Ansai millet, a specialty of Ansai District, Yan'an City, is a geographical indication product in China. Millet has long enjoyed a good reputation. It was planted in large areas during the period of army farming in the pre-Qin and Western Han Dynasty. Yan'an Ansai millet has excellent quality and high protein content. Ansai millet is golden in color, round in shape. It is glittering and translucent, sticky and fragrant, rich in oil and stable in storage for a long time. On average, it contained 13% protein, 8 kinds of proteins that human body must have, 4.5% fat on average, 85% of the fat, and more vitamins. Its rough fiber content was the lowest among several major grain crops. In 2008, after examination and verification by the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People's Republic of China, it was decided to implement the protection of geographical indication products for Ansai millet.
Yan'an Ansai millet has a long reputation, and it was planted in large areas during the period of army farming in the pre-Qin and Western Han Dynasty. including Baojiaying, Tanjiaying, Dongying and Fengjiaying and other important areas for the army to reclaim. In the Sui, Tang, Song and Yuan Dynasties, farming and animal husbandry were mixed, sometimes farming, sometimes animal husbandry and agriculture was limited, but millet was always the staple food crop for farmers and herdsmen at that time. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, when the farming flourished again, accompanied by agriculture and animal husbandry, cropping agriculture developed in an all-round way. Cereal crops not only had a wide planting area, but also had a more complete variety. According to the Ansai County Annals of the Republic of China: "The land of Ansai county is suitable for millet, but other counties are not as good as it, the fat like juice can be seen in the washed millet. And there also grows dragon claw, wolf tail, pig dung, bamboo leaf green, horse drag reins, burnt mud yellow, big deadline, small deadline, red small material and so on." After the liberation of Ansai in 1935, the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Areas launched a large-scale production campaign to encourage the reclamation of wasteland. "Millet plus rifles" broke the economy and won great victories in the Anti-Japanese War and the War of Liberation. Millet became famous all over the world with the liberation of the whole country.After liberation, the planting area of millet has been stable at about 100,000 mu, the planting technology has been continuously improved, the yield per mu has increased year by year, from 25 kg in 1949 to 300 kg in 2010, and the total yield also increased from 3.18 million kg in 1949 to more than 8 million kg in 2010.
Quality characteristics
Yan'an Ansai millet has good quality and high protein content. According to the analysis of Chinese millet varieties by the Institute of Variety Resources of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, the average protein content of Ansai millet is 13.46%, which is 1% higher than that of the whole country (12.4%). Ansai has 5 of the 12 varieties with protein content above 16% in China. Ansai millet is golden in color, round in shape. It is glittering and translucent, sticky and fragrant, rich in oil and stable in storage for a long time. On average, it contained 13% protein, 8 kinds of protein that human body must have, 4.5% fat on average, 85% unsaturatedfattyacid in fat acid content, and more vitamins. Its rough fiber content was the lowest among several major grain crops.In the 1980s, Jinfen No.7 was introduced from Shanxi, known as "Xianggu Rice". After planting in Ansai, its quality is excellent, superior to the original, comparable to the traditional famous rice.
Protection of geographical indication products
Scope of protection
The protection scope of geographical indication products of Ansai millet is subject to the scope proposed in the Letter on the Geographical Definition of the Source Area of Ansai Millet Raw Materials (Yan Zheng Han [2005] No.54) of Yan'an City, which is the administrative area under the jurisdiction of Ansai District of Yan'an City.