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Anyue Lemon
Fresh lemon
At a glance
The story
One seedling, then a county
The modern Anyue lemon story is traced to 1929, when lemon material was introduced into the county. Nearly a century of selection and cultivation turned that beginning into a landscape of orchards across the central Sichuan hills.
A lemon shaped by purple soil
Anyue lies in gently rolling country with deep, mainly purple parent soils and a humid subtropical climate. Local selection from Eureka lemon established the fruit now sold under the county's protected name.
From a county name to world markets
Anyue Lemon is protected both as a geographical-indication product and a certification mark. It is also protected in the European Union as a PGI, while fresh and processed products travel from the county to markets in Asia, Europe and beyond.
Season
- Ripening
- October – DecemberPUB1
- Market window
- October – DecemberPUB1
- Cultivation modes
- Main annual fresh-fruit harvestWindow not published
Register facts
- Regime
- Protected geographical indication productPUB✓Geographical indication certification markPUB✓
- Authority
- National intellectual-property authority, succeeding the former General Administration of Quality Supervision and Trademark OfficePUB✓
- Registered
- Not publishedOPEN
- Announced
- Not publishedOPEN
- Registration number
- 原国家质检总局公告2004年第1号；地理标志证明商标第3177068号PUB✓
- Nice class
- Not publishedOPEN
- Registrant
- Anyue County Lemon Industry BureauPUB✓
- Managing authority
- Anyue County Lemon Industry Development CentrePUB✓
- Supporting authorities
- Anyue County market-regulation administrationPUB✓
- Other GIs in this county
- OPEN
- Authorised use model
- Eligible enterprises apply under the certification-mark rules; eleven enterprises were publicly reported as authorised in 2023.PUB1
- Cross-border status
- Protected in the European Union as a PGI under the China–EU geographical-indications agreement; Anyue lemon products are also publicly reported in more than thirty export markets.PUB✓
Protected scope
- Basis
- AdministrativePUB✓
- Administrative scope
- The current administrative area of Anyue County, Ziyang, SichuanPUB✓
- Stated production footprint
- The current administrative area of Anyue County; public reporting identified forty-six lemon-base towns and subdistricts in 2024PUB✓
- Township and village enumeration
- Not publishedOPEN
Producers
Producers within the protected scope can be listed on this origin. None are listed yet.
Trade
No territory-representative mandate is recorded for this origin. Trade or representation enquiries may be submitted to IGSO for verification.
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