China’s Jize city cultivates new Chilli variety

Cultivation on the 650 square metres of land can produce 3000 kgs of the new variety of Chilli

China’s city of Jize has come up with a new variety of Chilli. This year, Peng Ruiling a farmer in Jize city will get 20,000 RMB (2.792USD) income from the production of a new variety of Chilli. A new variety of Chilli has been planted over 1000 acres of land this year. In May 2021 Hebei Academy of Agriculture and Forestry, the Agricultural University of Hebei and Tianxia Red Chilli Company established Hebei Chilli Industry Technology Research Institute in Jize city. This research institute has launched this new variety of chilli last year. Peng Ruiling is the first farmer who cultivated a new variety of Chilli. Hebei Chilli Research institute is promoting a new variety of Chilli. Like Peng Ruiling other farmers may take the production of a new variety of chilli next year. Jize is a city in the Hebei province of China known as the ‘Hometown of Chilli Peppers’. In the Jize city, nearly 13,000 acres of land is under chilli cultivation, with an annual production of more than 200,000 tons of chilli. More than 130 chilli processing units are there in the Jize city with an annual processing capacity of 600,000 tonne of fresh chilli. More than one lakh workers are involved in chilli farming in Jize city.

Cultivation on the 650 square metres of