Apirl 26, 2021

(Photo provided by Yinchuan Customs)

On April 25, 2021, this reporter learned from Yinchuan Customs that a batch of butter products worth 8454.26 US dollars, produced by local enterprises in Ningxia, passed the inspection of Xingqing Customs recently and was officially shipped to Kyrgyzstan, another characteristic agricultural product of Ningxia achieved zero export breakthrough.

Butter is the use of cattle adipose tissue as raw material, through degumming, deacidification, deodorization and other processes into solid products, edible value is very high. Located in the middle and upper reaches of the Yellow River, Ningxia is China's "hometown of wolfberry", "hometown of tan sheep", "hometown of licorice", "hometown of selenium sand melon" and "hometown of potato", and it is also the world's wine star production area. 

By the end of 2020, Ningxia will be the dairy industry, wine industry, wolfberry industry and other industries identified as the nine key characteristic industries of the autonomous region. Up to now, Ningxia has a total of butter, wolfberry, wine, honey, long dates, dehydrated vegetables and other more than 10 kinds of agricultural products into Europe, the United States, Asia and other international markets. At the same time, Ningxia plans to reach 1 million cows in five years, the total output of fresh milk is 5.5 million tons, and the output value of the whole industrial chain is 100 billion yuan.

According to the statistics of Yinchuan Customs, in the first quarter of 2021, Ningxia's foreign trade situation was good, and the export of characteristic agricultural products increased significantly. Among them, the export value of honey was 8 million yuan, up 286.2% year on year; Wine export value was 3.02 million yuan, up 245.69% year on year; The export value of feed additives was 257.64 million yuan, up 75.52% year on year; The export value of spirulina powder was 460,000 yuan, with a year-on-year increase of 119.28%; The export value of dehydrated vegetables was 9.82 million yuan, up 104.6% year on year. The export value of frozen fries in the first quarter was RMB 25.22 million, up by 2210.64% year on year, exceeding the combined export value of 2019 and 2020.

Source: Ningxia Food Association