According to the booth owner Mr. Yang Tianlong, it's different from regular corn, his corn can be eaten raw just like normal fruit. Compared to normal corn, this fruit corn has more leaves on both sides. If you remove all the leaves, the inside is mixed with yellow and white colored corn (with an ratio of 7:2). Based on the on-site taste experience, this type of corn can not only be eaten raw, but also boiled, grilled or even juiced. Since the corn itself has thin skin and high sugar content (higher than that of the watermelon), it offers a very good taste experience.
"This cross-breeding corn is planted in the Loess Plateau, Inner Mongolia Plateau and the Yunnan-& Guizhou Plateau, which have fertile soils, less pollution and sufficient water supply. At the same time, the plateau region has relatively abundant sunshine, its temperature difference between day and night is very conducive to the high sugar content. All these factors are very suitable to growing this type of fruit corn.” Explained Mr. Yang.Speaking of Mr. Yang, he has been dealing with fruit corn for over 10 years. When studying his seed engineering major in the China Agricultural University, he started to get in touch with this special corn type. Upon his graduation, he started the plantation process in his hometown, Gansu province. Afterwards, he registered Sino-US Fruit Corn Technology Development Co. Ltd, and his plantation base started from a few hectares to 2,000 hectares, covering Gansu, Inner Mogolia,Yunan and Hainan provinces.Now the company can offer an all year round supply, followed by the sales expansion from Lanzhou city in the beginning to 27 cities in 10 Provinces (including Hongkong and Macau).
As for the driving factors of fruit corn plantation, Mr. Yang said: "The US is the world’s No. 1 fruit corn consumption country, and the solid market research that I did during my study showed consumers’ interest in this product. “ To grow healthy and delicious fruit corn, Mr. Yang imported fruit corn seeds from US and started the cross-breeding process with Chinese corns.
To better control the quality and yield of fruit corn, Mr. Yang signed with growers the plantation and sales agreement. The company provides seeds to these growers and operates unified plantation, cultivation and harvest methods for fruit corn base management. Upon harvest, the fruit corns will be sold through his company. In terms of profit allocation, the company guarantees that the growers will gain sufficiently to improve their lives, which will motivate them to continue to grow fruit corn with the company. Now Mr.Yang’s company is one of the largest in China regarding fruit corn plantation and sales, and the advantages that he has in terms of supply volume gives him more insight into the supply and demand relationship in the market, which enables him to adjust the fruit corn supply and price according to the market change.
After harvesting top quality fruit corns, one of Mr. Yang’s main challenges is how to guarantee that the end consumer can eat the most fresh and delicious fruit corn. Facing such an issue, Sino-US Fruit Corn Technology Development Co. Ltd not only independently developed intelligent grading and cool packaging lines for fruit corn. Moreover, they stick to a cold chain distribution process by air, which guarantees the best quality of their products when consumers receive them.
Mr. Yang Tianlong mentioned that he had two dreams. One is to operate a company with international influence, the other is to help others realize their dreams. In the future, he plans to introduce his cross-breeding fruit corn to other overseas markets, while at the same time, a lot of farmers can improve their life by growing corn with him.
