here you can enjoy all kinds of potato delicacies and eat local specialties. There will be a cheerful ethnic song and dance performance at the opening ceremony, and more exciting activities, let’s take a look!

Potato Food Festival event preview:

Potato digging competition, peeling competition There will be a competition in cutting potato skills, a competition in creativity in painting potatoes, a bonfire party to roast potatoes, a full feast of potato tasting, and local specialties such as sheep soup pot, bitter buckwheat cake dipped in honey;

Xundian County ( The 3rd Potato Culture Tourism Food Festival

Time: from June 15 to August 8

Location: Liushao Township, Xundian County

Theme: "Integration of agriculture and tourism to promote revitalization·Industrial poverty alleviation and increase income"

Ten major events will be created, including "Happy Painted Potatoes" on-site creativity, "Potato Digging" farming experience, and "Potato Flowers Blooming on Red Land" photography competition Series of activities.

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It is reported that potatoes are one of the main cash crops in Xundian County, with a planting area of ??240,000 acres and a total annual output of 420,000 tons of fresh potatoes. As a traditional industry and the main industry in Xundian's "poverty alleviation" work, the Xundian County Party Committee and County Government invest about 5 million yuan every year to support the potato industry, and have specially issued the "Implementation Opinions on the Development of the Potato Industry" and proposed "Party Branch + Base + Cooperative + Growers" industrial model forms an industrial chain of "integration of production and marketing", and is committed to making the potato industry stronger, bigger and better.

Xundian is also a domestic product such as Zizi, Angel, etc. It is the main raw material base for foreign potato processing enterprises and the supply base of vegetables and potatoes in major domestic cities such as Nanning and Guangzhou. At the same time, potatoes are also a favorite table delicacy of Xundian people and have been integrated into the food culture of Xundian. With the brand influence of Xundian potato, we will increase the publicity of Xundian potato, drive the development of Xundian rural tourism, promote the organic integration of primary and tertiary industries, and realize the prosperity and development of Xundian cultural industry, plateau characteristic agriculture and tourism. After the Xundian County Party Committee and County Government After research, it was decided to hold the "3rd Xundian County Potato Culture Tourism Food Festival"

It is understood that in recent years, Xundian County has innovatively launched the "Potato Festival" by combining characteristic agricultural industries and rural tourism resources. "Fishing Festival" and other activities not only allow tourists to experience Xundian's pastoral scenery and ethnic customs up close, but also vigorously promote rural tourism resources and effectively increase the income of local farmers.