Description
AFCD Accredited Farm
🚚 The fastest delivery time : 2-day delivery.
🐝 Supplier / Origin: VMO, Hong Kong Local Farms
🔖 Certification:
AFCD Accredited Farm
🔅 VMO offer local, sustainable options. We use a fair trade price to purchase directly from farmers. The pricing enables producers and consumers to have a sustainable relationship, and the three parties benefit the most.
🌱 Supplier introduction:
The Vegetable Marketing Office (VMO) was established in 1946, and the position of director is filled by public officials nominated by the government. Responsible for the development and benefit of farmers. Since the establishment of the vegetable wholesale market, the vegetable transportation and sales business has also begun. In vegetable growing areas in the New Territories, there are 5 vegetable collection stations and multiple designated collection locations to collect, weigh vegetables and process related documents. Later, as cooperative undertakings gradually developed, vegetable production and marketing cooperatives were established. Take over most of the collection stations and undertake the above-mentioned transportation and sales business. Currently, a total of 26 vegetable production and marketing cooperatives have been established. This department still has a collection station to continue its service to facilitate some farmers who do not sell through cooperatives to transport their products to the market for sale.
🛍 Product Information :
The chestnut pumpkin tastes like a soft chestnut, with a light chestnut aroma. It is nutritious even with the skin. It is a Japanese variety that was improved and cultivated in Taiwan. It is also called chestnut pumpkin/chestnut pumpkin。
Beibei pumpkin is small and cute, and tastes good. It has the sweet fragrance of pumpkin and the powdery and sticky chestnut. It is rich in carotene, which is more than 3 times that of ordinary pumpkin. In addition, Beibei pumpkin is also rich in vitamin B6 and vitamin C. Beibei pumpkin is also rich in pectin, which has good adsorption and can bind and eliminate bacterial toxins and other harmful substances in the body.
Beibei pumpkin is rich in pectin, multiple vitamins and minerals, and has a high starch content, full of satiety, and lower calories than rice. Among them, pectin has good adsorption and can bind and eliminate bacterial toxins and other harmful substances in the body. Beibei pumpkin is very nutritious. Chinese medicine believes that it has the effects of replenishing qi, anti-inflammatory and analgesic, detoxifying and killing insects; it can promote gastrointestinal health, strengthen physical fitness, and promote metabolism and blood circulation. The cobalt element in Beibei pumpkin also has the effect of nourishing blood and moisturizing the skin; cobalt is also a trace element necessary for the synthesis of insulin. It is a very suitable beauty food for women and a good vegetable for diabetic patients. At the same time, baby pumpkin is rich in zinc, which can participate in the synthesis of nucleic acids and proteins in the human body. It is an inherent component of adrenal sebum hormone, which is an important substance to promote human growth and development.
Warm reminder: Accredited vegetables ≠ organic vegetables
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🔅Notes:
accredited farm ≠ organic farm; This is NOT ORGANIC. 🔆🔆 note that farmers are encouraged to use pesticides correctly and safely as well as farming with excellent, environmentally friendly methods.
The "Accredited Farm Program" ensures the high quality and safety of vegetables:
✅ Randomly test soil, irrigation water, and vegetable samples
✅ Regular farm visits
✅ Promote excellent horticulture practices
Accredited vegetables are vegetables produced under the Accredited Farm program. In 1994 the Department of Fisheries, Agriculture and Nature Conservation (AFCD) and the Department of Vegetable Organisation (VMO) jointly implemented the Accredited Farm Program to encourage farmers to use pesticides correctly and safely and to farm with excellent, environmentally friendly methods.
One method of testing is that the farmer will not use pesticides for a period of time before the expected harvest of vegetables, which is the vegetable safe harvest period, following safety standards and reducing pesticide residues. Of course, we must rinse the vegetables thoroughly with clean water before eating, so you can eat more safely and assuredly!
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