As the "Hometown of Peanuts in China", Junan County in Linyi City is the largest breeding base for high-quality peanut seeds, a production base for peanut commodities, and an export trade distribution center in the country. Reporters learned from the agricultural department of Linyi City that Junan peanuts, with their excellent quality, are highly favored in the international market and have become a "hot commodity" for export. Junan County processes and sells 1.2 million tons of peanuts (products) annually, exports them to more than 40 countries and regions in Asia, Europe, North America, etc., with an annual export volume of 400,000 tons, generating foreign exchange earnings of 300 million US dollars. Its export volume accounts for about one-fifth of the national total and one-third of the provincial total. This year, "Junan Peanuts" has been recognized and publicized by the European Union and has become one of the "Agricultural Product Geographical Indications Mutually Recognized between China and the European Union".

It is understood that Junan County ranks first among county-level units in China in terms of peanut yield per unit area, processing, export volume, and trade volume. The peanut planting area has remained above 400,000 mu all year round, with an annual output of more than 150,000 tons. Over the years, Junan has been always committed to promoting the renewal of peanut varieties, continuously increasing the scientific and technological content of products, and gradually realizing the "standardization of peanut production, deepening of processing techniques, clustering of enterprise development, and internationalization of product purchase and sale". At present, the county has more than 200 peanut processing enterprises above the designated size, forming a peanut processing industrial cluster led by leading enterprises such as Jinsheng, Yuhuang, and Xingquan. In 2014, the high-yield demonstration field for peanut single-seed precision sowing technology established by the Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Junan County achieved a yield of 752.6 kilograms per mu, refreshing the national high-yield record for peanut yield per unit area that had lasted for 31 years. In 2015, "Junan Peanuts" was recognized by the Ministry of Agriculture as one of the first batch of national-level agricultural product geographical indication demonstration model pilot projects.

Source: Langya News