河南省方城县广阳大枣产于方城县广阳古镇方圆五十里内。这里在汉代以前就是步行一日不出林，攀枝十里不下树的大型枣区。东汉末年广阳枣被列入皇室贡品，明清时畅销江南，当时汉口枣行挂牌“九里山前广阳枣一等”，因而驰名大江南北。
      
     广阳枣鲜红个大、肉色青，落地易碎，酥、脆、甜、后味香，为鲜食佳品。据河南农业大学化验，每百克鲜果含糖21.72％-33.0％，维生素Ｃ289.95－394.3毫克，可食部分占鲜枣的92％，出肉率高于其他品种。风味甘甜，宜鲜食，也可加工成干枣、枣晶，罐头和枣汁饮料等产品。其干枣又富于弹性，打包成垛堆放的大枣出包后，一天内恢复原形，便于长途运输。
      
    目前方城县栽植枣树面积，折合1.35万亩，60万棵，年产鲜枣1300吨，除广阳大枣外，还有：广阳大圆铃，小圆铃，柱铃，石磙铃，马牙枣，羊奶枣等，此外全县还有野生枣树资源21万亩，1760万株。由于广阳枣是方城县传统特产，市场前景广阔，因而方城县已确定以广阳镇为中心，建立3万亩广阳枣商品生产基地，年产鲜枣1万吨，并将县属五座果品加工厂年加工能力提高到5000吨，实施全方位开发，推动全县农村经济腾飞。


 

Guangyang Chinese Dates

   
    Guangyang Chinese Dates are produced within 50 miles in the old Guangyang Town. They were chosen as tributes at the end of Eastern Han Dynasty and sold well in regions south of the Yangtze River in Ming and Qing Dynasty.
      
    Guangyang Chinese Dates have bright red pericarp, big shapes and green sarcocard, which are easy broken when dropped, crisp, sweet and lasting fragrant. They can be eaten directly or processed into dried dates, jujube crystal, cans or juices. Dried dates are elastic and can recovered to original shapes after pressed for a long time, thus this kind of products are suitable for long-distance transport.