● What’s the products with geographical indications?
The products with geographical indications (or geographical indicated products) is that the products produced in the designated zone, with their quality, reputation and other characteristics lying on this producing area’s natural factors and human factors and named according to the geographical name after Auditing and being approved, such as “Qingyuan Mushroom”, “Longjing Tea”, etc..
● Why does the product with geographical indication win trust from people?
To the consumers, the product named by geographical name is the assured, healthy and high-quality product. Before the state approval, this kind of product’s characteristics and quality have enjoyed high reputation, and the state’s approval is the affirmation to this high reputation. It can assure the goods that consumers bought is the dependable products.
● How to identify “Qingyuan Mushroom”, this product with geographical indication?
The geographical indicated product “Qingyuan Mushroom” has its own special symbol, the following is the symbol:
● Is it that all mushrooms produced by the enterprises in Qingyuan area are “Qingyuan mushrooms” with geographical indications?
No, it isn’t. The products with geographical indications have their own integrated and strict definitions, and not only point to its restricted zone.
Qingyuan mushroom, one of the products for designations of origin and geographical indications in PRC, not only illuminates that the mushroom comes from the particular producing area, but also requests the product that “ its quality, reputation and other characteristics essentially decide on this area’s natural factors and human factors”, meanwhile, “it accords with the requests of safety, sanitation and environment-protecting”, furthermore to be approved by state according to the legal procedures, thus becomes the product with geographical indication.
The mushroom products of Baixing Food Co., LTD. meet the requirements of geographical indication protection products, and registration application had been approved by the State Administration of Quality Supervision, reported that they are allowed to use a special symbol of geographical indication protection, and finally become the geographical indications protection products.
● What exceptional advantages that Baixing mushrooms enjoyed?
Baixing mushrooms come from Qingyuan, and Qingyuan mushrooms’ producing area lies in south-western of Zhejiang Province, where belongs to subtropical humid monsoon climate, with the annual average temperature of 17.2 degrees, annual average precipitation of 1792mm, annual average relative humidity 79.5%, and frost-free period of 250 days. It has the characteristics of rich heat-ray resource and rainfall, with cool in summer, warm in winter, and temperature in big difference between day and night, etc.. Inside the area, ridges and peaks pile up and ravines intervein, with 100m-1900m of altitude, and more than 80% of the forest coverage, where contains abundant biologic resources, including more than 460 kinds of wild short and large-scale epiphyte. The Fengyang Mountain——Baishanzu national nature preserve is in this area, which is the headstream of Oujiang, Minjiang, and Fuanjiang these three rivers.
Qingyuan mushrooms’ cultivation history can be traced back to 800 years ago, the local mushroom people have accumulated abundant mushrooms’ cultivation experience, thus formed the particular mushroom processing technology and promoted the new technology of mushrooms’ cultivation’s reformation.