Chongqing mustard crop spices up rural incomes

Southwest China's Chongqing municipality is the country's leading producer of pickled mustard tubers, with goods carrying the Fuling Mustard brand being exported to over 50 countries and regions, as well as enjoying widespread domestic sales.

In 2023, Chongqing reaped 2.78 million metric tons of mustard tubers — whose stems are made into the famed mustard as a finished product — with a cultivation area of 1.96 million mu (130,666 hectares), with the output processed into 1.42 million tons of pickled mustard tuber sales, accounting for more than 70 percent of the nation's total.

Currently, Chongqing administers 38 districts and counties, including autonomous counties, as a municipality.