Agriculture & Food

In Longdu Town, Chenghai District, Shantou City, among the clear ponds and scattered trees, there are many professional breeding farms for lion heads and geese, and the geese keep singing. Toward the end of the year, Jiang Shuqing, the head of Chenghai Shuqing Farming and Breeding Cooperative, was busy. "Customers need more live geese, not only for domestic, but also for foreign".

The lion head goose, named after its head looks like a lion's head, is a classic dish in Chaozhou cuisine. The bittern lion goose, with a hundred years of history and ancient brine processing, is not only the taste buds of Chaoshan tourists, but also the emotional bond connecting Chaoshan folks at home and abroad. In December 2022, Chenghai brine made lion goose has just completed its first anniversary of export, and has successfully opened up a new RCEP market.

As a breeder, Jiang Shuqing is the first link in the export chain of preserved lion's head goose dishes. At the beginning of international trade and export business, Jiang Shuqing was confused and worried when technical standards were smashed one by one. "In the past, we only raised geese and fattened them up. How can we know that the export depends on so many standards?" Jiang Shuqing said that foreign countries have strict standards for the soil, temperature, drinking water, drainage and feed of the farms. "Even veterinarians have special standards!"

In order to help international trade enterprises export, Chenghai customs officers often go to the fields to guide farms to establish safety management systems such as daily hygiene management, disease prevention and control, drug use, feed and additive use, production and traceability records, and seedlings. "With the guidance of the Customs, we can successfully file." Jiang Shuqing sighed.

"During the filing process, we mainly examined the animal epidemic prevention system, the breeding management system or the total quality assurance management system, and the establishment of various quality and safety management systems for the breeding farms." Zhang Simin, deputy director of the Enterprise Management and Inspection Section of Chenghai Customs under Shantou Customs, said that the customs strongly supported the establishment of an industrial chain for international trade and production of agricultural products in the area under its jurisdiction, and went deep into the breeding and slaughtering sites, The site shall check the filed sites one by one according to the standards, and evaluate their annual production capacity.

After more than 150 days of breeding, the lions and geese in Jiangshuqing Farm officially "graduated". These adult lion headed geese were immediately transported to the production workshop of Guangdong Xiwang Food Co., Ltd., a bittern processing enterprise. The company's main "Wuchi Spiced Goose Prefabricated Dishes" is a Chaoshan Spiced Goose Prefabricated Dishes brand, with hot sales of braised goose livers and special braised goose meat.

"After a year of exploration, our bittern goose has formed a traceability system from raw materials to finished products, which fully meets the food safety requirements of importing countries. The bittern goose prepared vegetable products are loved by overseas Chinese and foreign friends, and export has become a normal business." Yang Zhuoli, Xiwang Food Export Business Manager, said that the international trade export volume of Hong Kong, China and RCEP market is growing rapidly.

With the joint efforts of various parties, from farms to production and processing enterprises, from customs to local governments, the international trade and export channels of stewed preserved lion's head goose dishes are expanding. Since last year, 13800 kg of brine lion head geese have been successfully exported through Chenghai Customs inspection, and have "flown" from Chenghai's fields to Hong Kong and RCEP markets in China.