Farmers harvest Yunnan blueberries that account for 22% of national output

Blueberries await picking in southeast Yunnan’s Wenshan Zhuang and Miao autonomous prefecture.

Farmers are busy harvesting blueberries in Weimo township of Yanshan county, southeast Yunnan’s Wenshan Zhuang and Miao autonomous prefecture, in late November.

Farmers pick blueberries in southeast Yunnan’s Wenshan Zhuang and Miao autonomous prefecture.

The freshly-picked blueberries

The freshly-picked blueberries will be tagged with a QR code traceable to the pickers' name and transported to a largest blueberry processing plant, built up by the Guangzhu Agriculture Group in Wenshan.

After two rounds of pre-cooling, the blueberries will have another QR code from the processing plant, and in just 36 hours they will be transported to the Chinese coastal markets via cold-chain logistic services.

Yang Shaomei, a farmer in Wenshan's Weimo township, picks blueberries in a greenhouse.

The freshly-picked blueberries

The output value of Yunnan's blueberries exceeded 17 billion yuan in 2024, with the fruit business creating over 200,000 jobs.

By the end of 2024, Yunnan produced 171,000 tons of blueberries, making up 22% of the national output and ranking first among Chinese provinces.

The blueberries are processed and packed up at Guangzhu Agriculture Group in Wenshan.

Reporting by Duan Yi, Wang Shujuan and Wang Luyao (Yunnan Daily); Trans-editing by Wang Shixue